the ccp has 1.4 billion people that they have all on the exact same message. here we need to unite over this common challenge, this challenge that can unite us as americans over human rights, over national security issues, over freedom of speech issues. principles that we hold near and dear as americans. we can unite and we can create the leverage to push back and we need to now. >> laura: chris, thank you for that. it's great to have you on tonight. and a year after his death, george floyd, his legacy has been tarnished by politicians, activists, and the violence that they stoped. we are going to explain this in a moment. >> laura: true to form, democrats don't want a tragedy get out of the way of politics by the use george floyd's family as a prop to push an anti-police bill. >> we will get this bill on president biden's desk. what's important is that -- [indistinct] >> laura: we hope that day never comes, because this piece of legislation wouldn't just handcuff police, it would give the feds more power over your local law enforcement will give you more infl

he sounds exactly like a propagandist for the ccp. every day gets harder to tell from the ccp spokesman. it was the only in the industry, as the infomercial goes, that's not all. china owns our academic establishment as well. our liberal arts colleges are okay with squirming under projected of china as long as the chinese pay their tuition in cash. their fees and expenses were almost $16 billion in 2019. i was shocked to find out the last pre-pandemic count, there were almost 370,000 chinese students in the us. this is insane. we know beyond any reasonable doubt that china intends to drive us out of asia and replace us as the most powerful country in the world, that is their aim so now we have decided to help them do this by educating their children. perfect. china is all too happy to have the schools brought to them, to their homeland and our colleges idiotically complied. is a partial list of american schools and campuses in china, harvard, yale, nyu, do, georgia tech to name a few. knowledge this has strings attached and requires t

they were getting pressure from the ccp.poned the ban on trading chinese stocks of companies that are tied to the military. so my question is why is joe biden protecting the chinese communist party? and why is china hiding the origins of coronavirus? i asked the same question to jamie metzl last weekend on this program. he has a background of asian history. here's what he said to the to the question of i why china continues to hide the origins of krone the virus. watch this. coronavirus. >> the reason is if it turned out and nobody at least who i know knows if it turns out that the origin of the pandemic stems from an accidental lab leak followed by a criminal cover-up, the implications for china nationally and globally would be massive. we could even imagine xi jinping possibly being overthrown. people all around the world demanding reparations from china and many other things, and that's why the chinese government will really stop at nothing in its ongoing effort to cover this up. maria: your reaction, congressman. >> yeah

it is an arm of the ccp as well.ra: thank you. >> biden is putting in motion a plan to get the middle class and mortgage your children's futures. doctor ben carson is here on how we can fight back next. ♪♪ is that gouda shaped like a foot? or maybe you're just projecting your own insecurities? what? (sniffs feet) ohhhh yeah keep your feet fresh with gold bond foot powder. ♪ ♪ >> the inflation that we have seen will be temporary, it is nation that we have seen is not something -- i expect it to last several more months and to see high annual rates of inflation to the end of this year. >> is not telling you president biden is trying to make sure inflation -- the new normal. the president putting forward the largest federal spending plan in history, a whopping $6 trillion. you won't see that money, you will be made poor. under biden's proposal trump's tax cuts for low and middle income americans will be allowed to expire in 2025 if these cuts aren't replaced for extended, biden would be breaking his promise to not raise

the ccp benefits from the hundreds of chinese companies listed on u.s. stock exchanges. why the next guest is calling out president biden to expand the trump executive order and make sure it extends to all chinese companies eating the ccp not the ones directly tied to the chinese military. warning me now is michael, the ceo of the coalition for a prosperous america michael, a lot of people are afraid to say it out loud but do you think that there could be a groundswell bill given we've known about china's long-term goals to delist completely these companies? >> yes, i really do and in fact congress passed the law last year that said any chinese company that doesn't comply with our securities laws and they don't within three years need to be delisted. in the meantime, we are helping chinese -- wall street's actively helping the chinese communist party owned or influence of these race trillions of dollars as you said in the new york stock exchange, other capital markets. companies building weapons to threaten u.s. troops and helping the ccp commit, building dirty coal plan

