Stay unified . Secretary of state Antony Blinken is here in moments. Plus, headtohead, shes the strongest republican to take on biden according to cnns new poll. Can she convince republican primary voters . You can do it i know i can. Former u. N. Ambassador and former president ial candidate nikki haley joins me. And republicans draw Battle Lines Over Support for ukraine. Who will blink first . Ill ask House Foreign Affairs chairman, michael mccaul. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is focused on the larger world and foremost, the fims of that devastating earthquake in morocco. Were all waiting to hear from President Biden in vietnam. His last stop on a whirlwind International Trip aimed at strengthening global alliances at a time of hite anxiety. The president is going to give a News Conference at any moment and we will bring that to you live. He will surely be asked about his goals at this weekends g20 summit, which focused on countering china, its splintering economy, and its aggressive posture around the globe and on russias grinding war against the ukrainian people amid dwindling hopes of a resolution anytime soon. Ukraine is reacting today with frustration to a joint statement from the g20 nations, which include russia and china, a statement that did not directly condemn russias war. A spokesman for the government of ukraine said that the statement ignored reality and called its written texts about the war, quote, nothing to be proud of. Lets get straight to republican president ial candidate nikki haley for her response to President Bidens trip. Shes also the former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador hailey, thanks so much for joining us. Lastiers g20 statement, as you know, explicit condemned russias invasion of ukraine, although russia did not sign off on that part of the statement. This year, the final statement stopped short of any direct condemnation of invasion. What is your reaction . What do you think is more important . You mean nimty or an explicit condemnation . It was a win for russian and china. Theyre celebrating today. What we should have had is biden should have really pushed hard to acknowledge what he acknowledged a year ago. That russia invaded a proamerican, freedomloving country. And thats a fact. And to deny a fact a year later is giving a win to russia and china is diplomatigloating, bec theyre looking at taiwan as this is happening and its a shame. Some House Republicans are looking to strip 24 billion in aid to ukraine out of the upcoming Government Spending bill. Do you think that would be a mistake . I think that you have to look at the fact that 3. 5 has been spent from our Defense Budget towards ukraine. Thats just 3. 5 . That percentage of gdp, 11 European Countries have spent more than us. We know that russia have said, once they take ukraine, poland and the baltics are next, and then youre looking at a fullon war. What were trying to do is prevent war. Thats a pretty good return on investment to prevent war. I think that we need to continue giving them equipment and ammunition with our allies to win. I dont think we need to give them straight up cash, i dont think we need to put troops on the ground, but we need to finish this. We have to always remember, a win for russia is a win for china. Theyve made that very clear. And right now, china is our Number One National security threat. So House Republicans should keep that ukraine spending in the Spending Bill and should not separate it, and should support it . Republicans and democrats should not pull an afghanistan. Dont go pulling out now. Putin is at rock bottom. We know that, because hes getting drones from iran and missiles from north korea. We know that because theyve raised the draft age in russia to 65. Finish this. Biden has missed multiple opportunities to finish this. We need to make sure that we end this war quickly, that we finish it, but that we do it the right way. We dont want to further war. And the only way we can do that is to have ukraine win. And theres no one that wants the ukrainians to win more than the taiwanese. Because they know that if ukraine wins, china will stay away from taiwan. Yes, i think republicans and democrats need to keep their eye on the ball, and that is, lets finish this mission in ukraine, and we will handle russia and china by just doing that. Your fellow candidates, Chris Christie and mike pence have traveled to ukraine this year. Are you planning on traveling to ukraine . I plan on traveling to iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, nevada, and the rest of the country. I dont have time to go to another country right now miami trying to earn the support of many americans. Especially a United Nations commission looking into Human Rights Violations in ukraine say they have not reached a conclusion whether there was genocide in ukraine. Is that finding acceptable to you . Do you think russia is committing genocide in ukraine . Well, first of all, its hard to believe anything the u. N. Says. Its a bit political. Its usually china biassed. And st also intruding into whatever they put out there. I think that what you have is, you know, when i was at the United Nations, we had no better friend than ukraine. They voted with us on everything. They were supportive of everything we did and theyre proamerican. And i think what we know is that theyre a democracy. And the reason that they are so careful in this war is that theyre trying to protect people and