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Understanding 9/11tv Nikki Haley Delivers Remarks as Hudson Institute Chair CSPAN May 28, 2024 12:59pm-1:52pm EDT
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of the house on january 6. but rather, i shall remain as a back bencher in this congress that i so dearly love for approximate six months into the 106th congress whereupon i'll vacatey seat and ask my governor to call a special election to take my place. >> c-span, powered by cable. >> former south carolina governor and u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, announcedion despite previously running against him inhe 2024 republican presidential primary. her rem about foreign policy as the new chair of the hudson institute, conservative think tank based in washington, d.c. and was her first public appearance since officially suspending her presidential campaign in march. ■úxg
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>> my dad believed america was a great country because it was a land ofre and it was grounded in opportunities for ingenuity.work han it was great because it stood up for these values in a world where people may have misplaced their optimism and their sense of right and wrong. he knew how vital a strong america was. when my dad heard hermann con late 1960's, he was struck by herman's and values. hermann was the founder of hudson institute. my dad was impressed by his brilliance and his ability to integrate different strands of thinking to formulate strategies to make the world a better place. thus was born my dad a lifelong commitment to hudson institute. [applause]
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>> thank you. i know that right now, my dad would be so proud■8s next walten chair at hudson. don't the characteristics i just enumerated describe nikki haley and her career? nikki was a governor who united south carolinians and brought business to south carolina. a fierce advocate for the united and its ally israel in the united nations. an optimist who wants the best for our country, tenacious and brilliant on the campaign trail and someone is 40 and is willing to listen to others and believes in hudson's mission to promote american leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future. nikki will get up and give a talk in a minute.
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i think it's really fitting that mickey's first conversation at as the walter p stern chair is with senior fellow peter raab who heads up the■- in the early 1980's, my dad and brother fervently called on refusing news from the soviet union whose request to emigrate had been denied and whose lives were terrible as a result. dad discussed for the comet is regime and the kremlin was palpable. today, different regime rules in the kremlin but it's still nefarious and peter knows more about factions than just about anybody else. i look forward to hearing what nikki and peter had discuss. so now, please join me i welcoming nikki haley to the podium. [applause]
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[applae] [applause] >> thank you so much. >> thank you for those kind words and your friendship and your leadership here at hudson. thank you for the immense contributions you and your family have made to the cause of freedom. it's an honor and a true privilege to hold the walter p stern chair. ill work hard to make you proud. i also went to acknowledge several ambassadors i had the pleasure was serving with at the united nations it took time to come and be here today. on josé from mexico, audra from the way neah and bulgaria. kelly curry who was my ambassador at the united nations as well. it's great to see all of you again and it's a pleasure to serve with you.
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it's good to be back at hudson. i hope the past year made it even more clear how passionate i bread hudson is an amazingry partner in this work. i look forward to our work together defending the country we all love. we certainly have a lot of work to do. the last time i spoke here was four years ago i warned about capitalism and economic freedom on both the left and the right. i said threatened our prosperity as a people and security as a nation. it still does. today i have a similar warning. once ain view has risen on both sides of the once again it threatens our prosperity and can 4■u security. we need to take this one seriously. a growing number of democrats and republicans have forgotten
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what makes america safe. each party wants to abandon our allies, appease our ene focus on probably have at home. they believe if we leave the world alone the world will leavl make our country more secure. it will not. this world view has put america danger the threat is amounting by the day. i have always spoken and hard id truths. if we do not remember the path to peace, war will come to america it will claim countless lives. we have to prevent war. we have to keep americans safe. this danger has b for many years it became blatantly obvious two weeks ago
