i love you, but working. not that much. they didn t tell you. b. oh, me? .o fox they tell you. all right. well, can the crazy people talk to your people? oh, we love you. we love you anyway.. all right.next w we ll see you nextee.i week, i hope.s all right.aham ang i m laura ingram and thising wi is ingram anglthe. and thank you for being with usk tonight.s as always, leaksand losing and g streaks. that s the focus of tonight s anglf e. e know that while the entire press corps and the political class were obsessed with the trump mar-a-lago documents casel , the biden administration allowed the united states to be subjecto to one of the most disastrouneso intel leaks in us history. page roughly one hundred pages ofs documents that we know of were posted documents that we know of weregr posted online revealing critical military assessmentsd o of friends and foes alike. a allies as us efforts to spy on its allies. israel and south korea, the degree to which the u.s. s has pene
this w okor helping keep taiwan safe at a time oa f great peril?peril? well, it s encouraging china. t you know, it s very hard to achieve global leadership, or moral and military took our grandfathers a great grandfather s a century to do it. itn washington has thrown it away in two years.sy it s very easy to lose. and and i didn t think anybody could lose it that quickly.a pa i mean, this is a pattern now of the pentagon. afgh wean had the debacle ined afghanistan, as you mentioned, but we also had the military and austin testimony abouta white rage, the whole wolkane agenda. and we re not increasing equv the defense, the budgetal equivalent to inflation. we re short. fifteen thousand troops and thet army and then we get to the other matter is the leaks. i mean, there s no consequences . of course people d areet goingee to leak. there s no deterrence. we saw you mentioned the roe versus wade leak that resultedat in people mobbing the supreme
point there in the web. you might think it s on the web, but there s somewhere in that wee b, the world wide. now ang, as farle as the ang is concerned, the u.s. at this point is essentially defenseless. now. sure, we have incrediblear military hardware, althouge, alh a lot less than we had before iraq, before afghanistan and beforestan and ukraine. but we don t have thoseve precious commodities that seemy. few and far between these days. we don ton t have leaders.n so we end up in a situation where the most powerful nation on earth or what we used to beto ,didn t have the ability to stop china from sending balloons to traverse the united states .se and again, the united states. no one s ever fired the entire point of a military. remember, we spent about abou eight hundred billion dollars a year on our military. the military s point is to be a deterrent. and right now they re not deterring anyone.
china is worried about the u.s. views on taiwan. liz as much as i care about cheyn liz cheney s views on the gop.hs nevertheless, the recent aggressive, drills near taiwan, they re not just playful proddinglayful. j chinese fighter jets flyinget around taiwan skies. military ships sail off itsa sa coast. china says it s simulatingys it precision attacks on key targets in taiwan. its military released this animation showing missiles fired from land sea and airom into taiwan. and two of them explode in flames. and the best we can do is reciprocate by having our owe byn military drills with the philippines, our close ally in the region.ill even ifs, our close ally in the so at this point, it is pretty easy to conclude that taiwan is almost doomed. som but despite what some neocons like john bolton suggest, i say. no troops in taiwan, nothing atn all for taiwan until we revoke
but i think the taiwanre situation is really serious and it s increasingl y clear anh that will not be the endin of i i wrote something in a japanese lpaper last last week abouttary this, saying, look, thatthe ch the military, the chinese are building is evidently beyond what is just needed for taiwan. they re lookinidently g to build bases all over the world, even in. the atlantic coast. so we ve got to ge t really, really real.starting to and i feel that s maybhaes starting to happen, but it s almost too late. we got it. weictor, have no more time. now, victor, you recently wrote about the pentagon s decline while china, of course, is building, as elbridge said , the strongest navy in the world. here est natiworld.s what wed states are focusing on . watch this. for me to join as not binary is really powerful to me. the coolest thin d i di on board was to participate in a lgbtq spoken word night, and i was able to read a poem that i wrote to the whole ship. so, victor, how is th