thing. we would get on trump s plane and the first thing that would happen when he sat down is keith would go and get that box and put it in the seat next to trump, and trump would open the box and start going through the papers. when they call up his beautiful mind boxes, the staff called him i. knew exactly what they meant. it was like a security blanket for him. sorry, that was not what we re looking for, but let me what he did say is we didn t go after trump enough. we allowed a certain air to settle in that became impossible for us to change or overcome. do you think that he will convince more of his rivals in this primary to go after trump in the way he is? yes, i think he s opening the door. i think he s got the charisma of common sense in his convictions and that authenticity reads in politics and all these other candidates tiptoeing around donald trump, that projects weakness. you need clarity. you need to play offensive politics. it s always the best defense. donald tru
opportunity for hobbs. what do you think about the whole kerfuffle? michael it won t surprise you. this is not a goody look to say you re not going to debate your opponent. carrie lake has samantha. atlanta has a huge piece. she is trump s leading lady. she needs to be confronted. she needs to be exposed. she needs to be debated. you need to call at the craziness and the extremism of the support for insurrectionists and democratic policies. you don t run away from that. it does not project a projects weakness. it is disappointing. it. is on so many. levels if you thought we were leaving election denial back in 2020, you haven t seen this from the washington post. a majority of republican nominees across the country, nearly 300, have deny the 2020 election results. at least 173 of them are
that projects weakness. it will invite aggression. trey: congressman rogers are stalked in the pandemic of the u.s. being less dependent on other countries for goods and services. in your judgment are we or have we met the challenge of being more self-reliant? unfortunately not. that is not the biggest threat to me. the biggest threat we still had not gotten china out of our supply chain. we have made it a goal we expect to have them out within the next couple of years. i think of the pandemic taught us anything in the western world, that all of us have allowed ourselves lazily to become dependent on china for far too much in our lives. that has got to be changed. we are making steps in that direction. but you make a great point about us being self supportive. we have got to recognize being able to feed and clothe ourselves in this country is a
fair trading partner. i would ve preferred that they be told in no uncertain terms what the price would be to intellectual property theft and the most important thing is don t you dare tell us who we are going to send to our ally in taiwan. save your lectures. we will send anybody want anywhere we want anytime we want, and it s none of your business what we do. why didn t he just say that? i can t believe i m sticking up for nancy pelosi s right to go. she has an absolute right to go. the consequences. the last time a speaker of the house when, newt gingrich, 1997. china in 1997 has no resemblance to the much more powerful china of 2022. sean: so we should cower? no, that s my point. that s my point. we have the uss ronald reagan there right now, big carrier strike group 350 ships, 27,000
ago when president xies and vladimir putin and the rest of us in this world saw a feckless and a reckless commander in chief r and president joe biden withdrawingan from afghanistan n such a chaotic, deadly way, 13 serviceuc members lost, ignoring the advice of his generals we all saw, including putin. we allll saw women and children running across that tarmac. the man hanging fromarma a wingf the plane and turning over control of afghanistan to the taliban. and so when an american president projects weakness, people, property, peace, and prosperity are endangered. and that s what we all sawpe today. w sawyou know, we re al gore wj have liked to have seen joe biden push back and say, you know what? t you owe the world compensation for the deaths because ofnt the virus created in that lab in your country. well what was going on there. i would have preferred that joe biden say if you don t start free and fair trade, we re going to double down because we re d