trying to prevent ukrainians from dying. I think if theres any bullseye, you need to be looking at russia. Theyre the ones that have invaded. Theyre the ones that are targeting schools, theyre the ones that continue to have death that they dont care about. And i think thats the one we really need to be talking about. So i dont take any u. N. Report too seriously. On the subject of china, the Biden Administration, as you know, recently sent four top officials to china to try to stabilize relations. You have said the Biden Administration has the wrong approach, because theyre looking for win win cooperation with china. You say, quote, they dont see us as a competitor, they see us as an enemy, unquote. Do you view china as an enemy . China has been practically preparing for war with us for years. Yes, i view china as an enemy. Whats disappointing about what biden has done is here you have china has bought up 400,000 acres of u. S. Soil, most recently Near Grand Forks Air Force base. They bought our largest Pork Producer in the country. They continue to steal 600 billion worth of intellectual property. Theyre sending millions of dollars to our universities and stealing research and spreading propaganda. 90 of our Law Enforcement drones are chinese. So while americans freaked out over the chinese spy balloon, just imagine whats happening with all of these mini spy balloons. They have killed more americans than the iraq, afghanistan, and vietnam wars combined with their sending fentanyl over. I mean how much more has to happen for biden to realize, you dont send Cabinet Members over to china to appease them. You start getting serious with china and say, were not going to put up with it. They keep sending different Cabinet Officials over, jake, and its embarrassing. You sent raimondo right after her emails got hacked by the chinese. You sent all of these Cabinet Officials over after a chinese spy balloon went over our country. They are putting a chinese spy base up on cuba, off the coast of florida. And dont wait for the fact that they are going to be sending Chinese Military troops there. What are we doing appeasing china . Instead, we should say, youre not buying anymore u. S. Soil, and were going to take back what youve already bought. Were going to go and make sure that we dont have chinese infiltration in our universities, because our universities will have to pick between chinese money or american money. Were going end to all Normal Trade Relations with china until they stop Killing Americans with fentanyl. And then were going to build up our military. Because china now has the strongest naval fleet in the world. They are developing hypersonic, artificial intelligence, cyber, space, neurostrike weapons, which will theyre the biggest developer, which actually affects military commanders thinking and populations of people. We need to make sure that were serious about china and they know that were serious about them. Not going and being nice to them and thinking that theyre going to change. On the subject of fentanyl, i just wanted to take a diversion for one quick second. Ive heard some of your colleagues bring up an interesting subject, which youre right. Fentanyl is, its obscene and horrific, with whats going on in terms of americans being killed by this fentanyl crisis. American kids, who might take an herbal supplement, that is not illegal, and it has fentanyl in it and they die. A friend of mine, his nephew died that way. Ive heard some of your colleagues talk about treating the drug dealers in mexico as if they are a Terrorist Cell and having the military, in cooperation with the mexican government, obviously, treat those mexican drug dealers as a Terrorist Cell. What do you think of Something Like that . Well, first of all, i think we deal with china first, because thats the originator, thats where its coming from. But i actually do think that we should send our Special Operations over to eliminate the cartels. We cant wait on mexico anymore. We cant wait on anymore americans to die. We have to be aggressive on this. And we treat them like the terrorists that they are. Those cartels, theyre trafficking people, theyre trafficking drugs, and theyre Killing Americans. And we have to put an end to it. So on the subject of china and taiwan that you brought up a second ago, Vice President harris was in jakarta this week for a summit with Southeast Asian countries. President biden has been criticized for being too direct on the subject of taiwan, for abandoning what was called strategic ambiguity and saying directly that the u. S. Would defend taiwan militarily. Whats your position . Let me ask you directly, if you were president , would you would the u. S. , with president haley, defend taiwan militarily if china invaded . We would defend taiwan and we would let china know that there houb hell to pay if they did anything to hurt the taiwanese or any of our allies. A Strong America prevents wars and thats what we have to do. You have to appease them. I was very disappointed that biden sent kamala over there for the asean summit. This is an important summit. Its ten countries that are focused on chinese aggression in the South China Sea. And china is going to go bully these countries who are desperately trying fight back. The philippines, malaysia, and others who want them to stop. By sending kamala there and not really showing that youve got sooerns on the fact that this chinese aggression is hurting, when we know most of the world trade