Gingrich: Country on 'Edge of Catastrophe'

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:59 PM

By: Rick Pedraza

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the United States needs a dramatic increase in defense spending or it will risk a national catastrophe — from a nuclear or biological attack — that could kill several million Americans.

The nation needs "a national security budget and a homeland security budget driven by meeting the capabilities of our opponents, not by meeting their intentions,â€