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We're delighted to swear in our next director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Most of you know Tulsi. She's extraordinary courage and exceptional patriotism. She's devoted her entire life to public service, and I've watched her for years on different shows and everything. I said, she's a woman of great common sense, and you know, we like the common sense. It's a word that's being used a lot. I think we started it in terms of politics, but it's a word that's used a lot. It's usually pretty effective too, and you really are. I've watched you even on Larry King. You know, you're very young. I don't know how you were Larry King, but you're very young, but you were, and you always had the situation covered properly. At 21 years old, Tulsi became the youngest woman ever elected to the Hawaii State Legislature. After 9-11, she joined the Hawaii Army National Guard and deployed abroad three times and highly respected by everybody. So many people writing in letters saying she was so exceptional even then. She continues to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, and Tulsi also served four terms in the United States House of Representatives, where she was a member of the House Armed Services Committee. She is a former vice chair of the National Democratic Party. Can you believe that? And here she is. That's very nice. We have a few of them, but she was never a Democrat. She was, at heart, she was a Republican. I watched her and was a 2020 Democrat candidate for president of the United States. It's not easy, right? It's not so easy. People think it's easy. It's not easy. Throughout her service, Tulsi has always distinguished herself as a leader of the highest caliber. She's earned the respect and admiration and love of Americans on both sides of the aisle as her profound commitment to the values that keep us free. And she really does have those values as much as anybody. In recent years, Tulsi has been a courageous and often lonely voice speaking out against radical left's attacks on free speech and the dangers of an unelected deep state. And I have to say, she was very, very strong for me when I was going through all of the fake news and all of the problems that we had with some very sick people. She was always out there before I really knew her as well. She was out there defending me. So I appreciated that, Tulsi. But the threat of a warmongering military industrial complex and the weaponization of government and governmental people that go out and persecute, they like to persecute people that are innocent. Tulsi herself became a target of that weaponization when she was outrageously placed on a suspected terrorist watch list by the Biden regime. It's a very evil regime after criticizing their appalling abuses of power. And I'm confident that as director of the National Intelligence, Tulsi will work tirelessly to keep America safe. And she's been doing that her entire career. I think it's going to be a very natural day for you when you walk in. It's just have to keep the way you are. Just stay the way you are. She'll be clear eyed and she'll be focused on the threat of radical Islamic terrorism and and lots of other threats to threats from within and give no quarter to America's foreign enemies. At the same time, I'm entrusting Tulsi with the responsibility of overseeing urgently needed reforms to the U.S. intelligence community to protect the rights and the civil liberties of all Americans. She'll provide the American people with transparency, eliminate corruption, shrink the bloated bureaucracy and restore honesty, integrity and trust to the national security state. There's only one thing I can say that there's nobody like her for this job. This was a very easy one for me. She was recommended by some of the top people in that world. It's a little world, you know, it's a little smart world. It sometimes can be an evil world when the wrong people are there. But we have the right one. She's said so many great recommendations. I would say Pam was right up there with it. Pam Bondi. She had a lot of a lot. I didn't need I know her a little bit better. And you're doing a fantastic job after about three or four days. You've had you've had a lot of experience, but you've never seen anything like this, Pam. But you're going to do fantastic as the attorney general. Fantastic. So thank you and congratulations. We did this with Pam a few days ago and this is again my honor. So congratulations to Tulsi. And I think Pam is going to administer the oath. And when she does that, I'll sign your new certificate. Good. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Please place your left hand on the Constitution and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear. I, Tulsi Gabbard, do solemnly swear. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely. I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation. Without any mental reservation. Or purpose of evasion. Or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully. That I will well and faithfully. Discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. Discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Hey, how's the Oval Office looking? A little different look, right? It's the Oval Office. Yeah, we'll get a good one. Okay, not bad. Ready? Come on over here. Okay, I'm sure there are no questions. You know what, I'd like to have Kelsey say a few words first and we could answer a couple of questions, okay? Mr. President, first and foremost, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the trust that you have placed in me to fulfill this critical position as Director of National Intelligence at any time, but specifically during this time. Unfortunately, the American people have very little trust in the intelligence community, largely because they've seen the weaponization and politicization of an entity that is supposed to be purely focused on ensuring our national security. So I look forward to being able to help fulfill that mandate that the American people delivered to you very clearly in this election to refocus our intelligence community by empowering the great patriots who have chosen to serve our country in this way and focus on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. As you've said, Mr. President, this is what I've dedicated my life to, and it is truly humbling to be in this position to serve in your administration, help to rebuild that trust, and ultimately to keep the American people safe. Last thing I'll mention that in your National Prayer Breakfast speech, you made a statement about your legacy of wanting to be remembered as a peacemaker. I know that I can speak for many of my fellow service members who are here today, veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, how deeply that resonates with us for those who volunteer to put their lives on the line when duty calls, but to have a President, Commander-in-Chief who recognizes the cost of that sacrifice and ensuring that war is the last resort, not the first. So thank you for your leadership on behalf of my friends here and all who wear the uniform. We're grateful. Thank you.