do you think it is a good idea for speaker pelosi to travel to taiwan. never would i thought some day i would go from homemaker to house speaker. say good-bye, sa good-bye. well, thank you for inviting us into your home tonight and this we begin with a fox news alert. thanks for joining me i m sean duffy info jesse. the murder of four high schools university students who were stepped depth for the latest decals do we go to dn springer. i don t think it is a stretc that the entire city and everyone connected to the university of idaho is breathin a sigh of relief tonight more than a month and a half up the shocking murders out those four students at the university of idaho.
Political move nancy pelosi has ever made. yeah, maybe ever. the only question is, will she let herself be talked out of it by a bunch of nervous fellies ins the defense department? now, biden already tipped his hand about what he thinks. mr. president, do you think it s a good idea for speaker pelosi to travel to taiwan this summer? well, i, i, i think that the military thinks it s not a good idea right now. laura: and our establishment s official newspaper of record, the new york swine published a shore filled with administration leaks that the military is very concerned that pelosi s taiwan stopover could provoke china into doing something very dangerous. huh. you notice that we didn t see any anonymous pentagon sources or anyone in the white house concerned about provoking vladimir putin in ukraine. i wonder why.
Of the united states. let s face it xi thinks democracies are weak and he believes that america and europe will eventually become his puppet states. so pelosi needs to call everybody s bluff, refuse to change her travel plans because, if she does not, she might as well give xi the string. and that s the angle. if she went through with the trip, pelosi wouldn t be the first sitting u.s. speaker to visit taiwan that would be my next guest joining me now is newt gingrich fox news contributor author of the fantastic book defeating big government socialism. mr. speaker, we have pictures up right now of your own trip to taiwan back in 1997. since then it s quite amazing that no house speaker has traveled there. the excuse is always given that, you know, that china has gotten more aggressive, so we ve got to be careful not to provoke them. but what does that say about us? well, i have to say laura, i
China, they ll skip china and go to taiwan. all of a sudden they said no, no, no. the only condition was we had to go china, japan and then back to taiwan. we couldn t goat directly from main land china, the communist part, directly to taiwan. the president of taiwan met with all of us, bipartisan delegation. they were thrilled that we were there. i was really surprised to realize that that 1997 visit was the last time that a senior american leader had actually visited taiwan. i encourage nancy to go, particularly now that it s public. i think it would be humiliating and destructive if she were to back down. and i have to say, having a woke defense department that s not sure it can deal with the american speaker going to taiwan, makes you wonder what they would do in a real crisis
Foreign policy matter in his life. never. and don t you think chinese intelligence knows this? they knew biden was weak before he was president. it was so easy for china to compromise the biden family with some sweetheart deals. piece of cake. and they know biden s even weaker now. the ccp couldn t ask for a better scenario. a hobbled u.s. president who they already have in their back pocket. it s like taking candy from a memory care patient. well, smartly, prominent republicans are speaking out supporting pelosi s trip. this could be a rare moment of bipartisan. speaker pelosi should absolutely go forward with her trip to taiwan. she might want to consider adding a prominent republican like kevin mccarthy the house republican leader to show the bipartisan support that exists in this country for taiwan. laura: now, refusing to bow to the people who you slave labor to make t-shirts and flip flops would be the smartest
Was a little surprised to realize i was the highest ranking american official ever to visit taiwan. we did so as part of a trip the chinese communist had invited us to shanghai and beijing i went with a bipartisan delegation, one of the points i would make to nancy pelosi is very important, make a bipartisan delegation. we had 11 members, including john dingle, a senior democrat at that time. and we said to them, just before the trip started, by the way, we re going to go to taiwan. they were furious. they did everything they re doing right now. they threatened, they bullied, they bluffed. and gardener peck ham our national security advisor i remember being near him he was on a phone call with the chai knees ambassador and finally said, look, the chinese communists are not the travel guide for the american speaker of the house. if you don t want him to go to
Prestige. it s humiliating. if the speaker of the house now allows some second rate chinese foreign diplomat to issue a statement and change the direction, change the actions that the united states will take because we are fearful of them, we are in for a long struggle and it will not end well with that kind of failed leadership. it tells every one of our allies in the region, the japanese, south koreans, don t hang with center city they re fearful. laura: the problem isn t pelosi s decision to show support to the people of taiwan that s admirable. the problem is that from day one the biden administration has established a reputation for weakness and incompetence, not just in domestic affairs but foreign affairs as well. and this encourages china to bully and embarrass the biden administration at every opportunity. so right now, chinese officials are banking on a continuation of the status quo. the slow, but sure, capitulation
Very important? i think you have to recognize, this is very simple. if speaker pelosi backs down, what the chinese communists will learn is one more example of american weakness at a time when the biden administration was defeated in afghanistan, has failed totally in ukraine, and continues to signal its utter weakness. this would be, i think, increasing the danger of a communist invasion of taiwan. on the other hand, if speaker pelosi decides, as i hope she will, to take a bipartisan delegation, so it s very clear to the chinese communists, whether you re a democrat or a republican, we are for the freedom of taiwan. laura: right. from not being invited. i think that s important historically. laura: it would be amazing for her legacy. i m not trying to give her legacy advice, that s a separate
Check to fail to comply with market p china has charged over changed over 30 years in some respects, it s appalling that its human rights record is worse snooped fantastic i can t believe i m saying that about nancy pelosi. but now third in line to the presidency she has a golden opportunity to move beyond rhetoric and actually strike a blow for liberty. now, since we learned about her intention one week ago to travel to taiwan, powerful forces here and in china have been trying to wave her off with not so subtle threats. the chinese side has repeatedly made clear to the u.s. side our serious concern over speaker pelosi s potential visit to taiwan and our firm opposition to the visit. we are prepared for any event walt if the u.s. side insists on making a visit, the chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safe guard our
Expected to speak with xi by telephone on thursday. this is an absolute embarrassment. this would never have happened under president trump. i ll tell you what the agenda s going to be. xi gets what he wants, he promising nothing and biden s comes team declares progress has been made frfrmths everything from tensions of taiwan to war in ukraine as well as how we better manage competition between our two nations, certainly in the economic sphere, there s a host of issues, and this is a call that has been scheduled for a long time. laura: oh, for a long time. well, joe biden thought his long friendship with xi was going to mean xi would be nicer to us. laura: of course, the man s never been right about a single