mentioning debt ceiling. are you concerned there are zero negotiate is going on? center joe manchin migrant democratic colleagues was here last week he called out the president and said he s gotta step up to the plate and get everybody to the table this negotiating tactic is going to take us to the cliff again. as i do think we need to negotiate for there is no question but negotiate the budget for the next fiscal year that starts october 1. we shouldn t negotiate if are going to pay our bills regarding committed and spence, that s what the debt ceiling is about. click increase it in the past so that this debate and drama. let s get the debt ceiling extended. and then sit down before octobet which will not be the president s budget for it won t be the republicans budget. won t be the senate budget. it will be a budget that is negotiate between the house and senate, congress and the administration for that s what we need to do, that is how congress works best. but don t do it on the deb
we have a lot of tools in our toolkit to used to make that a reality. but bottom line is we have to make sure taiwan has one needs to defend itself. i agree we have to train, we have to make equipment avai available. the experiences from ukraine show us of the given capacity, they have the will they read judge, reconsider their strategy and trying to take over the island by force. shannon: arabs are there technical difficulties there hopefully you can hear me okay. next question is a follow-up on that. there are concerns about our ability to supply come to taiwan based on the fact we ve had to send so much ukraine. the report to congress late last year that came to you said this break the diversion of existing stocks of weapons and munitions to ukraine has exacerbated a sizable backlog in the delivery of weapons already prefer cell to taiwan undermining the islands readiness. so, there also warnings other
in chicago but wisconsin certainly. what are we learning from that state supreme court race question first of all all politics is local even in supreme court justice cases. i also think republicans and conservatives is spent time decrying soros and making him the bogeyman. and after the supreme court decision not just roe v wade but getting conservatives the majority of conservatives on the supreme court we kind of had a party and went home and went to sleep. what do democrats do? they clearly come to work there s about $45 million in funding per week for the state supreme court. so conservatives have to get to work. they have to get in the fight for complaining is not going to be enough. on the issue in the senate had an interesting piece to see the gop has to control messaging on abortion. but not run away from them for they say republican politicians who boldly but on offense bypassing pro-life legislation and aligning themselves of grassroots activist successfully
question. shannon: and measures for house republicans especially for the deal that a snake to kevin mccarthy to the speakership. it s going to be a complex situation. i want to make sure touch on the afghanistan issue with you as well as we did was centigram. here s what an sc spokesperson jon kirby said when this is rolled out for it sounded like a lot of this was laying claim with the previous administration. here is characterization of how played out. and so for all this talk of chaos, i just did not see it not for my perch. he thanks he did not see chaos but here s what american stock, the people hanging onto plane taking off. people swarming the airport. people handing over children and babies to our marines there. a bombing that killed 13 service members left many more severe injuries. there are thousands of people still not country we had promised to get out. i know of a personally the case in at least one american still trying to get out. how do you characterize this withdraw
would up our game if you do not up your game and now you are going to have a war. shannon: very quickly went to get a lot of other topics chairman call discussed with aishah hasnie the discussion the possibility of authorizing force in sending u.s. troops to ta taiwan. would you support that scenario? strategic ambiguity is not working. china after afghanistan believes the store is open for you can go in and take whatever you want on biden s watch. so the question for the congress should we have a defense agreement with the island of taiwan? should we have one? i will be very much open to using u.s. forces to defend taiwan because it is in our national security interest to do so. shannon: try to also an actor with fentanyl, mexico, the board that you ve been very vocal on that. mexico s president has sent a g china please help without the fentanyl praise they have said basically there s no such thing as illegal trafficking. you have talked about getting tough about using u.s. militar