from home to home. what does gratitude mean to you? oh, well, it means everything. we love him. he's always out here helping the community and he goes all out. i'm just blessed, man. and i want to bless other people as much as i can. our thanks to magic. and our thanks to all of you for watching. we'll be back next week for more of the issue is, in the meantime, we leave you with the lighting of the city's christmas tree in long beach. and a beauty full fireworks show there as well. happy holidays >> shannon: i'm shannon bream, a special hour on the state of defense, a report card on military readiness to meet challenges of increasingly dangerous world.

the south china sea to the internets, america's armed sources must be ready to meet the nation's security. israel's war with hamas, latest conflict to ignite instabilities, turbo charging attacks on sources from iranian forces. we'll get reaction from john kirby about the restart of the war and headwind administration faces about future aid to israel. we want to be so good at what we do, our adversaries go, not today, not ever. >> shannon: preparing men and women in uniform for wide range of responsibilities across the globe. general c.q. brown joins me here at the reagan library and before serving in congress, they served several tours of duty on the ground in two of america's

longest wars, we sit down with congressman michael waltz and seth molten. plus -- >> is it cool to be patriotic now? >> it has always been cool to be contrarian and it has been contrarian to be patriotic. >> look at how cutting-edge technology is shaping the future of war fare and battlefields worldwide, now on "fox news sunday". >> shannon: hello from the reagan library. here are headlines making news today. israel is widening around rafah, both reported heavily bombardment. prime minister netanyahu calling for total victory against hamas

and pushing back against white house calls to govern gaza claiming the group calls for israel's destruction. in paris, french authorities looking into whether terrorism was to blame on an attack on tourists leaving a german man dead and two others injured. a 26-year-old national has been arrested. let's turn to trey yingst on the war in gaza. hello, trey. >> trey: good morning, after a week-long ceasefire saw 100 hoej hostages freed, it has resumed today. second phase of the war could last for months. new airstrikes tarringel tunnel shafts and facilities and going after hamas leadership. yesterday killing the commander

that was responsible for the death of the 2014 war and planned the october 7 war in gaza. they are urging civilians to evacuate the southern city of khan yunis. more than 250 rockets were launched and heard explosions near tel aviv yesterday and impact on a synagogue in the south. take a look. >> you can see the direct impact at a synagogue in the southern town of sderot. maintaining ability to fire from the northern part of gaza, they are are targeting communities in the south and across central israel. >> it's hard, i barely sleep, maybe three hours, hard to hear the rockets. i didn't think it would fall on

the synagogue. >> trey: talks for a ceasefire collapsed, though sources say negotiations could continue. shannon. >> shannon: thank you, trey. this morning i spoke with john kirby, the national security council communications coordinator. prime minister netanyahu spoke about the situation in israel and when asked about the role postwar of the palestinian authorities he says palestinian authority pays murderers and educates children to hate people, murder jews and for disappearance of israel. we would be putting this into gaza, is that what biden administration expects israel to do? >> he hit it on the head talking about unreform. one thing blinken was talking to

our israeli counterparts, reason to revitalize palestinian authority that is much more able to meet aspiration and needs of the palestinian people. we agree that is not the case right now. >> shannon: what is the plan? who should be governing? prime minister netanyahu said they do not want to occupy or control it, what happens next? >> we agree with them on that, too, we don't want israel to reopen gaza. we don't think that is wise for the israeli people. we believe at the core future of gov governance in gaza has to be something the palestinian people have a vote in, they have a government that is representative of them and their aspiration. we don't know what that looks like, we're asking the same questions of ourselves and partners to see what we can do in the region working with both

israeli and arab partners to see what revitalized, reformed palestinian authority could look like and could that reformed authority be able to govern gaza in a way that meets those aspirations. those are questions we are asking ourselves, we don't believe it is too early to be looking hard at this. >> shannon: yeah, there is a lot of heartbreak and destruction between here and there as conflict and fighting has resumed in the region. there is coordinated messaging from the administration about the current strategy underway in israel. here is a little bit from the secretary of defense and the vice president. >> the center of gravity is the civilian population. if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, rereplace tactical victory with strategic defeat. >> no forcible displacement, no

