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Speaker 2: It's Binberg, Brief and Menascrani alongside Danny Berger in New
Speaker 2: York with the Democrats are during on President Biden's exit
Speaker 2: from the election race, scoring more than fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: in donations just on Sunday alone since the announcement. Let's
Speaker 2: get the reactions from US law makers who are at
Speaker 2: farmboroth show. Guy Johnson is there. You're talking politics and planes. Guy,
Speaker 2: good morning, It's.
Speaker 3: The perfect combination politics and aerospace. We'll walk of you
Speaker 3: want on a Monday morning. Manas, thank you very much. Indeed, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: welcome from a BLUs three Farmborough air Show. This year's
Speaker 3: events obviously has been overshadowed by the political developments that
Speaker 3: we've seen in the United States overnight. So let's get
Speaker 3: a take now on what that ultimately means, not only
Speaker 3: for the country, but also for the aerospace industry. I'm
Speaker 3: joined by Senator Jerry Moran Public I'm from Kansas, and
Speaker 3: Senator Genie Shahey, Democrats from New Hampshire. I'm going to
Speaker 3: start with you, Senator. Understandably, obviously, the news overnights comes
Speaker 3: as a shock, but not as a shock. Is Vice
Speaker 3: President Harris the right choice? Do you think now to
Speaker 3: take on Joe Biden's mantle? Do you think others should
Speaker 3: be given a choice. I appreciate you being over here
Speaker 3: for the last few days, but you must have a
Speaker 3: view on what is happening here.
Speaker 1: Well. First of all, it's nice to be here at
Speaker 1: Farmer Airshow. Senator Maran and I are co leading a
Speaker 1: bipartisan delegation from all across the United States. We're mostly appropriators,
Speaker 1: so we fund airplanes like the ones we see in
Speaker 1: behind us. But we're also on the Armed Services Committee
Speaker 1: some of us, so it's exciting to be here to
Speaker 1: see what's happening and to promote United States innovation on politics.
Speaker 1: I haven't been in the United States for several days,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a very interesting process. People
Speaker 1: are very excited. I think Vice President Harris has moved
Speaker 1: very quickly to build support, but the delegates to the
Speaker 1: convention will decide ultimately if she gets the nomination, so
Speaker 1: I think we'll see a lot of activity in the
Speaker 1: coming movie. Does he support her? We are waiting for
Speaker 1: the President to address the nation later this week. President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has done an excellent job investing in America
Speaker 1: over the last four years. He deserves a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of respect and credit for his willingness to step down
Speaker 1: and what he believes is the best interest of the country.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to wait to hear from him.
Speaker 3: Do you have a candidate in mind? I guess it's
Speaker 3: the real question, right, So you at the moment are
Speaker 3: reasonably agnostic on who you think ultimately should be his
Speaker 3: successor we'll wait for plane to take off so we
Speaker 3: can hear your answer.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I think it will be important to have
Speaker 1: someone who will carry on the man until of the president,
Speaker 1: and clearly the vice president has done that. But we're
Speaker 1: going to wait.
Speaker 3: See, so a continuousy candidate would be something that you'll
Speaker 3: be looking for.
Speaker 1: That's important.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's look at it from the other side of
Speaker 3: the aisle. We're sitting here in Europe. There is serious
Speaker 3: concern over here about what a Trump two point zero
Speaker 3: presidency would ultimately mean. We all heard what jd Vance
Speaker 3: said the other day at the RNC. There is a
Speaker 3: concern that America is going to become more isolationist. Is
Speaker 3: that your perspective?
Speaker 4: It is not my hope and it's certainly nothing that
Speaker 4: is foretold that's not going to happen if we get
Speaker 4: the right policies in place. We have for seventy five
Speaker 4: years Republican administrations, democratic administrations. America has been hugely engaged
Speaker 4: in NATO, supportive of the cause, and at a time
Speaker 4: in which Putin has invaded Russia, Russians have invaded Ukraine,
Speaker 4: it is not a time for America to back off
Speaker 4: of its commitment around the globe. My experience in being
Speaker 4: here and talking to foreign leaders is that they have
Speaker 4: significant determination, but it takes the United States to have success.
Speaker 4: And so as a team, Europeans and Americans, NATO's and
Speaker 4: our allies of a role to play in the world.
Speaker 4: And I think there's a justification for us making certain
Speaker 4: that we do the right things in a way that
Speaker 4: we share the burdens with our allies.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: But I don't expect America to walk away from the
Speaker 4: world in any administration.
