Newt Gingrich Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights

Predicts that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will be the next Speaker. “He’s (McCarthy) a very bright, capable guy. He was the leader in the California assembly for the Republicans, he has been rising steadily, and he’s very widely liked and very widely accepted.”

“For Boehner, I think, he realized it would never get better than this (The Pope addressing Congress), and I think that’s part of why he had been exhausted, he had been fighting a long battle with critics on the right, and I think he just decided, you know, enough’s enough.”

On visiting Boehner after the Pope’s address to Congress: “We went by Boehner’s office afterwards, and I have to say I didn’t see it coming on {Boehner’s resignation}, I knew he was very tired and [Boehner’s wife] Debbie was very tired, and they were really sort of fed up with the constant attacks, but it had been such a great day for him, and he was so emotionally affected by the pope’s visit, which you could see on television, that I really didn’t pick it up {that he was planing to resign}.”