reoccupying, no siege or block aid. >> shannon: so the question, is that a public message for israel? i imagine you are having those same conversations privately or was that for the progressive wing of the president's own party? >> you hit it first part of your question, this is consistent message we've been taking to our israeli counterparts privately and publicly about the same big goals. i would tell you and secretary blinken talked about this with israel, the israelis have been receptive to the message and talk about civilian casualties, they are conducting shaping operations for potential moving operations in the south and have put up a map online that is identified for people of gaza areas they should not go and areas they can go with a measure of safety. i don't know of too many modern militaries that take that step,

they are trying to be more precise and cautious and that is something we've been urging since beginning of the conflict. >> shannon: that is not something a current congresswoman thinks that is happening, here is what she thinks is happening. what we are witnessing is gross violation of human rights in gaza and that is being done with u.s. military assistance. >> shannon: what is your message to her and others on the gro aggressive left of the party saying these things publicly >> what is being done is helping our friend and partner israel go after a truly genocidal threats, a threat posed by hamas temperature is too easy as we get further from the 7 of october to forget what happened. people slaughtered, kids and

parents. we have to help israel eliminate threat to the israeli people from that threat from hamas and we're going to keep doing that, absolutely. at the same time, like we've been talking, we want them to do it in the most careful, cautious, deliberate way possible. how they do this matters, as blinken said. we continue to work with them and israelis have been receptive to the messages and they have altered the way they conduct operations. too many thousands of individual civilians have been killed, too many more thousands wounded and displaced in gaza, we are not blind to the humanitarian crisis, that is why we work hard to get that pause in place to get hostages out and get accelerated amount of food, water, fuel into gaza. we are working on the humanitarian plight here, but have to stay core to what happened on october 7 and remember the threat israeli

people face from hamas. >> shannon: yeah, and it is existential. critics say the biden administration is making demands israel cannot do. if israel must do more to protect civilians, but can't evacuate them and can't fight hamas, israel deserves u.s. support not repeat of ukraine treatment, the hesitation pushed victory further away. how much of this council with israel requires them to pass any decisions by us? >> none. >> shannon: before they take them. >> none, that argument is not facts we are laying down restriction or red line for israel. israel is a sovereign nation

attacked, they have every right to go after the terrorist group that perpetrated the attacks and that have made it clear they will do it again and do more. we would do the same thing, any nation would. what we have done, talk to them and share perspective and lessons learned as secretary austin said about not turning victory into strategic defeat. that is what friends do. but they decide what targets they will hit. we will talk to them about be ing cautious and careful and i don't think the "wall street journal" wants that either. we will not giving them security assistance they need because this is existential threat to the american people. >> shannon: how many americans do we think are still hostages? why don't we have them back and when do we think we will get

them back? >> in the neighborhood of eight to nine, probably nine, we don't have perfect visibilities, that is why we are being careful with the specificity of the numbers, that is population we believe it is. we know there is at least one other american woman unaccounted for, we don't know much about her condition, where she is. i say the same about the other americans being held hostage, we don't have perfect visibility. we are getting some information from the families who are helping us understand why they believe their loved ones were taken hostages and israelis trying to flesh out information and working on this by the hour. we want that pause put back in place so more hostages can come out. i will say this, two things, hamas is reason the pause ended, they refuse to put on the list additional women and children we know they are holding and refusing to let go and two, we are working by the hour to get

this back on track. >> shannon: john kirby, we always appreciate your time, thank you. >> shannon: up next, my conversation with the chairman of the join chief of staffs, general c.q. brown on the state of the military and increasing threats from china, russia and iran as we examine the state of defense here at the reagan library in simi valley, california. here of the presidents in 1983, giving speech. >> defense policy is based on simple premise, the united states does not start fights, we will never be an aggressor, we deter and defend aggression, preserve freedom and peace. "fox news sunday" is brought to you by pacific life, over 150 years of strength and

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>> we can't be everywhere and do everything, where we can make a difference, america must lead. we must not be the world's policemen, we should be the world's best peacemaker. >> shannon: president bill clinton during 1996 state of the union address on america's role in the world just a few years after end of the cold war. this weekend i interviewed general c.q. brown new chairman of the join chiefs of staffs in front of a live audience.

