JUST IN: Pompeo slams Biden Administration in CPAC 2021 speech

[Applause] [Music] wow thank you for that warm greeting it's always a blessing and a little bit unnerving to have your son at the podium look i i look out here and and i see you all uh i feel really at home and thank you for that last year last year i came here as america's seventies secretary of state president trump's secretary of state and before that and before that i was here as a member of congress from south central kansas yeah go kansas but this is different this time is different in the last few months we've been called clowns and deplorables and ignorant rednecks uh we've been called the evil resistance the new york times think i'm the worst secretary of state of all time [Applause] yeah since i last saw you the chinese have sanctioned me the iranians don't think so much of me either but but i'm proud of our fight and i'm proud of our accomplishments and that we have truly upended the status quo we've we've demonstrated enormous resistance resistance to socialism to the will cancel culture i'll talk some about that [Music] we've resisted seeing our liberty and our freedoms slipping away this is a noble worthy fight and we're in it we we fought hard we fought for it hard on nearly every front and we will always fight for it i remember when they were calling us disrupters and that said they were against the establishment we said of course now i want to tell the story i think i come by this disruption and shooting straight very naturally and in the pompeo family i've been compared to my grandpa's name was earl earl mercer now grandpa earl always said what was on his mind he was pretty rough cut from kansas he worked hard he never won a mr congeniality contest even in mitchell county but when the going was tough you wanted grandpa earl around in the 1930s grandpa earl was the sheriff of mitchell county kansas population day a little bit less than 6 500. my mother dorothy was one of earl's and grace's 10 kids i had an uncle richard he was the last of the lot and he was going to run for reelection as sheriff and richard decided that you know there was good money there was really good money in in homemade gin so uh sorry bill is still in the basement bedroom everything was good both the campaign and the bootleg business all good until a still exploded in the basement it blew up the basement and the campaign grandpa earl was a one-term sheriff in metro county he moved his family to a little further south to where he raised my mother in wellington where he opened a pool hall how's that for going from sheriff to the pool hall operator best chili in kansas i tell the story because i think there's a couple things that we those of us who believe those of us who've been part of the conservative movement for so long can learn from this first he was a great sheriff and he was regarded as us because he never tried to be anything he wasn't and he was never afraid to tell people the truth he did what the people of mitchell county expected of him he respected them second the lesson from the gin problem is that plans change things happen we don't always see it going exactly the way we want but we should never give up we should always be true to ourselves and we will succeed at all of it if we do grand grandpa earl knew too that facts mattered so today i'm going to arm you with some facts some accomplishments from these past four years have we protected every one of you and our great bill of rights at every turn and what's good news today for me is when you're a diplomat when you're the 70s secretary of state you know you have to stay in your lane i don't have that i'm not a diplomat i'm going to let it rip so look where did we begin we began with you we began with workers all across america who we put back to work we put back to work women we put back together african americans asians hispanics everyone everyone was back working we did that president trump did that our team understood that this matters we focused on the economy that put americans back to work we did it by also securing our borders giving americans the chance to make a good wage and a chance to take care of their families and we also i'm from kansas don't forget we built american energy jobs too we rolled back regulations on job creators and we wanted everyone to take risk and grow their business and create opportunity for people all across america i uh i heard this time and time again i remember i ran for congress in 2010 when president obama was in office employers and workers had both lost confidence we restored that confidence they knew we had their back we knew we'd support them not burden them we wanted them to be successful we were the hallmark of our work here in america was that we were bold and fearless and when i hear today i hear democrats pretend they care about jobs in america but before the seats were warm in the oval office they destroyed ten thousand jobs in a pipeline you know when i see too my predecessor's predecessor green geek john kerry right he thinks these folks are all going to go make solar panels i'll tell you what you ask the good people of midland texas oklahoma or kansas or south dakota or pennsylvania you you think petroleum engineers and rig hands are going to go out and make solar panels no and you can bet this too those cheap shiny solar panels will start flooding into america like you have not seen and this won't be good for the united states of america now don't get me wrong sometimes we get accused say we don't care about the environment we create jobs that destroy the environment that's just not true we didn't simply didn't do it we didn't protect the environment on the backs of american workers there were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years it was an amazing accomplishment and and when the chinese wanted to come steal