one is that the progressive base of the democratic party, which is calling the shots, simply doesn t want to do anything to provoke china and believes naively that we can work with china when it comes to controlling carbon emissions, which is a utopian, leftist fantasy is. the second is that biden has just been a career politician whose judgment on foreign policy has been terrible. his entire career as former sec tar secretary of defense robert gates has said. and he s also now, let s just be honest, very, very old. he s older than the people s republic of china. he s so old he s not even a boomer, he s a member of the silent generation. all of that makes for the projection of weakness on the world stage which undermines american deterrence. maria: do you expect the chinese communist party to interview in the 2024 election the way john ratcliffe has said on this program? if they want to do it, they certainly have a huge opportunity because tiktok is now the dominant news platform f
the taiwanese elections? how will this play out, and what s the impact? well, it s a victory not only for the democratic progressive party, but really for democracy. taiwan is one of the world s most vibrant democracies. its success and the success of its elections really demolish the chinese communist party s claim to speak for all people of chinese heritage. it s also clear to me that the ccp s attempt to bull withly taiwan whether it s through spy balloons, sanctions, military incursions backfired. certainly when i was there, the people of taiwan saw that bullying, sow what had happened to hong kong, and i think it revealed the ccp s true intentions which are to destroy taiwan s democracy. and xi jinping keeps telling the us this plainly, and yet the biden administration and the business community simply don t want to hear it. so it s time for us in america, inspired by taiwan s bravery, to stand up to communist aggression. you know, when i was there and i met with the vice presid
tantrums and claim we don t have evidence, but the reason why they re doing that is because they re looking at the same evidence that the we have with jamie raskin and other democrats on the committee. they know what we re in possession of. they could only treatment of having this kind of evidence against president trump and his family, and they were never able to produce it because all of their attacks were lies against president trump and his family. but the bidens are absolutely guilty, maria, and we have the proof. maria: well, so far the only person who s been able to interview hunter biden is our own hillary vaughn, and she caught up with him in the capitol this week. let s play that, and i want to get your reaction. watch it. reporter: mr. biden, why did you put your dad on speakerphone with your business partners if he had no involvement in your business? do you have a dad? does he call you? reporter: yes. do you answer the phone? reporter: yes. but why did you need t
largest lead in the des moines register the history this morning ahead of the iowa caucuses tomorrow night. i m going out there tonight. it s going to be really cold, and we re going to do everything we can to produce if a huge victory for president trump in iowa. and i think we ll see it happen. maria: all right. congressman, good to see you this morning. we ll, of course, be watching. marjorie taylor greene this morning in georgia. quick break and then taiwan has a new president this morning. for the first time in eight years, the impact on the region and beyond with the chairman of the house select committee on the chinese communist e party, congressman mike gallagher is next.
anybody back? that s right, maria. and when you total that up, 365 days of the year, that adds up to 1.8 million illegal aliens that this senate so-called border deal would let into the country. the problem in the senate is the leadership. it comes from mitch mcconnell and those that hold the power over there. they ve been the best, best possible senators for joe biden that you could ever expect to see out there. and and i m proud that mike lee and others in the senate, tommy tuberville, j.d. vance and others are saying there is no way they would ever vote for this thing. i hope they stand strong over there, and we in the house, we aren t going for it. and if any of our are republican colleagues want to cross the line and sign a discharge petition and vote with the democrats on that, good luck in their primary elections and good luck getting reelected. maria: some of them over there in the senate leadership are actually trump haters, right in now trump is leading, the