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Hello, everybody. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-3813811-877-3813811.

The president, putting it to China again, and I'm all for it. You know, I'm not a tariff guy. I know the president is. He knows I'm not.

We've had this discussion over many, many years. He and I and us, except when it comes to China.

Because for me, it's not even an economic issue with China. It's a national security issue. I say the same thing over and over and over again.

I don't know where we get this idea that you and I don't pay tariffs. It's a tax that somehow these other countries do, but no, we do.

But I'm really not interested in getting into that for the thousands of times. China is a very, very dangerous country.

And my guest on Sunday night on Life Liberty in Levin is a brilliant, brilliant man, absolutely intriguing, Neil Ferguson.

And he's a historian. He's just a brilliant man. We're going to spend some time talking about this. And by the way, my guest's on the Saturday night show.

Turnies General Mieson Mccasion on Mueller. So it's a hell of a weekend coming up on Life Liberty in Levin's Saturday and Sunday this weekend on Fox.

Now, I want to get back to China. One of the things that's not discussed is who is responsible? What administration is responsible for empowering China?

Initially, to get the technology it needed to fire off missiles and to murder missiles.

Now, we know they just still technology and they steal our technology and then and then build upon it. But it wasn't always that way. Were they stealing yes?

But I as usual, I did additional research because I remembered this from the Clinton administration from 1998.

And then I looked up the congressional research service, which is a fairly straightforward operation. It's part of the Library Congress, actually.

And they did a report on this and the summary is as follows, Congress has been concerned, again, 98, about whether US firms and activities connected with exporting satellites, provided expertise to China for use in its ballistic missile and space programs.

And whether US policy has facilitated transfers of military related technology to China.

Some critics opposed satellite exports to China. While others were concerned that the Clinton administration relaxed export control as a monitoring of commercial satellites and moving the licensing authority from the State Department to the Commerce Department in 1996.

Now, those of you may not know, the more sophisticated technologies are supposed to be reviewed by a special unit at Department of State.

The Commerce Department is interested in commerce. There's a unit there too. But the standards are much, much more liberal, much more relaxed.

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