mcmaster?tic in terms of our ability to prevail if we stop underwriting our own demise. >> mr. paul. >> i think it's an open question. china is starting to choose its friend's differently and if it's friends are russia and iran then we have larger issues to be concerned about. >> during world war ii weasel sentiments against japanese against japanese government, dissemination against japanese americans resulting in one of the darkest moments in american history, the mass internment on japanese americans. in our bipartisan efforts to confront the real challenge of the ccp, we must never allow sentiments against the ccp to become a pretext for discrimination against chinese-americans. calling into question the loyalty of chinese-americans as a member of congress recently did is as dangerous as it is deplorable. if we allow the ccp to change who we are and turn america against americans we lose the moral authority that we rightly claim. the strategic competition with of the ccp isn't merely about

all right, that's go on colic with mcmaster university. thank you very much. thank you. well, russian intelligent services have relied on a private id company for several cyber weapons. a companies, former workers, in some cases, are now employed by western firms. that's according to thousands of leak documents, which have been analyzed by a consortium of international journalists. the documents indicate that moscow based in t. c. vulcan is developing tools to allow moscow to launch cyber attacks. spread this information and monitor additional sections of the internet. according to recent reports, former workers are employed by amazon and siemens among other companies. when marina quote of who is a research assistant at hamburg university of technology and she's looked through these leak files. marina, thanks for joining us for amazon. siemens, potentially among other companies that these former employees of this russian from are working for. want to start with that, how to serve. should we be about this? i don't think you really need to be concerned about that because f

mcmaster, he's talking about competition as a way to de-escalate.i'm trying to set on the committee. >> you mentioned mcmaster, obviously, he had worked on the trump administration. and we heard from matt pottinger who also worked in the trump administration. both sending dire warnings yesterday. pottinger saying the u.s. was hoodwinked by china. and both men suggest whether it's economically or academically, private companies, public companies, in this country, that they've dropped the ball in terms of standing their ground against china. i'm curious, what do you make of their warnings? and what are you going to do about it? >> well, this is certainly a really unique moment for us as federal lawmakers to set the tone. because you know that private industry is going to chase the dollar or open markets are being exploited. i certainly heard general mcmaster say, hey, we're going to have peace through strength. we want to have economic strength as well as national security strength. and we're certainly not negotiating from a place of strength when chi

mcmaster. >> it is not going to be good from the view of xi jinping and our own election, which we tend to be fractuous during election, he may perceive weakness. if we think of deterrence as capability times will, capabilities are not where they should be and capacity and their perception, which i don't think is right, but the party perception makes it a dangerous period. >> lucas: christopher wray says the number of investigations involving china increased in recent years. >> todd: lucas, thank you, let's bring in jonathan gilliam. great to have you. heard that hearing information testimony, are you confident this hearing will be the start of real, tangible major steps to combat what is america's number one adversary in the ccp? >> jonathan: no, i don't think it will make a big difference and i tell you why. that sound bite you played from mcmaster when he's talking about their perception of us could be a problem, he needs to realize the old saying when i was in fbi, perception is reality is absolutely true and as we know, nothing new is going to be found in a committee hearing about

r mcmaster, both experts on china who served in the trump administration. when asked if he believes china will invade taiwan in the next 2 to 3 years, mcmaster warned of a dangerous period ahead. there's a time when he's election in 2024. is not going to be good. i think from the view of she jinping. the hearing came just hours after fbi director christopher rice spoke about china's role in the origin of the covid 19 pandemic, saying covid most likely originated from a potential lab incident, and ray accused beijing of interfering with the global investigation. the fbi has folks agents professionals, analysts virologists microbiologists, etcetera who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like covid. and the concerns that in the wrong hands some bad guys hostile nation state of terrorist or criminal the threats that those could pose. so here you're talking about potential leak. from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. i will just make the observation that the chines

south carolina governor henry mcmaster made his state of the state address in the capital in columbia. he called for the passing of a shield law to make the death penalty by means of lethal in gestion easier. governor mcmaster also said he will continue the champ in the states, so-called, legal heartbeat legislation which is struck down by the south carolina supreme court. please be seated. ladies and gentlemen of the assembly and honored guests. i am proud to present to you the honorable henry dargan mcmaster the governor of the great state of south carolina governor [applause] . >>. . thank you, thank you. all right. okay. all right, y'all, be seated please. i am a little horse i hope my hose was out. mister speaker, miss speaker latest in a man of the general timely my fellow south carolinians we are here tonight to address challenges and opportunities. but first, as in prior years, i'd like to recognize those in uniform who we lost in the line of duty in 2022. officer roy andrew barr. of the case policed pardon. deputy often derrick alder branch of the spartanburg county sheriff's

