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Tulsi Gabbard: “Refocus the intelligence community back on its core mission…”

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Tulsi Gabbard Discusses Her Role as Director of National Intelligence and U.S. Security Challenges

Published May 1, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:19

Now I can finally breathe. Wow. So a simple gesture of coming and saying, this is who I am. I look forward to working with you to serve our country, to Refocus the intelligence community back on its core mission, to get rid of the distractions, the weaponization. and all of the other noise that has undermined the trust that the American people may have had long ago in the intelligence community. (07:19–07:26)

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“Looking at the gain of function research that in the case of the Wuhan Lab, as well as many others around many of these other bio labs…”
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“Almost 600 known or suspected terrorists applied for asylum under Joe Biden's administration.”
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“Over 750 individuals are identified as members of three major cartels.”
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“The American taxpayer has provided overall, when you look at all of the aid that's been given to Ukraine since the Russia Ukraine war…”
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“We shut that down at a savings of $150 million today.”
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“Signal has been recognized by the federal government during the Biden administration, by the way, in December of 2024 as the preferred…”
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“The Office of Director of National Intelligence was formed because of the disaster of the intelligence community that could have prevented…”
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“The intelligence failure of the Iraq war ultimately led to the creation of this organization [Office of Director of National Intelligence].”
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“This is the 20th anniversary of the founding of this organization [Office of Director of National Intelligence].”
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“I was on the Armed Services and the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
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“I left Congress on my last day, was January 3rd of 2021.”
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“Many of these senators were members of the Intelligence Committee, which really spoke to how much work there is to do still.”
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“The mandate that the American people delivered by electing Donald Trump and why I'm here.”
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“How deep the rot is, is within the intelligence community that has to be rooted out.”
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“Really pushing for the declassification of documents that the President has listed in several of his executive orders.”
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“Starting with the assassination, documents related to President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.”
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“The Origins of COVID 19 is one of them. So they are actively working on that.”
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“Gain of function research is happening in biolabs around the world.”
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“US has funded these biolabs in Ukraine.”
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“We have to end this gain of function research.”
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“Iraq is today, now essentially a proxy of Iran.”
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“This intelligence community, the work that gets done in places like this every single day has that power to be the fodder, the fuel, the…”
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“The New York Times article was a result of an unfortunate, unauthorized and illegal leak of a very private conversation between the…”
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“His goal with Iran, first of all, they cannot be in a position where they can develop or have a nuclear weapon.”
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“The military option is always on the table.”
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“Iran cannot be in a position to have a nuclear weapon or to develop a nuclear weapon.”
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“Any deal that is potentially made with Iran will have to come with a very, very rigorous set of verification.”
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“The leaks should not. The leaks have to end.”
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“There is an investigation that's underway to try to figure out the source of this leak or sources of this leak around that specific…”
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“When people cross that line who, who are in these positions of power and influence, they are actually undermining our democracy and our…”
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“We have another 11 cases that we are still conducting our own internal investigations around.”
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“Some will be sent to the Department of Justice for further investigation and prosecution for criminal charges because it is a crime, it's a…”
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“The FBI very clearly is the intelligence element that is responsible for domestic security.”
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“Judges are politicizing the bench and undermining their own credibility through activism.”
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“There are leakers within the intelligence community and Congress.”
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“Some members of Congress selectively leak intelligence to support their talking points.”
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“President Trump's mission is to make the country safe by targeting gangs and cartels.”
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“The ODNI exists to integrate information from agencies like the DEA and FBI.”
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“High confidence in the identification of gang or cartel members by the intelligence community.”
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“These cartels are already finding their emplacements here, having their own version of a headquarters in different cities and towns across…”
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“The Department of Defense is now working with Department of Homeland Security really to secure our border and will play an integral role in…”
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“Some of the other European countries made with the aid they provided with Ukraine, either they used frozen Russian money, so they weren't…”
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“This minerals deal is a way for the American people to get some form of not return, but some kind of a repayment based on the taxpayer…”
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“This is a win for the American people and it's a win for the Ukrainian people.”
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“This joint partnership is something that is mutually beneficial for the people of both of our countries.”
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“The community of Lahaina now, who is only now, by the way, just starting to rebuild homes in communities and places where they have lived…”
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“People who lost their homes are still paying property taxes and mortgages for the land and the home that they have that they are not able to…”
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“You have a level of poverty in West Virginia that I think many Americans would not see if [they were] going to a third world country on the…”
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“FEMA is a great example. You take all of this money, so much of this money, and it feeds into this bureaucracy.”
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“FEMA hasn't been here, and they're hoarding supplies here or there.”
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“We sent another 50 billion to Ukraine today. And the next, oh, we sent another hundred billion.”
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“There were assistant US Attorneys who were knowingly using manufactured testimony that they would interview a witness, for example, and know…”
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“These are crimes that need to be prosecuted, and these people need to be held accountable.”
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“There was a DEI office that was immediately shut down, and that alone was a savings of around $20 million.”
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“DEI was such a priority that it was baked into the incentive structure for people to advance professionally here.”
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“In the office of the Director of National Intelligence, we have people here who work from all across of these 18 intelligence elements being…”
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“There are national security implications to what the Biden administration was doing in centering almost their entire administration around…”
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“It's the National Security Agency.”
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“This is a chat group that was created and administered by the NSA, one of the premier intelligence collection entities that we have.”
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“This chat group had existed for over two years that this kind of stuff was happening in.”
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“Because of President Biden's DEI initiatives, they were essentially told, shut up, it's none of your business.”
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“I know for certain that it [Signal] was used during the Biden administration by officials, to include national security officials.”
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“There are sensitive conversations that occur in these signal chats, but ultimately it was not at all what those who are opposing the…”
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“There are some of the most vocal critics of that whole situation who also use signal and communicate things that they would not want…”
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“He didn't need to put himself in a position where there were two assassination attempts on his life.”
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“The kind of bold change that we're seeing happening now across the government, it's never happened like this under any other president.”
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