goes through that the, you know, through that area of water. Its a mistake. And again, he says things, i appreciate it, words are fine, but actions matter. If he would have gone and made a strong point there, that would have been much more important than to have kamala go there and smile and take pictures. Speaking of having a Strong Defense and having a strong navy, republican senator Tommy Tubberville is currently and for months has been holding up more than 300 military promotions in the senate, nonpolitical positions, including the Chief Of Staff of the army, the commandant of the marine corps, the chief of naval operations, the chairman of the joint chiefs role is set to be vacant at the end of this month. I know you have criticized his decision. The military says this is hurting readiness. I know as a military spouse, you know, military spouses are really upset about this. Why is the Republican Party tolerating this . Okay, theres a couple of things here, jake. Lets speak hard truths. First of all, Department Of Defense never should have done this. Ill disagree with it and ill put an end to it as congress. Youre talking about the reimbursement policy for travel, for abortion. Yes. Because you have to do these things through congress. We have three branches of government for a reason. You cant slip something in there like that and think that congress is not going to be upset. First, ill put an end to that and youll handle it through the proper channels. Secondly, we dont need to be using military families as political pawns. Thats a mistake. These the military members and families, they sacrifice enough, they dont need to be a pawn in congress. But look at the political games that continue to play. Schumer and a first vote on each member. But ambassador, do you know what that would do do you really want to have the tradition is generally speaking that the senate just votes unanimous consent for 300 people to be promoted. You think the military is political now, you really want to have the u. S. Senate voting on somebody being promoted to major, to lieutenant colonel, to ambassador i mean, to admiral. I mean, every Single Person will have their social media posts scrubbed. You really want in the u. S. Military, bernie sanders, joe manchin, like everybody is going to decide everybodys promotions . This is how were going to do promotions from now on . Well, if youre going to talk about tradition, shouldnt Department Of Defense do things the right way so were never in this mess like we started with. I dont say that hes right in doing this, because i dont want to use them as pawns. But if you love our military and are so adamant about it, go and make congress, republicans and democrats, have to go through person by person. Do you honestly think they wont say, okay, this is ridiculous, lets put an end to it. They will. But show your true grit by going out there and saying, fine, if yall are going to play the military for pawns like this, lets go member by member. Lets make them pay the price. Lets make them do their job. Lets make them suffer so they know what theyre doing to these military families. This isnt about making it convenient for congress. This is about making sure that youre doing right by members of the military. This is making sure you hold the Department Of Defense accountable. Lets call that what it is, jake. Right now, everybody is saying, oh, but do you really Want Congress doing this. You know what i Want Congress to do, i Want Congress to do their job. I want them to deal with inflation and gas prices and groceries. I want them to deal with the lack of transparency in schools. I want them to deal with the fact that, yes, military members are being used as pawns and they need to make sure that these families dont suffer. I want them to do their job. And the majority of americans feel that the government is not working for people, its the people working for government and its got to stop, including these political games they play. Spacex ceo elon musk has confirmed a report in Walter Isaacsons new biography of him that last year musk personally blocked access to his Starlink Satellite Network in crimea in order to disrupt a major ukrainian attack on the russian navy in crimea. Do you think what musk did was appropriate and are you okay with a private citizen having so much power over war . First of all, i dont know enough of the details about that to comment, but if theres any sort of smoke, we should have transparency. We should be able to find out exactly what happened, who did it, why they did it and when they did it and we should be able to take the appropriate action. The bottom line is we should always watch out for the National Security of americans and our allies. If theres anything that came in the way of that, we should address it. If theres something there, we should ask questions about it. But i think we need to look into it further. Your campaign got some good news. Some brandnew polling from cnn suggests that you are far and away the strongest republican candidate to take on joe biden. In fact, youre the only one if our polling that would decisively beat President Biden in a headtohead race. Everyone else is within the margin of error. Still, on the republican side, you and all the other republicans, Trail Donald Trump in the primary. Why do you think the electability argument doesnt seem to be resonating more with Republican Voters . I think the reason that it shows that i would beat biden by six poi