south carolina governor henry mcmaster made his state of the state address from the capital in columbia. he called for the passing of the shield law to make the death penalty by means of lethal in projection easier. governor mcmaster also said, he'll continue to champion the states so called fetal heartbeat legislation. which was struck down by the south carolina supreme court. state fetal heartbeat legislation which was struck down by the south china supreme court earlier in the month. his neck. >> please be seated. please be seated. ladies and gentlemen of the general assembly, and honored guests. i am proud to present to you the honorable henry mcmaster, the governor of the state k state of south carolina. governor. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] all right. okay. you will be seated, please. i'm a little horse, i hope my voice holds out. this is mr., speaker mister president, ladies and gentlemen of the general assembly. my fellow south carolinians, we are here tonight to address challenges in opportunities. first, as in prior years, i like to recognize t

south carolina governor henry mcmaster made his state of the state address from the capital in columbia. he called for the passing of the shield law to make the death penalty by means of lethal in projection easier. governor mcmaster also said, he'll continue to champion the states so called fetal heartbeat legislation. which was struck down by the soh

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mcmaster served during the trump administration.ked if he believed china would invade taiwan in the next two years, mcmaster warned of a dangerous period ahead. >> in 2024, it will not be good. reporter: the hearing after the fbi director christopher wray spoke about the origin of the covid-19 pandemic, saying covid most likely originated from a potential lab incident. he accused with the incident. >> they had analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc. who focused specifically on the dangers of biological threats which include things like novel viruses like covid. the concerns that in the wrong hands some bad guys like a hostile nation or terrorist or criminals, so here you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese-government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. i will make the observation that the chinese government seems to have been doing its best to try to thwart and a few skate the work -- obfus reporter: the hearing also addressed the chinese owned tiktok app. >> it gives the chinese communist party the

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mcmaster. you know a lot of the things that came out yesterday ahead of time? >> good morning, brian, the point from yesterday's hearing was to really outline the depth and the magnitude that the chinese communist party poses to the united states. we wanted to make sure we laid that out. the witnesses yesterday did a great job of that to talk about every level of where it effects family security, their financial security, our national security. every aspect of life in america as we know it are things that chinese communist party seeks to impact and negatively effect. >> brian: right. i mean, things like how much farmland they own here in the u.s. things like the boarding schools they are buying. and the charter schools that they are buying. what they are also trying to do is buy off corporate america, come make our stuff there for a low price. you could sell it back and you could still be a cut rate, will help everybody's economy. we have a deficit with them of $380 billion. which that makes no

mcmaster is going to discuss the military dimension. a longtime democratic activist focused on human rights. and the alliance for american manufacturing offering a business persptive. if you missed the heang what you can watch it on our website. this is larry in oregon. did you watch last night? caller: yes. with some discussed -- disgust. china has no threat to the united states, never was. they have no intention of being. in one generation, they have lifted 800 million people out of poverty, twice our population. their middle class is bigger than our country. what disturbs our elite is effectiveness, the success of the chinese. that is the so-called existential threat. i was taught as a child to hate russia. now i am taught to fear china. i studied political economy for over 50 years and i have noticed a huge growth in our military presence around the globe. china has no bases outside of its territory. they are not an aggressive power. the american people are going to buy another bad movie and long regret it. host: it was last night d

mcmaster who joins us from i wanto . china with you, but first, stability in this country,al f protests. how concerned are you about security and what it means for the country? >> well, of course, margaret, what i'm hoping for is americans come to their sen senses and recognize we have strong institutions and have confidence in the due process of law. nobody is above the law. i hope americans really recognize that what's not -- not appropriate at this stage is any kind of violence, but really, to demand the best from our institutions, to ensure that they're insulated from political interference, but to have confidence, you know, that if the president is, you know, as rumored to be indicted, that he will have the opportunity to defend himself against these charges. >> and we will be following that. when it comes to your wheelhouse on the national security front, we just saw these images of vladimir putin defiantly traveling to ukraine. his first known trip to the occupied donbas region of eastern ukraine. the kremlin made

