with our own military. and how many man men and women g going to send their sons and daughters to defend another country? sends d daughterand i m not sayd or shouldn t. i m saying that s wherer the american taxpayer is . and as far as our abilityou to fund a war,r that s motability. that s your ability. a that s the taxpayer s ability. let me ask you a finaler s a question. keep creatinbility tg and fundi. final question for both of you. do you think if china invadestaw taiwan that american ta undereve joe biden will lift a finger? i don t believe hedon t will t i don t think he ll do a darnth thing. he ll talk about sanctions thihs that i don t think he s goingho to do anything militarily. dan hoffmanff , well, i ll n the question around a little bit on what matters ste is what china believes. if they don t believs e thatd the uniteddi states is ready to step in and defend taiwan, that will enter intost o their calculusne. s ass um just one thing for people that say let s assume i
a price fight that you wouldou k knock china that hard before you even walk into the white s house? that was step numbertep numb on. stepd number two is the steel and aluminum tariffs. twenty seven executive, 27 orde. two hundred and ten chinaaction actions by the trumps en administration. and then this is not even april yet. of 2017. dow when trump had president xi done it, mar-a-lago, he lau launched cruise missiles. fifty nine of them in syria during the dinner conversation with president xi. in the meantime, you re right that biden oversee n overses well, china is doing exercises in taiwan. twenty one yeawan,r olds leakin classified top secret documents and a gaming ocuments app.n and you knowis, biden is obviously mixing up things t in ireland and saying, you know, he doesn t want to comewe home. wellll, he s, he s been on vacar 40% of his entire presidency.. so, yeah, peace through strength. but weakness invites aggression. and that s exactly what you
display with threats against americsta and the rest of the world. now, the chinese army releasedwk this video earlier this week sit on state television simulating take a loo a look k this one , d attack on taiwan would lookk like in just the latest veiledsi threat. i don t even think it s veiled anymore. honestly, it s probably a fait accompli. it was like the latymer putin l- in the lead up to invading ukraine. everyone was saying, well,goingo he s probably not going to invade.nv that probably is a gooadde. pro indication thabablt they have p and that they will do this. now, remember last. year they told nancy pelosi thereo would be a firm response if she dared to visitta taiwan, that yu should have similar warning to speaker kevin mccarthy aheadt of his meeting with taiwan s president last week in california. presidlast weethey told the u.s the red line on taiwan. they warned, quote, ofequences the worst consequences for for any country that offers taiwan m any military support. they
showing? you could have asked me if i thought joe biden would surrender afghanistan and le dit dozens of us not to do it.he w and i haveas said no way he wasy vice president for eight years. thate why would he do that?ha and that s exactly what he did. i have no idea how he wouldth yu respond to taiwan, but i know iw be he didn t respond i in anf yy ,his political career would be over because he s promised to respond for the last six months. p months. joey, thank you. dan hoffman, thank you.t do and coming up, so what do we really know abou xt president xi and how worried should you, the american people, be aboutg china s growing aggression? we ll check in with our experts . k programing note.expe w we will be hosting three live audience shows next week, monda the first one on monday. anif you want free tickets, go o hanadi .com. also havencee audience showse gu on wednesday and thursday. look at the guests. we havese lined up for monday. kellyanne conway, kayleigh mcenany, jim jor
new york times , had a very famous mistake one time when b they said xi jinping is going to be the reformer of china.di that s because he did bringn ino provt of money in to the provinces where he was the leader. but he also has a second side that he brings up ancient proverb. he brings up all the old emperors and how they were overthrown. and in these proverbs, heerbs. leaves the impression that over the next 10 or 15 years, china is going to do the same thing, overthrowing the old americans . so here s the scary part.cary yes. forf refeerrupt you a number of references to his ancient past, okay?ancien but het talks constantly about, reunification. it s not reunification. he wants to take over taiwan. ue so that s issue number one . and he didn t say this during the trump years. and he s openly threateninthe td our navy and our military and any military on the face ofa this earth the o. t if you he s openly threatening themh tw that if you side with taiwan doat they will destroy you.