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today. that is when joe biden withheld critical weapons from israel. those weapons are important defeating hamas. they also matter for another reason. withholding them validates the totally false and destructive narrative that israel is acting unjustly by defending herself. and truth israel is conducting this war of self-defense more humanely than any other army and history. they are doing so against an enemy that uses its own civilians as human shields. i can hardly imagine a more foolish move than joe biden closest allies.s from one of it comes after more and more democrats have turned on is terrific dozens of liberals srael and congress voted for the military aid last
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month. now the leader of the democratic party is moving in their direction. biden thanks he is stopping a war. in fact he is likely. this is not hard. israel is a fighting america's enemies. not just hamas but has■i■k developed, and most of all ironic. when biden israel all of those enemies here is it attacking israel just got easier. they can kill as many jews as they want. after a few months of outrage america will tire and move on. biden is a bold and i run to check our allies in the middle east. that makes them question who they can trust what america says? if we withh h
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why the jordanians ever feel like they could trust us as friends? this only pushes them into the arms of russia and china. biden gave our enemies a green light for more bloodshed. if you will not stand with sin l for m months why should russia think we will stand with ukraine much longer? china has greater confidence that will abandon taiwan and other asian allies. our enemies are betting if they attack our allies we will make a lot of noise, then quiet down and walk we will go from standing strongi to issuing strongly worded press under the bus.row what we did there our enemies will expand at our expense
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this is the face of weakness and it is the logical extsiden surrn during his first year in office. in two weeks he threw away two decades of sacrifice from american heroes. that includes my husband michael is finally back is finally back from djibouti and somewhere in the audience. [applause] i wish it biden had heeded the warnings about afghanistan that i know he received instead he told our enemies we ignore our friends■g■sie■chreatened to
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attack our nato allies. and if a russia attacks american troops will go to war. we must do everything possible
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to ensure that does not happen. our goal should always be the prevention of war through strength and moral saving our soldiers demand we sing with ukraine against russia for going to stop a war in the pacific we have to win the war in europe. no one is watching ukraine more closely than china. known as watching israel more closely either. if we throw in the towel china will assume i can invade with. china is waiting to see if america is stupid enough to throw away in the middle east, europe and the asia-pacific all the same time. china is not just waiting. president xi is actively coordinate with iran and russia. china props up the economy s he can keep sowing chaos in the
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up the russian military to help destabilize l keep supporting our enemies because it undermines america. a fourth grade bully and gets it. even if a fourth term congressman doesn't. ■b[laughter] i am sympathetic to many of my fellow republicans concerns they say we need to end the crisis at our southern that's absolute truth there is an immediate need for biden has given illegal immigrants and drug runners the green light to flood our countries and kill our children. securing the border is the national necessity our safety and security demand it.n they say we have to fix the border before doing anything else. we should not pretend we can only solve one problem at a time. that is how we think we have a
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long list to get there. nietzsche and inflation give working families unaware while partner controlling to stop the crime switching college campuses destroying our cities to they want to ignore those issues t only until we deal with the border or is it just the support for ukraine they claim is getting and the way of dealing with our border? this is america. we can do these things at the same time in fact we have too. if we try to tackle them all one by one it will be decades before we finally get serious about our enemies. by that point they will be even defending ourselves will be more expensive, not less. when your enemies are preparing to storm the beach you don't
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bury your head in the sand. i dealt with plenty of hated america put their hand out and ask for money.i support cuttingd even more. but sending weapons ukraine and israel is not foreign aid. it is an investment in the world in which authoritarian dictators cannot run roughshod over country we should end the war i ukraine that does not mean appeasing pollutant it means sending ukraine enough missiles, tanks and fighter jets to sent putin packing. we do not need a forever or we need a faster work we need ukraine to win this war now. finally, china is the biggest threat facing america.
