defend ukraine. a current threat is serious enough that the state department just issued a do not travel advisory for ukraine, specifically citing potential russian military action. action. >> first we have been clear that if there is any further russian aggression in terms of russian forces in ukraine there will be a united response from u.s. and europe. it will be quick and severe. any hybrid actions, there too i am confident based on the many consultations i have had partners there will be a united response. trey: secretary blinken had to clean it up. say issue because joe biden messed up this week. i'm not sure what a small incursion to a neighbors sovereign nation would look like, but that is what biden said, doubt began to grow this past summer as the world watched u.s. struggle to exit from afghanistan, some warned then that america's feckless withdrawal would embolden our enemies, right on cue, china is not only moving fighter planes closer to taiwan, but according to reports, china is flying just into taiwanese airspace. joining us now. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. welcome to you. >> one thing if it is a minor incursion and we have to fight about what to do and not do, but if they do what they are capable of doing, it will be a disaster for russia. if they further invade ukraine. >> any, any assemble of russian units across ukrainian border, that is an invasion. putin makes his choice, russia will pay a heavy price. trey: john, i have no idea what a minor incursion is. what is he talking about? >> i think people found out why the biden white house does not let joe biden take live inscripted news conferences. the clean up was so bad they had to send jen psaki in the following morning to clean it up and kamala harris of all people to try to make joe biden sound better, and joe biden himself had to reverse what he said a few hours later, after where the ukrainian said, for the love of god, please don't listen to the man, talking in the white house he doesn't know what he is talking about. they are on a path many of us predicted based on intelligence and history, we've seen that movie before, last time joe biden was in the white house with barack obama. he said don't you dare cross the red line or there will be consequences, putin called their bluff and what the obama/biden administration viewed as a minor incursion, they took crimea. the second part is this idea is failing that sabre rattling about issuing economic sanctions this are so crippling that russia will not move, as you point out, they are continues to move and put into position to attack ukraine. he has been talking about this for 30 years, he called it an invalid divorce when ukraine left at the fall of soviet union. he is on his way to bring it back. the bottom line, vladimir putin is not just winning but he has won on this issue, here is the president of 12th country with the only 12th largest economy in the world, and he has the leader of the free world, president of united states and our western allies sitting back waiting to see what he is going to do, instead of telling him what he mist do. trey: we're about a year into this, we were told joe biden is most experienced person to ever run for president, when you survey the world, what do you so see? >> i heard you say main times it is a 50/50 country, . 70% of americans believe in one thing they don't want joe biden to run for reelection in 2024, that is republicans, democrats and independents saying that is a mistake, we don't want to repeat the biden presidency, these events that we're talking about. you mentioned the defeat in afghanistan. what is happened with russia, and with china, everywhere in the past year our adversaries have gotten stronger. joe biden said in his press conference he had a good year, the best year, but who really had a good year were the terrorists, the taliban, and putin and xi jinping and kim jong-un. they are testing the united states, they saw what happened in afghanistan, they are moving aworld the world, you cannot point to anywhere in the world where u.s. posture has improved over the last year. it is the opposite, i think that is reflected in why the american people are so concerned about joe biden as president. trey: to another spot on the globe, you have an expertise in china, you developed it in the house and continued it. what is china doing with taiwan. what response if any can the u.s. have to this? it seems provocative to move fighter jets toward a country. >> starting in august. on the heals of in afghanistan. what did we see? we saw 150 incursions into taiwan's air identification defense zone by china, the most ever, 49 incursions in one day. not just with fighters but with bombers, that is -- would be a precursor to an invasion. i think. unfortunately we see folks like xi jinping, vladimir putin, and autocrats and dictators in the world are doing what they want with impunity given the leadership or lack there of from the biden administration. china is our greatest threat from a military economic and technological stand point. they have gotten stronger over the last year, unfortunately that is a trend i think we'll continue to see throughout the biden administration, when the response to these things, genocide against the uighurs and other things biden response is they are friendly competitors, not adversaries. trey: surveying the globe with former director of national intelligence from the great state of texas john ratcliffe. >> crime continues to surge across the nation, including a career o -- o. >> ahead on "sunday night in america." holidays, graduations, i'm covered for everything. which reminds me, thank you for driving me to the drugstore. earn big time with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? 