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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, this is Peter King.
Congressman King, what a surprise.
How are you, buddy?
Very good, Jim.
Never been better.
I just want to call and say goodbye, and that I've had a lot of fun talking to you over the horn in the past few years.
Oh, that's right.
You just announced that you're not running for re-election, correct?
You got it.
I'm up out of this, bitch.
Are you going to be running for any other office like senator or governor?
No.
Gonna spend some time with my grandchildren there, maybe catch a Notre Dame football game or two, and bring my grandchildren to watch the game.
Wow, that's sweet.
What prompted you to leave Congress then?
Because I don't want to be inside that building when Ilhan Omar blows it the fuck up.
Congressman King!
You know it's coming, Jimmy.
Her and those three other broads she hangs out with.
They call themselves the squad.
More like the bomb squad.
Congressman, you really shouldn't say.
Except they do the opposite of what an actual bomb squad does, because they blow the bombs up, not stop them.
I get it.
I get it.
Because they're Muslims, you see.
Oh, my God.
Congressman King.
I'm drinking already.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, listen, Congressman, do you really think this is an appropriate way to talk about another member of the House of Representatives?
Why the hell not?
She started it.
I announced my retirement just several days ago.
Then this little chippy comes out with a statement saying that I'm anti-Muslim and ran a McCarthyite campaign against the Muslim population, which is a lie and a smear.
Well, then, how would you categorize your actions towards the Muslim community?
I was trying to save them from themselves.
They should have been taking me.
They live here, too.
They don't want to get blown the fuck up by one of their own.
Congressman King, are you aware that the vast majority of terrorist attacks on American soil since 9-11 have been committed by far right-wing domestic terrorists?
Yeah, and you know what?
You're welcome.
Wouldn't you rather get killed randomly by another white guy?
At least you kind of know sort of what's going on inside his head.
Yeah.
We put so much pressure on all these mosques that were radicalizing all these bulls that it camped down on the Muslim shit and let the white psychos start to flourish and have their day.
If anything, that's indicative of the fact that our hearings worked.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hey, is there anything else to this, the timing of this?
I mean, you leaving Congress, anything else to this?
Yeah, let's be honest.
It's a sinking ship.
Trump's going to get impeached and every Republican is going to end up in a hot seat over it.
And it's going to suck hippopotamus dick.
The last thing any sane person would want to do as he's going down would be to run for office as a Republican at the same time.
I see.
I got you.
Okay.
So I'm sparing myself the headache.
For once, I'm doing something for me.
You deserve it, Congressman.
You really do.
And by the way, my district will stay red.
A new Republican will run, one that isn't tainted by Trump and his shit, and he'll win.
And my legacy will be secure.
Okay.
And then I'll just spend time with my grandchildren.
Is it that nice?
After leaving a legacy behind of bigotry and repression that you cynically use to win support for your constituent base for re-election?
Yes, that's quite a nice story.
Yes.
So nice that I think I'll tell it as a bedtime story to my grandchildren.
So sweet.
Okay, who's going to pop the sarcasm bubble we got going on here?
Well, mate.
All right, I'll do it.
Good riddance, you pico slime ball.
I hope you choke on a vegan burrito, you wacky left coast frugal you.
And I got away with all of it.
All of it.
Well, goodbye, Congressman, forever.
Establishment media sets of artists fighting.
So good luck.
Bullshit we can't afford.
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It's the Jimmy Door show.
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Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke, Sally.
Hey, did you see Hillary Clinton told Democrats that they should pick a candidate who can win the Electoral College?
Yeah, that's like somebody with amnesia telling you not to forget stuff.
That's like Dr. Frankenstein scolding the townspeople against making monsters out of dead people.
Hey, Beto O'Rourke finally dropped out.
And you know, the fact that Beto O'Rourke lasted as long as he did only attests to how much worse Republicans have to get before Democrats can actually beat them.