mcmaster will join us for analysis. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." >>> good morning.come to "face the nation." >>> we had a sense of deja vu early saturday when former president trump hit send on a social media post saying he, quote, will be arrested on tuesday, protest, take our nation back. he's referring to the manhattan case focusing on the alleged hush money payments he made to porn star stormy daniels late in the 2016 campaign. that grand jury is still hearing testimony and will need to vote as to whether or not mr. trump should be indicted. but he's urging support from his followers in advance has caused a political firestorm and prompted additional security concerns. if mr. trump is indicted, that would be yet another first. no sitting or former president has ever been indicted. robert costa has been reporting on the investigations. he's here with me now. i know you have been speaking to the trump legal team. what is the broader strategy? >> margaret, good morning. speaking to trump's lawyer joe tack copena and other close allies it's evident in the coming day

hr mcmaster and also a former deputy national security adviser and expert on china matthew pottinger,gain trying to set the tone for the committee going forward. it is also worth noting that on tuesday the biden administration warning that any chinese firm or person that gives lethal aid to russia and its fight against ukraine will be targeted by underscoring this international rivalry. jessica dean, cnn, capitol hill. >>> and chinese surveillance tactics were brought up by the witnesses including the spy balloon which one witness said is a small part of beijing's espionage activities. >> i think the message is that we are intending to continue a broad range of surveillance activities. the balloon i think is in many ways a metaphor for the massive effort at espionage. >> it withes also talked about the growing concerns over wechat and tiktok.also talked about the growing concerns over wechat and tiktok. >> the bigger coup for the chinese communist party if tiktok is conpermitted to conti to operate in the united states is that it gives the communist party the ability to manipulate our

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several high-profile witnesses, including former president donald trump's national security adviser hr mcmastersay about beijing's suspected espionage tactics. take a listen. >> i think the message is that we are intending to continue a broad range of surveillance activities. the balloon, i think is in many ways, a metaphor for the massive effort at espionage. >> former u.s. ambassador to china gary locke joins me now from seattle. thank you sir for being with us. >> my pleasure, rosemary. >> so, what did the new house select committee on china achieve at its first hearing tuesday, as it highlights the threat china poses to america amid these rising tensions with the two nations over several issues, including concerns beijing may decide to send lethal support to russia for its war on ukraine? >> while, the first hearing of the congressional committee clearly points out the concern that the united states government, members of congress and the administration, have, on a bipartisan basis about the rising tensions between the united states and china, exacerbated by the balloon incident. and especi

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struck by the hearing last night, particularly when you asked hr mcmaster, former trump's former securityhow do we make our powerful deterrent believable to xi, president xi, so they don't draw us into war? what were you saying? do you think war with china is possible in the next few years? >> absolutely. i mean xi ping said he wants to take back taiwan and we have made it very clear, the president has said that dwwe dot want that to happen. when we look at the success we've had in europe with ukraine, i mean, no one imagined the ukrainians would be doing this well. no one imagined that nato is this strong, standing united against the russian threat. despite all that success, we have to admit deterence failed. we were not able to prevent a war in europe before it started. we can't afford to let the deterrents fail in the pacific. we can wake up and see two american aircraft carriers at the bottom of the pacific ocean. thousands of young americans under the sea. so we can't let that happen. we've got to understand how to make sure that we not only have a strong deterrent in the pacific, bu

anything like people buy his gas, oil, as well as give him armaments which, according to general mcmaster he is getting lethal aid from china. >> steve: this meeting couldn't come at a better time for putin. he has had all these losses in ukraine. that international criminal court. arrest warrant for him. just by virtue of mr. xi showing up in china, it makes suddenly, makes mr. putin look like he is back on the world stage. they are no longer a world order but rachel and by the way rachel good morning to you. >> rachel: good morning. >> steve: puts him back in the game. he loves that and she loves being a power broker. >> definitely enjoys being a power broker. and a defense intelligence analyst said what xi wants is to extend this war. xi believes that the extension of this war helps china. hurts us, depletes our weapons. that's her take. representative elise stefanik she says that the weakness of this administration is what's hurting. listen. >> i think this is a direct result ever the weakness we have seen going back to the early days of the biden administration. whether it was their