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biggest threat does not mean only threat. we must realize all of these threats are working together. they attacked pearl harbor american did not ignore its. we confronted the powers simultaneously. china, russia, ironic are the mode day access. china is the senior partner, it's fate is closely tied to the junior member7 our friends to be than china impose its will over asia itself will be in serious jeopardy. such a crisis is closer than we think. joe biden is rushing toward it and some republicans would move us towar m well. by abandoning our allies they are aiding our enemies. it is not just srt sighted, it
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is self-defeating. our enemies want to crush us they see a chance to destroy america. the question is, will we let them we can turn inward but the outside world will not leave us our future will be shaped by us and our friends or it will be enemies. failing to act ishe■f worst action of all delay will only lead decisions and a greater chance of catastrophe. the times we live and look like the 1930s. our economy is weak. our country is divided. our leaders fail adequately to stand up for our allies. even as our enemies target them and set their sights onx■ us. we know how that air ended it ended with a but at a terribly high price wet
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price again and there is still time to ensure we don't. the hour is late, we have to work.he hard truth ando but i have■w faith wo meet the challenge before us. if any country can still make it happen, it is ours. told me and my siblings we are blessed to live in america. on us every generation of america's proof we always rallied to defendlessing. thank you and god bless. [applause]lause] >> welcome to hudson barracks think it's great to be here pretty quick so you prepared for
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hudson staff to go around washington refer you to make nikki? >> i prefer nikki others were moments in time i am very much looking for to the partnership.( hudson is just -- about his winchester and myself of quality. and with courage and those who have year but 20 and 30 years out. nothing defines that more than hudson domestic policy, foreign policy, i want quality and the people i was with i wanted courage i am with people who are going to speak the harde need tn america more than ever for a quick sincere we do that this is your first time on stage after exiting the presidential campaign how it's returned to civilian life so to speak are you doing? >> it is really good. it was a weeks i was sleeping 1.
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the first thing i did was catch up on■b my sleep and i quickly t back to running,hi during the campaign for is able to go and spend time with my ant michael back home from deployment which was a blessing. spent time with the kids. i suspended truly with so much gratitude. towards the support of my when s 8000 miles away amazingly supportive. suppve friends who stood by me supp amazing campaign team led by jon lerner who is truly not just a dear friend but a fantastic consultant youn chair. mary kate johnson was a major fundraiser, i leslie it was with me now who managed our
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policy. we just had amazing people who ve them i'm grateful for that millions of people have voted and continue to support us. i have no regrets but we left it all on the table. at gratitude i was able to go through the process and fight as hard as i could. how blessed are we that we can live in a country we can do that.[applause] >> i can seeou mention their names so clearly you are a tightknit group or.earned it. let's turn to the speech.yr one client that stuck out i will quote it our future will either be shaped by us and our friends were shaped by our enemies. it would be a lot of analysts that would agree that sam tn asd states pull back from that world and expect our friends and allies to fill the void? put another way how is important is americas
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alliance? possibly put another way. why would we want to leave our allies?a can never be so arrogat to think we do not need friends. you have to be a friend to get a friend. i look back 911 we needed a lot of friends after 911. one, america should want fends what america speaks the world listens. the world craves that moral clarity the world craves that leadership. we are fight freedom whether we are fighting for democracy whether we are fighting for we owe it to all that is good about america to spread that far and wide if we are not loud our enemie w be. it's just as much a for our allies to want america
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to lead. they do not want to follow russia and china. i will continue to say what america is world is less safe i think we are saying that right now. [inaudible] venture to say a russian official or chisefficial made a speech like that. i think that speaksund the world one friend and partner■ has become an off the topic of the war in ukraine you give a full throated endorsement of the ukrainian because in your some of from the isolationist who might say good ambassador but in that full throated political support let lettuce on a slippery slope into a conflict we did not want to be that.
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>> it's ver different. within vietnam we had halfllion. we do not have the in ukraine have been amazing fighters they want to fight it themselves at that time there is a lot of internal conflicts. ukraine is very united and the fact they don't want russia to take them over their very united and defending their freedom and defending their country.■■ is st to do. while we want an enemy to can td nations ukraine was an amazing everything they showed up without even asked them to be there and now they are not asking for ourhis should have been over by now and why are we dangling out bits at a time? why not give the tls that they have the passion they have the
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spirit they have the but they don't have his friends stepping up to the plate and havehe say this is what rush is that not only that, like what putin said in one of his national speeches. he said it from his own words. at the time of the this is not a war on ukraine. this is a war on nato. putin sees us as morally corrupt. that is all you should have to hear it to know defendant ukraine is defending ourselves. [applause] >> ukraine debate has expressed itself to our supplemental security which i'm sure you track closely on your long runs of thinking about national security in the world. back in south carola.
