ability to overcome them than be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with growing presidential primary field. will hurd, former texas congressman and former cia officer, has thrown his hat in the ring. re-election was a tough fight, and he served on the house intelligence committee. why is he running for president? will he sign the pledge and support the nominee no matter who he or she may be? what will he do if he were president? let s find out. congressman will hurd, thank you for joining us. thank you, and amen, i agree, we are lucky to live where we live. trey: what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say, i m jumping in and going to run to be leader of the free world? sure, there is a path for a dark-horse candidate like me. i recognize the challenges i have ahead, the reality is, we are faced with generational-defining challenges, everything from china trying to surpass united states as global superpower to inflation that i
our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. let s find out. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. happy early july 4 to you. thank you, mr. chairman. it s good to be on with you. we are lucky to live where we live. alrighty. what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say i am jumping in. i will run to be the leader of the free world. i recognize the challenges that i have ahead of me. the reality is we are faced with a number of defining challenges. everything from china trying to surpass us as a global superpower to persisting. that wil
our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. let s find out. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. happy early july 4 to you. thank you, mr. chairman. it s good to be on with you. we are lucky to live where we live. alrighty. what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say i am jumping in. i will run to be the leader of the free world. i recognize the challenges that i have ahead of me. the reality is we are faced with a number of defining challenges. everything from china trying to surpass us as a global superpower to persisting. that wil
go as far as it has in the past. the only way we will deal with this threat is to increase our policy. we need to be working in order to take on the chinese government. china is four times our size and population. it will potentially surpass us in global gdp. four times as effective. we have to have friends in order to get this done. i held the first hearings on ai when i was in congress. wrote the first natural strategy for artificial intelligence. this is something that will impact every industry. we have to be ready for this to make sure that our kids are ready. i have a unique mix of experience overseas. when i was in the cia trying to prevent terrorists employing up our homeland to our time in congress to now being a business working on these issues. i want to be able to put these together and serve our country
go as far as it has in the past. the only way we will deal with this threat is to increase our policy. we need to be working in order to take on the chinese government. china is four times our size and population. it will potentially surpass us in global gdp. four times as effective. we have to have friends in order to get this done. i held the first hearings on ai when i was in congress. wrote the first natural strategy for artificial intelligence. this is something that will impact every industry. we have to be ready for this to make sure that our kids are ready. i have a unique mix of experience overseas. when i was in the cia trying to prevent terrorists employing up our homeland to our time in congress to now being a business working on these issues. i want to be able to put these together and serve our country