MARIA: WELCOME BACK JOINING ME
RIGHT NOW IS A HOUSE DEMOCRAT
WHO WAS INITIALLY OPPOSED TO
IMPEACHMENT BUT VOTED IN FAVOR
OF THE RESOLUTION ON THURSDAY.
HAWAII CONGRESSMAN TULSI GABBARD
A 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU
ON THE PROGRAM, CONGRESSWOMAN
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANKS, MARIA.
MARIA: SO YOU VOTE YES ON THIS
RESOLUTION LAST WEEK TELL US WHY
>> TO GET THE FACTS.
TO GET THE INFORMATION.
THERE WERE SERIOUS QUESTIONS AND
CONCERNS BEING RAISED.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO
GET SOME ANSWERS TO THOSE
QUESTIONS SO WE CAN BRING OUT
INTO BROAD DAYLIGHT WHAT EXACTLY
HAPPENED, GATHER THIS
INFORMATION, UNDERSTANDING THAT
THE VOTE THAT TOOK PLACE WAS A
VOTE FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY AS
THIS INQUIRY CONTINUED.
MARIA: WHAT ABOUT THE TREATMENT
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
I MEAN, YOU YOURSELF HAVE TALKED
ABOUT THIS PROCESS BEING UNFAIR
AND WE SEE THIS UNFAIR TREATMENT
EVERY DAY WITH THIS IMPEACHMENT
INQUIRY GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED
DOORS.
CAN YOU GIVE US A SENSE OF
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING MORE
TRANSPARENCY ON ALL OF THE ABOVE
>> WELL I THINK ONE OF THE
ISSUES HAS BEEN THAT ONLY THOSE
WHO ARE SERVING ON THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAVE HAD
ACCESS TO THE DIFFERENT
INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATIONS
THEY'VE BEEN HAVING AND I THINK
AS THIS INQUIRY MOVED FORWARD
THIS IS WHY I VOTED FOR THAT
INQUIRY THE OTHER DAY IS TO MAKE
SURE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ACTUALLY ARE GETTING THE
INFORMATION THAT ONLY SOME
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE BEEN
GETTING ACCESS TO THUS FAR.
MARIA: YOU'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW,
OUT THERE AND SORT OF
ARTICULATING YOUR AGENDA
PROPOSALS QUITE CLEARLY AND YET
YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT NOT BEING
TREATED FAIRLY BY THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY.
TELL US ABOUT THAT AND WHETHER
OR NOT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE CHANGES
THERE.
>> WHAT I PLAN TO DO AS THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE AND AS
PRESIDENT IS TO REBUILD A NEW
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ONE THAT TRULY
REPRESENTS THE INTEREST OF THE
PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, THAT IS
FIGHTING FOR THEM, FIGHTING FOR
THEIR WELL BEING, FIGHTING FOR
THE WELL BEING OF OUR COUNTRY
AND PROTECTING OUR NATURAL
RESOURCES ON THIS PLANET.
I THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT WE
HAVE SEEN ESPECIALLY THROUGHOUT
THIS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY HOW THE
DNC HAS BEEN KIND OF IMPLEMENT
ING THEIR OWN PRE-
PRIMARY ELECTION BEFORE
VOTERS EVEN GET A CHANCE TO VOTE
I'M HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RIGHT
NOW AND VOTERS HERE TAKE VERY
SERIOUSLY THE RESPONSIBILITY
THAT THEY HAVE AS ONE OF THE
VERY FIRST IN THE NATION TO CAST
THEIR VOTES, ABOUT WHO THEY
WOULD LIKE TO SEE BEING OUR
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE
DNC OR ANYONE SHOULD BE TAKEN
AWAY FROM THEM.
MARIA: AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE
SPEAKING AT THIS EVENT IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE TODAY.
THERE'S A LOT OF SPECULATION
THAT PERHAPS YOU'LL RUN AS A
THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE.
ARE YOU PLANNING ON DOING THAT?
>> I AM NOT.
I HAVE SAID NUMEROUS TIMES THAT
I WILL NOT RUN AS A THIRD PARTY
CANDIDATE AND AGAIN THE PER PEP
EQUATION OF THAT RUMOR HAS COME
FROM POLITICAL OPPONENTS WHO
REALLY ARE JUST TRYING TO CREATE
SOME KIND OF STRANGE SUSPICION
THAT I MIGHT DO SOMETHING ELSE
TO TRY TO UNDERMINE THE SUPPORT
THAT WE ARE GETTING FROM
DEMOCRAT REPUBLICANS,
INDEPENDENTS, LIBERTARIANS
SAYING HEY LOOK WE WANT TO COME
AND VOTE FOR YOU IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BECAUSE OF
THE UNIFYING MESSAGE AND
LEADERSHIP THAT I WILL BRING TO
THIS COUNTRY.
MARIA: AND NO LABELS, THIS
INTEREST GROUP ORIGINALLY
FOUNDED BY JOHN HUNTSMAN, YOU'LL
BE SPEAKING THERE TODAY.
WHAT ARE THE MESSAGES YOU'LL
ARTICULATED WHEN YOU TAKE THE
STAGE?
>> REALLY, IT SPEAKS TO THE
KIND OF LEADERSHIP THAT I SEEK
TO BRING TO OUR COUNTRY WHERE MY
COMMITMENT IS TO SERVE ALL
AMERICANS.