mcmaster called the largest peacetime military build up in a sense, the 40th centuries so they have territorialmbitions of their own. you know, taiwan, the himalayan borders the south and east china seas. they built a very large military that's designed for combat with the united states. so this is a two theater problem. we're dealing with both russia and china. we don't get to choose one or the other. they have formed what they call a comprehensive partnership of strategic coordination for a new era. i mean, that's about as clear as we need to be made it very clear today that they are indeed close friends. alright, really appreciate your time today. jonathan moore. thank you. thank you. are us aid worker and a french journalists held hostage in west africa for the past several years have now been freed. jeff would key and french journalist olivier dubois were released today. they were being held by a west africa based affiliate of al qaeda. dubois was kidnapped in mali in 2021 would key was kidnapped in in 2016. i want to thank the government of where i was just last week. for its important as

last night, the former national security adviser, general mcmaster said the u.s. gave the soviet union the type of access we gave the chinese communist party, because of the vulnerability of the u.s. economy. so, what technology and intellectual property do you think should be revoked now? >> well, i think anything that is allowing them to expand their military modernization or anything that's facilitating engine side is a good starting point. for example, there was a report over a year ago that they had tested a hypersonic glide vehicle. and the "financial times" quoted an anonymous intel community official saying, we have no idea how they did this. but we do, because they actually had access to u.s. technology as part of their. anywhere where we see our military technology or components of military technology being used to build things in china that are designed to kill americans in a future conflict, that to me as a principle is a good starting point. in practice, it gets very complex. in china, of course, they have civil fusion sometimes it's hard to tell the

in south carolina, state's governor, henry mcmaster is kind you have to join us and scott keough. >>st on this, you placed a big bet here. you hope to be a big one for south carolina this year. just sheer size of it indicates it could be. where do you see this whole thing going? >> well it is really, neil, really not a bet. we have high confidence in the company and volkswagen and vision of scout and scott keough and his team. we see this as transformational for the midlands. we have as you know bmw is in the up state. volvo is down not low country and now here in the midlands they have been waiting, waiting, here came scout with the perfect idea, perfect vision for the perfect place. we're looking for great things to happen because of and we're very excited. neil: scott, if i ask you about that, a lot of states have excessive ev plans, go all ev, or all electric, mostly electric within the next decade or so, i don't know with apologies to the governor what south carolina's goals are but do you have optimism eventually evs will take hold with the general population? they're deemed st

mcmaster believes china is already supplying weapons to russia. >> clear from the reports and investigative is supplying weapons, munitions, other support. i think what you are going to see in the coming days and weeks is more and more evidence of chinese support. what you are seeing is really quite clearly this axis of a athor -- >> there are some state owned enterprises providing some small arms and other stuff, big fricking deal. literally, literally -- you are giving russians chinese equipment to die instead of russian equipment? the war has been going on for a year. if the chinese wanted to help the russians not lose, i think the pentagon is messed up but they waited a year? come on. >> john: but if russia loses, does that not change xi's calculation on taiwan? >> taiwan is a path of its own. >> john: you don't think the two things are tied together? >> what happens if russia collapses and loses, who do i have to compete with in extra small asia? whoever the russians -- >> john: talk of you are my close friend, china and russia have had a fraught relationship. >> like i said, the guy b

mcmaster. he was asked last month about the purchase ofand in the u.s.e is that exchange. >> i'm very concerned about that. the purchase of land and buildings next to sensitive sites. it is extordinary the degree the chinese party has pursued a massive campaign. that is one facet of it. the other aspect is the dependency of chinese investment which teaches them coercive power. i describe in my written testimony, the three c's. co-opt to build on the chinese market. once you are in use that for the course of purposes. the commercial aspect of this is often tied to the united front work department, an arm of state security. this forms organizations that promote u.s.-china dialogue in economic discourse. agriculture in particular in the american heartland. those are organizations designed to advance the prc's agenda. to conceal all of this as normal business practices. i think you are qte right to be concerned. what you are doing, what the committee is doing to pull the curtain back and shined the light on the behavior is an impoant first step. host: you an

. >> amanda mcmaster, what a great story. >> good having you here.ither going to peak today or tomorrow in the d.c. area. take a look right along the potomac. isn't that gorgeous? the problem with this is the temperatures are in new york city and my central park, the daffodils are up right now. we've had a couple of really good days of spring. take a look of the rain that's moving in and those temperatures change. it will peak today or tomorrow with the cherry blossoms because these warm temperatures. i see. you can see that line as it gets even toward the hudson valley. by the time we get into saturday morning. the problem with this is that it slow drew: i am abc7news meteorologist drew tuma with the accurate forecast. breezy today and a chance of isolated showers in the north bay and most areas are dry and it is a dry weekend before the next storm ariri >> i am here now with "grey's anatomy" star kim raver. tonight's new episode is especially exciting for her. we are going to chat about that in just a bit. first here is an exclusive clip. >> leo's

