Good evening, im jim acosta. Joining me in moments, president potential candidate vivek ramaswamy, whose name showed up in a ron desantis debate memo as the rival to attack on the stage. Hillary spawn that and more. But first, in just a few moments, in the date on the calendar will be april 2026. Thats two years, seven months from now. Thats nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. And just a year and a half before the 2028 election. And yet, donald trump and his lawyers are suggesting that date for his trial in the federal case on his efforts to overturn the election. Its their counter to jack smiths proposal to start this january. Meantime, the former president , in his first on camera reaction to the george indictment, has a warning to his party. Disgraceful thing. And republicans cant let him get away with it. Republicans have to be tough. The republicans are great in many ways, but they dont fight as hard for this. They have to get a lot tougher. If they, dont theyre not
would want to make that move over 2028. in the meantime, what am i gonna do? achieve semiconductor independents for our nation, and also build up our own homeland defense capabilities. that is something that s badly lacking. super emp defenses, cyber defenses, nuclear missile defenses. but if we re at that point by 2028 along with semiconductor independents, then no, i don t expect to want to send my sons, our sons and daughters, to fight and die over somebody else s territorial dispute. i think that s exactly what this china civil war dating back to 1999 is about. there are two reasons china michael after taiwan. one is toward after an economic gun over the united states. i refuse to let that happen. but a second is sorting out business dating back to 1949 that s not something that i m going to send our sons and daughters to settle. and you ve also suggested that vladimir putin be allowed to keep parts of ukraine as part of a way to solve that
These days there is a lot of discussion in the media about Chinese aggression in a wide range of areas, and the assumption is that this has huge implications for global security. Such a one-sided discussion can only lead to heightened tension and a greater possibility of misunderstandings leading to a devastating war. In order
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