Beyond the physical effects of Green Bay's weather, there is a psychological edge that comes from playing in the NFL's harshest environment.

It ain't cold. It ain't cold, baby. It's all over your mind.

It's Friday, January 13th, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast,

examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover-dissinguished policy fellow. That means I have the high honor

privilege of introducing the stars of our show, three of my colleagues. We jokingly refer to

as the Goodfellows. That would be

the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, the geostr strategist, who tent general

H.R. McMaster, they are Hoover Institution senior fellows all. And rounding out our panel today,

joining us from his district back in Wisconsin, Congressman Mike Gallagher. He is the newly

minted chair of the House Select Committee on China.

Its formal name is the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and Chinese Communist Party.

Congressman, thanks for joining us today.

It is an honor to be back.

So question, sir, why are you not on a plane to San Francisco to see the Packers playing the 49ers?

Oh, I'm sorry. Wait a minute. The Packers didn't make the playoffs, did they? Low blow. Although watching the Lions game, I sort of got a bizarre solace from the fact

that there's no way we would have beaten the 49ers. It was it was very depressing. But we'll see.

We'll see. Hope Springs Eternal in Green Bay, Wisconsin. There you go. So, Congressman, let's get into China.

Today, I want to read you a quote you said on Fox News last month, quote,

The Chinese Communist Party is our foremost threat in the world today.

Question, sir, is that a commonly held sentiment in the House?

Is it a commonly held sentiment in the Senate and is a commonly held sentiment in the Biden administration?

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