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Tonight we are pleased to host United States and boxer to the United Nations nikki haley in discussions about her new book with all due respect defending america with grace. Which offers a firsthand perspective on national and International Matters as well as behindthescenes account of her tenure and the trump administration. Ambassador haley will be joined by moderator in the United States senator jodi ernst who into thousand 14 was elected as the first woman to serve in federal Elective Office in the state of iowa. Please enjoy this evenings discussion and thank you for being here. [applause] when South Carolina nikki haley was born she became the first United States governor. Governor nikki haley said its a single largest Economic Investment in the state more than 200 year history. Of full manufacture right here in charleston county. This is a great day in South Carolina, 560 million invested, 1700 jobs in chester county. [applause] the best part of what is happened is watching all of these jobs not just going to cities but going to rural South Carolina. If you can give a percentage off you take care of a family and we launched a lot of families get taken care of over the past couple of years. Trump say has elected nikki y to be his abbasid or to the United Nations. She is considered a rising star in the Republican Party, she would be the first woman appointed to his cabinet. Our new ambassador is living proof of promise of america. For anyone who said you cannot get anything done at the un, they need to know there is a new sheriff in town. There is a new u. S. Un you will see the way we that we do business, those that dont take her back were taking names. They been a protector of human rights abusers and political violence. If for any reason north korea attacks the United States or our allies the u. S. Will respond. She is so consistent. You just know you are not going to move her. American said we want our embassy in the capital and that is jerusalem. We will put our embassy in jerusalem and thats what the American People want us to do and its a right thing to do. No vote will make any difference on that. What we witnessed here today at Security Council is an insult. It will not be forgotten. The un Ambassador Nikki Haley making it clear. I will not shut up rather i will respectfully speak the truth. She shows us what american policy looks like. Some people say there is a cultural. I think his passion im passionate about the United States. With nikki haley respecting the United States again. I did not know that i would be elected into legislator and i did not know i would be govern governor, i never thought id be the un ambassador. Even though im a private citizen now, i know i am too young to stop fighting. [cheering] welcome everyone, thank you so much. Thank you everyone for joining us tonight, we will have a wonderful discussion with the Ambassador Nikki Haley, can we say thank you to her one more time. [cheering] [applause] thank you so much. Thank you very much, thank you for being here as well, we will have a lovely discussion this evening with Ambassador Haley and we will start with 45 minutes of questions and those are questions i will ask you and then we will move on to about 15 minutes from questions from the audience. Would you like to start with remark. First of all its great to be at gw. I have to tell you thank you for hosting tonight and allowing us to be here. Youre a rockstar and were excited to watch everything that you do. I was hearing campus because her son is looking to come here next fall and we will see if that happens. There is a bit of an application conflict that we have to go through first but having said that, thank you for having us. Seriously, i know i am here but how cool is it to have the first female combat veteran in the senate here with us, joni ernst. [applause] you are so nice to do this and were going to have a phone conversation and hang out for a bit. That sounds great. When the folks from the ambassadors office have called in my staff reached out to me and said would you like to in the minute they said nikki i said yes, i did not even know what it was but i was excited. With that we are going to go ahead and get started. Im going to take us back a little bit in history because a lot of folks dont know about your background or how you grew up so we will start there because it sets the stage for the wonderful years yet to come and you really describe your american story and how you did not quite fit in as a girl growing up in the south and what was that experience like for you growing up as the daughter we know of indian immigrants and you are living in rura rural soh carolina. We lived in a small town in South Carolina we were the only indian family in that town, we were not wide enough to be whi e and not black enough to be black, my father wore a turban and he still does to this day, they did not know who we were or what we were or why we were there. And i remember being on the playground coming home after being teased and my mom would say your job is not to show people how youre different, your job is to show people how you are similar. It is amazing how the lesson i learned on the playground played out in the corporate world as a legislator as governor as ambassador because when you face to the challenge if you first talk about what you agree on first people let their guard down. And then you are more likely to get to a solution by pushing through the challenge. Little did i know that turned out to be a great lesson. What a great lesson and your mother is wise. She tells me that every day. Of course she does. She is a great mom. So some folks might