And the one thing that was fundamentally answered. The Intel Committee is a special committee that keep secrets. It is a committee thats able to know her secrets. The committee that has a lot of information that congress does not. Martha earlier today mccarthy expressed he is quite alarmed that democrats seem, well, not to be especially given very deep concerns about russias witch relentlessly for four years, and what do communists chinese have against the democrats that is so powerful . We have nancy pelosi who last year said it was a diversion to focus on china. You have adam schiff, now chairman of the Intel Committee saying it was just escalation. It was wrong to close up the consulate and use it. Why cant the democrats admitted that china is our adversary . Why cant they stand up to them . Martha china clearly with a battle plan is to dominate the United States by 2024. They say get that quite publicly. So today the United States punch back with new sanctions on the prc for human rights, best of trade secrets as well as they are undermining our efforts to counter Illicit Trafficking of nuclear and radioactive material. Also, their aggressive action to dominate the south china sea. Dni has warned the peoples republic of china poses the greatest threat to america today. And the greatest threat to democracy and Freedom Worldwide since world war ii. So in the infiltration of the government, obviously, is a serious matter. Victor davis hanson and joe concha on whether president elect biden is up for all of these challenges, but first, Kevin Mccarthy, fresh from that fbi briefing on the hill this afternoon about congressman swalwell and christine fong. Leader mccarthy, good to have you here tonight, thank you. Thank you. Martha so what can you tell us about the briefing . How long was it . How involved was it . And did you learn things you didnt know before . Well, ive been asking for this Briefing Since the story broke publicly. I was not briefed. That is when i first learned about it. I had to code different fbi Briefing Schedule that were canceled on the day. Now it came on friday. We were briefed together, Speaker Pelosi and myself are more than an hour. I cant tell you about what is in it, but i can tell you this. What i learned today and anyone who was in that room with me and never allow swalwell to be on the Intel Committee or continue to be on it. I dont know if the briefing before come if they have the same information they have today, but if that was the casee should not be serving. Martha what was your impression of the fbi prefers . I mean, how brave of a situation do they consider this . Or do they agree, largely with congressman swalwell who says, look, this happened six years ago. She has long left the country, gone back to china, and he claims the fbi told him, look, thank you for speaking with us. They came to him because they wanted to alert him of the situation. And they say he did nothing wrong. Was there anything different in their tone today . I cant talk about whats in it but lets talk about whats out there publicly right now. It wasnt that this by known as a spy got to know him as a congressman but got to know him as a city councilman. It was told in the press that she helped raise money to call her a bundler in the press. Got into congress and second term one of the most powerful committees. One of the most difficult committees to sit on the pier that is not selected by the peers but by one person. The leader of the Democratic Party and the leader of the republican. I think this is quite serious interview. This is also the same man when you asked him a part of this committee, the questions that he raised, what he said about russia and others. Many questions he raised and posed two people are made accusations about people. It is actually what happened to him if you read the press. It was the fbi that went to him in the press, not he went to them. And this individual that they talk about, christine fong, she wasnt in the press saying the only person in america that she was getting, making relationships with, getting to know. So i would assume that it would be pretty serious if the fbi came to you and they knew this person was a spy for another country. And then take for a moment, what are the actions that it takes just in this last month . You talk about john radcliffe, the director of intel when he said china is the greatest threat. Swalwell didnt say he was corrupt but he said china is not. Now, hes a part of the Intel Committee so he reads the report that i read all the time of the gang of eight. Anyone who reads these reports would never make that accusation would never say that. They would agree with john radcliffe, and they would take action to protect america. Martha do you see any evidence that in a relationship with her or with china led him to get the position that he got . Was there lobbing involved . What are you hinting at there . Im not hinting at anything. What im stating is the fax i know he should not be sitting on intel. What i read in the paper is this individual got to know him as a city councilman, helped him run for congress, and remember what Eric Swalwell did last year. He ran for president as well. He has raised a lot of questions on other people. I just think from what i know, for what the fbi presented, it is without a shadow of a doubt, i have no question has a republican leader, would never appoint anyone with that information that i have on them. Martha did they share with you whether or not this is a sexual relationship . We know that was the case with two mayors and obviously, that takes it to a new level. Did they share that with you . I cannot talk about what i learned in there. Martha okay. All right. Leader mccarthy, thank you. A good to have you here tonight. Thank you, think is much, merry christmas. Martha you too, merry christmas. Peter king spent ten years on the Intelligence Committee and ten of those come out four of those years alongside congressman swalwell. Congressman, good to have you here tonight. Why specifically the whole oped why you believe he needs to be removed from the committee. Why do you feel so strongly about it . What does the committee know . How does it work that makes this such a difficult situation for him in your mind . Martha, the committee is a sequence that virtually nobody else knows. The president and a few people at the top, but other than that, the secrets are not made known to others in congress while future operations being planned, intelligence operations, bout leads we have gotten. The people have been tracked overseas. What we can expect next. These are the crown jewels. These are the top secrets of the United States. The committee itself is down 2 feet below ground level. You have to leave your phone outside when you go in. The room is totally secured. And you cant take any notes in there and bring them out with you. You have to leave them in the room. That is how topsecret it is. And i did serve four years with Eric Swalwell on the committee. He was arrogant. He was so selfrighteous. Active member of the Trump Administration talking about russia. I barely ever remember him talking at all about china. Even if hes the most innocent person in the world, you have to ask, why did the chinese spy him . Why did they send is taught spy to get involved with him . Why did that person raise money to get him elected to congress . When he was in congress, the second term to be put on the Intelligence Committee. It is not like he was coming out of the fbi, cia or police department. Martha no. He has on that committee and access to all the secrets. The most innocent person in the world, hes compromised because china knows, look, Kevin Mccarthy couldnt say, he knows. But china knows what they know. If you put somebody on the committee having that type of information from a central blackmail that person is inevitably compromised. You should never have put him on the committee. Martha all right, i want to switch gears for a moment and ask you about this hacking case believed to have come from russia spy tactics. In here is joe biden saying he will be short to hold him accountable. I know on the Intel Committee this is also the kind of thing you worked on. Let me hear the response to this very large attack on five or six of our most sensitive agencies. Watch this. How do you make sure they dont do this again . What is the message . How do you send that message . They have to be held accountable. They have to be held accountable. Could you give us an appetizer of what that accountability might be . Individuals as well as entities will be fined. Martha okay. Here is what senator rick scott of florida said about that statement. Watch this. I have not ever seen joe biden hold one bad actor anywhere around the world accountable for anything. So the way he says these things, people laugh. Martha congressman king, you served on the hill with joe biden. Do you agree with that statement from the florida senator . Listen, joe biden is coming in as the president elect. In this issue, this cyber attack on the United States by russia, this is serious business. So i hope that joe biden does the right thing. We have tremendous cyber power ourselves. We can reach out against russia without anybody else knowing except the russians. We have done it to other countries when they attack us. We have tremendous power ourselves. So im hoping joe biden will use that and he will retaliate against russian and the way that they realize they cant get away with this. Again, i dont want to get into the partisanship of attacking joe biden before he is man, but Something Like this between all americans. The russia comes at us and this is unprecedented cyber attack as far as i know. Again the committee im not on anymore but this serious attack we have to take action against him and we can do it. Again, theres a lot of methods that we have to make life very uncomfortable for the russians with cyber attacks, our own cyber attacks. Martha well put. Congressman king, thank you, sir, good to have you here tonight. Thank you martha, merry christmas. Martha merry christmas, go irish to you too, thank you very much. Victor davis hanson with a warning for joe biden. The established tactics used against President Trump likely to leave washington with him. A new piece for the National Review he writes this biden will enter office with an ethical cloud hanging over his head one that could have been vetted and adjudicated rather than blacked out for most of 2020. His son, brother and perhaps Family Associates may talk if fbi or irs probes. If not a special counsel investigation. It will not help biden to defeat trump, many institutions were deformed. Special counsel is usually never received a blank check 22 months and 32 million to assemble a team of partisans to investigate a new president a mostly falsely evidence and evidence concocted dossier. Victor Victor Davis Hanson and author of the case for trump, media and politics for the hill and Fox News ContributorFox News Contributor. Great to have you with the spirit very interesting piece, victor on this and the National Review. Basically you are arguing that the constructs are kind of broken down and they are not likely to not make things difficult for him, given what we went through