the ccp is on a mission with no attempt to hide it. they want to be the world'sye preeminent superpower and they advantage and cyberdomain they can achieve this. we cannot let that happen mypo amendment with today's legislation is simple to double darpa budget $27 million for year for each of the next five years. the work of the nsf is important and i support that work and research. the nsf research is broad. darpa is directly applied to the most critical national security challenges. cutting-edge classified tech in the darpa dna to talk about identify to disrupt ai cyberinformation campaign we went darpa to lead that work. when we talk about developing new technological tools to push back on the ccp hybrid warfare we want darpa to lead that work if we want american democracy to outlast chinese authoritarianism we can make this investment. double darpa budget is a cost-effective investment to bolster the work of the legislation we are debating this week i encourage all of my colleagues to support this amendment. >> one year ago saturda

now there's articles in the global times advising the ccp to obama's trillium.st pickup at the meeting? >> it's outrageous i'm glad you mentioned that the ice trillium prime minister early last year was raising tough questions about covid origins in china blasted australia they cut back on important to china, ice trillium copper and beef and wine and many other experts. they were delivering that message, don't ask questions or you will be punished. and then for a tough revolution, it got completely watered down and that was the original sin. maria: we know there's retribution. stay with us, we'll take a break and come right back with jamie metzl. stay right with us. this is us talking tax-smart investing, managing risk, and all the ways schwab can help me invest. this is andy reminding me how i can keep my investing costs low and that there's no fee to work with him. here's me learning about schwab's satisfaction guarantee. accountability, i like it. so, yeah. andy and i made a good plan. find your own andy at schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. it's

now there's articles in the global times advising the ccp to obama's trillium.glad you mentioned that the ice trillium prime minister early last year was raising tough questions about covid origins in china blasted australia they cut back on important to china, ice trillium copper and beef and wine and many other experts. they were delivering that message, don't ask questions or you will be punished. and then for a tough revolution, it got completely watered down and that was the original sin. maria: we know there's retribution. stay with us, we'll take a break anananan ♪♪ ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart ♪ ♪ live out loud, oh ♪♪ to make my vision a reality my varilux progressive lenses provide seamlessly transition from near to far. with every detail in sharp focus. that's seeing no limits. varilux lenses by essilor. maria: welcome back, i'm back with jamie, senior fellow, fantastic op-ed in the hill, which you should check out. real quick, jamie, the final question is why is china trying so hard

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to support china in a variety of ways, we have also seen ccp use local destruction has a distraction tactic where people are focused domestically on the pandemic economic crisis, they have used that opportunity as a smokescreen to be more aggressively pursuing some of the long-standing sovereignty objectives including what they have done in hong kong or taiwan or even territorial countries like india so we know activity has been going on, it is clear, it has exacerbated relationships but we should have a very clear assessment of all the ways they are acting in figure out how we can support them or counter it. >> excellent, thank you very much. i want to close here by covering something i think we need to talk about -- >> can i add one thing and again, i am critical where i see a need to call out some missteps or potential missteps with the biden administration on the other hand when you saw the leaders meeting and it was the first one of its kind, very important and their major initiative was vaccine diplomacy in southeast asia and other areas and that was ambitious, didn't get a lot

do you think the ccp is planning to invade taiwan at some point?nk they have that on the horizon because they have tried everything that they can to force the taiwan regime and its people to capitulate. that is what all of this intimidation and coercion has been about and they haven't capitulated. i think they do have that strategically on the horizon. this is about biden meeting with our allies and china resents all of that because china is surround by the u.s. allies specifically in the western pacific and pushing back on the meeting and also the meeting that we had with the prime minister of china and what they want to do solidify relationship with allies so we can better compete against china but i think what -- what needs to be is not just competition but actually confrontation. maria: yeah, for sure. joe biden keeps calling china a competitor. no, no, not just a competitor but adversary. we hope that you will come back soon. thank you, sir. we will see you next week, general jack keane joining us. coming up heart problems in vaccinated teens.

why give away the store when we know the ccp has been stealing intellectual property for decades.t laughable when you think about this idea of giving the intellectual property away especially to the chinese who are not our friends here. you and newt gingrich make the point that there are other mechanisms by which we can share the information, we can help distribute the vaccine. we don't have to give it away. this isn't about anything more than globalization, it's about opening borders, it's about all countries coming together in a way that necessarily isn't to benefit our future and that's really what this is about. it's about breaking apart the capitalist system. the system by the way that created this vaccine. why did the strongest vaccines come out of this country? because this is the country that has the innovation and the ability to produce this kind of technology and yet you have an administration that just says you know what, let's give it away oh, let's rejoin the w.h.o. who hasn't necessarily been on our side and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars. maria: yeah.

