and the passage of the inflation reduction act. i m surprised that it flashed on my phone last evening. so i don t really have too much to say except that to have a a visit like that, you need a warrant, to have a warrant you need justification, and it said that no one is above the law, not even a president or a former president of the united states. but that all of this will be made known to us over time. but i have no knowledge of it. i did know there has been chatter, more than chatter about the presidential president s documents and how they must be preserved for history. and we ll see what the justification was for the raid. madam speaker, it is fasib ating, i want to taiwan with a group of members of congress to see the inauguration of president lee back in the 1990s
you know they can t join the w.h.o. or they could make a very valuable contribution into terms of global hnl or other organizations. so he may try to keep them from attending meetings but he s not going to keep members of congress from visiting taiwan. we will not be accomplices to his isolation of taiwan. so what do you we learn from taiwan. president xi has taken the current in an even more autocratic direction over the past several years. yes. what have you learned by his overreaction to a member of congress s visit to taiwan? well, i think that he s in a fragile place. he s his problems with his economy, he s acting like a scared bully and this is before the meeting that where he will want to be re-elected. but we didn t do there to talk
and of course another house speaker went to taiwan, nobody really said much about it at all. ambassadors go to taiwan, americans go to taiwan. i would love to know what is the difference when i do it, when gingrich does it, when ambassadors do it, and then suddenly when you do it? suddenly this is like a world crisis. what is the difference here? well, it might i might even good morning, joe. i might even add that just a short while ago, a number of senators, bipartisan group of senators went and including the chair of the foreign relations committee mr. menendez. did anybody make a fuss? i don t think that the president of china should control the schedules of members of congress or anyone else who wants to visit taiwan. he s trying to isolate taiwan,
vladimir putin wants, and clearly what they want is a bargaining chip for the release of viktor bout, the arms dealer. there s been reports of more releases wanted. we re dealing with terrorist state. unfortunately, we probably have to pay the price for getting brittney griner and paul whelan, the former american marine who s also in prison, getting them out of putin s gulag. congressman, let me then talk to you about another sort of american adversary, with a small a, china. you had just traveled with speaker pelosi on her trip through asia, including to taiwan. was there any concern that china would retaliate, while we re on the ground? there was concern, but i think the two main objectives of the trip, were first to reassure our allies, partners and friends in the area including taiwan that we were there with them and under the taiwan relations act, obligated
howard: it turned into a melodrama when nancy pelosi defied president of her own party and dire warnings from china, visiting taiwan, prompting military exercises aimed at intimidation. and in a scrambling of the usual partisan lines, some liberal pundits criticized the house speaker while many conservative commentators hail her for standing up to the communists. they made a big fuss because i m speaker, i guess. i don t know if that was a reason or an excuse, because they didn t say anything when the men came. i think it s dangerous, and i think the decision to go was a reckless, mistaken decision. speaker pelosi has demonstrated that supporting the ccp is inconsistent with modern day liberalism. and when that happens, most in the establishment, hay didn t get angry with china, they got angry with pelosi. howard: joining us now from little rock, mike huckabee, the