00:00Secretary, thank you for being here. We need more ships. We're going to give you money to
00:05build more ships. You need to get those ships built. You need to build as many of them as
00:11you can in Louisiana, but let's get them built. General, is Russia our friend?
00:21Sir, they're not. Between Ukraine and Russia, who do we want
00:28to win that war? Well, we prefer there not be a war, but obviously.
00:33But there is. Who do we want to win? Obviously, we want Ukraine to stand independently and not be
00:38consumed by Russia. Okay. Now, when Putin went into Ukraine, he thought he was going to roll in
00:44and take it over in two days like thunder on a summer night, didn't he?
00:49I believe he did. But the Ukrainian people have fought back, haven't they?
00:55Yes, sir. They have fought back. And they now have some of the most sophisticated
01:01drone technology in the history of the world, don't they?
01:04Sir, they do. They're doing very well with drones.
01:06And they're giving, with the limited resources they have, they're giving Russia a curb stomping,
01:13aren't they? I would say they are.
01:15In fact, they have knocked out, with their limited resources, 40% of Russia's export
01:21ability of their oil. They, since January, using their drones and limited cruise missiles,
01:30they have hit oil and gas facilities within Russia over 100 times. Not on the border, within Russia.
01:40Right? Yes, sir.
01:43And Putin was so scared, he almost had to cancel their military parade. It didn't he?
01:50Well, I'm not sure of that, sir, but I will take your word for that, sir.
01:54Okay. All right. Well, how much money? Now, let me just lead you.
02:01The world has $300 billion of frozen Russian assets in escrow, don't we?
02:11I don't know, sir.
02:12I do. It's $300 billion. And two-thirds of that, about $200, $225 billion, is sitting in Europe, isn't it?
02:22Again, sir, I am not sure of that.
02:23Well, I am. And I'm surprised, no disrespect, as you don't know. And Europe has asked our permission
02:33to take that $200 to $225 billion. Well, let me strike that. That $225 billion, humor me,
02:43that's sitting there frozen. Not a single penny is American taxpayer money, is it?
02:48I don't believe it is.
02:49No. It all belongs to Russia, doesn't it?
02:52I believe that is correct.
02:53And the EU has asked our permission to take that money and give it to Ukraine so they can
03:01knock Russia in the next week and let's get this war over. That's a good idea, don't you think?
03:07Well, I think anything that can be done to stop that war is a good idea, sir.
03:10Would you support giving that $225 billion, no taxpayer money in America, to Ukraine?
03:18Well, again, sir, that's outside my purview as a service chief.
03:21Okay. Admiral, let me ask you a question.
03:29Would it be fair to say, based on his public and notorious comments, both before, during, and after
03:42the summit between President Xi and President Trump, that President Xi, how can I put this?
03:54He's nervous as a pregnant nun about what we're going to do on Taiwan, isn't he?
04:02Sir, I do think he is concerned about our capability against any invasion of Taiwan.
04:07I mean, talk about telegraphing your insecurities.
04:12I mean, he talked about it right out of the chute.
04:14He's practically sending us a television ad saying, I'm very worried about Taiwan.
04:22Now, we don't want a war with China, do we?
04:25Absolutely not.
04:26No. We want stability, though, with China, don't we?
04:29Yes, sir.
04:30And China doesn't recognize, President Xi doesn't recognize charity, does he?
04:36I can't speak to that, but I would say probably not.
04:39Well, he appreciates strength, doesn't he?
04:42I would say so, yes, sir.
04:43If you're in a bar fight with President Xi and you start quoting Socrates like we did under President Biden,
04:52you're going to get your rear end whipped, aren't you?
04:54That's probably not a good course of action.
04:56Yes.
04:57Okay.
04:58So why don't we go ahead?
04:59Don't you think it would be a good idea for us to gain leverage, to make weapons sales to Taiwan
05:06right now?
05:07Sir, again, those things are very complex and a full calculus of all the levers of power that are being
05:13negotiated and worked.
05:15But I'm sorry, what more do we have to know, Adam?
05:19President Xi has telegraphed his anxiety, his insecurity, now that he knows that America has learned how to fight.
05:27We want leverage.
05:29We want stability, not a hot war.
05:31We want leverage.
05:32What's his insecurity?
05:34Taiwan.
05:35Why don't we just go ahead and sell the weapons to Taiwan that Taiwan wants?
05:40The president can call President Xi and say, hey, President Xi, don't take it personally, don't get excited, don't get
05:47your bowels in an uproar, but I'm selling these weapons.
05:51Why wouldn't we do that?
05:53We definitely want Taiwan to be as strong as they can be, sir.
05:56They'd be stronger with those weapons, though, wouldn't they?
05:59Yes, sir.
06:00Don't you think we ought to sell them?
06:02Sir, I'm not going to get in front of the administration's overall calculus on that.
06:05That's just not a – I'm not going to make a statement on that as a service chief.
06:08Okay.
06:09But the capabilities that we're talking about would make them more effective.
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