agency in this situation and i would note the anti-china sentiment, my hope is we keep it on and i ccp as opposed to anti-chinese people are anti-asian americans but what i see from the administration to date on trade it looks like more of the same, both the administrations prior to taking office said they would focus on domestic issues and not do much in the trade space. i would argue that our trading relationships are key part of our domestic economic recovery so my hope is they will rethink that. recently confirmed ustr has said that on the tariff issue you don't give up leverage for nothing and xi, whether she agreed with it in the beginning of that are not she inherited it and now it is leverage she uses, my hope is she uses it for better outcomes than the trump administration was able to as it relates to chinese trade practices. on the defense budget our defense budget, it is good to hear senior officials in the biden administration acknowledge china is facing threats. if they are facing threats, they have to resource your values or your goals on that and our defense budget is do

global times is recommending ccp strike australia. futures" yesterday. it is outrageous i am glad you mentioned that australia prime minister early last year raising tough questions about covid origin, china blasted australia they cut back on imports into china of australian copper, beef, wine, and many other australian essential exports delivering that message don't ask questions or you will be punished. maria: is that why biden administration is not asking tough questions we've got to tiptoe around the ccp now? >> we don't want to take punched we are not in a position where we are going to deliver them back. without, getting a lot of pushback from biden's own party, quite frankly, they are pushing it on freedom of speech as well. >> dan thank you so much we've got much more ahead texas congressman henry cuellar here we watch people running into texas from border former national economic counsel director larry licensed sooi will join me to discuss state of the economy he predicted interest rates going higher with 10-year hitting thre

democrats helped the ccp by calling legitimate questions about covid origins conspiracies all done tot trump and they will never live that down because it makes them eat grief at china and ably but none of this would have been possible without their co-conspirators in the press because while the ccp was busy destroying documents and eliminating witnesses cnn, msnbc, the new york times etc. look the other way and helped biden, pelosi and schumer smeared donald trump and the rest of us who were pushing for answers. the ccp didn't want trump calling it the font china virus or the wuhan flu and then the press jumped into promptly help them. >> saying, quote, the chinese spotted webinars the virus, this is crazy racist talk. >> racist conspiracy theories are nothing new for the trump administration. >> he wants to avoid accountability for his catastrophic response to this epidemic so he's doing everything he can to try to push that responsibility away and blame it on somebody else. >> when it came to the lab leak itself this retracted article says it all. the claim is inaccurate and ridicu

if we talk about the ccp we distinguish them from the chinese people and then is true. by the ccp. and then in partnership and those with political expedience to conflate with asian americans and undermines the moral authority when it comes to addressing human rights violations that are happening. a real undermining of democracy happening in hong kong and moreover and then they are attacking their cells. and then to have politics with that divisive hate and rhetoric to be rewarded financial. that irresponsible rhetoric. feeling into the racism and then we have to be stronger. >> they understood the value especially public service. and then to do that with senator mccain directly. >> as a freshman member of congress i was elected 2016 and with senator mccain at the handout on - - hanoi hilton. and to the vietcong. and he endured five years in prison in shackles and answering questions and talked about the importance of veterans and people like senator sullivan not only in the senate and in the house but it is important to serve in congress but then he turned to me and said congratul

the ccp is in charge. wondering what you -- how you see that issue playing into markets and the selloff? >> yeah. i don't know that the bitcoin selloff is really playing that hard into the equity side. it is a little bit of a different investor, that's a lot more speculative investor. even with the correction in bitcoin, it's still on a technical basis -- these are kind of normal selloffs and such. so i don't believe -- there's a very, very speculative element in a lot of parts of the market. you look at software stocks and a lot of that and you've seen some serious corrections in those as well. but you look at what's happened in just the marketplace. there's been a real shift over to value and value is doing tremendous right now. so the more volatility and people get scared in these other areas, i think it just drives people over more to the value, the area that has not participated for the last 10 years or so, and i think that's where the real opportunities are in these -- we talked about inflation. if y