your job we just said no way 40 years bipartisan democrat and republican 40 years of failure letting made in china crush us was going to stop we demanded fair and reciprocal trade never forget to china depends more for us than we do on them president trump understood that our foreign policy understood that we protected the american worker worker from the chinese communist party's predation on us here in america now my job often took me overseas we protected our freedom abroad we kind of did it like grandpa earl did we were honest hard-working we treated the world as it is not as we wished it were we weren't going to live in fantasyland i will tell you i walked out of some very quiet rooms in europe we had to restrain foreign policy but when the time came when the situation so required we led we came hard we came heavy i sent messages repeatedly to bad guys around the world that if you touch an american you'll pay dearly now now we all know we all know that strength strength deters bad guys weakness begets war and we want to stay out of wars we did i was with the president so many trips and he would tell his counterparts across the world he would say look i'm going to put america first as the president of the united states and i expect you will put your country and your people first and we'll work together and accomplish this for both of our countries and we did that you know america first is right for america it's right for each of us america first secures our freedom and the entire world benefits when america is fearless and bold and strong let me just tick through a few ways right so first we show up paris climate accord a drop destroying joke so we said our revoir yeah look we all we all want clean air safe drinking water but the paris agreement was a fantasy for elite diplomats who just wanted to virtue signal and when president biden re-entered this deal i can tell you that xi jinping was smiling every single minute and the american workers lost we too spent a lot of time we defended america in the middle east and we defended israel in the middle east too we were told a number of things right this was an establishment foreign policy but it says you were told that you can't sanction the ayatollah in iran and you can't stop sending pallets of gash to the leadership there'll be a war well we did and there wasn't a war we were told we're told you can't move the united states embassy in israel to jerusalem there'll be a war well we did and there was not a war if we were we were told we were told you can't allow israel to have its rights in judea and samaria and the gohan heights no there'll be war we we did that we we righted that and there was no war we we told we were told and this was believed for allah said you can't secure peace in the region in the middle east between arab nations and israel without buying off palestinian kleptocrats you'll create world war iii but we did the abraham accords forged a real peace in the middle east you know thank you you know uh you know the abraham accords rewrote decades of failed shuttle negotiations because we're willing to go against the elites of the foreign policy established both left and right to secure american freedom and and to champion your values it's unfortunate looks like the new team team biden appears to be headed back into appeasing iran this will be a disaster for the united states of america and a disaster for the region as well i uh i remember too president trump sent me to pyongyang when i was a cia director to meet with chairman kim to prepare for the historic summit that was ultimately held in singapore you all remember this we threatened fire and fury we threatened fire and fury not to go to war but to turret deterred and deter it we did you know since those summits since those two summits one in singapore one in hanoi the north koreans haven't tested a long-range ballistic missile and they haven't tested their nuclear weapons exactly zero tests have been conducted that's real foreign policy i was uh it was humbling too because on was the second trip i had the chance to bring home american hostages from three men at three o'clock in the morning and america first america first always means never forgetting about our warriors there was no greater honor too than the fact that we brought back other americans like pastor brunson who stayed in turkey detained wrongfully for just far too long and we brought back so many remains of our fallen in korea as well this was amazing and right and america first so how many of you remember qasim suleimani allah arrested seoul this was the iranian general who was trying to cause trouble for america he was on a mission to harm americans but we were a few steps ahead of him so in the end he didn't cause trouble for americans or anyone else ever again do you know do you know that do you know that to do you know that to this day most of the liberals and most of the folks on t-bite still won't acknowledge that ridding the world of an america hitting terrorists was a good thing this is this is fantasy look we we too we drew a red line when the syrians gassed children and women and we told them don't do that again and when they crossed it president trump ordered 70 plus beautiful american-made tomahawk missiles to let them know that we weren't going to allow them to kill women and children america first america first takes real courage it takes a secretary of state willing to walk into a room and tell it like it is and a president will have his back we had that speaking of backs speaking of backs i hear i hear president biden saying america's back back to what so right back to pallet back to pallets of cash to the ayatollah so he can build missiles that threaten us back to apologizing when iranians tell our soldiers and sailors to take to their knees at gunpoint back to president biden killing a pipeline