visit a provocation. china biggest ally russia backing their friend 100 percent. now with analysis is former massachussetts senator scott brown with contributor and former station cia station chief dan hoffman. thank you very much. i can believe i have to open a segment for you two guys talking about how china is screaming at us and we are running away like scared rabbits with conflicting messages out of the witt which says we don t support taiwan independence while nancy pelosi is going over there hugging them. that alone scott i think would send a message that the american government is itself divided on this issue what s your take on all of this? first i ve been to china and taiwan 2-3 times many taiwan is an amazing country. they re a democracy, supply a lot of chips we need for military and other needs and china are a big bully. you get off the train it smells like an ashtry, biggest polluters, an they have a 600 year plan and we don t have a plan. the splintered natur
In his basement but the media continued to give him a pass and not push him on policies many we have china threatening the speaker of the house when she goes abroad many we have a war in ukraine in russia because of joe biden s recklessness in terms of emboldening putin. robert gates was right. joe biden has been on the wrong side of almost every foreign policy and national security failure four decades but the problem with the white house is the problem of putting more money into a raging inflation economy not addressing the underlying issue, wiping out paycheck days. they don t think that s the problem. they just think the american people are not buying what they re selling so you re the problem, not them. exactly. joe biden who was driving america into the ground so maybe
They could not get off the trump narcotic. they have never been able to. people have found a way, even looking after them selves to circle back into trump world. and if there were any question about the political consequences, in congress hook, line and sinker 99% of republicans voted to not have these kind of committees. 99% of republicans voted not to impeach or indict the president on anything. so i don t think that there is a schism. i think that everybody is looking out for themselves. and think jared and ivanka, one day they want to go back to the met gala or inside parters and don t like they re associated with the nonsense that they were engaged in in the white house. will they change their tune after the midterm elections. we might see that. but i don t believe there is any schism. the republicans are unified in defending donald trump for whatever way works for them. and vladimir putin and the targets of the 1/6 committee waiting to exhale.
We haven t always gone out of our way to push over, and matter of fact, we ve gone out of our way at times to prop up autocracy, but part of what being an american is is to push more and more for that ideal here and that ideal around the world, but this republican party and it goes to a lot of the conversations i know we ve all had, is there s a huge majority of the party that fundamentally believes in the idea of christian nationalism. and the idea of christian nationalism is it doesn t matter if you re a democracy as long as you re basically a ththeocratic state that s why they don t want to push back against putin because they believe he s establishing christian nationalism in russia. that s why they re doing what they re here to roll back all the gains that have been done over the past hundred years here
Said. in 2018, a bill reaffirming america s support for nato passed the u.s. senate 97-2. it was a rebuke to trump who had just gone on one of his first foreign stops and refused to affirm america s commitment to article five even though america s the only one to really cash out on that after 9/11. some russia experts think that putin is specifically emboldened by the fact that a vote that was 97-2 four years ago could go down to 63 detractors to unequivocal support for nato. do you think the republicans are directly emboldening putin s war crimes? absolutely. all autocratic as putin has