At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, DNI Tulsi Gabbard spoke about her work during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
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00:00President, congratulations on this truly historic first hundred days of your administration,
00:06really only made possible by your focused leadership on delivering the mandate the American
00:11people gave you. You've empowered all of us to deliver that mandate, and I'm grateful to
00:18have the privilege of leading the intelligence community towards ending the weaponization
00:22and politicization of the intelligence community that's gone on for far too long, and building
00:27out what is truly a lean and agile and effective intelligence community that is helping you
00:33deliver that promise to the American people of safety, security, and freedom. So, Mr. President,
00:38I'd like to highlight just three of the areas where we are helping to support your leadership
00:43and your work in making America safe again and bringing about these changes. First of all,
00:49because of your designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, I took immediate action
00:54with our National Counterterrorism Center to prioritize their focus on those terrorists
01:00and gang members who are trying to enter our country through legal or illegal means and to
01:05seek out those who already are here in our country because of the Biden administration's four years
01:11of open borders. We've been working very closely with your great attorney general's team at the DEA
01:19to get these known cartels into our systems to be able to stop them at the border and turning
01:25over names to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to be able to find those who are already
01:30here in our country. Just the other day, we found 700 alien terrorists who have ties to MS-13,
01:37Trende Aragua, and the Sinaloa Cartel. Just yesterday, our NCTC identified almost 600 individuals with ties to other terrorists who came through our borders illegally,
01:48claimed asylum, and under the Biden administration were paroled here within our borders.
01:55Secondly, Mr. President, like too many organizations in the federal government, the ODNI has become very bloated with too much waste and abuse going on within the organization.
02:08We've done a few immediate steps. We are doing more. The ODNI is 25% smaller and more lean today than it was when I walked in the door and when you took office.
02:19Secondly, we have just this morning actually shut down a human capital office. As soon as you issued the executive order to stop all DEI activities, we did that, shut down the DEI office.
02:32We discovered this human capital office that was essentially a slush fund for DEI initiatives, hidden under the guise of human capital that closed down this morning, saving taxpayers $150 million.
02:45We'll soon be announcing an additional $2.6 billion in savings with other programs and contracts that do nothing to ensure our national security interests.
02:55And lastly, we're working every day to hold the deep state accountable to end the politicization and weaponization of the intelligence community.
03:05This past week, I sent three criminal referrals for illegal and unauthorized leaks to the media of classified intelligence for prosecution.
03:13We have 11 more that are under investigation. We've revoked at your direction 67 security clearances and we continue the work of declassifying documents as we have already around JFK assassination.
03:29We have more coming for the assassination of Bobby's father, Senator Kennedy and MLK assassination.
03:36And we continue our extensive investigations around exposing the very serious issues we have related to election integrity, illegal abuses of FISA, crossfire hurricane and others.
03:49Mr. President, under your leadership, we are working every day to bring about that transparency and accountability that the American people deserve.
03:55So thank you for the opportunity.
03:57The President, great job. Thank you very much.