Charter Communications Support cspan as a Public Service along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Former self kinda governor u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley announced she will vote for donald trump in the general election despite previously running against him and the 2024 republican president ial primary her remarks came as she talks about Foreign Policy as the new chair of the Hudson Institute a conservative think tank based in washington d. C. First public appearance since officially suspending her president ial campaign in march. Good afternoon. I am sarah i am very proud to be here today as chair of Hudson Institute to introduce hudsons new walter p stern chair nikki haley. [applause] my dad believed america was a great country. Great because it was the land of freedom. Great because it was grounded and opportunities for those who worked hard and had ingenuity. Great because it stood up front and center for these values in a world for people may have misplaced their optimism and their sense of right and wrong. He knew how vital a Strong America was. When my dad cant speak in the late 60s he was struck by his commitment to these values. As the founder is impressed by his ability to integrate different strands of thinking to formulate strategies to make the world a better place. Thus was born in mind that a lifelong commitment to Hudson Institute. [applause] thank you. So, i know that right now my dad would be so proud that nikki haley is the next walter p stern chair at hudson. Dont think characteristics are just enumerated describe nikki haley and her career . Nikki was a governor who united south carolinians and brought businesses to south carolina. A fierce advocate for the United States and its alec, israel, in the United Nations. An optimist he wants the best for our country, tenacious and brilliant on the campaign trail and someone whos willing to listen to others and believes that hudsons mission to promote American Leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future. Nikki is going to get up and give a talk in a minute. I think it is a really fitting nikkis first conversation at hudson as a walter p stern chair is a senior fellow peter weil. Heads up the center on europe and eurasia. The early 80s my dad and brother called on jews in the soviet union whose request to immigrate had been denied. Whose lives were really terrible as a result. Dads discussed for the communist regime and kremlin were palatable. Today a different regime rules in the kremlin it is still nefarious and peter knows more about its actions within just about anybody else. I look forward to hearing what nikki and peter have to discuss. So now please join me and welcoming nikki haley to the podium. [applause] [applause] thank you so much. Thank you, sarah, for those kind words for it for your friendship and for your leadership here at hudson. Thank you for the immense contributions that you and your family have made to the cause of freedom. It is an honor and a true privilege to hold the walter p stern chair and i will 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 jose from mexico, audra from the way neah and bulgaria. Kelly curry who was my ambassador at the United Nations as well. Its great to see all of you again and its a pleasure to serve with you. Its good to be back at hudson. I hope the past year made it even more clear how passionate i am for the future of our country bread hudson is an amazing 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 the rising hostility of 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 again a dangerous world view has risen on both sides of the aisle. Once again it threatens our prosperity and can security. We need to take this one seriously. A growing number of democrats and republicans have forgotten what makes america safe. Allowed part of each party wants to abandon our allies, appease our enemies focus on probably have at home. They believe if we leave the world alone the world will leave us alone they say ignoring will make our country more secure. It will not. This world view has put america in grave 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 been building for many years it became blatantly obvious two weeks ago today. That is when joe biden withheld critical weapons from israel. Those weapons are important for 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 selfdefense 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 withhold weapons from one of our closest allies. It comes after more and more democrats have turned on is terrific dozens of liberals deserted israel and congress voted for the military aid last 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 americas enemies. Not just hamas but has developed, and most of all ironic. When biden says he wont give weapons to 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 withhold help from israel 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 more than a few 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 away. We will go from standing strong to issuing strongly worded press releases throwing our friends under the bus. What we did there our enemies will expand at our expense. This is the face of weakness and it is the logical extension of biden surrender in afghanistan 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 compromise our own National Security just to meet a political deadline. Guess what, they took a biden at his word. Since the fall of afghanistan and north korea has gotten more aggressive towards south korea and japan. China is preparing to invade taiwan. And of course its already started wars of their own. Without the afghanistan debacle ironic would have thought twice before letting hamas attacked israel. For that matter russia likely would not have invaded ukraine. The israel betrayal is the book and of the afghanistan surrender. In both cases the consequences of bidens lack of resolve will be felt worldwide. Its true the president supported assistance to israel and ukraine. But we cannot forget his failed policies and that necessary in the first place. Look it would biden has done in ukraine. He did nothing, nothing to deter the invasion. When the tanks rolled in he assumed ukraine would fall within days. Biden refuses to help them win. He gives them just enough to survive while russian missiles and tanks growing their country and to dust it seems like the president wants a negotiated ceasefire in which ukraine cedes some of its territory that russia stole. That will only leave a russia as the winner and wanting more. It will inevitably attack ukraine again ukraine will go to afghanistan conquered by americas enemy. The same goes for israel hamas is better positioned to attack israel because biden spent three plus years of appeasing iran he