ambassador several months ago and brought her to the south carolina army national guard so she could see how we train up our citizens, what we do, what they need to be doing in taiwan to defend themselves. you go and make sure you lift them up so they can do for themselves like the ukrainians are doing for themselves. but when china sees that taiwan has got the backing of their allies and when china sees that ukraine just beat russia, they won t even move into taiwan. that should be our goal. [ applause ] one of the things about that the united states vis-a-vis taiwan is there used to be a thing called strategic ambiguity where the u.s. president i know you know this. where the u.s. president would not say directly one way or the other would u.s. forces defend taiwan if china invaded. and president biden broke with that. and i m wondering if you would too. no. what i will tell you is we are going to make sure they have the equipment, the ammunition and the training to win thems
emboldens xi jinping vis-a-vis taiwan. so when i hear some republicans supporting mr. trump, but saying they need to be tougher on china, that is a contradiction. but make no mistake. i m nervous about that outcome. i just don t think it will be as automatic as mr. putin believes. even if the ukrainians do not have our military support, there is no doubt in my mind that they will continue to fight, even if their country is occupied, they will continue to fight with or without our weapons. such a harrowing scenario. someone who was involved in the national security early phases of the mueller probe said to me, ambassador mcfaul, that next time there wouldn t be the kind of collusion that would even invite a special counsel investigation because the russians and if he is so receptive again, they would find a way to do it through legal channels, such as moscow sanction list. where is your head about the
vis-a-vis taiwan, but the growing assertiveness it is showing with the navy and the air force and the intention of the biden administration s intention to counter that. and so in the first phase, the alliance will counter with submarine conventionally armed so think torpedos, cruise missiles and special operations can use these submarines, but crucially not ballistic missile submarines and the administration has pointed that out again and again, and then in the second phase the process of the more advanced submarines by
president biden s wilmington home. obtained the new pages on thursday and they were immediately taken into justice department custody by officials on scene there. we ll have a whole lot more on the story as it develops, gillian. gillian: thanks, bill. tensions are on the rise concerns over china s possible invasion of taiwan mount in washington. china held major drills off the coast of the island this weekend. let s bring in retired general and fox news contributor keith kellogg to talk about the prospects for an invasion now. general, take a look at this. just some of the menacing moves that china has made since december. they dispatched a record 71 planes towards taiwanese air space and some aircraft crossed the taiwan strait and china declares that china sovereignty and taiwan is an undisputable fact.
we just discussed 90% lose their case. if they don t cooperate. they ll be removed. ice isn t looking for them. when a republican president takes back the white house, someone like trump who believes in border security and i ll come out of retirement for the third time we ll seek these people out, arrest and deport them. take that to the bank. bill: we ll keep covering that border beat. gillian. gillian: china is ratcheting up threats against taiwan holding military drills off the island nation. is a chance of invasion now closer than ever before? we ll ask general keith kellogg coming up next. my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.