Face the Nations Margaret Brennan sits down with Nikki Haley for an exclusive interview

first of all they have 30 million cyber attacks a month in Taiwan they have aggression from air and Sea by the Chinese every single week I wanted to see if Taiwan if they were victims waiting for a handout or what they were saying and I was so impressed because they're not waiting for help from anyone 10 years ago their Chinese investment was 84% today their Chinese investment is 11% they are pro actively not investing in China their mandatory military service starting at 18 years old they had started at 4 months they've now increase it you have to serve militarily at 18 for a year they've you know while cutting that investment they are getting ready militarily they're doing joint training with America which is fantastic when it comes to our allies when it comes to Freedom loving countries we need to be the best friend to them that we can because if China takes Taiwan what we saw with Russia and Ukraine it affected 1% of GDP and you saw the economy shake from that mhm if China takes Taiwan it would be 10% of the global GDP that's 10 trillion compared to the 1 trillion in Ukraine we need to care about that we need to care about it from Freedom we need to care about it from the economy we need to care about it from security and we need to care about the fact that if Russia takes Ukraine and China takes Taiwan we can't assume we're going to be okay if we live in a silo because that's not the case but what you just laid out is uh a policy that's strongly in defense of Taiwan are you saying that the next president should commit because neither JD Vance nor Donald Trump have said that they would send US troops to defend Taiwan I don't think we need to send US troops to defend Taiwan Taiwan Jo Biden said he would as my colleague at 60 Minutes Taiwan does not want troops what Taiwan is asking for is joint military training and to partner with us so that they can make weapons to defend themselves and they want intelligent sharing look I'm the hus I'm the wife of a combat veteran the last thing we want to do is just keep thinking about sending troops if anything we want to prevent War the best way to prevent war from China is to start arming Taiwan now and making sure that they're ready when you were campaigning you said uh when President Trump left office China was militarily stronger than before I mean they've only increased that in terms of their nuclear development and their expansion of their military you said Trump did not put us on a stronger military foothold in Asia he did not stop all the theft of American Technology uh he would had moral weakness in trying to befriend president shei if this is the threat of this Century how can you say he is the commander-in-chief you can support now because I look at what happened under the Harris Administration you look at this situ supposed to judge that record no we're going to judge both records so let's first look at the Harris Administration Russia never would have invaded Ukraine China would not be circling not withdraw from Ukraine no well go further they wouldn't have started war with Ukraine and China would not have gotten more aggressive with Taiwan if we not would have not had that fall in Afghanistan it's not that we left Afghanistan it's how we left it it was dangerous it was careless and it was weak and we have suffered ever since we didn't have any conflicts under Trump I was his un Ambassador we put more sanctions on Russia we kept China at Bay we let our allies know that they were that they were protected all of that happened now what I will say to both Trump and Harris is the worst thing we can do is walk back from our friends right now and so we need to be a friend to Ukraine not make them beg we need to be a friend of Taiwan prepare so that China doesn't do it we need to be a friend to Israel and not say we're going to give you and then take it back like what Harrison Biden did we've got to start being friends with our allies I will say it until I'm blue in the face America can never be so arrogant to think we don't need friends and you have to be a friend to get a friend so look there are no perfect administrations here by any means but Trump was definitely stronger when it came to National Security as opposed to the Harris Administration and that's just a fact but how can you be confident that he will be you're talking about four more years when he is saying things like this he's talking about like a protection racket for Taiwan they have to pay us no and I'll be the first one to say that's not the way it should be I look I'm always going to tell you the truth on where I think this is not blind support for anyone this is saying don't sit there and threaten Taiwan that you're going to on being friends this is they have 50% of our chip production they are a friend and Ally to us and they a democracy let's have the if anything this is what I would tell Donald Trump and KLA Harris what you need to do with Taiwan is help them economically militarily diplomatically economically we should have a free trade agreement with Taiwan without question diplomatically we should we should require that Taiwan become a member in the United Nations and in the World Health Organization and militarily we should do whatever we can to Joint exercise share intelligence and do what we can you have talked about the isolationism in the party and