THERE SHE IS.
FUNDRAISING.
IN WASHINGTON, D.C. JUSTICE
ISN’T BLIND.
IT’S BLIND WITH RAGE.
AND MY NEXT GUEST KNOWS THAT
WELL.
AFTER CRITICIZING CROOKED TULSI
GABBARD WAS CALLED A RUSSIAN
ASSET.
SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU
TAKE ON ONE OF THE FIVE
FAMILIES.
SHE IS A FORMER DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESSWOMAN AND PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE WHO JOINS US NOW.
I’M JUST ANGRY.
I’M SAD AND I’M ANGRY AND I FEEL
LIKE THE COUNTRY WE ARE LOSING
THE COUNTRY.
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
>> WE ARE.
JESSE, THERE IS SOMETHING THAT
EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE
EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT
BECAUSE THIS RAID IS JUST THE
LATEST SERIOUS ESCALATION OF
THIS DISTURBING THREATENED THAT
WE HAVE SEEN OF BLATANT ABUSE OF
POWER BY THOSE IN POWER TO NOT
ONLY PROTECT THEIR FRIENDS BUT
TO TARGET THEIR POLITICAL
OPPONENTS OR FRANKLY ANYONE WHO
DARES TO DISSENT OR CHALLENGE OR
DISAGREE OR EVEN QUESTION WHAT
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS DOING.
AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF
EXAMPLES THAT WE CAN POINT TO
NOT ONLY ABUSE OF POWER WITHIN
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
WITHIN THE FBI, OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, BUT ALSO
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY AND THE IRS.
YOU POINTED TO A FEW EXAMPLES
ALREADY.
YOU KNOW, LOOK TO THE FBI
INVESTIGATION OF THE -- OF TRUMP
FOR THE RUSSIA HOAX THAT DIDN’T
TURN OUT TO BE ANYTHING.
YOU LOOK AT THE IRS AND LOIS
LERNER DIRECTLY TARGETING
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS UNDER
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
YOU LOOK AT THIS
ADMINISTRATION’S DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY’S CREATION OF
A MINISTRY OF TRUTH TO GO AFTER
US.
EVERY DAY AMERICANS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY TO TELL US HEY, HERE IS
WHAT WE SAY THE TRUTH IS AND IS
NOT AND WHAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO
SAY AND WHAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED
TO SAY.
IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE GIVEN HOW
BLATANT ALL OF THIS IS THAT THIS
IS HAPPENING IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
AND THAT IS WHAT IS SO DEEPLY
CONCERNING IS THAT WE SHOULD
NOT, AS AMERICANS, HAVE TO BE
THINKING HEY, THE IRS, THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION JUST PASSED A
BILL WITH MORE BIG SPENDING,
GIVING THE IRS $80 BILLION TO GO
AFTER ENTREPRENEURS, EVERY DAY
AMERICANS WHO ARE WORKING HARD
AND, HEY, MAYBE I SHOULD THINK
ABOUT WHAT I’M POSTING ON
FACEBOOK AND IF I CRITICIZE THE
ADMINISTRATION, DOES THAT MAKE
ME A TARGET FOR AN AUDIT BY THIS
IRS THAT WILL NOW HAVE THOUSANDS
MORE IRS AGENTS TO GO AFTER
EVERYDAY AMERICANS?
THESE KINDS OF THINGS SHOULD NOT
BE RUNNING THROUGH OUR MINDS IN
A DEMOCRACY.
THESE THINGS ARE WHAT HAPPEN IN
BANANA REPUBLICS OR DICTATORS
HAVE FEDERAL AGENCIES, INCLUDING
LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ACT AS THEIR
OWN PERSONAL GOON SQUAD AND
THAT’S WHAT I’M THINKING OF AS I
SEE THIS ESCALATING VERY
DANGEROUS TREND AND ABUSE OF
POWER BY THIS ADMINISTRATION.
>> Jesse: MAYBE IF TRUMP HAD
BLEACHED ALL OF THESE DOCUMENTS,
MAYBE THEN THEY WOULD HAVE GIVEN
HIM A PASS OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE
HE COULD HAVE JUST WHISPERED
THINGS TO MELANIA IN BED AND HAD
HER MAKE TRADES TO MAKE BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS IN PROFITS.
MAYBE THAT WAS THE MOVE NOT TO
GET RAIDED.
I DON’T KNOW.
WHAT ELSE COULD YOU DO?
TAKE WIRES FROM THE CHINESE
COMMUNIST?
TAKE WIRES FROM RUSSIANS AND
MAYBE KICK BACK SOME TO YOUR
FAMILY MEMBERS?
YOU DON’T GET RAIDED FOR THAT.
BUT IF YOU HAVE A LETTER FROM
BARACK OBAMA THAT HE LEFT TO YOU
AND YOU HAVE THAT AT YOUR HOUSE,
THEY ARE GOING TO COME WITH GUNS
AND TELL YOUR LAWYERS TO SCRAM?
I MEAN, THIS IS CRAZY.
AND THE COUNTRY SEES IT.
HOW IS THE COUNTRY GOING TO
REACT TO THIS, TULSI?
>> I THINK WE ARE SEEING SOME OF
THE OUTRAGE COMING FROM PEOPLE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY REGARDLESS OF
THEIR POLITICAL PERSUASION AND I
HOPE THAT THOSE WHO AREN’T
PAYING ATTENTION DO TAKE NOTICE
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK THIS IS
JUST ABOUT TRUMP, YOU’RE WRONG.
THIS IS ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE
OF US AS AMERICANS AND THIS
PRECEDENT THAT’S BEING SET OF AN
ABUSE OF POWER THAT’S NOT EVEN
BEING HIDDEN ANYMORE.
I THINK IT MAYBE WAS HAPPENING
BEHIND THE CURTAINS OR MAYBE
DENYING IT WAS HAPPENING.
IT IS OUT IN THE OPEN IN BROAD
DAYLIGHT BLATANT ABUSE OF POWER,
TARGETING POLITICAL OPPONENTS,
TARGETING THOSE WHO DARE TO
DISSENT AND ATTACKING OUR MOST
FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS AND FREEDOM.
SO, DON’T THINK THIS IS ABOUT
SOMEBODY ELSE.
DON’T THINK THIS IS ABOUT JUST
PEOPLE OF ONE, YOU KNOW,
POLITICAL PERSUASION.
THIS IS ABOUT EVERY ONE OF US AS
AMERICANS AND PROTECTING OUR
RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
>> Jesse: YEAH.
ABSOLUTELY.
TULSI GABBARD KNOWS IT ALL TOO