but if you have lived through the last three or four years in this country should appreciate just how fragile our freedoms really are. our founding fathers understood this and benjamin franklin walked out of the constitutional convention he was asked on the street what have you given us a republic or monarchy? he said a republic if you can keep it. you can have the best constitution in the world you can have the best declaration of independence they do not run on autopilot. they require citizens in each generation to answer the call when freedom is under attack. so we are called upon to carry the torch of what george washington called the sacred fire of liberty. we are called upon to stand firm for the truth. we are called upon to be resolute in defense of the enduring american principles that mark us as a free society. here s what i can tell you i will do. if you support me and i earn the nomination to be the republican candidate, set your clock to january 20, 2025 at high n
thank quote, we must adhere to bottom-line thinking. worst case scenario thinking and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves and even perilous stormy seas. gordon chang senior hello author of the great title war joins us now. what is president xi mean when he is referring to the worst-case scenario? i think, eric, that is a reference to work. we ve got to remember no nation china. if there is going to be a war it s because time is going to provoke it. twenty-one in two ways. either an out and out invasion or it is going to continue the dangerous intercepts the comments. because china s political system has become more militarized if that were to happen they could not act constructively the other country which are probably the us. therefore we now have a very dangerous situation in east asia.
warrantless like it is on the menu. eric: you see the provocation the warship with the fighter plane crossing over surveillance? do you see these as strategies specifically that s being planned? you see this as the beginning of more bold provocations customer. all of the above. china is going to continue on until the united states starts doing something about this. we have these words may defense secretary we have heard before we will fly, fail, operate wherever international law allows. but we really need to do more. we see the chinese right now sending messages. as a dangerous intercepts of an wsrc 31. may 26 is significant because on may 26, 20221 year earlier, there is an exceedingly dangerous intercepts on australian reconnaissance plane. china uses anniversaries to send
eric: what happened to jimmy hoffa for exclusive new revelations in her latest show on fox nation called riddle the search for james r hoffa pretty set out the last fbi suspect in the hoffa case he was still alive. he is now 84 years old. he is new jersey and gabe. has not talked about the hoffa case since 1975 when jimmy hoffa disappeared and told me he wants to clear his name. that what is been reported about him for the past decade is just not true. in detroit did you take the fifth amendment? what snow but you never check the fence everything i read says you took the fifth frequency never took the fifth question and take the fifth? i have nothing to hide. why should i take the fifth? you up a number of the crime family question no, no way for auteur mock i progress i don t care they can think what they want to think. i wasn t. says most people think happened to hoffa is wrong.
i am saying we continue with policies we have applied for decades and those policies clearly have resulted in a disastrous situation if we continue those disastrous policies we know what were going to get even worse results. we need to try something new which is not to say something new is going to work. but at least it gives us an option that might actually lead to a much better path. this is a very, very, very dangerous. eric: widely think of as a dangerous situation with the military talking to each of that high level but they reportedly rebuffed our request for defense secretary lloyd austin to be with his chinese counterpart. they shook hands at the singapore meeting but there is no meeting. let s listen to what the defense secretary had to say. the whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability. the whole world.