Gingrich: Foreign Money in US Becoming 'Enormous Threat'

It's time for lawmakers to look into how "radical foreigners" are influencing the American system by contributing huge sums of money to U.S. interests, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday.

Gingrich, who opened the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, called for Congress to convene a set of hearings to determine the level of financial penetration of the American system, including that of the Clinton Foundation.

He told the early morning crowd that the Clinton Foundation was taking "money from foreign interests" while Hillary Clinton was still secretary of state.

"It has routinely accepted money from people who promote terrorism," Gingrich said, calling the ability of foreigners to pour cash into the United States a matter of national security.

He pointed out that back in 1938, a law was written to track the money coming into the country in order to repel the threat of Nazi Germany, and then after that, between 1945 and 1955, the nation was concerned with the Soviet Union and the possibility of "foreign subversion."

But, nowadays, even some of the nation's greatest universities and think tanks are accepting "millions of dollars from dictatorships," and Gingrich said he has to wonder every time he hears an "apologist" for Saudi Arabia or Qatar if the person speaking is "being paid to tell me it's OK."

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