Alex Vindman

That's what I was known for with regards to the professional channels.

but the public obviously saw just a small sliver a small snapshot of an army officer that was willing to speak up and do the right thing and damn the consequences because that's what i was trying to do so if that's all they know about me if they know that i'm a fighter for for what's right that i will call balls and strikes regardless of where the fault lies then that's okay that's not a bad place to be known to be known for something

So for me, as a professional, I'd been serving on the National Security Council of Russia and Ukraine were already five years into a war.

And what I had witnessed was a scheme that would have undermined U.S.

national security would have driven that looked like it was inspiring Russia to to be even more aggressive.

That's the way I perceived it.

And that's the fact that materialized just a few years later with a full scale war in 2022.

And I also witnessed what I thought was an effort to steal an election.

And it was not something that I could sit idly by.

It was squarely in my area of responsibility.

I had this large portfolio in a position of enormous responsibility.

And I just did what I thought was right.

It's the same thing that I trained my soldiers to do along the way.

Don't walk by mistake.

If you see something wrong, you've got to say something.

You can make those corrections, even if it's up to the chain of command, as long as you do it respectfully and that your intent is to

to make sure that you're delivering on the mission.

For me, it was U.S.

national security.

So I don't look backwards and have any regrets.