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Of our views. >> so are you sayings that the united states would come to taiwan's defense. >> yes. >> if they are attacked. >> yes we have a commitment to do that. >> president biden is deeply committed to the taiwan relations act. the united states will continue to assist taiwan in maintaining sufficient self-defense capability. there is no change in a policy. >> bret: essentially had to walk that back. and then you have the -- word game played out. "the washington post." the united states has very few credible options to respond if china were to seize a set of islands administered by taiwan ...

No one is above the law and so we intend to move quickly. >> now, mainland china says military exercises in the taiwan str strait are necessary to, quote, defend national sovereignty. this comes amid tensions between beijing and taipei and they call the actions toward taiwan destabilizing. >> we do remain concerned by the prc's provocative military activity. we are your honoring beijing to cease this military diplomatic and economic pressure in the coercion against taiwan. we have an abiding interest in peace and stability across the taiwan strait and that is why we'll continue to assist taiwa...

Stability— abiding interest in peace and stability across the taiwan strait. that's _ stability across the taiwan strait. that's why — stability across the taiwan strait. that's why we'll continue to assist in taiwan— that's why we'll continue to assist in taiwan and maintaining a sufficient _ in taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self—defense capability. china _ sufficient self—defense capability. china has— sufficient self—defense capability. china has told the us in response to that that engaging in taiwan independence is a dead end. it goes on, china will take all steps need...

>> we anticipate the use of additional military airlift as required and we're working through the requirements for that right now. these infantry battalions come with some measure of self-defense equipment. mortars, machine guns and of course personally carried weaponry. they have self-defense capability. i won't detail what each battalion will be carrying with them. they will obviously have the capabilities to defend themselves. one term that we've heard is noncombatant operations. sending 3,000 personnel, another 1,000 into the country, another 3,000 to -- that's a significant number.

Very specific assets that took the drone down. very limed in scope and the key is -- the essential thing the united states and coalition partners had to assure is there wasn't any type of threatening posture that would give the iranians some type of indication that was a broader larger scale military engagement, but it would be very precise. >> and again those targets presumably somewhere on the coast of iran itself there. >> absolutely, john. and on iranian territory. and the missiles that were used, surface-to-air missiles used, i understand there was some surprise that this drone was so eas...