. >> 45 billion -- i not slightly over, mcmaster indulgence to clarify? appreciate the gentlemen continued the final questioning as any member of this committee would get that to clarify questions for thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentlemen may continue. >> thank you, mr. chairman just to clarify. we have $45 billion through the auspices of the department of labor that have gone out, of whh 267 million is going to deceased individuals? >> yes and there isbo pottial fraudut e numr 267 million is coect. >> thank you so much mr. turr. thanks for the indulgence, m, m. chairman. i yie back. >> thank you very much. the gentlan yield back is tight. the geneman fro texas mr. cesar. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in the 35th district of texas we stretch from east austin done to the website of san antonio your number one, industry that employ folks in my district is service and hospitality. my . my constituents are overwhelmingly cooks, servers, hotel workers, bar backs, folks that oftentimes lost theirir jos during the pandemic and so to be really clear there is no

mcmaster and powell and others kept them in. >> so, he's crushed the trad traditional orthodoxy of the republican party and the people that are following in his footsteps, the ron desantises and kari lakes t sometimes we go too far from holding scorn and judgment from our political actors, the notion of giving everybody equity >> that doesn't happen here. >> no, no, i don't >> you can't accuse me of that >> true. but that's part of your job and why millions of americans love what you do. >> i was listening and i'm like, no, i don't do that. >> ron desantis deserves the scorn of the country today for suggesting that the u.s. and the west should be weaker in the eyes of vladimir putin that's what he said yesterday and he needs to be nailed against the wall for that. and if we just treat it, oh, it's a foreign policy difference with the administration and should republicans take over we're going to withdraw support -- no, because you're talking about our domestic u.s. security and the security of the entire west. republican and democratic presidents that from seeded the last one all agree

mcmaster, and his deputy had to force him in repeated confrontations to commit to america's commitment through europe. he's been disinterested in being part of the west and interested in propping up putin from day one. how did you hear these comments? >> reporter: right i think the word i often come back to with donald trump out of this is the word justification, right. just here this last week suggesting that the attack on the capitol wouldn't have happened if it weren't for mike pence, essentially justifying what ultimately happened on that day. when you're talking about just last year, you know, you'll recall the statement in which he made, quote, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of rules, regulations, and articles, each those found in the constitution. he called for a new presidential election, again justifying a new presidential election. and going to rallies around the country last year with him so often the focus particularly around the j6 capitol hill committee's work was this dynamic at play, that it was us against them, and them being u.s.

mcmaster about potential china-taiwan conflicts and u.s.policy. >> most recently we've heard the window the chinese would look to to try to take taiwan. first of all, what would be the cost of that conflict for united states and others around the world? we know, too, that a conflict there would be able to scale that, i don't think anybody in this nation realizes. it would be of the scale even greater than i think world war ii, because of the massive amount of power between those two nations. can you also tell us what will be the cost if we failed to deter the c.c.p.? >> thank you for that question. we are in a difficult position, because we have been underinvested in modernization for quite a long amount of time. what has happened is the people's liberation army studied us. instead of trying to re-create some of our capabilities, they developed counter measures. offensive cybercapabilities, counter satellite capabilities, long-ring precision fires. so what they have done is try to figure out how to take apart what they say as advantages. we

mcmaster about potential china-taiwan conflicts and u.s.policy. >> most recently we've heard the window the chinese would look to to try to take taiwan. first of all, what would be the cost of that conflict for united states and others around the world? we know, too, that a conflict there would be able to scale that, i don't think anybody in this nation realizes. it would be of the scale even greater than i think world war ii, because of the massive amount of power between those two nations. can you also tell us what will be the cost if we failed to deter the c.c.p.? >> thank you for that question. we are in a difficult position, because we have been underinvested in modernization for quite a long amount of time. what has happened is the people's liberation army studied us. instead of trying to re-create some of our capabilities, they developed counter measures. offensive cybercapabilities, counter satellite capabilities, long-ring precision fires. so what they have done is try to figure out how to take apart what they say as advantages. we

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