During The Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, Nikki Haley, a Republican presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina, mentioned that if she became the president, she would overhaul federal law enforcement agencies and eliminate any officials who use those for political purposes. She also discussed her plans with Tucker Carlson.

In her interview, Carlson questioned Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence before interviewing Haley. Carlson did not ask Haley about foreign policy matters like the war in Ukraine, but did inquire about her opinions on federal agencies that were involved in shaping public opinion related to the last election.

“You know, when I was governor, I went and replaced the heads of every agency,” Haley said. “It’s the first thing I did when I came to office, it’s the first thing a president should do. You control what you can control. You start with your agencies.”

“So I replaced the heads of every agency,” she continued. “I made sure they were people, some didn’t vote for me, but they were people who knew that sector. So if it was veterans, it was someone who knew the challenges of veterans. If it was tourism, it was someone who knew heads and beds, people on golf courses, they knew what they needed to do. And I did that across the board.”

Haley mentioned that another action she took was to place teams of people within agencies to address and resolve issues with problematic employees and other issues.

“In some cases, we had to tweak agencies and other cases we had to gut agencies,” she said. “If you look at — the American people don’t trust our intelligence agencies. They don’t trust our Department of Justice. So you can’t just replace the person at the top. You’ve got to go through and really look at gutting those agencies and getting out a lot of that senior management and things that happen.”

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