00:00And today, I'm honored to officially welcome another true American patriot, a 17-year veteran
00:06of the Hawaii Army National Guard, a four-term Democrat congresswoman, very, very popular,
00:14the former vice chair of the National Democratic Party, and a 2020 Democrat candidate for the
00:21United States presidency. You know, she was a very good candidate. Every time she ran,
00:29she was good. She did well. She decided to leave. She couldn't take it anymore. But she's
00:35very special. And I didn't know this, but she was a lieutenant colonel. That's not bad.
00:40Lieutenant colonel. Not bad. I didn't know that. You know, I just found out. I said,
00:46put it down. You got to put that down. That's bigger. That's better than all the other stuff
00:51I read. But now she's a special person. She's got great common sense, great spirit. She loves our
00:57country, and she loves the people in this room. Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi, please.
01:20Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.
01:24Aloha. I know we got Hawaii in the house here. There we go. It is a privilege to be here with
01:33all of you, my brothers and sisters in uniform, especially on this day of all days. I had the
01:40privilege of joining President Trump this morning at Arlington Cemetery, where he joined two Gold
01:49Star families and loved ones of Staff Sergeant Hoover and Sergeant Gee, both of whom were two
01:57of the 13 killed in the Abbey Gate attack three years ago today in Kabul. And I can tell you,
02:07as we were there, as he laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
02:11joining these Marines' loved ones, I felt the sorrow that he shared with them in their loss.
02:21I felt and saw his sincere appreciation for these servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price
02:31and their loved ones who continue to grieve to this day.
02:35This is personal for me, as I know it is for so many of you here. This is real. It's not just
02:41words. I first deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the Hawaii Army National Guard as a member of Charlie
02:50Med. As those of you who were deployed during that time know, it was at the height of the war,
02:57and sadly, we took many casualties. And every day we were confronted with that high human cost of
03:04war and that sadness as we boarded the plane when we left that we were leaving some of our brothers
03:09and sisters in the United States. And I know that this is not the end of the story. I know that
03:16it was at the height of the war that we boarded the plane when we left that we were leaving some
03:20of our brothers and sisters behind, only to lose others when we got home to suicide.
03:30So I mean what I say when I share with you that I know that President Trump understands the grave
03:36responsibility that a president and commander-in-chief bears for every single one of our
03:42airmen, a marine, sailor, or a coastie. He keeps us in his heart in the decisions that he makes.
03:49We saw this through his first term in the presidency, when he not only didn't start
03:54any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars. He exercised the courage that we
04:02expect from our commander-in-chief in exhausting all measures of diplomacy, having the courage to
04:08meet with adversaries, dictators, allies, and partners alike in the pursuit of peace,
04:17seeing war as a last resort. The truth is, as we head towards our decision as a country in November,
04:25the same cannot be said about Kamala Harris. In fact, the opposite is true, and we're living
04:32through this reality today as this administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in
04:39regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.
04:47This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can
04:51to send President Trump back to the White House,
04:53where he can once again serve us as our commander-in-chief.
05:03Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink
05:11of war. We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace, and we can't live free as long as we have
05:19a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil
05:24liberties, weaponizing our very institutions, and using them as a weapon against us.
05:32Against those they deem as a threat. Kamala Harris has done this over the last three and a half years.
05:40She won't hesitate to continue that if she is elected as president. President Trump has been
05:45their first and foremost target in this because they don't want us as voters to even have the
05:50option to vote for him. I've been their most recent target, added to a secret domestic terror
05:58watch list after exposing the truth about what kind of dangers we would face if Kamala Harris
06:04is elected as president. We as Americans must stand together to reject this anti-freedom
06:13culture of political retaliation and abuse of power. We can't allow our country to be destroyed
06:20by politicians who will put their own power ahead of the interests of the American people,
06:25our freedom, and our future.
06:36I am proud to stand here before you today, whether you're a Democrat, a Republican,
06:43or an Independent. If you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do,
06:52I invite you to join me in doing all that we can to save our country and elect President Donald
06:58J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country
07:05and serving the people. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
07:21Well, thank you, Tulsi. I heard that might happen, but I wasn't sure. And it happened,
07:35because she's really an amazing person. So I look forward to working with
07:42Tulsi and everybody, everybody in this room, actually. And as Tulsi mentioned early this
07:47morning, Tulsi and I were at Arlington National Cemetery with the families of service members who
07:52lost their lives in the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not that we withdrew, but the
07:59way they did it. We were going to do it with dignity and strength. We were in the process
08:06of getting out. We would have never given up Bagram, one of the biggest airbases in the world,
08:10one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We gave it up. We gave it.
08:15We gave them everything. China took it over. China now occupies it. Can you imagine? The
08:21longest, most powerful runways, I think eight feet of concrete down. And we gave it all up,
08:30spent billions and billions of dollars years ago building it one hour away.
08:36And we're gone. And now China occupies it.
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