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there are elements welcome his party who want -- within his party who want more violent people auto bond, more charges dropped, there are elements within his party who actually blame the police for the rise in violent crime, they advocate for closing of pris be ons. biden gets animated talking about he believes are voting rights, and challenging and changing the rules of the senate. what about changes the rules so there are fewer victims so that innocent public is better protected. what about making sure you can work in a store without being killed or wait on a bus or stand on a subway platform or just walk home. in new york, these 4 young women and scores of more like them, have forever lost the right to vote. or do anything else. the right to live is the most fundamental right you have. i wonder when president biden is going to get upset about that. and when will the media ask him about that. jason mayaris is joining us now, where is he on the violent crime search? >> trey, are right. thank you for having me. i think what you saw in virginia is a microcosm of the nation. you had har left they -- i was a member of legislate our, i bridge up one word we never hear with social justice reform, you never hear them talk about the victims or the names, then you have social justice warriors put on the state parole board, he talk about victims, 78 zeroed betsy round tree the horrific of a home invasion, rape and murder, and her killer got 3 life sentences without possibility of pa parole. betsy's loved ones, found out he is back on the street. they never neat fi the victims or the families of the victims. these are progressive prosecutors, a case in fairfax, a monster raped over course of a year a 5-year-old child, prosecutor in fairfax, thought he was eligible for life, under virginia sentencing law he decided that was too harsh for a life sentence of child rapist, he reached a plea deal of 17 years. this individual will be eligible for parole in 10 years. they big reason that we won is virginians were tired of it. the stories are heartbreaking. more and more americans will be pushing back on the progressive prosecutors and this biden administration that is so weak on crime. trey: general it did not take you long to make changes. when you got to was. >> if media reports are right, i use the word if, you started working the day you got sworn in making changes, tell us about those. >> well, our transition team was a big believer in personnel policy, no service anyone that i my predecessor bragged high turned ag office to a progressive power house, that is not me, we wanted to focus on public safety, we brought in great fantastic prosecutors, within an hour of our being sworn in. we signed a host of orders. that by the way against the law to let out murderers without notifying the victims, and loud en they gave us authority to investigate. a problem we have people think that good intentions guarantee good results. they say, i mean well but the result right now with the violent crime rate should give us all pause. when you see murder rates the highest they have been in decades and catch and release programs, that is when everyone has to take pause and say, i don't care what our intentions are, what are the results? 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>> the texas election law is very transparent, does not do a lot of things that democrats say its does, it cleans up the process, like make all of the early voting time the same across country so people don't get confuse put additional i.d. requirement on mail in ballots. there is a bipartisan commission on election that state, bipartisan by the way mail in ballots are source of a lot of different fraud, we're just cleaning up some things, so there is less opportunity for fraud. does not make is harder to vote, it makes it easier to vote, in many cases we have weeks of early voting, there are a few things, the voter suppression lie is that, a lie, a myth. no one believes that myth. 80% of voters believe in voter i.d., and 47% of americans believe we have too lacks of votes laws to prevent fraud. fraud. >> you know congressman, one reason that i like you, you never seem prone to hyperbole, you don't engage in manufactured trauma, i hear people compare these laws to jim crow laws, what is your reaction? talk about hyperbole what is your reaction in comparing what y'all passed to jim crow laws. >> this is how democracy work, they expose a problem, they exaggerate that probably greatly. they say there is some crisis, maybe they call it racism or voser suppression or the world is end, then they offer extreme solutions, they have to say there a crises to justify the extreme solutions they prefer. why do they want this? it is hard to tell, the best thing, they do want it to be easier for people to cheat. elections are competition, you have to be certain of who won. if you are not, then you get -- concernation and division, how about making sure that election have clear rules. one person, one vote, a trail that you could audit. and make the processes easy and trans parent. >> you know congressman, i did not like it when republicans acted like they were incapable of losing an election that is dangerous for the republic, but i also listen to joe biden press conference he seemed to be suggesting that if the midterms don't turn out well, that it is because of something nefarious. what is your reaction? >> yeah, i saw the same thing. and i am sick of this pendulum swinging this way, it is clear that democrats are setting this up, they know they will get blown away in 2022, they know that. they want to be able to say, only reason they lost because they could not pass laws that mean you can drive through at 3:00 a.m. and vote, that is what they say, they get bad at texas law because there is no more two a.m. drive-thru voting, who needs to vote at that time. it you can't vote at 3:00 a.m. does that mean you are suppressed, of course, not. the americans know it is easy to vote, if anyone watching is having trouble voting or obstacles in the way, call our office, we'll figure it out for you. i am pretty sure nobody really has that issue. trey: you make it simple, incident people to vote. we want you to be who are purport to be, last thing i will ask, voter i.d., what in the world is the argument against showing an i.d. to vote? >> well, let's put your literal hat on real quick, i think it is just racism, that is their only argument. absurd to say minorities can't get i.d.s, by the way, if anyone in america can't get an i.d., we need to help them get an i.d., 80% of americans believe that voter i.d. is necessary for the elections. reuters trying to post a article bashing texas, because of the applications were rejected because of mismatched i.d. numbers. what is your counter proposal, should we just accept them if the voter i.d.s don't match. they don't want fair elections, that is only thing that i come up with. trey: congressman dan crenshaw thank you for your service, we look forward to having you back on. >> thank you, trey. trey: up next. i also earn 5% on travel purchased through chase on this rental car. that lake is calling my name! don't you get seasick? 