trade representative robert lighthizer.uch for being here this weekend. >> maria thank you for having me always a pleasure to be with you. maria: i want to ask the decoupling question you've talked a lot about the reliance that the united states has on china. i'm talking about supply chain we are reliant on communist china for things like prescription drugs and technology can we decouple and should we be decoupling from china. >> maria i call for strategic decoupling i'm not saying don't do business with china but i'm saying do smart business and you balance business, let's take a step back anyone of your listeners has to say is china a friend neutral or a foe if you study the evidence in the last four or five years it would be very difficult to conclude anything but an unfriendly force and a massive one when they could have a bigger economy than we do. they want to be number one in the world they want their system to prevail the world and the united states is in the way of that we need a policy of strategic decoupling. to

maria: and that was former trade representative under president trump robert lighthizer with me on maria on fox business with. the numbers show how much more the u.s. buys from china resulting in a $500 billion deaf deficit -- the deficit, the ccp controls about of concern 60% of the world's lithium supply. the impact has caused economic hardship for many american families with crude oil prices up 46%, gasoline up $1 a gallon since biden took office, and the u.s.' dependence on foreign oil has become a national security threat. joining me right now is the chairman of the senate energy committee, he is west virginia democrat senator joe manchin. senator, it's wonderful to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> well, thank you for having me, maria. good to be with you. maria: what do you think about what lighthizer said in terms of china's most favored nation us? would you support revoking that most favored nation status on china? >> absolutely. i think he's spot on. i mow mr.-- know mr. lighthizer, he knows what's going on, and i think he's spot on on that. the bottom lin