NO LABELS IS KNOWN FOR THEIR
PROBLEM SOLVERS, CAUCUS AND
CONGRESS AND REALLY TAKING THE
FOCUS AND THE APPROACH ON
ACTUALLY SOLVING PROBLEMS FOR
THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY,
SETTING ASIDE THE HYPER-PARTISAN
POLITICS AND WORKING TOGETHER
WITH PEOPLE ACROSS PARTY LINES.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DONE
THROUGHOUT MY TIME IN CONGRESS
AND THIS IS THE KIND OF
LEADERSHIP THAT I'LL BRING AS
PRESIDENT, BECAUSE AS I LOOK OUT
AT THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY, I
DO NOT SEE DEPLORABLES, I DO NOT
SEE ONLY THOSE WHO MAY AGREE
WITH MY PARTY OR MY VIEWS ON
THINGS I SEE FELLOW AMERICANS,
TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT AND
UNDERSTAND THAT MY
RESPONSIBILITY AND MY COMMITMENT
IS TO SERVING EVERY SINGLE ONE
OF THEM.
MARIA: YOU MENTIONED THE NO
DEPLORABLES OF COURSE THAT
DEPLORABLES COMMENT CAME FROM
HILLARY CLINTON BACK IN THE
CAMPAIGN DAYS.
SHE ATTACKED YOU CALLING YOU A
RUSSIAN ASSET WHICH SPARKED A
FEUD, A TWITTER FEUD BETWEEN THE
TWO OF YOU.
LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THAT,
CONGRESSWOMAN BECAUSE THERE'S A
REAL SPECULATION OUT THERE THAT
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ORIGINS
OF THE RUSSIA PROBE AND WE'LL BE
TALKING ABOUT IT LATER WITH JIM
JORDAN AND LEE SMITH AND SIDNEY
POWELL THERE'S A FEELING THAT
REALLY SHE WAS AT THE CORE OF IT
THAT SHE PAID FOR THE DOSSIER,
SHE CALLED DONALD TRUMP AN AGENT
OF RUSSIA AS WELL.
DO YOU BELIEVE SHE HAD ANYTHING
IN TERMS, ANYTHING TO DO WITH
THE FBI AND THE CIA PUTTING
DONALD TRUMP IN THE STORY OF
RUSSIA MEDDLING IN THE UNITED
STATES?
>> I CAN'T SPEAK TO ANY OF THAT
BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHAT WE
HAVE SEEN IN WHAT SHE AND HER
PROXIES AND MINIONS HAVE BEEN
PUTTING OUT AND TRYING TO SMEAR
MY CHARACTER REPUTATION AND
UNDERMINE MY CAMPAIGN IS REALLY
NOT JUST A MESSAGE FOR ME IT'S A
MESSAGE TO ALL AMERICANS, EVEN
THOSE WATCHING AT HOME THAT IF
YOU DESCENT, IF YOU DISAGREE, IF
YOU SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER AND
CHALLENGE THE ESTABLISHMENT VIEW
, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES
TO FOREIGN POLICY THEN YOU TOO
WILL BE SMEARED AND ATTACKED.
LOOK, I JUST FINISHED, I JUST
HAD NATIONAL GUARD DUTY
YESTERDAY AND I'M PROUD TO WEAR
THE UNIFORM OF OUR COUNTRY AND
HONORED TO BE ABLE TO SERVE AND
REALLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS
SENDING THIS MESSAGE THROUGH
THEIR SMEARING OF ME AND MY
CHARACTER WHICH BY THE WAY I
WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO UNDO WHAT
THEY HAVE DONE IN TRYING TO CAST
SUSPICION AMONGST THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE ABOUT WHERE MY LOYALTIES
ACTUALLY LIE, BUT THIS IS
SOMETHING BIGGER THAN JUST ABOUT
ME.
THIS IS REALLY ABOUT OUR FREEDOM
, OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH
AND BEING ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT
WE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN
STAND UP.
WE CAN BE CRITICAL OF OUR LEADER
S.
WE CAN DISAGREE AND THE REASON
WHY WE'RE SEEING THIS COMING
FROM HILLARY CLINTON AND HER
PROXY AND KIND OF THIS FOREIGN
POLICY ESTABLISHMENT THAT
REPRESENTS HER LEGACY IS THEY
KNOW THEY CANNOT CONTROL ME.
THAT WORRIES THEM VERY MUCH.
MARIA: YOU SHOWED REAL COURAGE
AND LEADERSHIP IN PUSHING BACK
AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON AND SHE
WENT ON THE RADIO SHOW AND SAID
THAT YOU WERE A RUSSIAN ASSET.
LET'S LISTEN TO THIS BECAUSE SHE
SAID I'M NOT MAKING ANY
PREDICTIONS HERE BUT I THINK
THAT THEY WILL GO AND HAVE THEIR
EYE ON SOMEBODY WHOSE CURRENTLY
IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY AND
ARE GROOMING HER TO BE THIRD
PARTY CANDIDATE.
SHE'S THE FAVORITE OF THE
RUSSIANS.
WHERE IS SHE GETTING THAT?
I HAVE NO CLUE.
IT'S COMPLETELY BASELESS, AND
FRANKLY IT IS OFFENSIVE ON SO
MANY, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS.
IT STRIKES AT THE VERY CORE OF
WHO I AM.
IT WAS BECAUSE OF 9/11 THAT I,
LIKE SO MANY AMERICANS, MADE
THAT DECISION TO ENLIST, TO JOIN
OUR MILITARY, TO SERVE OUR
COUNTRY, TO ROOT OUT THE EVIL
AND DEFEAT THE EVIL THAT
ATTACKED US ON THAT DAY, AND
AGAIN, HER ATTEMPT TO SMEAR ME,