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what was your reaction to arduous journey that ultimately played out successful. ígpassed both chambers of the congress, the president signed into law but give us some of your thoughts in reaction to the supplemental debate and that entire iue sets? >> i commend greatly speaker michael johnson for stepping up and pushing through. democrats had the ability to see this is about national security our national security. need to have we would not be having this argument or even this confusion if our leaders would step up and tell people why they should care. that is the amazing part of this republicans and democrats rather than telling their constituents why we should care about ukraine, while we should care about israel. by we should care about what could happen in taiwan. instead it can never be they are
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so arrogant to think they know better and the americans just need to go along with that. americans are very smart. it's important to note this is all connected. there is a reason■d the israelis want america and the west to support ukraine. they knew if russia one. there's a reason the taiwanese want the west to support ukraine. to israel. they now if i run gets their way it's only going to embolden china. we need to see bigger than conflicts we should never see them just in a silo. i appreciate the fact we got this t i think you can go and see what is happening in ukraine now there's a lot going on and that is because helping a friend that was the disappointment in all of
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it. quick speaking of diffs disappointments you have any reaction to the icc move against prime minister netanyahu? member your [laughter] >> my fellow diplomats will tel. [laughter] i spoke hard truth. i will say this. i would normally say i am n surprised. i saw every day the israel bashing over and over and again i also saw when israel goes to support her they all turned against her when she tries to defend herlf back. this icc ruling i am not going to lie literally is disgusting. you had 1400 people butchered on october 7. kids at a concert the
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girls were raped and mutilated. and dragged through the streets of gaza. whe at death to israel, death to america. you are going to put that in the same sentence with hamas and netanyahu? i don't know any other word but disgusting. they have gone so far out of whack it is why people do not trust it is why america does ne. they proved it themselves i do not understand having a conversation where you put israel and terrorists in the same sentence. and what world do w same? they were brutal, they were vicious and they bragged about it and celebrated it. israel did not start this. that is the thing, who started this? israel did not start this. had happened to us, at this had■w happened to any
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country, what country would not want to defend themselves? went to great lengths to make sure it doesn't happen again. truly i have always seen israel. it will go out of the way to make sure they are avoiding any innocent casualties. in war that is not easy. you cannot even put them in the same sentence as hamas it is disgusting, truly. i hope congress will follow through and sanction those members of the icc. that's the only what we can let them know it's got to stop. [applause] >> to show your solidarity■ó i believe you have travel plans potentially to share? >> yes we will be going to israel very soon.■ i want israelis to know americans support them. americans hear them.
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i think we should be talking about these hostages every single day. these families have suffered enough. they need to know that look, we are stronger together. i don't to come back and continue to tell evedy why rupert white we should care about what happened andow brought is getting emboldened by the fact we are suddenly startin to divide israel. i sit in the beginning shortly after october 7 i if we leave ukraine i promise you they're going tox want to leave israel next and look at what is we have to start realizing our trust in the world matters our voice in the world should be believed and trusted as well. i hope we israel help be a voice i think is true for many americans that want them to know they are supported but find out exactly is going on on the ground and the strategy at play. >> when i listen to your speech
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had it natural symmetry to it to be a bit with some comments on the part you talked a little bit about some the shortcomings of the republican party. i could not help but think of two names on i heard you deliver that speech, joe biden and donald trump. so on these issues is national security critical issues that you have described today, who do you think a be a better job in the white house joe biden or donald trump? ■z [inaudible] i put my priorities on a president who's0 going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account. border e excuses for it a president who would support capitalism and frdo president who
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understands we need less is notn that clear up many, many times. but biden has been a catastrophe. so i will be vinor trump. having said that, i stand by what is said in my suspension speech. trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and support not to assume they're just going to be withe he does that. [applause] wasn't calling you nikki would be short-lived after asking a political question back to ambassador haley for me. [laughter] you are at the united nations and spoke a great deal today but also when you were u ambassador
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about the scourge of anti-semitism that you felt at that institution. its lead a lot of our fellow americans in particular in the republican party on the right to essentially give up on the un. how should we think about the un? are they right? are they wrong? >> they are wrong. they are always wrong tha is incredibly frustrating. my ambas and i said to the secretary-general at the time when i left, if the united nations ever was to truly be legitimate they have to start talking about things that are hard to talk about. they refuse to do that.■o but, i look at the israel bashing and look at the fact they stood up and paused for a moment of silence for a brutal killer of innocent iranians. i lood continued to lean in on china and russia.