i got his reaction on broad range of military and security issues. we started with military threats from china. >> 51% of americans say they see china as greatest foreign threat, i thought it was surprising 74% said they fear we could be in a war with china within five years, what would you say to the american people responding to the survey who view china with increased worry and concern? >> c.q.: they ought to be proud of their military, we are ready for whatever comes our way. same time, we want to be so ready we don't have a conflict and as we hear peace through strength, our strength we demonstrate as a military will help bring that peace. >> shannon: stay with china, because this issue of competition versus conflict, the presidents we are going for the

former, not the latter. there is a lot of information in the survey about how people think we are doing, majority of americans think over next 10 years china will outpace u.s. on military power and economic strength. what is your outlook on that? >> my role here in job is to make sure that military side does not occur. which is why i'd focused on accelerating change, i'm focused on the collaboration we do particularly having out here last couple years, out to silicon valley and looking at how to work together on the national defense and how that helps economically. >> shannon: one way on the stage, the world stage is issue of china and taiwan, which was covered in the survey, 73% of people responded to the survey they were worried about the possibility of china invading taiwan. you said you don't think it will

be an actual physical operation to take taiwan, it is difficult to do that, other ways china will pressure taiwan, how do you see that playing out? >> think about what happened in hong kong, we want to be -- also be worried whether it will happen or not. part of the reason why terms of so important so conflict does not occur. if you look at hong kong and the prc, they are putting pressure on taiwan and indo-pacific. militarily, what we have seen, continue to pressure to where in this case taiwan down or others down to their own gain. and we've got to pay attention to that, why is why i go back to really over the course of five years, i was a commander, before coming chief of the air force,

watching many nations in the region, the american public see the prc as challenge and now we help with deterrence. >> shannon: 70% have concern the conflict will spill into another country. any thought where you see putin going, more or likely two years into this? >> what i see now, if you think about what putin intended from the very start and territory gained and lost in ukraine, things have not gone according to his plan. one key area i think because of what happened in ukraine, nato is stronger than it has ever been, in fact, larger with finland and sweden soon to follow. because of strength and dialogue with many of our nato partners, we're all committed to ensure this does not expand into nato

and go broader. >> shannon: how worried are you about u.s. aid to military cause the u.s. to deplete their military, 63% say they worry about depletion of our military assets. can you address that? >> what we've gone through as we've supported both ukraine and israel, we have what we require in order to execute our operational plans and we go through that level of analysis as we make decisions to support and assist both nations. build-out capability for allies and partners and us, that is important because it helps us continue down the path of modernization and bring in capability and defense industrial base, supply chain, all those are important to our defense. >> shannon: let's talk about

artificial intelligence in the survey. we asked if the military, reagan asked if the military should integrate more use of ai, half of america said it is too soon, they don't want to comment or assess that. those who did weigh in, more than half said in the survey they think it is a bad idea for the military to use ai, how do you address those concerns? >> first thing i think about, ai has opportunities and capability. way i think about using ai is first of all, we have operational problems we have to solve as a military and ai is not the expand sea that will solve the problems and make life better. we have to look at where ai has a practical application based on what we're trying to achieve. >> shannon: as we sit in middle of challenges, there are recruiting goals missed by some branches. the defense survey asked, if

close friend or family member were considering joining military, 51% said they would encourage people whachl is your message to next generation to be open to joining and wearing the uniform and be excited or encouraged about being part of this? >> first thing i highlight is the great opportunity. and the fact we as a nation talk about the value of service, whether it is in uniform or working as a civilian, department of defense or some part of the government or communities, how important it is. i think about the opportunities and the things that young people will have the opportunity to do if they were to join our military. we've got to talk about that. and partly the reason i say that, i believe young people inspired to see or know about. if you don't know about the opportunity to serve, you may

never pursue that career field. so i'd say from my own personal experience, this whole thing was my dad's idea, supported by my mom. "four years in the military will not hurt you." >> shannon: several decades later. >> that, my degree in engineering, air force engineer and get out, got a ride in a t-37, helmet and parachute and acrobatics and it was fun, i think i want to do that. became an f-16 pilot and still get to fly today. those opportunities you don't know until you experience it and whether you stay for a handful of years or decades, there are great opportunities serving in the military. >> shannon: being a pilot, is it hard for you to sit there while someone else is flying the

plane? >> it is. you hear things and wonder what they are doing up there, like riding in the backseat when your spouse is driving. it is not -- [laughter] -- >> shannon: what is going on up there. we have all been there, i can tell from the laughter. >> shannon: most controversial question for last, now you are warmed up. next saturday, army or navy? i feel like as neutral air force guy, you can weigh in. this year i've had a chance to go to the navy-air force game both and air force-army game and got asked the same question. next saturday, i actually look for a good game, i'm a huge football fan, i like interesting game versus a blowout. i look forward to shaking hands with them and watching the game.

