>> IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE OR
ACCEPTABLE.
MARIA: THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
MICHAEL MCCAUL IN TAIWAN WITH
COLLEAGUES.
LAWMAKERS MEETING WITH THE
COUNTRY’S VICE PRESIDENT TODAY
JUST ONE DAY AFTER HOUSE SPEAKER
KEVIN MCCARTHY MET WITH THE
PRESIDENT OF TAIWAN IN
CALIFORNIA YESTERDAY.
KEVIN MCCARTHY IS GETTING TOUGH
HERE, KALEY, HE WAS VERY GOOD IN
THAT MEETING AND IT WENT WELL,
WE WILL SEE HOW CHINA
RETALIATES.
>> NICE TO SEE AT LEAST
CONGRESSES HAS SPINE ON THIS
BECAUSE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
DOESN’T.
JUST YESTERDAY KARINE
JEAN-PIERRE WAS ASKED DIRECTLY
WHETHER BIDEN WAS STILL
COMMITTED TO PUTTING U.S. TROOPS
ON THE GROUND IF CHINA WERE TO
INVADE TAIWAN AND SHE REFUSED TO
ANSWER THE QUESTION AND THAT
CALLS INTO QUESTION THE POSITION
ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT FOREIGN
POLICY MATTER.
I GUESS I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION
FOR LAWMAKERS SUCH AS KEVIN
MCCARTHY, WOULD CONGRESS SUPPORT
SUCH MILITARY INTERVENTION IF IT
GOT TO THAT POINT.
THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO
FIGURE OUT NOW BECAUSE WE ARE
REACHING A POINT OF NO RETURN ON
THIS MATTER.
CHERYL: LOOK, IF YOU ARE CHINA
AND REALLY ARE THINKING OF
ENCROACHING IN TAIWAN, MAYBE
YOU’RE PLANNING TO DO IT BEFORE
2024 BECAUSE THERE COULD BE A
CHANGE IN THE PRESIDENCY IN THE
UNITED STATES AND SO YOU WANT TO
DO IT WHEN YOU BASICALLY ARE
LOOKING AT SOMEBODY THAT YOU SEE
AS A WEAK LEADER OF THE UNITED
STATES.
THE OTHER THING, I THINK, IS
INTERESTING THAT ON THE OTHER
SIDE IS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
TIM COOK WAS IN CHINA TWO WEEKS
AGO.
MARIA: HE’S THERE A LOT.
CHERYL: THIS IS A DIRECT QUOTE,
THIS HAS BEEN SIMBIOTIC KIND OF
RELATIONSHIP THAT WE BOTH
ENJOYED AND HE GOT TO ROCK STAR
WELCOME WHEN HE GOT TO BEIJING.
I KNOW THEY WANT TO TALK TO HIM,
WAS NEED COMPANIES AND
BUSINESSES TO START TO STEP UP
TO THE PLATE AGAINST CHINA AND
CALL OUT CHINA FOR THE HUMAN
RIGHTS ABUSES.
MARIA: THIS IS WHAT JONATHAN
WARD WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER
IN TERMS OF THE CORPORATE SECTOR
REALLY STOPPING ANY, YOU KNOW,
NEGATIVITY AGAINST CHINA.
LOOK AT THE OPEN LETTER IN THE
JOURNAL THIS WEEK.
HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY
TOLD FOX LAURA INGRAHAM IT’S
TIME WITH NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
WITH CHINA.
WATCH THIS.
>> WHY SHOULD CHINA CONTINUE TO
ENJOY MOST FAVORED NATION IN
STATUS IN TRADE WITH THE UNITED
STATES, WHY?
>> ONE THEY SHOULD NOT.
I MEAN, WE’VE WATCHED WHAT THE
PAST ADMINISTRATION, PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD BEEN ABLE TO
ACCOMPLISH WITH CHINA, STANDING
UP TO CHINA.
CHINA WAS BEGGING TO TALK TO
AMERICA.
MARIA: THIS IS A QUESTION THAT
I’VE ASKED SEVERAL TIMES IN IN T
LAST SEVERAL WEEKS, MARK, THAT,
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THIS MASSIVE
TRADE DEFICIT.
WHEN IS CORN GOING TO MOVE TO
START KEEPING CHINA TO ACCOUNT,
ALL WE HEAR, WE DON’T LOOK FOR
CONFLICT, WE DON’T SEEK CONFLICT
WITH CHINA, THEY ARE BRINGING
CONFLICT, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
MARK: CHINA HAS A VISION, THEY
HAVE THEIR HUNDRED-YEAR PLAN AND
5 TO 10-YEAR PLAN IS TO OVERTAKE
US AS THE WORLD’S MILITARY
SUPERPOWER AND THE WORLD’S
ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER AND THE
NUMBER ONE ENABLER HAS BEEN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WE HAVE ENABLED THEM THROUGH
CRAPPY TRADE DEALS, DONALD TRUMP
WAS THE FIRST ONE TO ACTUALLY
STAND UP TO THEM WITH A SPINE.
HE -- WE WENT FROM HAVING A
GREAT NEGOTIATOR LEADER IN THE
COUNTRY TO GREAT ICE CREAM
EATER, THAT’S WHAT WE HAVE
TODAY.
MARIA: WHY WON’T WE HE GET
TOUGH?
WE HAD COVID-19 AND A COVER-UP,
NO RESPONSE.
MARK: RIGHT, AND WHEN PRESIDENT
BIDEN IS POINT-BLANK ASKED ABOUT
IT, HE SAYS THE BALLOON IS NO
BIG DEAL.
EVERYTHING IS NO BIG DEAL TO
HIM.
IT WAS A HUGE DEAL.
MARIA: SENDING DATA IN REALTIME
AS WE REPORTED AT THE TIME IN
THE FACE OF JOHN KIRBY’S COMMENT
THAT WE WON’T CONFIRM IT.
MARK: AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL IT