the ccp know, we are not paid by the ccp to make specific positive content about china. what is clear, however, is that being approved of these messages? while would these commentators be getting air time on state onto tv channels? danny, very much welcome to the show. thanks very much for having me. i have been approach recently by quite a few media outlets and this is the only one i chose to go on because the message daniel requested an interview, get a response to japan appears to be his feeble broadcast. he's also been endorsed by china's ministry of foreign affairs. at the end of march, an online discussion, he hosted about accusations of genocide and in john was plague at one of the military press briefings. we have a precedent for fake propaganda created to serve american political interest. that video was been treated by spokesperson watch one of the most prominent pieces of the chinese government. i think there are a couple of different reasons why the chinese government is pushing back so hard in recent months on what's happening in john. first and foremost, we

the ccp has been stealing our intellectual property for decades.e got the biden administration agreeing to waive vaccine patent protections. these companies went through hoops to try to get us a vaccine in 10 months and now the secrets to how they did it are going to be wide open. why can't the rest of the world just get their vaccine from the american companies and pfizer and buy on tech biontech companies in order to get their own vaccines, why must with blow-off intellectual property rules? who is next that intellectual property secrets will have to be shared? >> i think in the end this is just a balloon being floated out there by the biden administration many this is nothing short of outrageous. these companies spent billions of dollars of their own money in research and development and thank god. look at the outcome here, right? it saved this country. if you take that incentive away, if you take away their rights, then they will not do the r&d work for the future. there's no incentive for them to do it. so this is just an insane idea by the bi

there's a one-child rule in china and the ccp actually monitors women menstrual cycles.ng your own culture revolution at home in america like joe biden is, it's in the a wise idea to quote chairman mau. across the board, maria, the current government under president biden is pushing all sorts of things which are, you know, they don't support freedom of speech. the idea that you were talking about, the snooping on people's bank accounts, we have the bill of rights which is designed to defend citizens from all sorts of encroachments on their freedom by the central government but the left is now essentially abandoned that. they want -- they have an anticonstitutional agenda and you're seeing examples all across the board. i mean, quoting chairman mau is the kind of silly and ironic thing. president biden is not really good on his rhetoric and called the coast guard boring or dull. he joked that he wanted to run over a reporter yesterday or the day before. i mean, speaking is not his strong point. it's a very bad idea, however, to kind of give the sort of little glimpse of t

certainly provided a shock to the system, and i don't think it takes much imagination to see how the ccp can and will utilize similar dependencies across our economy and our defense industrial base to undermine our security and on a daily basis, we're seeing how the fragility of critical supply chains are undermining the economic competitiveness and the key sectors of american economy and what keeps me up at night is how the atrophy base would prevent a conflict. congress took some overdue steps that were bipartisan largely to play defense when it comes to the national security innovation base and we have cfius to getter protect against chinese investments and restrict the flow of critical technology, and huawei, and there's always more that can be done on the defensive side, but i think naturally, the center of gravity has moved this congress to the offensive side of the equation where we have a host of bills that are making their way through congress that are all trying to address this national security supply chain vulnerability from one way to the other, from the technology to the te

that were con police sit with the ccp in this. again look at everything that has been done.rything that should be nonpartisan that should be based and rooted in science and fact has actually turned into a political agenda by the ultra liberal left. they are doing this simply because they don't want president trump to be right. that is a fact. so, now we have to go back and look at all of the different opportunities that the left had to manipulate the facts, the at that time tax the science, and really get to the root cause of it, again, i know that my colleagues and i are hell bent on doing that. todd: about to wrap up the. u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. should would he be worried about a resurgence of the taliban in the coming months? >> you know, listen, the first thing that we're taught at the united states naval war college is you have got to have a war termination plan and a strategy. we all know that a vacuum. as we pull out of afghanistan which it's long past time we do that we discovered that the counter insurgency and counter-terrorism and conventional tactics ju

or you say something that the ccp doesn't like like referring to taiwan as a nation, you don't get toarket. if you criticize the united states -- not only celebrities like john cena or lebron james, but corporations like disney or the nba when they criticize the united states. i'm sorry to say it isn't working. >> shannon: it seems confusing to a lot of folks who say you have a right to speak out, but if you speak out about what you you and portray as human rights in the u.s., it does give pause and concern in america when you face china and know there are horrible conditions, torture, potentially murders of weaker muslims in china. let's get to the next apology, mark ruffalo has been very hard on israel during the incursion back and forth with hamas, he says this now. i've reflected and want to apologize for post during the recently fighting that suggested israel is committing. it's not accurate, it's inflammatory, disrespectful, and is being used to justify anti-semitism here and abroad. now is the time to avoid hyperbole. that is a fact, it's been rolling around with a number of ot