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>> we cannot repeat the mistakes made twice in this century with recklessness and defense purged as if the world were permanently safe. >> shannon: president george hw bush from his state of the union address. i sat down with two current lawmakers, democratic congressman seth molten, marine corps captain who served four towers in iraq and congressman michael waltz, green beret who served multiple tours in afghanistan. >> shannon: we are here at reagan national defense forum. i will start with a tough one and let you speak to it. folks were asked if you have

trust and confidence in congress? 71% said little or no trust and confidence in congress. why do you think that is? >> because we're dysfunctional, we didn't have a speaker for weeks, that has never happened before. that does not send a good message. one of the most frequent questions from my friends, people who love me, seth, why do you keep doing this. it is an important time for those reasons to keep doing this. >> shannon: uh-huh. >> well, look, a little bit of that, i throw back on the media, we love to cover the train wreck and that gets covered a lot, there is a lot of bipartisan work that gets done. our defense bill came out of the committee seth and i serve on unanimously the last 61 years. a lot of work gets done, i don't think everybody is fully aware

of it. i have folks ask me, what are you doing up there? my response is as little as possible. i want aside from defending the nation, i want d.c. out of your lives and powered down to state and local. i get the numbers, but a lot of my job is to oversee the administration and two, to keep d.c. out of your lives. i don't think one size fits all is the solution. >> shannon: you have different perspectives, but you have been veterans and served in uniform and that gives you a unique perspective how you see things on the hill. you mention national defense authorization, that is not optional, what does it mean to men and women in uniform to go from cr to cr and watch get stuck with couple folks that

have,s to specific things? >> most important thing our military needs to do is modernize to meet a new generation of threats and we can't if we copy last year's budget, that is what a cr does. if we don't have a functional congress and can't get the national defense act it should be bipartisan, that sends wrong message to our troops. we should be here to support our troops and we're not doing a great job. >> shannon: there are measures tucked in by conservatives that democrats will not vote for and don't like provisions included with respect to abortion or other cultural issues, how do you defend those when it comes to getting money in place for the military? >> one provision was a ban on critical rice theory, my provision, we have to fight hard

to keep the military meritocracy, politics should be left at the door, we need the best of the best. that is controversial to some, some things we push in there and the vast majority we do end up agreeing on. when it comes to the threats we face from china, russia, iran, the global threat of terrorism, the reporting is clear that one, we've never faced threats like we have faced today and two, our military is aging, we are spending record low amounts on it in terms of percentage of gdp compared to the cold war and seth is right, we have solemn obligation, if we send men and women out in plane, tanks and ships, they have to have the best equipment, training and resources. that is one reason we are

passionate about getting more veterans into congress and back into the political system. >> shannon: funding goes outside the u.s. and you have israel and ukraine, white house wants to put everything together, i suppose you may have difference of opinion whether you can get something done on israel, standalone measure, yes or no? >> the problem is a lot of republicans support ukraine behind scenes and not willing to vote for it in public. you are right, so far, but the question is that changing? seeing number of republicans voting against funding for ukraine go up temperature is tough for republicans back home. actually what we're trying to do by putting things together is make it easier for getting this funding passed, which is important to our allies and sends a message to vladamir

putin and xi jinping, every auto accurate that you are not going to get away with it. >> shannon: would you vote for standalone aid bill for israel? >> not if it includes ukraine, if we pass funding for ukraine and means voting for standalone for israel, sure. >> shannon: would you do a package? >> on the ukraine piece, we are past the point of blank checks, don't ask question, i'd joe biden, trust me and send me tens of billions of dollars and it is astounding to me he hasn't articulated to this day, what does the end state and success look like? is fully ejecting russians from crimea natural interest of the united states? how long will it take? how much money will it cost? what is strategy to get there? frustration i know a lot of democrats share is that the president is essentially dith erred us now into a stalemate by

not giving what they needed up front to win. here we are stuck essentially in a war of attrition and to say hey, republicans go to your taxpayers, i will not articulate what success looks like. and the europeans, germans in particular, voted down their 2% commitment. we have a lot of questions and it should be dealt with separately. administration needs to very these for the american people how much longer will this go, shannon. >> we have to go to our taxpayers, too. the administration has been careful to make sure we give the ukrainians what they need without escalating to larger war with russia. there is debate about this point, some questions mike is