not realize that before you are Ambassador Nikki Haley and before you were governor nikki haley you actually served in the legislator, is that correct. I did. What is interesting, my mom started a business from scratch and a few years into her business her accountant was going to leave and she needed to train someone and finally a few days before she left she said im getting concerned we dont have someone to train and i happen to be walking by and my mom grabbed my arm and said train her she can do it and she said but shes 13. [laughter] and she said train her, she will do it. So at 13 i was balancing the bank account in writing out the checks, making sure we were doing bank deposits, it was not until i got to college that i realized that was not normal. Now i totally realize that was child labor. But through the process i developed love for numbers and that numbers tell a story and every problem can be fixed by moving the numbers around. In and of graduating with a degree in accounting from clemson university. Go tigers. And i went on to the corporate world and i got tired of working for the guys down the hall and it came back into the Family Business and one day i was sitting there complaining at how hard it was to make a dollar and how easy it was for government to take it. And my mom said quit complaining, do something about it. I did not know you werent supposed to run against the thirtyyear in a primary. Ignorance is bliss. I was not that kidding college and politics i never knew to go to student government, that was not me. Once i got into and realized what i got myself into the only option was to win. I was in the passenger seat and the kids were in the back and we started knocking on doors. He was the longest serving legislator at that time in the state of North Carolina and i would knock on doors and not say anything disparaging about him. We appreciate what he has done all these years but we think i can do something different. I always talked about me i did not talk about him. I was fortunate enough to get elected. And fastforward a little bit. Im in the legislator a few years and in South Carolina whenever they were passing legislation it was done in all in favor, say i and all opposing a. One day there was a piece of legislation that went across the desk they gave legislators pay raises. All in favor say i, all opposed say silence. But to this day you cannot find one legislator the said they voted most cells a pay raise. In a really upset and went to the speaker of the house and said this is why people dont trust us. In the next day i filed a bill this it anything important enough to be on the house or the senate is important enough to have a vote on the record. The speaker called me in and he said put the bill away, we dont need to have it, we will decide what the public need to see and what they dont. I remember going home and talking to my husband insane, if i cannot get legislative votes on the record what am i doing here. And he said go fight. So i went across the state of South Carolina that all the bills passed in the house only 8 were on the record, did you know of all the house senate, only 1 is on the record. So if you did not know how your house member voted 92 of the time if you did not know how your senator voted 99 of the time, how did you know who to vote for when you got to the polls and the people of South Carolina were shocked. To put it all into perspective my first year in office i was chairman of the freshman class in my second year and third year a powerful business committee, my fourth year i was chair banking. The year i would not put the bill away they strip me of everything. I could go to the well and nobody would hear a bill, could get support and it could not get it. So iran for governor. [laughter] and he won and im proud to say that one of the first bills that we signed into law is now in South Carolina and any piece of legislation debated on the floor of the house or senate has to have a vote and we took a step further and they have to show their vote on the record of every section of the budget as well. Very inspiring. [applause] i love it, i love the transparency. This next question, this is a hard one and you have had an inspirational life, nikki, im going to go back to some very hard dark days that you had as governor of the beatable state of South Carolina and many of you will know what im referencing but out of this can come inspiration and true leadership so this next question, ambassador you talk about the tragic killing of nine innocent in the immanuel African Church attorney 15. During your time as governor which led to the decision to bring the Confederate Flag down from the ground of the state capital, kenya tulsa little bit about the time and how the incident affected the people in the state of South Carolina and as well and what did you do to bring the together to reunite everyone. And my heart goes out to the community in california has a shooting today, when Something Like that happens it is not just the people in the room that are affected. If the entire community that is affected. On the night we have 12 people who did what so many people in South Carolina do on every wednesday night, they went to bible study. But on this night someone else showed up. He did not look like them, he did not sound like them and he did not act like them. They did not call the cops, they did not throw him out, instead they pulled up a chair and they. With him for an hour. And when they bow their heads in the last prayer he began to shoot. These are people, she had lost her daughter two years prior to Breast Cancer and had a broken heart. But she would go around the church cleaning the church and she would say one