nothing new is going to be found in a committee hearing about china. i find it very interesting when people who supposedly have all this experience, including the republican representative gallagher in charge of the committee, who was a marine in the intelligence unit in the marine corps that these people have higher degrees and higher understanding about china have to have a committee to try to figure out what is going on when i can ask almost any american what china is doing and they know already. these committees are a lot of talk and the very fact that their purpose or one of the basis of this is bipartisanship, if democrats wanted to do something about china, they have had over six years of slamming trump and concentrating solely on trump, they could have put a
work again. our task on this committee is to ensure that it does not. earlier on cnbc, gallagher said tiktok should be banned or should see a forced sale and that congress needs to enact legislation. addressing china s rise, it s seen as one of the few areas of bipartisan support alongside representative gallagher, we saw the congressman from illinois. thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. reach me on twitter and instagram. always watch highlights from today s show online. i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news after a quick break. money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market s doing, he s ready. and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill,
The United States will quadruple the number of US forces stationed on Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, in an effort to provoke a war with Beijing along the lines of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
earth to provide them with the weapons that they have purchased but not delivered. russia invaded ukraine and unless we want to see a similar collapse of asia we need to put hard power in xi jinping s path before it s too late. that gives us our best chance of preserving peace. i know that s a goal that ro and i share. bret is that true, congressman. it is a goal. a war there would be catastrophic. one thing that both representative gallagher and i heard from every party in taiwan is they want the defense orders filled. they need the harpoons. they need the javelin missiles to have antiship missiles. anti-aircraft missiles to appreciate a possible invasion. and even the knt the party that has talked most with the mainland wants these weapons. they understand the deterrence is necessary for peace and that s something that i think is in a bipartisan basis we can do especially under chair gallagher s leadership in the china committee.