policy failures going back 30 years. st been american investors -- it's been american investors, american companies encouraged by our government to help fund the rise of china's economy which, of course, fuels the people's liberation army and their intelligence services. i have a very simple test i'd like to propose. if we wouldn't have done it with russian communists, we shouldn't do it with chinese communists. and none of what we've done in the last 30 years would we have ever done with russia during the cold war. we certainly shouldn't be continuing to do it with china now. maria: yeah. and i want to talk about this potential "forbes" act acquisition by the sun group. the sun group has ties to the russian government and vladimir putin. they want to require "forbes" and their collection rain storing of sensitive data the on millions of americans. you stopped a deal from communist china acquiring "forbes," right? >> i did. last summer it came to our attention that chinese-linked companies were trying to acquire "forbes," a flagship american