day at a time sweet jesus, thats all i ask of you. Give me the strength to do every day what i have to do. Our youngest victim sanders Just Graduated College was so excited about his life but on that night he stood in front of the 87yearold great aunt susie and looked at the killer and said you dont have to do this, we mean no harm to you. Or people like cynthia hurd whose life motto was simply to be kinder than necessary. That is who these people were. They were not famous, a lot of people did not know them but they loved their family, their church and their community. And when that happened it brought South Carolina to her knees. It was the first time we had a shooting in a religious place and i remember all i wanted to do was to protect the state because the National Media came in strong and they wanted to define it, talk about it, immediately debate racism, they wanted to debate guncontrol, the death penalty, you name it they were talking about it. I remember strongarming the vaccine we are not going to do this, we will give the time to the families and go through the funerals and there will be a time and place where will have the discussions but it is not now. The next day the killer comes out with a manifesto and hes holding up the Confederate Flag. The Confederate Flag flew in front of the statehouse in South Carolina and used to be on top of the dome and they compromised in 2000 of the statehouse. When he did that we have a lot of people who have a Great Respect for the federal flag not out of hate but its service in hand sisters and sacrifice. And then you had obviously the small minority that solid for what it was. But hed hijacked what that was. Take it a step further and go another day or two days after that and it was the first time the killer was going to be in the courthouse and facing the judge. In the family showed up unprompted, unplanned and one by one stood in front of the killer and forgave him and that forgiveness was so overwhelming that we did not have protest we had visuals. We did not have violence we had hugs. And we went through a tough few weeks where we had to debate where the Confederate Flag needed to go. And the good people of South Carolina stepped up and the flag was moved to the museum and the people of South Carolina showed the entire world what it means to get through tragedy. [applause] out of despair there comes inspiration. And i just want to think the people of South Carolina, with the leadership ambassador for showing us how we get through those difficult times when theyre in love with one another and not hatred and nonviolence but love and forgiveness so thank you for that. We will move ahead a little bit and talk about the next step from being governor to the great state of South Carolina and i would like you to tell the audience about when you were offered the position to be the un ambassador and wasnt a difficult decision for you to make and i want to know what were the conversations like with President Donald Trump when he was asking you to take on the position. I actually knew the president a few years prior, after i won the primary for governor the first time, i received the envelope with the great gold trend and there was a note that said you are a winner. [laughter] so i talked to him then and we stayed in contact over the years and then we had a republican primary in 16 people on the stage and i put my backing on another candidate and it was around that time were he sent out a tweet say nikki haley is an embarrassment to South Carolina. [laughter] in which i responded in a tweet flush her heart. [laughter] but we really did have a respect for each other, i knew if he pushed me i was going to push back and fastforward he won the primary and i supported him and i get a call from his chief of staff and he says i need you to come to new york and i said for what and he says the president of elect wants to see you and i said about what. He said secretary of state and i said sec. Of state, im a governor i cannot be secretary of state. And he said he wants to see you we need you to come. So come the next morning and i go into his office and the first thing the president says is a guess your guy did not win. He just cannot help himself. I let them do a little bit and then we had a great conversation and i said im not your person, i said we have a lot going on in the world, w you dont need someone with a learning curve i want to be helpful and supportive and anything i could do to help all be happy to. Later that week he calls again and he says dont say anything i needed to listen. U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations i dont know what they do but i know everybody hates it. And he said the president s going to call you on monday and i need you to think about this. So we get home and he says i think could be really good at this and it was not a good time our son was 15 and it wouldve been a tough time and her daughter was a freshman in college and me and my husband take care of her parents are both in their 80s and my mom has parkinsons. It wouldve been a tough move to go to new york. The president called and said are you going to do this part and i said there would have to be conditions to consider pretty nice and what are they, i said a bit and governor and i dont want to work with one again i would want to work directly said need to be cabinet position and he said done. I said im a policy girl and id want to be in the room when decisions are made so i would need to be on the national Security Council and he said done. I said well im not going to be a wallflower or talking head i need to say what i think. And he said thats exactly why i want you to do this. He was true to his word from the