i mean, the ccp wants to overtake america as the number one super power.at hong kong, no accountability whatsoever. we are watching the chinese police with the goosestep walking around hong kong now. is it because there are conflicts in this administration? >> well, i'm highly concerned.ad that is the issue. it's one of the reasons senator grassley and i issued our report before the elections so the american people could understand these foreignen tanglements of hunter biden and the biden family and how that might affect u.s. foreign policy. the extortion threats, we have no idea, none whatsoever. we have written oversight letters. we're trying to get information. the media dismissed our report. there's was all kinds of information in there. that's part of our problem. we do not have a an unbiased media. we don't have journalists anymore, fore the most part we have advocates, they're advocating for the democrat, extreme left wing of the american political spectrum and it's really hurting this country. it's very dangerous. maria: senator, let me move on to

the ccp tells lies concerning the genocide against the uighurs.it continues to bring the violated wto obligations, u.n. sanctions on north korea, and so much more. during your trip, did you raise with the leaders of the chinese communist party, did you raise human rights in general? did you ask them to stop the genocide against the uighurs and the brutal suppression of hong kong and other massive acts of cruelty? and if you did, how did they respond? and secondly, given the chinese communist party's massive unwillingness to honor its word, do you believe the ccp will honor its word on climate? mr. secretary? >> of course i have always raised the issue of human rights in every conversation i ever had as secretary, anywhere i was, we raised that issue. but -- >> but on this trip as well, mr. secretary? >> yes, but i'm about to get to it. >> sure. >> i raised with the chinese officials, not climate folks, because the climate emissary for china has been their special envoy on climate for about 20 years, and, you know, we could casually talking about i

we all know what the ccp has done and continues to do. the south china sea. they are breaking promises, they just laid the law down in hong kong, 25 years too soon. and clearly the administration hasn't even acknowledged the fact that the coronavirus originated in china in likely a wuhan lab and he's calling china a competitor. we're ready for the competition, he said. well, they're an adversary. am i wrong? >> you're not. i would call them an a enemy. that's what china calls us. they declared a quote, unquote people's war on us in may 2019. coronavirus not only came from china, xi jinping, the chinese ruler, took steps in january of last year to deliberately spread the disease beyond china's bore border. the fentanyl that's coming across the southern border is either made in china or the components are made in china, smuggled into mexico and smuggled into the u.s. these are not criminal gangs, chinese gangs operating on their own. these are chinese gangs operating with the approval of the communist party. communist party runs a near tota

i don't think it takesto much imagination to see have ccp can't and will use similar dependencies across our economy and our defense industry based to undermine our security. on a daily basisfe we are seeing have agility of critical supply chain in areas like semiconductors is undermining the economic competitiveness of key sectors of the american economy. even more than the day-to-day competition what keeps me up at night is how our atrophied defense and daschle base would perform in the event of a protracted conflict. congress took an overview step that was bipartisan to play defense when it comes to our national security base. we updated our export controls to restrict the flow of technology for threats like huawei and there's always more to be done on the defensive side. at the center of gravity moves this congress to the offense of side where we have a host of bills making their way through congress all trying to address this national security supply chain vulnerability in one way or another from the chip funding to the usa telecommunications act, there's a lot of low hanging fruit

, what does that mean for multinationals who are getting geared up to set up shop in china with the ccp running the country, does that make growth lower than your expected for these committees? >> multinational have been shifting to china for 20 years and we would argue that that momentum support for multinational is quite frankly over, really two reasons china growth trajectory shifting down because they want us to ship down and they understand the demographics and don't want to crate more access and importantly they want more control or tickly over data not only with ant but we've seen that with tesla and the car industry in general. three they really are anti-american there much more focused on by chinese just like we want to buy american we want to buy chinese they want to support their own domestic product, i think multinationals have to tread very lightly and look at china very differently and don't expect past returns to equal future return, from beijing's heavy hand, slower growth in the by chinese montero. maria: nancy lazar, after transforming companies after an equity giant g

