Newt Gingrich | Fox News Channel Hannity | Aug 2 2022

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1997. Well both, I went to China and Taiwan.

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Yeah we'd a big crisis in 96 President Clinton sent to U.S. aircraft carriers through the straite of Taiwan, I went to TV and supported him the Chinese dictatorship invited me to come to China to give speeches in Shanghai and Beijing. We told him that we were to go to Taiwan, and he went crazy. Oh you can’t do it. You can’t do it. And finally, we said to them look if you feel that strongly will are going to skip China and just go to Taiwan. Why don’t you come to China but and the compromise was I flew from China to Japan and then from Japan to Taiwan so I didn't sort of rub their faces in it but I think speaker Nancy Pelosi has no choice now that it's out in the open and that the Chinese communists are dancing around and making threats and all that, she has to go to Taiwan. Because to back down now would encourage every aggressive bullying attitude of the dictatorship and I think would be a disaster. I'm hoping the next day or so where can a see her in Taiwan I frankly think that the Chinese communists will then calm down. They're running a bluff. The fact is that they're not gonna take on the United States. They are not going to take out speaker of the house. All of these various threats are nonsense and I can happen.

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The worst case is that if they shut down or airplane that would be literally an act of war. We would have no choice except to retell or retaliate massively. People tend to forget the U.S. despite the weakness of the Pentagon, despite all the truly woke stupid behaviors. We still have a powerful military. With our allies in Australia, and in Japan, and elsewhere. We could isolate China very fast. If they can’t export, they start to go broke. Their cities start to have employment. If they can't import they begin to starve. The Chinese are not necessarily in a strong position to try to bully us. I think we need to recognize that and it's really important when you're dealing with the dictatorship to stand up to them and make them realize that reality is that there are real limits to what they can accomplish. If we were to cave right now, who knows psychologically what they would conclude from that and whether or not they would then decide to push us even further by try and occupy Taiwan.

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I can't figure out why Manchin would have approved a bill which raises taxes on coal directly hitting West Virginia. Let me go a step further this act is an entire lie. Is very proud of the weekend the Herschel walker run for the senate in Georgia challenged senator Warnock who is a very articulate preacher all that stuff. He said to him why don't in August have a debate on this bill. Warnock promptly said no chance he's not gonna do it I thought it was fascinating and I think it every Republican candidate in the country should challenge their opponent to defend what I think is the tax increase 87,000 more internal revenue agents, higher spending, greater inflation bill just what this really is. I also have a challenge I want to take a chance to put out I think the senate Republicans have an absolute obligation to use every procedural process to stop this bill from getting voted on before the recess of this country if the country can look at this bill throughout August it will die. There is no possibility of senator running for reelection and the democratic party wants people back home just a single question you really think you need 87,000 more IRS agents? This only 77,000 right now. That's more than doubling the number of IRS agents. I don’t think Mark Kelly can afford that.