>> WHILE I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A FORMER SENATOR SITTING WITH US,
CHRIS MATTHEWS HAS NOW BEEN
JOINED BY CONGRESSWOMAN GABBARD.
>> TULSI GABBARD OF HAWAII.
>> ALOHA.
>> ALOHA. >> FIRST OF ALL, HOW FAR ARE YOU
INTO THIS RACE?
ARE YOU GOING TO RUN FOR
RE-ELECTION IF YOU DONT GET THE
NOMINATION?
>> IM FOCUSED ON RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT.
>> YOURE GIVING UP WHAT YOUVE
GOT.
>> IM FOCUSED ON RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT BECAUSE I THINK THERE
ARE SERIOUS CHANGES AS I POINTED
OUT IN THIS DEBATE TONIGHT THAT
NEED TO BE MADE TO OUR FOREIGN
POLICY, WHICH IS DIRECTLY
CONNECTED TO EVERY SINGLE
DOMESTIC ISSUE THAT WE FACE.
>> WHY WERE YOU THE LONE VOICE
OUT THERE GOING AFTER THE
NEOCONS, GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE
THAT TOOK US INTO THESE WARS?
>> THATS A GREAT --
>> YOURE THE ONLY ONE OUT
THERE.
>> THATS A GREAT QUESTION THAT
I HOPE YOU ASK EVERY SINGLE
OTHER PERSON YOU INTERVIEW.
I CAN TELL YOU, THIS COMES FROM
A DEEPLY PERSONAL PLACE AS YOU
KNOW.
I DEPLOYED TO IRAQ IN 2005
DURING THE HEIGHT OF THAT WAR.
I SERVED IN A MEDICAL UNIT WHERE
EVERY SINGLE DAY I SAW THAT TERRIBLE HIGH HUMAN COST OF WAR
AND IN CONGRESS SERVING OVER SIX
YEARS ON THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ARMED SERVICES, HOMELANDAIRS,
ARMED SERVICES, HOMELAND
SECURITY COMMITTEES I KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL SECURITY
AND I KNOW THAT WITH THAT
EXPERIENCE AND THE CONVICTION
NOT TO BEND TO THE WHIMS OF THE
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OR
THE FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT
IM READY TO DO THAT JOB OF
COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON DAY ONE. >> DOES IT BOTHER YOU THAT JOE
BIDEN WHOS THE FRONT-RUNNER IN
THE DEMOCRATIC FIGHT RIGHT NOW,
VOTED FOR THE IRAQ WAR?
>> IT WAS THE WRONG VOTE. IT WAS THE WRONG VOTE.TE.
IT WAS THE WRONG VOTE. PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF, AMERICANS
ACROSS THIS COUNTRY WHO ENLISTED
AFTER THOSE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON
9/11 BY AL QAEDA, WE JOINED THE
MILITARY TO GO AFTER THOSE WHO
ATTACKED US.
ATTACKED US.
AND WE WERE LIED TO. WE WERE BETRAYED BY THOSE WHO
SENT US THERE, BY THOSE WHO
PRESENTED THIS FALSE EVIDENCE OR
BELIEVED IT WITHOUT ASKING THOSE
TOUGH QUESTIONS.
TOUGH QUESTIONS. IM NOT GOING TO ALLOW ANY OTHER
SERVICE MEMBER TO GO THROUGH THAT, TO GO TO WAR UNDER THESE
FALSE PRETENSES OR THIS LACK OF
ACTUALLY EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE
THATS THERE.
>> WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM NEXT SUMMER?
BECAUSE PLATFORMS DO MATTER. SAY NO MORE POLICY OR REGIME
CHANGE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
NO MORE OF THAT.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
ABSOLUTELY.
AND I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING
THATS IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS TO
RECOGNIZE, IS SO OFTEN THESE
REGIME CHANGE WARS ARE WAGED
UNDER THE GUISE OF
HUMANITARIANISM.
SAYING WELL, WE NEED TO GO AND
HELP THE PEOPLE IN THESE
COUNTRIES.
BUT IN FACT WHAT HAPPENS EVERY
SINGLE TIME IS PEOPLE END UP
WITH MORE SUFFERING, MORE DEATH,
MORE DESTRUCTION.
>> CONGRESSMAN, IM SO GLAD