Business entrepreneur and 2024 GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy took CNN host Kaitlin Collins to task after she appeared to take a quote of his out of context.

During an interview segment Monday evening, Collins played a short clip of Ramaswamy discussing how to help Taiwan defend itself against a much larger, more powerful China.

After a contentious back-and-forth with the network’s most recently promoted primetime anchor due to his reluctance to criticize former President Donald Trump, the segment intensified further when Collins attempted to undermine his perspectives on foreign policy—a subject that will likely come up during Wednesday’s debate.

Ramaswamy said: “Guess what? We’ll put a gun in every Taiwanese household. Train them how to use it. That is how you make Xi Jinping think twice.”

Collins then asked: “Do you really think that would be a sufficient plan to deter a Chinese invasion if it includes long-range missiles, ground troops, an aerial blockade, a naval blockade?”

“Kaitlan? Kaitlan? Kaitlan?” the GOP candidate began in response. “Kaitlan, of course, it’s not sufficient. You take that shiny little clip, when I’ve articulated it at the Nixon library last week, a one-hour speech, with a whole range of deterrence. That is part of it.”

“You posted that clip,” she argued.

He stated:

But I’ve also said that I would pull Russia, out of its military alliance, with China.

I’ve also said that we would bolster our partnership with India, to be able to close the Andaman Sea and the Malacca Strait. I’ve also said that we would actually send a signal, very clearly that we will defend Taiwan, moving from strategic ambiguity to strategic clarity, to say that we will defend Taiwan until we have semiconductor independence in this country. And so, yes, part of this is turning Taiwan into a porcupine. I think exporting our Second Amendment is a relatively free or low-cost way to do that. But I find it laughable that you will take that clip and then put words into my mouth as though that was a sufficient deterrent. Kaitlan, with due respect, that’s a joke, especially when I’ve offered as expansive of a deterrence strategy as I have.

“It’s not putting words into your mouth. And it’s not saying that you didn’t say those other things. It’s just saying that you did say that part of your effort –” she said before he interrupted.

“I never said it was sufficient. This is really funny, Kaitlan. It just is — it’s been very educational for me to learn how media works,” he added.

“Yes, that is important. That is — no one ever said that was sufficient to deter an invasion. From India to Russia, to what I’ve said we would do, with moving Ohio-class SSGN, to the South China Sea, and to the Indo-Pacific, this is the stuff of actual deterrence, and also strategic clarity, that we would actually defend Taiwan,” Ramaswamy added.

WATCH:

Speaking the hard TRUTH to a female anchor isn’t “mansplaining,” it’s the exact same treatment I gave to Don Lemon a few months back: I believe in equal opportunity for all media dishonesty. Watch @CNN’s hilariously artificial clipping of my Taiwan defense plan last night, when… pic.twitter.com/xRENhW194j

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 22, 2023