back to back to all the things that put american risk back to back to supporting a pipeline in europe that'll create european jobs this is this is not where we want to go back to any any time at all and we certainly don't want to go back to letting china have trade deals to kill our jobs right here in america we can't afford it we can't afford it it's not the right thing and we don't have to do it we must be bold and we must always put america first you know we spent a lot of time talking about being canceled i was really happy that uh that this was being this is being aired on television not canceled at least for the moment we um we worked tirelessly with great success to deliver on our values american values that have made this such a special unique nation look this country was built on what our founders understood and then the bill of rights that came behind that constitution they built a nation recognizing that our rights come from our creator and not from any government our union becomes our union becomes more perfect every time we defend our sovereignty and we defend our borders and i'm proud that we are the most pro-life administration in the history of the united states of america it was it was it was my job to deny that any taxpayer dollars from any hard-working america ever went to perform abortion any place in the world and we've promoted adoption everywhere and always and don't forget too president trump appointed an awful lot of judges that understand the words life and liberty and that words that have real real meaning i worked for the mexican government my counterpart foreign minister of mexico and the president to secure our borders we worked hard too to make sure that drugs and other things didn't traffic across that border that meant to protecting your right to own firearms our second amendment matters it builds communities it builds strong families and to make sure each of us has the right to defend ourselves precisely as our founders intended you know i'm always stunned i was white liberals pretend to care about the poor and then they side with the union boxes against the workers they pretend to stand for children while kids well kids in democrat led inner cities aren't in front of computers like they think they are they're struggling to figure out how to stay safe from drug lords and how to get a meal that's that's not good leadership it's not america first leadership it's not taking care of those people you're charged with protecting and we need to get every one of our children back in school and we need to get them back in now i was i was a soldier about uh 25 30 years ago and about 100 pounds ago too and when i hear democrats say they want a strong america i i know that they are working to undermine it sadly mark my word they're going to gut the defense budget that we worked so hard to build they'll do it to pay for their green new deal it kind of makes me mad right they're going to trade army green for aoc green that is a bad bad trade as i said before our young men and women we don't want to put them in harm's way we don't want them to go to war but when we're weak at home when we don't stand up for our military the risk of war increases when deterrence fades we cannot let that happen they wanted to fund the police while they barricaded the capital this is backwards and canceling our freedom to assemble peacefully while censoring our communications online is completely antithetical to what our founders understood about america you know it reminds me when i headed off to west point my parents could afford to fly to new york i grew up in southern california so they left me at the airport my mother was happy and all kinds of feelings she was uh my mother was a cigarette smoking high school graduate who's the decent most decent and toughest woman i've ever met she said mike she pulled me aside i think she didn't want my dad to hear this she said mike michael i know you're a grinder don't ever let them wear you down wear them down i've uh i've never forgotten what my mom told me that day we'll all remember it keep grinding keep championing american values one more story the smartest bestie officer that i ever came to know he worked closely with me as a former army or his air force special operations officer i'd ask him about someone who was working on our team and i'd say what do you think what do you think of him or what do you think of her and he'd say love that guy by pitter you know what he meant he meant that person got stuff done they were grinder they kept banging away you all know these four years are going to test us i need each of you to be a pipe hitter get stuff done keep grinding be a pipe hitter be a pipe iterate be a pipe hitter at church right be a pipe hitter church be a pipe hitter at your pta meeting don't let them bring crazy into your classrooms be a pipe hitter at your vfw lead the team to continue to support our military warriors be a pipe hitter be a pipe hitter when they tell you they're closing the mine or the factory because of some green vision keep it open president reagan a real pie pater president reagan got stuff done and he once said if we lose freedom here if we lose freedom here there is no place to escape this is the last stand on earth i saw that i saw that as your secretary of state as i traveled all around the world and i am confident that he was right i am confident that the american star will shine across the heavens so long as we keep a proper understanding of our god-given rights at the center of who we are and we keep up our quest to secure our freedom for our own people and for all of mankind i'll be with you in the fight god bless you and may god bless the united states of america thank you

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Length: 21min 30sec (1290 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 27 2021