Thank you so much.
I have Vivek Ramaswamy here with me.
Thank you so much for being here.
It's good to see you.
Were you expecting
the incoming that you got tonight?
You know, it was an honor.
I took it as a badge of honor
as the 38 year old outsider in this race
who's never been in a political debate
to be at center stage
and see a lot of establishment
politicians that threatened by my rise.
I am thrilled.
And it actually gave me
an opportunity to introduce myself
to the people of this country.
We're just getting warmed up
and I'm really thrilled with how it went.
I want to play for our viewers
a moment that you had with Nikki Haley
about foreign policy. Got it.
You are choosing a murderer
of over a man in
the best way
possible.
First of all, first of all, Mr.
Romney sworn to you in 30 seconds.
Mr.
Johnson,
I wish you well in your future career
on the boards of Lockheed and Raytheon.
But the fact of the matter
that Raytheon
and Boeing came off of it big.
You've been pushing this line.
You've been pushing this line
all week to go and defund
it is all you want.
Okay. Let me address that.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Going give
you could address
each of those right now, gives us
the false warnings
of a professional politician.
There you have it. You're right.
So the reality is,
let's say
you have no foreign policy experience
and then and, you know, what
does the U.S. experience
You don't have foreign policy experience.
And it shows.
Well,
the reality is
the people who have
foreign policy experience,
it shows what a disaster it's
been from the Iraq war
on down to other pointless wars,
no win wars
that these administrations
from foreign policy establishments
in both parties having led us into.
I think the results speak for themselves.
They've been disastrous.
And so I do think that
I am the only person
bringing a clear strategic vision
to our foreign policy
rather than just going through
the talking points memorized in 1990.
So that might be
there have been mistakes
made in both
both administrations
on the on the world stage.
But let's just
say you're in the Oval Office
and you are
as the president
of the United States part of Naito. Yes.
And you see what's happening in Ukraine
and Russia
just for example,
and Russia moves on to a NATO ally.
We will always honor
our treaty commitments.
But under my watch
Russia will not move on NATO ally
because we will be so sure,
because I will do a deal
that ends
the Ukraine war on terms
that are backed up by U.S. interests.
The deal I would do
would be to freeze
the current lines of control
and make a commitment
that Naito will not admit
Ukraine tornado.
But we get more in return.
By requiring
Putin to exit his military
alliance with Xi Jinping.
China is the top threat we face.
That's what we actually need to remember.
And everybody
in that foreign policy establishment
you saw from Mike Pence
today, too,
I had to remind them
the USSR does not exist anymore.
But you would be president
of the United States,
not president of Ukraine.
And of course,
Ukraine is a client
state of the United States
because we're paying the bills
of their government employees.
President Zelensky wouldn't
necessarily agree
to what you would say about the lines
and about two things to say on that.
I think when the U.S.
stops funding Ukraine,
that settles exactly where that goes.
But I also think this would be
a better deal for Ukraine
because it comes out
with its sovereignty intact.
The spring offensive
that became the summer offensive,
that began the offensive that never was.
This is not on track to end
well for Ukraine either.
And so I think this is good for Ukraine.
It will be
a certain concessions to Putin,
but we win in return.
And that's what I'm focused on.
You are winning.
You are the only candidate who says
and you've said for some time
that you would pardon Donald Trump.
Yes.
The argument
that Mike Pence,
I believe it was Mike Pence made was,
why are you saying that
before he's even convicted
and before he even shows remorse?
Well, the reality is
we are in the middle
of a presidential election
and we have seen indictments.
I read each of those indictments
cover to cover
before issuing my statement
on each of them.
And the reality is
and you know this
in law enforcement,
in every case of a prosecutor,
the most damning version of the facts
and the law aren't in the indictment.
So if there's something far different
that's not in the indictments,
that's nearly always true
in anyone in the legal practice
who tell you
it's a fair assumption to make.
And I said at the time,
assuming that
these are the worst statement
of the facts
from the standpoint
of the prosecution, yes,
I would
pardon Donald Trump
on each of those facts
because I think
it's a politicized prosecution.
And this is also part
of what I mentioned to Christie on stage
is there's a difference
between making a bad judgment
and committing a crime.
And I think if we start
conflating the two,
that's a dangerous slippery slope
in this country.
I'll remind you,
and this is coming from me
now, polling at second in
many of the national polls,
it would be a lot easier for me
if Donald Trump were not in this race.
But that is not how I want to win
I want to win
by convincing the people of this country
that we can actually reunite our nation
and lead us forward.
And it will make my job
as the next president
that much more difficult
if Donald Trump is behind bars
or under indictment,
especially under novel legal theories
used for the first time
to break from Islam. Thank you so much.