Stephen K. Bannon

Maybe if we see a United States Navy warship conduct the freedom of navigation transit without being attacked, that'll demonstrate our power there.

But again, back to the mission.

Hang on.

I want to talk about the broader mission, but they're also saying there's paid in Chinese yuan.

Would you not agree with me that the recommendation we would make to the president right now, the commander in chief, is this thing gets another week into it and we get more refinement on the

10 points for the intermediate ceasefire and then for a longer kind of peace arrangement.

I don't think it's going to be a treaty, but some acknowledgement that we're going to lay our arms down.

Shouldn't we take both carrier battle groups in the North Arabian Sea and maybe take the Tripoli in a couple and transfer those back through the Straits of Malacca to the South China Sea and maybe have them do freedom of navigation runs, which we haven't done in the Straits of Taiwan to let the masters in Beijing

know that the United States Navy is here and it just kicked ass in the Middle East and is prepared to defend Taiwan, sir?

100%.

I have been calling for a long time for the United States Navy to send an aircraft carrier strike group, not just a destroyer, not just something with an aircraft like a P-8,

But we need to send an aircraft carrier through.

The last time a United States Navy aircraft carrier went through the Taiwan Strait was in 2007, USS Kitty Hawk, which I had just served on previously a couple years before.

And it was only because there had been a typhoon coming up through the South China Sea, and they had to get out of port quickly to escape the typhoon that they actually went through.

So we have not enforced...

our freedom of navigation statements that we've heard from many administrations, fly anywhere, sail anywhere, steam anywhere.

It sounds good, but you got to do it.

You got to follow through.

So I would suggest we do a freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

And then when the Lincoln's done and this thing is now calmed down and we feel confident, maybe we leave the Bush in the med.