first day to the last day. [applause] a lot of young people in the audience, a lot of people ask me how i need to ask for those things. What you have to remember is, there is one lesson i learned to live by, push through the fear. When a challenge comes in front of you, your reaction is to step back. But if you lean in and push through the fear, you find out you are so much stronger on the other side, if i would not push through the fear i would not become a legislator and if i were not a push through the fear wouldve become a governor and i would not have said i can be a un ambassador. But what you have to do is set yourself up for success. I knew what i needed in order to be successful. So dont be afraid to ask for the platform that you know will bring out the best in you. That is great advice and challenging yourself and some folks that are engaging in their first career or looking opportunities everybody hopefully has a copy of the book. Its full of stories of working with President Trump in the white house as a member of his cabinet and im sure there are plenty of stories and inside information that you can share, can you shed light on some of the conversation that you had that would be enlightening for the audience. A lot of people ask how i got out of the administration without a tweet. It was just the fact that i was honest with the president and it was important to give my cabinet when i was governor. I wanted him to serve the people and be creative and they wanted them to see that they saw me going in the wrong direction. And if he does something i push through and i rallied whatever needed to happen. If i saw him making what i thought was a wrong decision i would call or meet with him and say i think this is a mistake and instead i think you should consider x. And he would always say how do you see that plane out and we would discuss it and he was really good about hearing other opinions, it did not mean i won all the time but he was open and still listening. And he would make life a little interesting. This is one of many stories, it was the first highlevel week at the United Nations, there is one week out of the year were 193 countries send the highest people in the highest caliber of the delegation to new york for one week in the name of peace and security in every head of state comes and gives a speech meant for the world and this was the president s first highlevel week speech. So we had the meetings lined up and approved everything and he gave me a call and said i wanted to touch base with you, did you give the speech and i said yes its fantastic and it was, i said i really want to set the tone for you, the un is a different kind of place i said its serious, when you give your speech it is not like a rally. [laughter] i said they are not going to cheer for you but dont take it personally. I want you to think of it like church he said church, got it. But he said i had this one thi thing, an idea i want to run past you. I said okay, i was thinking about calling and what if i refer to kim as little rocket man in the speech. [laughter] and i said sir member the part i said about church. [laughter] i said its a really serious crowd and i dont know how they will take it but you are the president and if you want to do it, you can. And he said well i tweeted out and it killed with my base, i thought it was fantastic. [laughter] so you can fastforward a couple of days later he is going to give the speech and we sit down to north korean delegation in the front row and then he goes and he says it. And everybody sitting there and they have their translated pieces and and all of a sudden you see them go. [laughter] and then they started to laugh but a few hours later i meeting with the president of uganda and he sits back and he goes, so ambassador, what are we going to do about this little rocket man and before the week it was over everybody was referring him to rocket man. But that was many stories working with the president. [laughter] i bet there are hundreds more. Never a dull moment. So one topic that i am always very interested in his leadership and there is a chapter in the book if i dont get confused in the womens leadership. As a woman what does it mean to know the power of the voice which is something that you do reference quite a bit, can you explain that first. I voice that people should use the power of their voice. You really can move things when you use at the right place at the right time with the right tone. And i think its something you learn over time of when the right time is and you pick and choose your battles and i think as you get further along in life you get better at it. I do have a 24 hour rule that i always try and use idle always but i try to if something is hot and moving and you fill your Blood Pressure going up in its dramatic, if you can wait 24 hours, usually by the next morning you are more tempered, thinking more clearly in the right things come out. But the other thing you have to learn, use your voice to protect herself. The book with all due respect came from a time where i needed to insert ray voice and it came from the fact that we had a meeting, the national Security Council meeting and through the meeting everyone decided we were going to put sanctions on russ russia. I talked to the president the next day and we were Going Forward with the sanctions and i was never on the show unless the white house asked me too be and they asked me too be on face the nation that sunday so i go on and were discussing the issue with russia and i say, sanctions are coming down on russia and if Steven Mnuchin has sanctions coming down if he hasnt already brought them down. I get a call from stephen who is a great friend