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Struck immediately after the president made those comments looking over at his top advisers including the ambassador to japan, rob emanuel, their eyes popped out of their head and they did come up with the clarification to try to walk back or clean up the president's comments as he said that the u.s. would be willing to respond militarily to protect the island of taiwan if china invaded. so here is the exact exchange as it played. >> you didn't want to get vofd in the ukrainian conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to depend taiwan if it comes to t...

Future. me, you, radek, we're going to be debating this issue until the end of time, and we're never going to get an answer. but i do think what we are seeing here is a test case and that russia has invaded ukraine. the united states, its nato allies have made a decision not to go to war with russia over this issue. not enforcing a no-fly zone. they're not putting boots on the ground and there's an indication of a desire not to see this escalate, not to see world war iii over ukraine, if that's the case, why would we want to give a security guarantee to ukraine? there's a fundamental tension h...

Primarily, the united states, britain and then later france and china gave ukraine the guarantees of independence and security of borders in return for ukraine giving up what was then the world's third largest nuclear stockpile. and russia has clearly broken the security assurances that it has given. so it's very difficult to deal with a head of state like mr. putin who customarily lies and breaks international agreement. >> but what to do about ukraine, give it a security guarantee now or -- >> well, we are giving ukraine something better than security guarantees, namely the means to do what ...

If necessary as opposed to putting the cart before the horse. and moving even while russia was still trying to figure out its future. me, you, radek, we're going to be debating this issue until the end of time, and we're never going to get an answer. but i do think what we are seeing here is a test case and that russia has invaded ukraine. the united states, its nato allies have made a decision not to go to war with russia over this issue. not enforcing a no-fly zone. they're not putting boots on the ground and there's an indication of a desire not to see this escalate, not to see world war ii...

The budapest declaration was earlier -- >> i'm sorry, bucharest, sorry. >> bucharest was the nato summit. budapest declaration was the agreement whereby russia primarily, the united states, britain and then later france and china gave ukraine the guarantees of independence and security of borders in return for ukraine giving up what was then the world's third largest nuclear stockpile. and russia has clearly broken the security assurances that it has given. so it's very difficult to deal with a head of state like mr. putin who customarily lies and breaks international agreement. >> but what to...