and in the middle east we need a policy so the military can support a known policy. but when we re rudderless in policy and don t have any idea what do with a relationship in persia and relationship with russia and aircraft flying the same air space and that is a reese pea f recipe for disaster. lot of problems, i think general mattis is the answer. congressman, i want to ask one question before woe go here on the breaking news tonight. donald trump on a phone call with the president of taiwan. something no u.s. president has done in 37 years. democratic senator murrphy sayig this is how wars start. multiple members of the george w. bush s foreign policy team saying this is a major breech and should not have happened. a major mistake. what do you say? well yonl this will lead to war. and certainly china has been aggressive in the south pacific,
times. that clearly is not effective. we need a leader and a policy behind it, a warrior that doesn t want to go to war but if he s tasked to go to war we re going to go war to win. here is what he said last night congressman and what he said repeatedly while running for the white house. here is donald trump. i love the generals. i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. they don t much because they are not winning. i mean, this is a totally stunning change, right? do you think the president elect truly respects mattis and the other generals in this country? well he respects general mattis enough to name him to the secretary defensof defense. and he knows isis, he knows the problem set and he also knows iran continues to be the number one sponsor of terrorism.
president obama sold taiwan nearly $2 billion in weapons. something ivan talked about a moment ago. that deeplying anered china but he kept the one china policy in tact. he kind of said one thing. and did another. what is so different about trump saying guess what i m going to come outlet and say. enough dancing around the issue. i m going say it and put it out there publicly. is that so wrong? well there are different layers and degrees of what s public. barack president obama made sure there was some kind of conversation happening with china. but in the diplomatic community in the way things work in the rest of the world, in the relationship with the rest of the world when you suddenly talk to a foreign head of state it elevates everything and to do that before you are even in office is unprecedented. this is the president elect and he has ever right to decide to change policy. but really what s concerning about this, is that it doesn t seem to be based on any type of strategy
building islands and fortifying them. i would not have made that call. but the president has clearly a different agenda. i don t think it will result to war. but what i do think that china itself has been enormously aggressive too. in the south china sea s example they said they wouldn t arm islands. they are making islands and arming them. and to date we ve not had a policy pushing bang back on chinese or pushing back on russia. and this is another example why we need a warrior in the department of defense to shore up relationships with our allies and when we make a red line we need to make sure we hold it. thank you. next, donald trump trying to stop recounts in several states with razor thin margins of victory. his numbers in pennsylvania show his lead dwindling tonight. and trump picking a billionaire to head the microsoft cloud helps us
renegade province. and do not like any sign that the u.s. could recognize it as a separate state, for instance, by talking to the president of taiwan. and this is for them a pretty stunning thing to wake up. barack obama sold them those weapons but when it came to diplomacy he stuck to the policy. this is the violation of that. the u.s. doesn t have an embassy in taiwan. it has an american institute of china there. so it doesn t have official diplomatic relations and it is a very carefully calibrated relationship. yes the u.s. sells weapon, billions of the dollars of weapon withes with taiwan but doesn t officially hold meetings with the government there. and china is the world s second largest economy. we have massive trade with china. as the growing super power there and that relationship has to be balanced very carefully. what will the reaction be? it is a little too early to say but i can anticipate the chinese state media will likely blast this conversation. you would imagin