and he says we have a little bit of a problem. And i said will happen. And he said the president change his mind hes not going to do the sanctions. Thats fine. I dont fault him in any way for that. And thats fine. And i said just fix it, go tell them that and theyre going to come out with a statement and hopefully itll get addressed. In the next morning the statement comes out, does not fix it, the press is asking the question why did nikki say they were sanctions, i called multiple people in the administration, chief of staff, secretary of state, look we have a problem, there is nothing wrong with the president changing his mind, go out there and tell the truth. Go tell what happened, but everybody is calling our office saying you need to fix this and they say okay, okay, that was monday, Tuesday Morning happens, the level is rising and i said okay, this is the deal, you fix it by 5 00 oclock today or i will fix it by 5 00 oclock. And trust me it will go a lot better if you fix it. And nothing happens and then i think it was like for 45 or so and my friend goes out in front of the press and they asked the question about the sanctions and they said i think nikki got momentarily confused. So that was it. And i called my friend and said can you call me real quick. She said hey whats up and i said i need to put up a statement and i said will you just say, one sentence, with all due respect, i do not get confused. [applause] she said, thats it. I said thats it, ill text it to you so you have it in writing. So she goes and she doesnt, within ten minutes later he calls me, nikki im so sorry, you know i love you, i had my tail between my legs, im so sorry and i said larry at what point do you say i am confused. And he said i know, i should not have done it, trust me ill make it up to you and i said no, you will make it up to me and you will do it and going and telling them you were wrong and i was not and he said i cannot do that and i said yes you can and you will. And he did and at the end he immediately went out and contacted a reporter but what was surprising to me, how it went like a simple moment of me defending myself and how it went viral across the country on tshirts and mugs and everything in it goes to show so many people have been in a moment and i hope the lesson you take from that no one is going to protect your integrity but you. And people are going to say the going to do it and save a do it but at the end of the day is all you have and you have to know how to protect herself. That was another lesson learned. A very powerful voice and we are glad that you have been able to defend yourself. And i love that, its a true strength, you can always have a smile. You know how to be hateful to get your point across. Absolutely. So you think the power of your voice in certain circumstances to pull people together after tragedy and youve used the power of your voice to defend herself, but there are other times too, i remember this clearly when you use the power of your voice to have the backs of our allies when you are serving as ambassador to the United Nations and i remember, how many of you remember taking names. [applause] taking names of those who dont have our allies. If you would just explain to us, what does taking names mean to you . I do not think it was going to ripple and ruffle as many feathers as it did. Thats when i realized there was not that much of a diplomat. But i purposely when i went to the United Nations i obviously did a crash course in Foreign Policy and studied who our friends were, who are foes were water conflict were, what we needed to work on but i purposely did not study the dos and donts of the un. I wanted to go in there with fresh eyes, i wanted to know that i had goals that i wanted to achieve and i did not want the bureaucracy about to get in the way. So when i went and gave when i talk to the press the first time i said its a new day in the United States mission of the United Nations, it was important to me that countries did not have to like us but i wanted them to know what we were for. So i wanted it to be very clear what the u. S. Was for and what it was against and not give great areas in the process. And i told him, i said we are going to have the backs of our allies and be taking names of those that are not with us. And what i saw at the United Nations, you have 193 countries, most who resent us on any given day and every day felt like you had to put on body armor and you knew you were going to have a fight but you did not know what country is going to be. And they would jab and then have your handout for foreign aid. Yet pakistan and we were given a billion dollars a minut aid fore military and they were harboring terrorist that were trying to kill her shoulders. They werent being a good partner and did not have our backs and we no longer give that to pakistan anymore contact it does not mean they cannot be our friend again in the future but it means we have to change the way that we do the relationship. I think that was really important and having the backs of her friends, i went in there and it was almost like reliving the feeling when i was a 5yearold on the playground and seeing the way israel with the United Nations was unconscionable thing id ever seen. Here you have a country that is a bright spot in a really tough neighborhood and they share our democratic values, all of our values we share and use all israel constantly kicked and kicked and kicked because it was had been. And they would have one session on the middle east every single month and we have plenty of issues in the middle east but all they would talk about was israel and i referred to it as israel bashing session. It was taking names of our