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The way you deal with china is threefold. One, we need more hard power in the indopacific. Im a navy guy. We need more sea power. We will build that up and have a strategy to deny their ability to invade taiwan or get beyond the first island chain. On the current course, they will take advantage of biden. And we will rue the day when that happens. Second, we have to decouple our economy, particularly things that are significant to our national survival. You have to be methodical. Strategic. A lot of moving parts but we will do that. Nikki haley will not be able to do that because her supporter...

Better than that. we will get them trade deals. when i was governor in south carolina, we sold, and explorted, everything we were making in south carolina. when i am president, we will sell and export everything that is made in iowa to those who are our friends, not our enemies. >> governor desantis, your response? >> the way you deal with china is three fold. for one, we need more hard power in the indo-pacific. i'm a navy guy, we need more sea power. we will build that up, we will have a strategy to deny their ability to invade taiwan, or to get beyond the first island chain. on the current ...

She can swoop in here and try to do that, but what she did was wrong. here's the issue. we have a lot of challenges in national security. one is our own southern border. and you have people like nikki haley that care more about the ukraine border than she does about our own border here in the united states. how can you be a sovereign country and let in 8 million people from all over the world, including people that are affiliated with terrorist groups. and we know that and, yet, send another $100 billion -- that will be $200 billion that they have sent out overseas while ignoring problems at h...

Bring in robert charles, former naval intel officer. robert, we are giving another $2 billion to ukraine, that brings the overall total in the hundreds of billions of dollars. as a navy guy, the navy secretary just said we cannot meet the threat that china naval build-up poses, unless we ramp up. robert, why are we giving more money to fight somebody else's war when we need to build up our own defenses to protect our country. >> todd and ashley, great question and it directs itself to whether this administration is focused on national security. if you take the numbers and numbers are illustrat...

Ammunition carriers within the ship and that caused the damage and smoke on the ship, but if reports are to be believed that that ship has leaned toward star board or port, i don't know, i'm not a navy guy, but it's sinking fast. it has a crew of about 500 people. it had a lot of equipment on board, and it certainly was capable of reinforcing any actions that russia was perceived to have started in the odesa region. >> general, we saw the report showing us how tense the situation already is in eastern ukraine. france's military is warning russia could launch a large scale offensive in the donb...