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
other countries for help in n. support in fighting his war on ukraine and that includes some outreach to the dprk. it s a testament to the fact that mr. putin knows he is having his own defense procurement problems. his own inventory problems. north korea s defense minister expressed pyongyang s full support for what he termed russia s battle for justice in ukraine the new head of u.s. space command was asked about the north korean threat at his confirmation hearing. do you believe that the united states should continue to pose tore homeland defense capabilities to stay ahead of the north korean threat? yes, senator, i do. president biden plans to hold a summit at camp david in august with the leaders of south korea and japan. defense secretary lloyd austin is visiting australia and papua new guinea to reinforce those crucial military alliances. and the white house just