manufacturing made in world war two. we nn d war ii, weo longer havet manufacturing capability. china does. it sacturing a big national sec issue for the united states ands the americantate publicis is generally asleep at the switch. yeah, they re completely obliviou s to the fact that much wha of what we would need in anyld future conflict with chinaul would be made in china.d be we re creating awareness ofst that. this isn t just a questionhat pf american jobs. of a is s a question of american freedom. thismerica s s is freedom. our freedom is at stake. i know one of the most moving parts of this museum for you is to see the reaction ofreacti alteranson from all of our various conflicts. onceious conflicts they walk ths beautiful displays. how important is that?ho w impoit s the most important t about the museum.
reasons for that. the one china policy was supposed to sort of prevent any u.s. defense of taiwan. we couldn t store ammunition there. we couldn t have any armed forces of cn t o our own there. wela couldn t do war planning.we they couldn t do joint military exercises. as part of the one china d policy, we shut downow our defense command on taiwan. all this is 40, 50 years ago. it s starting to shift now. the congressss is very angry tht taiwan is kind of a sitting duck. there s no real d deterrence power and so basic military common sense tells a lot of people in congress we can t have this one china policy be so inflexible. we ve got to mount a defense ofi taiwan because of china sve threats over the last two or three years. that s the crux of the matter.la nancy pelosi has not declared herself on . if she goes and takes taiwan s side, that s what the chinese nightmare is . she ll come back as an advocatec and as you know, brian , back in the 90s, nancy pelosi used to be a china hawk
department of justice so far whether it was as the attorney general has termed it spying on campaigns, whether it is the mueller investigation, whatever it may happen to be. we do tend to be pushing and pulling our department of justice. what do you think? i do think if the fbi and other federal agencies were misused whether it was looking into campaign activities or otherwise, we do need to get to the bottom of that because we should not be using those federal agencies to go after political opponents. i think we do, for the american people, have to find out what went on there. but at some point, we need to move on from this issue. okay. i want to turn to a very big issue for you and your state of iowa. the president announced this week $16 billion to help farmers hurt by the tariffs that he has china.d in this trade war with it doesn t seem like this is going to be over any time soon, senator. you have been saying you speak to your farmers. they re overwhelmed right now.
president the kids couldn t move into the white house. we are adults and have our liven so they stuck to that. hen i think when historians do look back at my father s presidency, they will look back, tearing down of the berlin wall, dealt with the crisis in china d with an amazing diplomatic savvy, obviously when saddam hussein attacked kuwait my father rallied the forces of good and put together an amazing coalition and dealt with that aggression in just exactly the i right thway. gave sudan hussain every chancee in the world to right his wrong and when he stopped at the boarder, it was the right thing to do. he on the domestic side, there wasc issues related to the economy and taxation and he worked a o