Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised President Donald Trump's picks of William Barr for attorney general and Heather Nauert as the next US ambassador to the United Nations, saying both are solid choices for their positions.
"I worked with Bill Barr back in the first Bush administration and before that and I've watched him every since," Gingrich told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "He has great integrity. He is very smart. I think that he will be confirmed readily by the Senate."
Barr, who served as attorney general under late President George H.W. Bush, "brings a level of stability and knowledge to the Justice Department that will be very powerful."
Meanwhile, Nauert, a former Fox News personality, has been working very closely with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and has been with the Trump administration for two years, said Gingrich, even though she was not in former Sec. Rex Tillerson's inside circle.
"She was nonetheless in the State Department working issues, working with the president and his team," said Gingrich. "I think there is a real sense that she can communicate effectively."
"He will frankly know far more than most of the senators who are questioning him," said Gingrich. "I think he is going to take a very solid position. He will be responsible. He is not there to either be the president's defender or the president's attacker. He is there to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America."
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