But you can't abolish the intelligence agencies. And that is what the pledge says. I have the greatest respect for the small government beliefs of my libertarian friends over here, but We cannot abolish the intelligence agencies, especially when we have a wide open southern border over which we have dozens, if not hundreds of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers that are coming into this country. particularly at a time where we have a president who has projected weakness all across the globe. And so you have leading sponsors of terrorism like Iran, who are creating problems internationally. (41:59–42:13)
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Asserts that abolishing intelligence agencies is not feasible due to security threats at the southern border.
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