--- title: President Obama Speech on National Security: Watch Live description: President Obama will defend his approach to counterterrorism over the past eight years during the speech in Tampa, Florida. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Dec 6, 2016 5:21 PM UTC by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Dec 6, 2016 5:21 PM UTC President Barack Obama is giving his [last major national security speech](http://time.com/4591361/president-obama-national-security-speech/) as Commander-in-Chief on Tuesday, in which he is expected to sum up his administration’s counterterrorism efforts over the past eight years. According to White House aides, the president’s speech was planned months before Donald Trump was elected. This will be Obama’s last major opportunity to promote the national security approach he hopes the President-elect—who chose retired three-star Army General [Michael Flynn](http://time.com/4576365/michael-t-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser/) as his national security adviser—will follow. Obama will speak from the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, home of the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command teams. 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