eased sanctions, forked over billions of dollars and beg the ayatollahs for back of the nuclear deal. Biden is given i run nothing but cash and time. Cash and time it used to strengthen its terrorist approximate cash and time is to get to the brink of a nuclear bomb. Joe bidens legacy is already clear he will go down in history as the commanderinchief who refused to stop our enemies he will be remembered for spending more on National Debt interest in national defense. He weakened america will letting china, russia, ironic grow stronger. He still has time to do even more damage. All is not well with my fellow republicans either. Just a few weeks before biden through israel to the wolves many republicans in congress try to push ukraine off of a cliff. All told House Republicans voted against military aid to ukraine. Thankfully speaker Michael Johnson showed moral courage in a clear understanding of the steaks. He overcame both republicans and democrats to support ukraine and israel. Thank god to countries who are americas friends and they are fighting americas enemy. If they win, we win. If they lose, we lose. Most republicans understand that when it comes to israel. Thirtytwo americans were murdered on october 7. Hamas is Still Holding american hostages no one is talking about that daily i will never understand the radicals on College Campuses hate america as much as they hate israel. That is why we must stand with israel without apology. I hope republicans keep standing strong to defeat the terrorists. We must hold the terrorist regime and ironic accountable. After all iran is not just saying that to israel they are also saying death to america they believe they are making a promise of. That included the late president of iran. That Helicopter Crash could not have happened to a worse person. Ember he was responsible for the death of thousands of innocents. The people of iran are better off without him. Some republicans lack the same clarity when it comes to ukraine. Russias dictator has made it perfectly clear he will not stop he wants to recreate the soviet union and he has threatened to attack our nato allies. We are obligated to defend them and if a russia attacks american troops will go to war. We must do Everything Possible to ensure that does not happen. Our goal should always be the prevention of war through strength and moral clarity. 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 taiwan with. China is waiting to see if america is stupid enough to throw away in the middle east, europe and the asiapacific all the same time. China is not just waiting. President xi is actively coordinate with iran and russia. China props up the economy so he can keep sowing chaos in the middle east. China props up the Russian Military to help destabilize europe. Xi jinping will keep supporting our enemies because it undermines america. A fourth grade bully and gets it. Even if a fourth term congressman doesnt. [laughter] i am sympathetic to many of my fellow republicans concerns they say we need to end the crisis at our southern border. Thats absolute truth there is an immediate need for action. 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. But republicans are wrong when 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 long list to get there. Nietzsche and inflation give working families relief. Unaware while partner controlling to stop the crime switching College Campuses destroying our cities to they want to ignore those issues to . 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 Stronger but we will be weaker. Defending ourselves will be more expensive, not less. When your enemies are preparing to storm the beach you dont bury your head in the sand. I dealt with plenty of hated america put their hand out and ask for money. I support cutting foreign aid 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 in 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. 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 modern day access. China is the senior partner, its fate is closely tied to the Junior Member we dont help our friends to be than china impose its will over asia and america 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 towards more as well. By abandoning our allies they are aiding our enemies. It is not just short sighted, it is selfdefeating. 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 alone. Our future will be shaped by us and our friends or it will be shaped by our enemies. Failing to act is the worst action of all delay will only lead to more difficult 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 on us. We know how that air ended it ended with a victory. But at a terribly high price we must never have to pay that price again and there is still time to ensure we dont. The hour is late, we have to face the hard truth and do harder work. But i have faith we will rise to meet the challenge before us. If any country can still make it happen, it is ours. As my immigrant parents told me and my siblings we are blessed to live in america. On us every generation of americas proof we always rallied to defend that blessing. Thank you and god bless. [applause] [applause] welcome to hudson barracks think its great to be here pretty quick so you prepared for 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 vision for not just this 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 hard truth. I think we need that now in america more than ever for a quick sincere ready for the policy discussion before we do that this is your first time on stage after exiting the president ial campaign how its returned to civilian life so to speak are you doing . It is really good. It was a weeks i was sleeping 1. The first thing i did was catch up on my sleep and i quickly got back to running, which i missed during the campaign for is able to go and spend time with my parents who live with us and get michael back home from deployment which was a blessing. Spent time with the kids. I suspended truly with gratitude. So much gratitude. Towards the support of my familys when mike was 8000 miles away amazingly supportive. Supportive of my friends who stood by the supportive of an Amazing Campaign team led by jon lerner who is truly not just a dear friend but a fantastic consultant you do not get better than that in a campaign chair. Mary kate johnson was a major fundraiser, i will leslie it was with me now who managed our policy. We just had amazing people who love america i am grateful for them im 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 see them one by one smiling as you mention their names so clearly you are a tightknit group or. They have earned it, they earned it. Lets turn to the speech. 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 same than they might ask can the United States pull back from th