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they leaned away from freedom. i think the un is a farce. it's disappointing, it is frustrating it's why i worked hard to pull money back away the reason we stay is one reason and it is because america has the■ veto. you have five countries have the veto uk, france, america, china, and russia. if we walked away, that things would happen. as karen knows we stopped a lot of bad things from happening. that is the stayed but continues to show not just to why we are not getting a return on our investment. >> lisko semi back to politics it just occurred to me as you were speaking you might be the best equipped american given the number of events who did in the number of states on national security issues to give us a sense of where on those foreign
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policies. if y r policies and voters in town halls is anyy impressed you, surprise you, a ukraine policies theconventional wisdom in washington isred to what i will come itself going to come in him should be she travels much of the country? >> during the time we were campaigning, this is really when the debate of ukraine was your sink more and more isolationist. we do hundreds of town halls i purposefully would take a good 10 or 15 to go through even though that's not pretty or sexy or what everyone to talk about. it's a responsibility i had to let people know why they should care because no one else is doing it. so you had people who would come
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into a town hall the majority ae dealing with ukraine but we were dealing with the border that was completely open. what i told them was the story which is here you have this freedom loving that was invaded by the sin dictator. if you look at what a friend they have been to, andq. immediately everybody come all those men went to the front lines immediately to defend our country. the women did not stand back they immediately started making molotov cocktails, whatever they could do to support their men. what everybody gave them five days to survive they kept fighting because freedom mattered. their country mattered. and so you look at that russia thought they were going to win very easily but what happened? russia did not do as well as they thought.
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we saw they lost 87% of their fighting forces that started the war. they raise the draft age and russia to 65. we saw they're getting drones from iran, missiles from north korea. we sought russia falling. and what happens? october 7. there is no coincidence that here it went russia was starting to strengthen, that aave hamas e israel. now i believe october, putin's birthdate was a gift from my run to putin. i don't think that coincidence that day was very symbolic. we know. than that, look russian intelligence helped ira. we also note china was funding ironic has been funding i run.
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why this? all eyes were on ukraine. the second this happen october 7 what d america and the world do we took our eyes off of ukraine and we moved to israel. that allowed or russia to strengthen up to do the things they did. now you see what's happening in israel no one is watching this more than china because they paid attention to all the companies that boycottedussia.■u all that helped a rush of their paying attention now to who is with israel, who is not with israel. they are paying attention to america's getting tired. taiwan is hoping that we stand strong in ukraine in stand strong with israel. because if we do, they know that will deter china. all of this is connected i'll go out and tell americans
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look at this is surprisingly incidents happening at the same time. those are coordinated. ever coordinated and america needs to be smart enough■d that will happen when t grows a spine again. if we grow a spine all of this will start we continue down the path we are going you can expect taiwan to be next. >> is the key insights the rain is, russia, china are all working together. sounds like you described that as an outright alliance of anti- american actors on the eurasian landmass is that a fair interpretation? >> a look at what north korea is doing or helping a rush of her radiochina helping ironic. russia helping intelligence they are all working together but not because they love each other■y because they hate america.