bringing up about the end game, this is a big question i've been asking for israel, and prime minister netanyahu. question we need to ask ukraine, as well, that is fair question to have in bipartisan way and fair question for american people to have. >> shannon: thank you both for serving in uniform and what you are doing now, as well, thank you for stopping in to discuss the challenges ahead. >> shannon: thanks to the congressmen for insightful conversation this weekend. up next, gop gets ready for fourth presidential primary this time at university of alabama in tu t tuscaloosa. up next our panel joins us to discuss getting to that stage. (vo) three lobster and shrimp entrees for a limited time. ♪ >> tech: cracked windshield on your new car? you don't have to take it to the dealer. bring it to safelite.

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>> i came to this office with a set of core convictions that have guided me as commander-in-chief. i believe that the united states military can achieve any mission. that we are and must remain the strongest fighting force the world has ever known. >> shannon: president barack obama just a few weeks before leaving office in december of 2016. bring in the panel to talk about that and more.

karl rove, roger zakheim, resident fellow, marc thiessen. great to have you here on set this morning. who brought the jet? >> roger did. >> shannon: yes, you did. we will take it back to d.c., good-looking option. talking defense, marc, you talked about ukraine funding, how to get it together and across the finish line. you say most spending is happening here in the u.s., talk for critics, but make your case. >> marc: 90% of military aid we give to ukraine does not go to ukraine, it produces weapons for ukraine or replace weapons sent to our stockpile and building more modern versions for our

military. we tracked 31 states and 71 cities, creating jobs for america and increasing national security. we had not built a single stinger missile since 2005, why is that? we were fighting terrorists who did not have jet fighters, now china has jet fighters. we are building again and this is happening across the spectrum. we are giving them old equipment and building new modern stuff helping our national security and creating weapons we need for taiwan, china and help israel. >> shannon: critics say we're subsidizing ukrainian businesses and paying for every first responder in the country. and concern boils down to

oversight. ukraine has a history of corruption, according to transparenty international, only russia scores better. roger. >> economic support requires oversight that survey was talking about. we heard that from congress over the weekend. what the united states need to do, make biggest impact in ukraine, allow them to win militarily. not only decisive on the battlefield, decisive impact on the united states and united states is arsenal of democracy. if congress comes out and decide the united states will provide security assistance and leave to europe to take care of the economic support, so be it. it would be a disaster if congress stops funding, we would lose ukraine and give putin victory. >> shannon: there negotiations

on the senate side senate wants to extract -- actual policy change when it comes to the border, that is one headache they have. this white house, they are caught between criticism on left and white on what is going on in middle east. yesterday a group of national muslim leaders got together for a abondon biden in reelection. not something they want to deal with. >> karl: americans like to have a strong resolute leader, if joe biden and his political machine decide to appease antiisraeli activists, they will sellout a great ally and fail to give support necessary to win this war, they will be morally bankrupt and deserve to lose. the president helps himself by being strong and explain what

the issue is in israel and ukraine and explain why america is doing what it did. yesterday morning we began first session with brilliant explanation of why presidential leadership is obligation of any president. marc did a hell of a job presenting that. >> shannon: kudos mark. other side of the aisle, big endorsement for nikki haley, americans for prosperity came out. she has a new tv ad talking about leaving behind chaos and drama, not sure what she is references there, make assumptions. asking a question about moving forward, how big of blow was the endorsement for desantis? anyone would have enjoyed the support. the desantis spokesperson said this, like clockwork pro-open border establishment is lining

up behind moderate who has no mathematical pathway of defeating the former presidents. >> strong language for desantis campaign. in august it was 16 points for desantis in iowa and 6 for nikki haley on basis of one debate performance and she jumped up to 16 points in iowa and probably ahead of ron desantis there and she is ahead of him in new hampshire, proving to be second to donald trump. i focus on advocating for my candidate than trying to drag down the person with the momentum. ron desantis should do things to cause people to say, i ought to be for him and that did not help. >> shannon: she said he would put out something that is replacement for obamacare, he says details are forthcoming, is that the thing that upon help him? >> i don't know what it is, i can't tell you if it is good

