he also told our aishah hasnie serving u.s. troops is on the table if china invades taiwan. reporter: so, speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times, that we need to arm taiwan now. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you re talking about an authorized use of military portion that would come out of my committee or a declaration of war which we haven t utilized since world war ii. reporter: would you support that? i think if communist china invades taiwan, i think that is certainly the american people support this, the congress will follow. sean: this visit came days after house speaker kevin mccarthy is other lawmakers meant with taiwan s leader at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. mccarthy says the country s support for taiwan is resolute and unwavering. house china committee chairman mike gallagher said moments a after the meeting that washington shouldn t be scared to have these kind of meetings. some who fail to l
with the mainland by force, if necessary. the wave to do that is through psychological warfare. it s through economic coercion it s through political warfare. that s what president tsai has been warning us about. cognitive warfare. important for the american people not to be intimidated. the fact that the chinese were throwing a temper tantrum about the speaker of the house meeting with the democratically elected leader of taiwan on american soil just shows you how sensitive they are. and we need to support our friends in taiwan specifically by giving them the weapons that they have purchased from us, which have been backlogged. we need to be moving heaven and earth to surge power out to the indo-pacific before it s too late. before we have another war on our hands. brian: michael mccaul said we green lighted this, the arms to taiwan three years ago. and a lot of this is stuff that had nothing to do with supply chain. has to do with the willingness to make this happen because
of taiwan on american soil just shows you how sensitive the they are. we need not to the back down. we need to stand up for freedom, and we need to support our friends in taiwan, specifically by giving them the weapons that they purchase from us which have been backlog ared. we have a $19 billion backlog of weapons. that s unacceptable, sean. we need to be moving heaven and earth to surge power out to the incopacific before it s too late, before we have another war on our hands. sean: what more can be done to make sure those weapons actually do get to taiwan so they can defend themselves should china attack? i think if you look at the $19 billion, there s many different items involved in that. i think the harpoon anti-ship miss sills are the most important. i remain convince ised that there s more we can do to the move taiwan to the front of the line ahead of saudi arabia, for example, when it comes to harpoon deliveries as well as take the harpoon missiles that we re putting into de