troops if they try to aid taiwan. joining me right now to discuss the foreign policy blunders of this add information from afghanistan, china, russia and iran is former secretary of state, mike pompeo. he is also a fox news contributor. thanks so much for being here. >> it's great to be with you this morning. maria: so we are approaching one year as joe biden as the commander in chief. assess this administration's foreign policy. >> oh, goodness, more ya. i was on your -- maria. i was on your show at the gunning of the administration. we wanted to give them every opportunity to be successful, but after almost 11 months, we've seen debacle after debacle. don't forget the shutdown of the pipeline in the united states, and the biden administration did nothing. they gave russia a free pass, and now russia's mounting troops on the eye crash yard line -- ukrainian board, and the president has mere words for them. world leaders were gathered, i must say, they're all looking at america and are continuing to believe that they

in, acquire taiwan, so that they can be in charge of all semiconductors. this is going to alleviate the semiconductor problem and shortage that america is facing. so that's, that's just great news for texas. do you expect more? what are you expecting many 'ems of more investment -- in terms of more investment coming down the road? any vision or runway for us? >> sure. we've got, actually, a lot of positive projects that are coming our way. but listen, you touched upon something has very important and that is a lesson that americans have learned and, i by god, the biden administration if should learn this also, and that is country made a mistake over the past one or two decades to farm out manufacturing of all these essential supplies whether it be now semiconductors or could be health care supplies that we needed during the time of covid, whatever case may be. we need to not depend upon china or other countries for our essential needs for things like semiconductors, and has exactly why texas is leading the way of becoming the home for semiconductors that g

you didn't have bombers flying over taiwan -- maria: why are they doing it now? >> you didn't is i have any threat of anything meaningfulness in ukraine. now, before that they took over a section of ukraine. you understand that. under the biden administration, they took over -- the obama administration, and essentially the two of them, they approved it. i think biden was in charge. and under obama's administration, they took over a very big part of ukraine, as you know, where they had the submarines, where the russians now have their submarines. it's hard to believe, actually. you know -- maria: weakness. >> the other countries? maria: our adversaries. >> even the ones that are our friends are taking advantage of us on trade. look, the european union is almost as bad on trade as china is. i say that to people, say -- they say, oh, you know, the european union's so nice. they ripped us off, you know, like few others. we lost $187 billion when i was coming into office with the european union. now, with china, it was $507 billion. this is, it's not sustainable. and

larry kudlow: some people are going to say that they are going to invade taiwan. but president trump says no boycott for the athletes. do you agree with that? >> i would've recommended to the president as secretary of state today that we not send our athletes into this difficult place where they are forced to be silent, where they will be on the global stage and lauded as a great leader and a million americans in concentration camps, i don't think that the committee should permit that. it is a tragedy that these genocide olympics appear to be moving forward now 45 days or so from this time. it is putting her athletes in an incredibly difficult position. larry kudlow: we thank you, former secretary of state, mike pompeo. merry christmas and happy new year, sir. thank you for your great work. coming up next, senator joe mansion. he saved america. it is chuck schumer ready to throw in the towel? we have more on social spending joe biden in 2022. plus, are senator weizen on all of that when we return after these messages. ♪ ♪ ♪ r financial plan. we can check in