Newt Gingrich: “America has been decaying into a country of enormous deep…”

“Forget the forest, they're not even looking at the tree. The, they're looking at the leaf, this leaf and then that leaf. The objective reality is that America has been decaying into a country of enormous deep corruption. When you have $20 billion stolen from the California unemployment system and nothing really has been done about it, basically by inmates in the California prisons.” (04:27–04:33)

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