Gingrich is now married to the woman with whom he had that affair, Callista Gingrich, a former congressional aide 20 years his junior. He divorced his first wife, Jackie Battley, in 1981; according to Battley and others, Gingrich discussed the divorce terms while she was in the hospital recovering following cancer surgery. His second wife, Marianne Gingrich, says Gingrich asked her to marry him before he divorced Battley.
In the CBN interview, when asked what makes a great president, Gingrich said in part: “You want to be able to look into them and understand, do they share my values?” He also said “our Judeo-Christian civilization is under attack” from “secular, atheist elitism.”