friends and our foes and making sure everybody knew we were holding each one of them to account. Taking names. Caught back. One to be cognitive over ti time, i wonder general question that we can use thats allencompassing. Following the same thin theme, g names and using the power of your voice, i think this one is important and you really were an outspoken champion for human rights while you were at the un including in areas such as venezuela, syria and the democratic republic of congo and much of your advocacy came from the time you spent visiting those affected areas by war and conflict. So we thank you for doing that, can you tell us a little bit about the experiences and how they shape your work at the United Nations. I think everybody deserves human dignity. The unfortunate part about the job at the un, you go to places that most americans dont go and dont want to go and you see some things that you cannot unseat. And i would always make a point to ask when we would go to an area to sit in a room with a group of women, no offense to the fullest in the audience. But the women had a way and they could tell you what the problem was, how they got to that point and how to fix it. They were very clear. In many cases i would go see refugees and in many cases they started their own businesses and focused on their kids, just really always had what was needed. For example when i went to jordan and turkey and we were talking about Syrian Refugees and the women that were able to tell me how their children needed psychological help because they had seen so many things. What they were dealing with in terms of finding jobs, when we went to the sudan refugee camp, there was one woman that i talked to and she started to tell me the story about how she had six kids and she couldnt look them in the eye and she couldnt look them in the eye a breakfast. And she started to cry and i said why can you not look at your children. And she said because they saw me get raped in front of them. And so you hear the stories and there was 100 women in the room and these women would start to tell their story and one was start crying and then the whole room started crying so they had all been traumatized, and i started on a chair on the for hugging them and helping them and you really do realize the ability to worship and be safe in all of those things and theres a lot of places that do not do that and my parents reminded my brothers and my sister and me every day how blessed we were to live in america. And you go to those places and you come back and realize that we truly are very blessed. [applause] thank you very much. We are going to move into audience questions and this is a current event, one we experienced in recent weeks how do you feel about the removal of armed forces out of syria and what next actions would you personally recommend to the United States government to do next. This is a tough one. I think that i disagree strongly with us pulling our forces out of syria. The reason is the kurds had been there and fought alongside us for tourism for years. They lost a lot of blood, 11000 have lost their lives. It goes back to the taking names. You have the backs of your allies, you take names of enemies, the kurds had been allies with us, they fought alongside of us and i understand the president s point of wanting to get out of endless wars, none of us want to be at war. But the asset of having troops on the ground especially for intelligence purposes is so important, when you sell the terrorist albaghdadi get killed its because the troops were on the ground and they had the ability to communicate and know where he was. I think thats what we have to remember, we have military forces in japan, south korea and all over the world not because were in a war before prevention and to make sure we do not get into another war and for intel and to make sure we know what is happening on the ground. Im glad that the president has decided to leave forces there whether to watch the oilfield and keep intelligence on the ground but in hotspots like that i believe we have to have a footprint, it does not need to be large and you look at afghanistan, we had well over 100,000 troops now were down to 14000 and hope we get lower than that. But having those people on the ground, my husband is a combat veteran and served in afghanistan and having those people on the ground that can report and tell you what is going on and you know that better than anybody is so important. I hope we continue to keep it on the ground and i hope we can continue to let the kurds know that we appreciate their partnership over the years. [applause] i was going to make a funny quote. We do need those forces on the ground and we could use a few more of the dogs two. How about that. Give it up for the dog conan. Her second audience question, Ambassador Haley what led you to conservativism . Thats interesting question. When i was running for office the first time i did not know if i was republican or democrat. I remember my friend saying, i told her i wanted to run for office, actually when my mom said do something about it i decided i wanted to run and i talk to different people and everybody gave me a reason on why it should not do it. I was too young i had small children, i should start at the school board level and not the statehouse level, always the reason they said not to do it. Interestingly enough i went to a womens Leadership Event at the university and Hillary Clinton was there. And she happened to sta say forl the reasons people tell you not to do it, thats exactly the reason you should. [applause] so Hillary Clinton is the reason i may not agree with her on a lot of things but shes the reason that i made the