existing u.s. export control system. i ask you this. reporter a republican. republicans tend to not like to add bureaucracies or overwork the existing bureaucracy. how do you respond to both criticisms from ibm and ge? clearly ne wathey want the s quo, it worked economically for them and transactions they have with china. but we have to look at this from a national security view. this is a bipartisan bill. it is laser focused on military application. we re not looking at overall trade concerns or issues. i had the largest hog processing plant in the world in my district, 5,000 people are employed, smithfield, owned by china. that s not a concern to cfius or to us. what is a concern is access china has to american companies to gain this proprietary technology. we have to protect it. president xi made it clear their
exploration and discovery, to lift our eyes all the way up to the heavens and once again imagine the possibilities waiting in those big, beautiful stars. if we dare to dream big, and that s what our country is doing again. we re dreaming big. this is a a giant step towards that inspiring future, and towards reclaiming america s proud destiny in space, and space has so much to do with so many other applications, including a military application. so we are the leader and we re going to stay the leader and we re going to increase it many fold. i d like to invite vice president pence, if he would, to say a few words. he s been leading this for me, and i appreciate it. mr. vice president. mr. president, thank you. thaunkd f
us to begin new journeys of exploration and discovery, to lift our eyes all of the way up to the heavens and once again imagine the possibilities waiting in those big, beautiful stars if we dare to dream big and that s what our country is doing again. we re dreaming big. this is a giant step toward that inspiring future and toward reclaiming america s proud destiny in space and space has so much to do with so many other an applications including a military application. so we re going to stay the leader and we ll increase it manyfold. i would like to invite vice president pence. he s been leading this for me and i appreciate it, mr. vice president? mr. president, thank you. thank you for your leadership
rare move president trump blocked chip makers and special agencies have been ordered to stop using software by a russian-linked security firm. carolyn, what do you got for us? reporter: yeah, that was a pretty unusual move. but the trump administration effectively barring that takeover bid by canyon bridge capital. this is a private equity firm of u.s. semi conductor business. this was going to be a $1.3 billion move. but it has been makally it has been rebuffed after it was revealed this private equity firm was partially funded by beijing and had links to the chinese space program. walk said it will oppose deals that involve technologies with military application itself and staying with national security as you also said the trump administration has told u.s. government agencies to remove any caspar skas casparski becau
crack 99. this software had direct military application and the implications are scary because there is no way of restraining the sales. it can go to terrorist organizations, it can go to criminal organizations. the reaction once we realized that the software was legitimate was what else do they have? ultimately our goal in the undercover investigation was to successfully prosecute in a u.s. court of law. we knew we were dealing with a person who was holding himself out as xiang lee, but in addition to not knowing if that was a real person, we didn t know if that was the only person involved. we had a large number of questions about the operation. we needed to figure out a way of getting a viable target. so in january in 2010 i requested authorization to go trap and trace on xiang li s e-mail account. so i can get an understanding of how big his customer base is and