Hey, breaking news, Bernie Sanders becomes one of the first Democratic presidential candidates to call what's happening in Bolivia a coup.
Up this just in.
Elizabeth Warren says she's been calling it a coup for the last 40 years.
So Hillary Clinton now says she is, quote, under enormous pressure to run in 2020.
Wow.
You mean pressure from those godless Bolsheviks at the Kremlin?
Am I right?
And actor Robert De Niro just endorsed Mike Bloomberg for president.
Well, there you have it.
A guy who spent his entire career depicting hoarding, money-obsessed, narcissistic megalomaniacs says we need a hoarding, money-obsessed, narcissistic megalomaniac to save us from a hoarding, money-obsessed, narcissistic megalomaniac.
Did you hear the cyclist who lost her job?
Did you hear this remember, there was a woman on a bicycle flipped off, Fred, there was a picture, flipped off President Trump's motorcade, and she lost her job because of that in Virginia.
Right?
So the cyclist who lost her job for flipping off President Trump's motorcade just won a local office in Virginia.
And you know, but that's the problem with Democrats.
I mean, imagine if she would have, like, I don't know, set fire to a bag of dog crap and put it on Trump's front porch.
She'd be governor.
Come on, let's have some ambition out there, Democrats.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We sit down with Tulsi Gabbard for the entire interview.
We talk about her new health care plan.
We talk about why she's running while Bernie's running.
We talk about her plan to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for their part in 9-11, plus a lot lot more.
And we have phone calls today from Peter King, who's retiring Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and Harrison Ford, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on The Jimmy Dore Show.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello.
Hold on.
What'd you do?
Barack Mexico Obama.
Can I say something?
Please.
Come on, young people.
Stop being so judgmental.
That's not activism.
That's not bringing about change.
So you're telling my audience that criticizing politicians for not taking action on important issues is judgmental?
I sure am.
Kiss fingers, drop mic, walk off the millionaire beltway applause.
And see, this has been an ObamaFlix production.
Well, what about the civil rights movement?
Oh, okay.
Let's stop with the what about isms, Jimmy.
That's all over with.
This is now.
Yesterday was rude.
Today is civil.
You want civil rights?
Well, be civil for God's sake.
Yeah, so people can't get passionate about life-threatening issues without someone like you making derisive comments about how woke they are.
Don't be an asshat.
Yeah.
Aren't you the one being judgmental?
Now you're being a divisive asshat.
And I bet your butt hurt, too.
Mm-hmm.
Be careful, or I'll combine the three and say you're a divisive butthurt asshat.
You want that?
Is that really the America Progressives one?
Stop slouching.
Oh.
Okay, but people just want basic human decency and fairness.
Okay, there you go again with your people just want this.
I try to meet you halfway and you start being judgmental on me.
Pull your damn pants up, son.
And stop with the mumbling.
Okay.
Cut your damn hair.
You only prosecuted one bank executive for the entire economic collapse.
I know that poor guy.
But we have to make an example, Jimmy.
And what example was that?
That when a bunch of rich folks destroy the lives of 10 million non-rich folks, White House folks got to prosecute one rich folk to make it look like us folks are doing something for those other folks.
Folks got to do things for folks.
How is that the change in hope you promised, Barack?
Well, it's a change from what people hope for one thing.
Wait a minute.
You guys actually think I was talking about changing shit.
Yeah.
Hell no.
I promised to change what folks hoped for.
And I did.
Now they don't hope for shit.
You're welcome.
So why do you think young people are so passionate about Bernie Sanders then?
Free stuff.
Uh-huh.
They think they're going to get a bunch of free stuff.
By change.
Change isn't free.
They haven't discovered what change is yet.
What exactly is change to you, Brock?
Good question, Jimmy.
Change isn't change.
Change is non-change.
How many times have you gone to Starbucks for a minute bear claw and thought, oh, geez, I hope they don't give me a bunch of change.
And you got to carry that change home in your pockets.
People don't want change.
Change is something you take the coin star to get rid of.