idea or not. that would be taking advice to explain how you are going to lead, that is how you win presidential election. this is not a normal republican primary, there are two republican primaries happening, primary to challenge trump and primary against trump for the republican nomination. first primary has to end conclusively or trump wins with plurality. that is down to two candidates now, nikki haley and ron desantis to challenge donald trump. i hope they are only two people on the debate stage, let them fight it out and see if somebody can emerge as challenger to trump. >> shannon: that next debate happens this week. there is a fight to get to that stage. what are you watching for? who has to bring it home this week? >> looking for the person that can speak to the american people

and the way marc outlined it here, they will win out and challenge donald trump. nikki haley is doing well, true to herself and she is seeing support. i love to hear them talk about national security and foreign policy particularly through the lens of what the american people should think about. in hamas, 444 days, you know what we're talking about, u.s. hostages in taiwan. if i say 57 days, american people don't realize that is how long we have had nine american citizens captive in gaza. i think we'll hear something about that. >> shannon: there is daylight on issue of foreign performance, could be interesting this week listening to them making their case. >> lots of military factory building in florida, governor desantis ought to support that. >> shannon: we'll see, thank you very much. up next, jennifer griffin joins

us for a look at the high-tech military hardware transforming the 21st century battlefield.

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>> shannon: the pentagon is enlisting brightest minds to create new generation of military technology, keep america's armed forces the best in the world. jennifer griffin joins. >> i've been coming to simi valley since is started in 2013, there is shift of perception of china, this year the survey found more than half of all americans view china as the country's greatest threat, other big change took place in silicon valley, tech innovators would not touch a contract with the pentagon, lockheed martin and raytheon and others came to the

forum, now that has changed. i talked to leading tech innovators about what is driving this shift? >> it is a drone that folds itself down to fit into this tube. i can mount this tube on helicopter, truck, boat or carry it around. i push a button and this drone is ejected from the drone. >> he favors hawaiian shirts over camouflage, he is designing headsets for gamers and now weapons for the pentagon. it was his experience in china and getting fired by facebook that made him switch gears to build weapons to fend off china in the future. we were being spied on all the time. he is a small group of silicon valley defense start-ups are

trying to revolutionize the way the pentagon does business. >> i want people out of working on augmented mu stach emojis and build autonomous projects. >> he met president zelenskyy in new york to tell him about his company and technology which the u.s. government was already using to track illegal migrants coming across the southern abortion, he wonders if history would have been different with his technology. >> it could have stopped russia in their tracks before getting to the civilian-populated areas. >> two weeks after russia's invasion, he started operating in ukraine. >> i can take the rotors off.

>> someone can put this in their backpack. >> mount it in a backpack. now ukraine is using his counter drone technology. accelerate speedup to 188 mile per hour and runs into the other drone. it costs hundredth of the price or less of missiles that engage. >> taking note and learning how the systems are changing the battlefield, giving ukraine the edge for pennies on the dollar. >> we can spend less because of money spend on ukraine burning down the capacity they had since days of the soviet union. >> when he started, engineers refused to work with the pentagon and signed a petition to halt the project may haven, which would have helped the pentagon analyze drone data. >> imagine during the cold war

if the technology companies had to do whatever to keep soviet russia happy and refused to work on national security problems. >> lucky says silicon valley rebuffed for one reason. >> they needed to keep chinese communists party happy. >> in 2016, former defense secretary ash carter began to woo silicon valley and catherine boyle, joined other capitalists and committed $500 million earlier this year to companies that support the national interest. >> you have the war in ukraine and founders were not born in 2001, this is first time they had seen a land war in europe, wake-up call that defense is importance and we need to invest in it. >> american dyamism, companies being built in support of

american interest. we have to create companies that will work on this. >> one of her first ininvestmen. >> build technologies that accrue benefit to self-governing nations. >> these tech engineers could not stop the russian invasion, they hope to stop china from taking taiwan. >> they bet on the wrong country and recognizing that now. is it cool to be patriotic? >> it has always be cool to be contrarian and right now it has been contlarian to be patriotic. look what happened in ukraine and israel, look at what is brewing in taiwan. if you want to stop russia, china or anyone from trampling on the rights of democratic nations and murdering civilians,

get involved ahead of the invasion. jennifer jim griffin, fox news. >> shannon: that is it for today, thank you for joining ups for our special live here at ronald reagan museum, i'm shannon bream, have a wonderful week and we'll see you next fox news sunday.

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