"It wasn't that we were friends, but we both understood that you had to find a way to work for America, even if as political rivals," said Gingrich, who's now a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire." "We were little bit like two graduate students in that we would get in a room and we started talking and theorizing and remembering books and doing stuff.
"Utaratibu unaweka wazi kabisa, lazima nchi tano zikubaliane kwanza kwa jambo lolote, hata kama ikitokea nchi mbili au tatu zitaamua kuanza hakuna tatizo, lakini hilo halikufanyika sisi tunasikia kwenye vyombo vya habari," alisema. Dk. Abdallah alisema Tanzania haipingi kwa nchi hizo kuanzisha miradi ya kimaendeleo kwa sababu ni jukumu lao kwa ajili ya kujijenga kiuchumi.