From the December 10, 2020, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom

MARIA BARTIROMO (FOX BUSINESS ANCHOR): Bottom line here is the Chinese Communist Party has made no secret of the fact that they want to be the No. 1 superpower in the world -- militarily, technologically, and economically. They're doing so in whatever way it takes. They’re not doing it the way America does it, through innovation, hard work, etc. They simply just steal innovation, steal data, and they call it their own. And that is how they are hoping to overtake the United States as the No. 1 superpower. The U.S. has gotten smart about this and has started to push back, recognizing that the last 40 years of engagement with the CCP has not yielded what the expectations were. In fact, the CCP has become more inward. They have elevated Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong status, and that is dictator for life. What do we know right now? We know that they are trying to influence, bribe, blackmail members of Congress.

That brings me to Eric Swalwell. For three years, Eric Swalwell was on the air in various interviews along with Adam Schiff saying that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, colluded with Russia. We have so many sound bites of him saying that while he was in fact literally sleeping with the Chinese Communist Party. This is outrageous and the fact is is Americans need to understand what the CCP is doing and how they are trying to implicate members of Congress and leaders of the country. They've gotten in academia, they've gotten in Wall Street, they've gotten in Hollywood. Remember the stories where if you’re going to make a movie about the CCP, they will dictate certain things and certain moviemakers have actually changed films. Ted Cruz came out with a bill to say you can't use the military shots, you can’t go to any of our forts and use our equipment if you are going to be kowtowed by the CCP.

This year, the coronavirus. They unleashed this virus on the world. We know for sure that it originated in Wuhan, China, and we know for sure that they say it was an accident, that they hurled it and allowed it to escape its borders. What did it do? It sowed chaos in America and caused governors and states to change the way we operate, change the way we vote 90 days before an election, change the way we send our kids to school. The schools are closed right now and make no mistake, Chinese students are at an advantage to American students. They are in school longer, they have a different learning curriculum. America does need to get smart to recognize the threats that exist.