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if they are that determined to destroy us why aren't we that determined to save us? that is the part we have to campaign trail americans appriaonce they heard how this l connected,what the entire pictus americans are smart. we have a responsibility to that. when you look at the vote that happened on the agent with ukraine and israel and with taiwan that shows americans are getting it. those congressional members did pushing them to do. americans want us to support ukraine. they want us to support israel. they want us to fight china but they want us to go make sure getting strong again. they're asking for t notwithstanding within college campuses i have a belief in the
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healthiness of the american common sense that makes sense. your often addressed as a bassett or haleyxi course of these remarks but that me sometimes your tenure gets are also governor haley. your talk about national security the governor not really thought about it comes to national security. what role do governors have so think national security today? >> i think a huge role. a governor is responsible for the safety and security of their state. when you look at foreignrsariess spreading this information. whether it is the fact they are buying up land. whether it starting to do things in ways that are intruding into our policy but those are very real. governors are needed now because guess what, governors need to be pushing the ban on tiktok. governors need to make sure we are not just dealing with cyber
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attacks on stealing of that. look at the fact they need to be raised the red flag on critical infrastructure. those affect governors if something happens those governors are going to have to stand up and do it. and so i am a huge fan of governors. they know how to lead, that how to protect and they know how to get things done. i hope the voices of our governors only get louder. i think governors, when it comes to the security and the health of their state that's not a partisan thing. when it comes to security that is something where they need to be pushing their members of congress, what are you doing to what are you doing to make sure tiktok does not spread■n misinformation? what are you doing to make sure have a voice in this? >> i'm our slate at some of 5:0. i would like to thank our
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friends from the media for being here today. for the rest of you live close a press reception with sarah, jon and investor haley will be hosting with four to sing it there. before we do that let's give ambassador harry elwell warm welcome to hudson institute. [applause] [applause] [background noises] [inaudible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. cable satellite corp. 2024]
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>> november for most members is a constitutional formality. their primary is wheretheir tims because that's what makes the difference of the district have gone from here to here. the way people receive their news has gone from factual vetted news out to here where everybody's got their own truth and they5÷ don't tune in for information, they tuning for affirmation. the money in politics is moved from the parties which was the centering force in american politics for 200 years out to the super pac and 501(c) four's enforcement mechanisms and there is just no cavalry for members who deviate from the party line. i think those factors together have made it very difficult for step across those lines and get outside of their comfort zone. >> the two words that don't show up in our founding documents anywhere, where democracy doesn't show up in the word
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compromise, never seen anyone office and be touted as a compromise or. the founders■m■6 had that in mi, creating an architecture of structure that rick wires compromise. h chambers in the legislative branch not because we wanted a spare, they created an architecture that made us think twice about things along the way. these are things that need to be changed with that notion of democracy is totally dependent on compromise. ability to compromise, you don't have a democracy. you can't have a winner take all system. >> a group of former lawmakers recently gathered to discuss congressional gridlock and offer their thoughts on the cause of a possible solution to finding common ground. you can tch the full event tonight sitting at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. ♪
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>> today an unprecedented armada landed on the shores of normandy. >> these are the boys who landed here. [applause] >> these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the ampi helped free a continent, these are the heroes who helped end ÷a war. >> 2 million suns from 15 countries jumped into flak filled skies and a bloodsoaked surf and met death on an even plane. >> the sons of democracy improvised and mounted their own attacks. at that exact moment, on these beaches, the forces of freedom turned the tide of the 20th century. >> the road to v-e day was hard and long and traveled by weary and valiant men and history will
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always record where that road began. it began here with the first footprints on the beaches of normandy. set off toward this tiny sliver of sand upon which hung more thanur the course of human history. >> today we remember those who fell and we honor all who fought right here in normandy. >> watch c-span's live all day special coverage of the 80th anniversary of d-day, thursday, june 6, featuring a speech by president biden from normandy, france
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