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,