jump. So then i had to figure out if i was republican or democrat. So my friend said are you republican or democrat and i said i dont know. She said, do you think government should tell you how to live your life or do you think you should decide. I said will know, i want to decide how to live my life. And she said well, do you think that government should control how you spend your money or should you control how you spend your money . And i said if i work hard, i want to spend my money. And she said, do you think government can fix more things than not and i said no, government messes up more than affixes. And she said honey, your republican. [laughter] the next audience question that we have as a first generation american i have the immigrant parents of a southerner, a female in a conservative, how would you respond to those who dont feel the Republican Party is welcoming to minorities and women. I think the Republican Party can do better. No matter what situation were in. We have strong republican women and we need to continue to encourage women, i want women involved republican or democrat, were 51 of the voting population and we need to have as many women out there using the power of the voice as we can. [applause] do i want them to be republican, of course i do. But having said that, it is really tough right now because what i have found is the left is really hard on republican women, they really give us a hard time if we dont think like they do and you can turn on the tv and see how toxic it is and see all the reasons it would be tough for women to do that. I constantly and being hit from the left for being a woman or being indian and i saw Elise Stefanik was being hit by the left as well and we get badger. And the only way to fix that is to get more of us out there and use the power of the voice to do it. I saw ben shapiro the other day give a speech and he was criticizing antisemitism and hate against all right groups and the left came out against him. I think republicans get a bad rap and i think we can certainly do better, the one thing ive always said being indian american, republicans should not wait for minorities to come to them, we should go to those groups, i always said you should go to places that are uncomfortable to go, one because you learn something and to because your open doors of communication that you never had. I see that with the indian community, the jewish community, so many i do think the Republican Party needs to do a better job of going out there and i think the Republican Party needs to do a better job of voicing when the left hits us to let them know they cannot have the double standard of saying go women on their side and bashing the women on our site. Caught mar[applause] we are living in interesting times. We have a few minutes before 8 00 p. M. And i am going to ask the last question and i do think that this is very appropriate for the day in the age that we live in right now. The final audience question that we have for Ambassador Haley tonight, bipartisanship seems dead in american politics. What can american politicians do to bridge the divide and bring more stability back to america politics. Its a very toxic time right now. Its uncomfortable. You know it is bad because if someone puts down a good piece of policy everybody wants to know whose it is before they decide to support it. Thats when we know weve hit a low. The part that i think bothers me, we have watched both parties now refer to each other as evil. That hits a soft point with me because ive seen evil. I have been to the democratic republic of congo where they use rape as a weapon of war. Ive been to south sudan where i met with women who have said military cayman, took their babies from them and through them into a fire. And then force them to eat the babies . I have been on the bridge watching thousands of venezuelans walk hours in the heat holding their babies to get to the one meal they might get that day, the average venezuelan adult has lost 24 pounds. Ive had to look at pictures of children who have died from chemical weapons by asad in syria. That is evil. What we have in our country are real issues that deserve real debate. But we need to be responsible and realize that through all of that to be still, on our worst day we are blessed to live in america and we need to be grateful for it. Before we end, i want to take a point of personal privilege, you cannot write a book like this and pour your heart and soul out without having a fantastic partner to write it with. I had an amazing collaborator and she is here tonight. Just come we you stand up please and let everybody see your face. Thank you. Fantastic. This is been a very, very enjoyable evening, Ambassador Haley thank you so much and before we release the audience we have one last thing that we would like to do in addition to our banks and thank you so much for the wonderful hospitality you have shown, thank you again for your wonderful leadership as well its a pleasure to get to know you and what we would like to finish, would you like to explain what were going to do . We are going to memorialize the moment with us healthy. [laughter] everybody hold up your book, we do have a photographer that is coming. Thank you look spectacular. [no audio] [applause] [applause]. [inaudible conversations] i didnt even have to say anything. You are a welltrained bunch. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon welcome to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and education center. My name is lily and and is director of Public Programs i have the privilege on a regular basis. We thank you so much for being here with us today. 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