Do you even understand what activism means anymore?
Of course I do.
Telling people that they're asshats.
Yeah.
Hi, everybody.
We have special guests today for the least 35 minutes.
For at least 35 minutes.
We have a special guest today.
You know her.
She's serving as a major in the Army National Guard.
She is the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd District, two districts in Hawaii.
And she's a position she's held since 2013.
And now she's running for president.
It's Tulsi Gabbard.
Hi, Tulsi.
How are you?
Hi, Jimmy.
I'm great.
It's great to see you.
It's so funny to watch you out there and the way people come at you.
Can I just show, first of all, how are you?
How are you?
I'm doing very well.
And happy Veterans Day to you.
Did you say happy?
Is that a copper?
Yeah, sure.
That's fine.
We got in yesterday and this morning got up at five o'clock and drove for an hour, I think, to Huntington Beach and went surfing.
What better way to start the day?
It was beautiful.
There was no wind.
There was no waves.
I'm a happy camper.
And you're not afraid of being eaten by sharks.
No, apparently, stingrays are a thing there, though.
Oh, really?
You're supposed to like shuffle your feet on the sand because they hang out on the sand.
You shuffle your feet and they get the message and don't.
No, stingrays I like.
Really?
Because, well, I was.
Have you been stung by one before?
No, that's why I like them.
Okay, just checking.
But I have petted them.
There's a place called Stingray City in the Bahamas somewhere.
And we all went on the camera anyway.
I was the last one to swim over, believe me.
There was a little girl went over.
I was like, so I have to go.
But anyway, they're great.
They feel like velvet.
Really?
Uh-huh.
We had no encounters this morning.
Oh, okay.
But it was good.
Well, fantastic.
And then you got here pretty fast.
That's probably because the Russians.
Anyway.
So can I just, before we get into you, have some stuff that you have some bills and stuff you want to talk about.
And we're going to get into it.
But I just want to show real fast two of my favorite interview questions that you've had so far.
So this is when you were on CBS, and this was right after the news broke of Hillary Clinton doing her ridiculousness.
And so what's this question?
This is one of my favorite questions.
This is despicable on so many levels.
When you say regime change wars, what do you mean by that?
I like that you, you're going to, you're going to laugh in just a second.
You're kidding me.
Is that what you're thinking?
Yes.
It's like, and Steph, when I played that for Steph, she goes, Tulsi, where do babies come from?
I had to pause for a moment and just make sure that I had heard what I had just heard.
So that's, but that's fun for you, kind of, right?
When that happens?
No?
Ah, well, you know, you got to break it down to the basics, right?
Get back to zero.
Let's start there.
So here, that's just amazing that that's per se.
My person is an anchor that gets to sit at the desk, right?
That's everybody should watch broadcast news, and you know how that happens.
She doesn't sweat on camera.
All right.
So here is Tulsi being interviewed on MSNBC.
This is here.
We go.
This is great.
Coupled together what you're saying right here live on the broadcast to me.
And in addition to that which you wrote in the Wall Street Journal Off-It on Tuesday, and here's part of how it went: I can defeat Trump and the Clinton doctrine in which you write whether Mrs. Clinton's name is on the ballot or not, her foreign policy will be.
As many of the Democratic candidates adhere to her doctrine of acting as the world's police, using the tools of war to overthrow governments we don't like, wasting taxpayer dollars, costing American lives, causing suffering and destruction abroad, and undermining America's security.
There are those who would suggest, look, the Russians don't want the United States to be America's police as well.
So when the, you know, for the Americans to be the world police.
So what is your message to Democratic voters who may see this, maybe listening to you right now, and feel that it mirrors President Trump's isolationist foreign policy views?
I think the American people are smarter.
I didn't know what else to say.
Do you know that?
Well, I think people can see through that.
Thanks, though.
I appreciate that.
I mean, look, I think the question she raised, though, is one that swirls around a lot on the mainstream media and in the Washington bubble.