in fact, the ccp is the biggest financer of coal plants in the world. it's clear the chinese communist party doesn't care about the environment. they have proven time and again they cannot be trusted and are not a reliable partner in addressing climate change. that's why i've worked with representatives to introduce the paris transparency and accountability act. our bill acknowledges that it is vital we renegotiate the paris agreement to create a level playing field. and it calls for this new agreement to be submitted for senate approval. any comprehensive agreement that will significantly impact american jobs and the american economy deserves that much. our bill would answer ensure there is sufficient oversight of the committees and commitments the president makes on behalf of the american people under the agreement and it makes certain those commitments don't jeopardize our national security or our competitiveness. like you, secretary kerry, i'm a father and i care about the world we are leaving behind for our children and our grandchildren. and we ha

it's just one more area that the ccp thinks that china will rule and be number one in, along with quantumthe united states? >> without question. i think it may be the single largest strategic risk we have, because they could easily mount a financial attack that populates volatility throughout financial markets and use all the computerization, all the transparency and ease of access that we've enjoyed against us. maria: yeah, it's a great point. david, let's talk about the main story for investors today and it's retail earnings. lowe's and target among the big names reporting this morning, both beating on the top and bottom line. we've got target trading this morning up as you can see here, 3 and a quarter percent on the better than expected numbers this morning, the comp store sales were up big, revenue and earnings above expectations. lowe's is down this morning by almost 2%. what's your take on the state of retail? >> well, i think retailers should probably send a thank you note to the federal government. consumers are flush with cash. we have consumers that have money to spend, general

and do you believe the ccp will honor its word on climate? mr. secretary? >> of course i raised, i have always raised the issue of human rights in every conversation i ever had as secretary anywhere i was, we raised that issue. >> on this trip as well, mr. secretary? >> i'm just about to get to it. on this trip, i raised it with the chinese officials, not the climate folks, because the climate emissary for china has been their special envoy on climate for about 20 years. and we could casually talk about it, but he doesn't have any input or capacity to do anything about it. and i've raised it with officials in china, and they deny certain things we allege and move on. it's a wall, a different attitude about what they're willing to acknowledge and not acknowledge. clearly, we have a very different perception about what is happening than they're willing to acknowledge. so a decision has to be made, whether by the administration or congress. and you have legislation, and maybe that's how it will be responded to. that's not my lane. my lane is specifically to tr

apple in the us is on the forefront of every thing woke, china they are right along with the ccp with chinese people. >> they help to censor what chinese people can see. china is one of the biggest human rights violators in the world, they do it consistently and so much hypocrisy and american corporations particularly the big tech companies like apple, google and twitter and others who look at every little thing to be offended by in the united states but yet they do business and even support practices around the world we would never tolerate in america. todd: all about the green. here is apple's response to the report, we never compromise the security of users on data in china. the key part is decisions are not always easy and we may not agree with the laws that shape them but our priority is creating the investor experience without violating rules, we are obligated to follow. how bad a precedent is it what apple is sitting when it comes to other us companies in business in china. >> i tracked the issue for years. a trade agreement 20 years ago was supposed to open chinese markets to

and it had to be a conspiracy the problem in the mainstream media did everything possible to spread ccppaganda and shut the voices of those who merely want to the hypothesis investigated because the global pandemic completely overturned and destroyed our lives. and forever changed our country. but now we know that there may have been u.s. taxpayer funding that went to gain of function research at the wuhan institute of virology and the evidence continues to stack up in favor of the lab leak hypothesis. even china's version of the cdc dismissed the wet market hypothesis, so why won't they ask basic questions of dr. fauci given that they have him on every single sunday show, every week and instead he gets asked questions about seasonal mask wearing and how we have 80% of americans vaccinated. kids have to be vaccinated and they're asking him every question except for the question that matters. we need to get to the bottom of this and for no other reason as you suggested, we can't allow this to happen again. more to the point, there are those proposing that we are going to increase funding

do you believe that at some point the ccp will invade taiwan?taiwan strait are significantly more. i don't think it's in china's interest to make a move right now but i do think after about ten years of this not being, you know, a frontline issue, all of a sudden the u.s. relationship with taiwan, chinese threats over -- over a potential invasion or some other type of pressure on taiwan, these are some of the most important issues, some of the scariest issues in the world right now and part of them come back to semiconductors because the chinese are still behold in some ways to taiwan ease semiconductor makers. people would be crazy not to have this on your radar. maria: of course, leland, thank you very much for weighing in on this very important topic. leland miller, joining us. veterans and business, two businessmen using military backgrounds to streamline the healthcare experience. exercise incentive, one beer company with refreshing prize. we will have to wait this summer. you're watching mornings with maria live on fox business. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