over the last four years, explain. There was an ancient canon in history that you never want to destroy the processes or the protocol of the government because you may find them in need yourself one day. That is what has happened or joe biden. He does not want ivy league psychiatrist remotely diagnosing him as nonaccomplice meant to take the cognitive assessment test. He does not want a first term president. We have really done that can impeach for something other than high crimes and misdemeanors, treason and bribery. Yet he has compromised. I think the biden family might be compromised by the chinese connections. I dont think he wants a special prosecutor for 22 months. I dont think he wants the Republican Senate voting in lockstep as they come at the democrats did in judicial nominations and even cabinet appointments, no, no, no if they will the senate a much different consequence and place donald trump even. As far as the collusion goes, they dont want to have this obsession with collusion and obey the democrats tried to really destroy the Trump Campaign transition presidency. China for a lot of reasons, martha, very quickly, they see a soft spot in democrats and the immigrants. That is why they focus on dianne feinstein, Eric Swalwell. I dont know if it is the big money in the country and Silicon Valley were hollywood or perpetual sports or wall street. As a propensity and naive about china. I dont know if it is the past administration, or if people like anita dung praising the hero. Or maybe they piggyback on the race class gender industry in america. Every time you criticize china, which wuhan virus labs they say, this is racist. Its inappropriate. They think that designates with the american level. Whatever it is, there is a lot of vulnerability. China knows that and take advantage of it. But the point is, that is all we saw and heard the last four years. It would be very destructive if the republicans paid in kind. So i think biden has to be aware of that. Martha i mean, you make a great point. The concern here for people who watch and say, this is just turnabout is fair play. Now, they are pulling this on joe biden because of what happened over the course of the last four years. This is a serious situation that we are in with china. As you point out, they are going to these vulnerable spots to try to make inroads. And its a National Security threat for the country to be sure. So lets look at this with joe concha. You know, the problem is that Eric Swalwell has not answered questions about this relationship. You know, he could shed a lot of light on this. If he is telling the truth about it being over and there was nothing compromised. Then he needs to come out to make that perfectly clear. That did not happen in this interview that we are going to play a clip of, joe. Did you have any concerns about this person before you had what is known as a defensive briefing . Jim i was shocked. Are you concerned you shared information with this person before notified before the fbi . I know i didnt. What did this tell us about the threat from china today . They are doing this all over the country. Martha and that was pretty much it, joe. And so you know, this is a difficult situation when you have you know, today peter doocy try to ask the question. They took five questions at the biden conference. That is generally what they take. They have reporters outraged and sending messages on the zoom file. You need to answer more questions. You need to give us more access. How long will this go on, joe . We cant go on too much longer, it will back already, and these reporters are from a predetermined list, not picked by joe biden but picked by his staff to make sure they keep him in his safe space and dont receive any tough questions. If you go out on the line, you will lose access like peter doocy has which joe biden the most reasonable president we have seen in modern times. In terms of Eric Swalwell, the New York Times has not touched this story, even one drop of ink on this. And you have to ask is this a story . Gee, you have a democratic congressman from for my spray and chinese fight and the fbi told him whats going on. And obviously the relationship in turn is put into his office and not before she raised his money for reelection campaign. And then the question not so much for Eric Swalwell but House Speaker nancy pelosi, how do you decide a couple months later that this democratic congressman, this noname basically, 34 years old, no experience in terms of the Intelligence Community or Foreign Policy or foreign affairs, and you place him on the house Intel Committee . So i want to hear from nancy pelosi more why you would do Something Like that. By the way, with swalwell, if you are in a relationship with someone and they introduce themselves as that is a red flag. You know what commit is not you but me. Go back to your tender or whatever else you are doing. Clearly that is something that would raise something there. The bottom line is not just the New York Times martha abc, cbs, nbc, those newscast 25 Million People in total watching that. Also we are not covering this story hunter biden, really bad sequel at this point, martha. Martha well, Christine Fang was part of a Chinese Student organization when he met her and, you know, obviously this is a situation that we need to know a lot more about. Its about National Security of the country overall when you put all these things together. They are legitimate concerns from a legitimate stories that absolutely need to be covered by any responsible journalistic organization. Joe concha, thank you very much. Victor david hanson, good to see you,