the communist chinese, they aree threatening us directlcty. e stt they are threatening our navy in the straits of taiwan. the or the south china sea international waterway. what should the u.s. responsee e be to that? a, o well, every time china for that matter, russia or iran, threatens our navy ort our aircraft saying they can t sail ey can t here, they can t e there, we should basically make that our new route that we re going to travel to show chinahe and russia and iran thaty can they can t bully us more on the long term front, wefronte to significantly increase our defense spending and invest in the kinds of weapons and aircraft and ships they re going to deter. chinhina aa and russia and iranv and make it clear to thee m thao not only we have the resolve to defend our interests, but we have the ability to do sweo sa as well. n: senator c senator cotton, n to have you. thank you, sirg to. bl right. china is rushing to fill the void a after biden abdicated our role as the wor
have here. you know, this exactly didn t happenent trum under president trump. i think reince is makingin a great point. eat jason .very and i think the reason is very clear because donald trump fought with china. he put tariffs on china. he negotiated with china. he he was aggressive with china . they never experienced thatforei before in the u.s.. leadern eader.. posite and now you got just the exact e opposite . and i think vladimirs putin ses it. i think the iranian mullahs see it. and i think president xi seesitd it. and i thin ik ricenk is right. this weakness is incurring aggressionri. sion and i think it s only goinang gt to get worse. i don t think it s a matter of e if it s when they go into taiwan. do you agree or disagree? do youyes, sadly, you re right. and rice is exactly right. look, our enemies don t fear. us . and in our allie our ens, they don tespect respect us . i mean, you got this clown get going around the world. you can t even get from podium d made a to p
for crying out loud, i thought macron did was nothing but a disgrace. d t a am i wrong in assuming hen that all the aggression we re neeing with putin and xi i this new alliance, this new axis of evil, it s all because he a is so pathetically gone cognitively. but certainly one of the reasons i mean, it s almost you couldn t make it upt weak on saturday night live, bunetknw weakness invites aggression, sean. we know that.st and if w take just takein a little walk down memory lane,u i know you re talking a lot about china tonight. night.people the very people t the very first phone call that president trump elect made to any foreign leader in the world. was the president of taiwan.d talk about shock and awe. that was the first time an american president has spoken. did the president of taiwan since nineteen seventy nine . sou ro you re talking about w
leaked documents, the uae and russia, they have reportedly deepened d their tie while egypt, which, by theeg wa, we have billions of dollars who allegedly planned to secretly send thousands of rockettos to russia amid their war with ukraine. in other words, they are choosing the other side. sopo evensn our allies are now abandoningso joe biden and betting against america. look look at what happened this week with the french mac president macron, the leader of our oldestro ally, visiting chk last week, up to and kissinga the of president xi in china.w, and by the way, throwingtaiwan the u.s. under the bus over the issue of taiwan before fromh urging europe to move away from noeir dependencyu. on the us dollar, the world s currency. now, despite some backlash back his outlandish comments, macron, he s even standing by his remarks. well, tonight, i have a message for president macron. you are setting a dangerous precedent. you are damaging tie s with ae country that has bailed you outg ti
pressure coming from the congress. and i think there s bipartisan consensus from democrats and republicans on . e cawenke the only thing w find where democrats agree and republicans actually agree you re going to have on chin.eat over taiwan, is that you really think that s going to happen? becausppen?e i m not laughing at it. i m you know, i m talking aboutt our sons and daughter, our national treasure herehter. well, we re talking aboutease losing a lot of national treasure of china subsumesina as taiwan s economy and that semiconductor industry that s so important to us, notth to mention the fact that it s the same the same reason we remt helping ukraine to allow a nuclear armed state to takovee over another. t look goo, a good debateur to have. joey makes good points about. spilling our own blood andmy treasure in a faraway place.t my relatives didin that inof w the second world war, ha and that s kind of what we do.he you know h, we go out there in the hard places and defend our