Speaker 3: So you voted for Ukraine eate in the past, I did.
Speaker 3: Do you think that that aid is at risk?
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 4: But again, President Trump, when he was president, made it
Speaker 4: pretty clear that he expects our European allies, our fellow
Speaker 4: NATO members to do more, and that was absolutely the
Speaker 4: right thing to encourage and in fact to insist that
Speaker 4: they do so, and we've seen results of that. It's happening.
Speaker 4: And again, I think there's a path forward Ukraine for success,
Speaker 4: for a victory, and I think that it's important for
Speaker 4: us to continue to pursue this cause.
Speaker 1: And I think it's important to point out that that
Speaker 1: aid package, passed overwhelmingly in both the House and Senate,
Speaker 1: was strong bipartisan support. So while it took longer than
Speaker 1: any of us had hoped, it got there with a
Speaker 1: lot of strong bipartisan support.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's a democratic governments in the United States,
Speaker 3: and democratic governments in the United States will be less
Speaker 3: isolationists than a Republican ministers.
Speaker 1: Look, I expect whoever the next president is to do
Speaker 1: what's in the national security interests of the United States.
Speaker 1: Our role in the world, our role in NATO in
Speaker 1: supporting the Ukrainians in this war, the unprovoked war that
Speaker 1: Russia has instigated in Ukraine, our support for the Indo Pacific,
Speaker 1: for providing the counterbalance to China, all of that is
Speaker 1: in our interest. And whoever's president, I'm sure is going
Speaker 1: to do what's in the best interest of the United States.
Speaker 4: Let me make this point that the world is going
Speaker 4: to change. I mean, as politics is changing the United States,
Speaker 4: and you focus upon what's happening in the US, we're
Speaker 4: going to have additional challenges in the next one hundred days,
Speaker 4: in the next four years, and as the world we
Speaker 4: our adversaries are aligning against us from Iran and their proxies, Russia,
Speaker 4: the South Pacific, and China. So when you ask about
Speaker 4: whether or not the United States is going to be
Speaker 4: in isolation this country, one, the answer is no, But two,
Speaker 4: we're not going to have a choice because the challenges
Speaker 4: are going to be so great to our own nation.
Speaker 3: But the priorities that the priorities are impulsive is Asia.
Speaker 3: Is China a bigger priority than Europe? He talks about
Speaker 3: burden sharing, What does Europe need to do to share
Speaker 3: the burden adequately.
Speaker 4: So a number of my colleagues were opposed to aid
Speaker 4: for Ukraine, Republican colleagues, YEP, because they said the focus
Speaker 4: should be China. But the reality is what we demonstrate
Speaker 4: with our European allies in Ukraine determines what happens. What response.
Speaker 4: What happens to the South Pacific and China is activity.
Speaker 4: So the world watches to see if we're capable, and
Speaker 4: we need to demonstrate that. And it's not just about Ukraine.
Speaker 4: It's about American security, and it's about making certain our
Speaker 4: adversaries present and future know that when America is committed
Speaker 4: to something, they're there for the long haul.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you know he's going to address the
Speaker 3: Joint Session in a few days time, you sit them
Speaker 3: for our relations what do you want to hit.
Speaker 1: I would like to hear him talk about what he
Speaker 1: plans to do to end this war. I would like
Speaker 1: to hear him say that they're going to increase humanitarian
Speaker 1: aid to all of those Palestinians affected in Gaza. I
Speaker 1: would like to hear him say that he's going to
Speaker 1: initiate elections in Israel so that the Israeli people who
Speaker 1: have been demonstrated against his leadership understand that there's the
Speaker 1: potential for an option. I would like to hear him
Speaker 1: say that he's going to figure out how to resolve
Speaker 1: some of the challenges with Southern Lebanon so that we
Speaker 1: don't see an increased war in Southern Lebanon. So I
Speaker 1: hope he will talk about all of those issues. I
Speaker 1: would be surprised.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is quite the list said, This is Shaheen.
Speaker 3: Senator Moran, thank you both indeed for joining us here
Speaker 3: at the Farm burressa and braving the weather with me.
Speaker 3: It's great to see you both. Thank you very much. Indeed,
Speaker 3: very British weather and to be back with you. Think
Speaker 3: it's nice to see you guys Danny Berger and Neil.
Speaker 3: Let me hand things back to you.
Speaker 1: Guy, thank you very much braving the weather and a
Speaker 1: lot of jets taking off to Guy Chanson there at
Speaker 1: the farm Airshow. Important here from two Senators on the
Speaker 1: Subcommittee for Defense