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what explains this shift. part for sure is failure of biden administration effect -- the feckless withdraw from afghanistan, and china and russia are more emboldened. the problem with covid-19 and supply chain issues. biden promised to manage the pandemic, he has not. economic uncertainty at home and real doubt on the world stage, this helping explain the shift. how americans identify themselves. but something else is going on, there is an existential angst about what we are as people biden said he was a unifier, then went to southern state to compare half of the country to george wallace and bull corner, americans are smarter. they remember joe biden eulogized a man who ran for president as a segregationist. he will tell you the men changed. if men and women can change, can a state or a nation change too? and when that state or nation does change, why not acknowledge that. why not celebrate that. some democrat think that people should be able to vote without an i.d. or have political parties pass out items of value to voters standing in line. some democrat think that prisoners and noncitizens should vote. the rest of us do not. that makes us different but does not make us motivated by racial animus. part of what is going on here is a renewed debate. over the scope and role of government. democrat want a larger role for the federal government, in areas like school curriculum and health decisions for children, and child care, and federalizing elections. and americans are wondering why government should be making the decisions for our children. if government condition even congress -- can't even drone the right car in afghanistan, americans don't want government dividing schoolchildren to racists and victims or a president dividing nation or race. we don't want to teachers unions lecturing us about what best for children, when they can't bother to show up for school themselves, we don't want government telling us how we should be softer on crime or lit career ofenders out on bond, americans are smart enough to know those career offenders drive-thru christmas parades or murder innocent young women in california furniture stores, we want government to do those things that government is supposed to do. like national security and border security and public safety. so yes, 2021 was bad for the democrats. and by default good for the republicans. if republicans want to turn a good year into a good decade, make the case for a limited government that is competence and excels as core functions. if you can prove your limited federal government can per competently, people may trust you to lead the country, not merely lead the opposition. >> joining us now town hall.com editor. katy pavlich. nice to have you join us. you follow this stuff so well. >> thank you, trey. trey: carefully. how -- what doe you make of this shift in voter identification? >> i think we could take the whole show to talk 'all of the topics driving the democrat down the drain with voter approval among independence. 67 % now don't approve of joe biden's handling of every issue. whether covid or the economy or crime for example. and white house had the strategy throughout the year of when there is a problem happening no matter what it is, they say it is not happening or they blame it on something else, for example ron claim white house chief of staff said that inflation is a high class problem. well, every day people are seeing prices go up by 8% on every day items, at the grocery store that is a middle class problem. joe biden promised not to raise taxes on any american making less than 400,000 a year, well inflation is a tax on everyone. if and also, issued that everyone person thinks about, when you have a white house saying and federal government and democrat ignores issues, not putting department of justice in a specific operation to combat crime in the liberal cities, not calling d.a.s in l.a. and new york saying we have a crime problem and a political problem, solve this crisis, people think differently about how they will vote. trey: you are right. president likes to flame republicans i'm going to play a clip of him. >> everything is changing, it is getting better, look, i didn't over promise, i think if you look at what we've been able to do, you have to acknowledge we made progress. one thing that i think is something that one thing i have not been able to do so far is get my republican friendses to get in the game and make things better in this country. trey: it is all the republicans fault, why won't they go along with closing prisons and other crazy ideas, i thought that was sad, what is your reaction? >> joe biden is rejecting math in dc, democrat have a majority in house and senate, if joe biden wanted to get things past with just democrats he -- he could do, that he is unable, he is unwilling to step away from being a proxy for bernie sanders and the left, when joe biden took office in january last year, there were warnings from a number of people, including moderate democrats, he was too weak to stand up to the left on economic and social issues you see that continue to play out, and he campaigned high of a mod -- he is a moderate and media played it that way, he took a big risk by trying to become the next fdr with a legacy of massive government spending. at the time with only a 50/50 split in senate, he took that bit, he lost, now he blames the republicans when it is democrats who are those who put the brakes on destroying and blowing up norms. like eliminating filibuster in senate for sake of pushing through a far left wing agenda on the issue of federalizing election, 70% of americans do not agree with. the truth is he has not been able to unite his own party. it is a far left agenda that is pushed by the left in senate and house. trey: katie. i'll have on you, i'll tell you ahead of time when i'm asking you when it is next whether november will be a referendum on size and scope of government or competence of government, i know you don't need to know ahead of time. but i will tell you. i can't wait to have you back on. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. trey: thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, have a great week, until next week we're on-line. or trey gowdy podcast, ♪ ♪ [music] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america, i am mark levin, this is "life, liberty and levin." almost 4 years ago to the day that we began this program, this long form interview program. i remember having a wonderful meeting with mr. murdoch and suzanne scott and others. about what is it that i would do on fox.