And it's a reflection of this extremely reactive approach to everything, to our foreign policy, to our domestic policy.
Well, if this person doesn't like it, then you must be for it.
Or if they like it, then you must be against it.
Rather than just actually saying, hey, look, which is what I'm doing, I'm running for president to lead this country, to do what's in the best interest of our country and not just react to what Republicans are doing or Democrats are doing or this foreign leader or that foreign leader is doing.
It's actually looking, hey, let's think about what's good for us.
It's good for the American people.
It's a novel concept, I know, but.
I prefer just to like things that Democrats do and unlike things that other people do.
Whatever.
You like to get in the middle of the market.
I'm going to make a shirt for you, Jimmy Doerr, that says that.
I would love to see you wear it.
Okay.
So here, I saw you tweet this out.
So this is, so it is Veterans Day.
Yes.
And so you said, join me in standing with the first responders and families of 9-11 victims in their fight for truth and justice.
Demand the Trump administration declassify and release all information regarding Saudis' involvement in 9-11 tax adds your name.
So now tell me about this.
This was really in response to some of the family members of people who were killed on 9-11 coming and approaching us and saying, hey, we need your help.
There's a few large, large groups of thousands of family members of those who were killed who are filing lawsuits against the Saudi government and have been seeking information from our own government now for, well, it's been almost 20 years since that attack took place.
They are not getting the information from the FBI or the Department of Justice.
That simply provides them with the facts about who assisted these 9-11 hijackers as they came to the United States and began their preparations in launching that attack.
So this issue, we're helping them.
I've reintroduced legislation that was introduced previously by our friend Congressman Walter Jones that calls on the administration to declassify and release these documents to bring about closure and justice for these 9-11 families, for the first responders, but really for every single American, because at its core, this comes down to our national security, and we deserve to know the truth.
So now, there was a law passed that would allowed, opened the door for victims of the 9-11 to sue Saudi Arabia.
And when that happened, correct me if I'm wrong, Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia to smooth things over with them, to not worry about this or something.
Now, do you know?
I don't know about that.
No, I can't.
Okay, well, I do.
Okay.
And...
So now, so can you Okay.
So why is that such a big deal?
The reason why not only this bill that's called JASTA is the acronym that provides the authority to or allows families of 9-11 people who were killed on 9-11 to file these lawsuits, allows them the opportunity to do so,
but it also continues through why is it that our government has continued to block this information from being released that we expect would likely implicate or and at a minimum embarrass Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials there.
I think it points to how cozy the Saudi government is with our government, with the media, so much so that officials within our own government would be more concerned about Saudi Arabia being offended or being harmed than they are concerned about these families, the American people, getting the truth, getting closure, getting justice.
Now, why do you think this is such a heavy lift?
So what is the stranglehold that Saudi Arabia has on the United States?
Look, you know, you've heard Donald Trump talk about, you know, we want to continue to sell weapons and arms to Saudi Arabia.
There's a long-standing decision that's been made by the political elite foreign policy establishment in Washington to take that Trump has continued to take sides in this generations-long sectarian war between the Sunni and the Shia, between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Look, I think bottom line is whatever is driving it, Saudi Arabia dumps a ton of money into Washington, think tanks and other organizations.
Whatever it is that's driving it, it is inexcusable to think about putting the interests of any other country, what to speak of Saudi Arabia, a country that continues to directly and indirectly support al-Qaeda, that continues to export their extremist Wahhabi ideology around the world, that serves as the fuel to recruit more of these jihadist fighters into terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
There are so many different examples of how Saudi Arabia is not our ally, yet the foreign policy establishment and elite in Washington continue to turn a blind eye, really betraying the interests of our own country in doing so.
So does anybody in Washington ever talk about the petrodollar?
Does that ever come up?
No.
Why do you think that is so lifted?
People don't know what that is.
When President Nixon took us off the gold standard, we then moved over to a thing called the petrol dollar to support our currency.
And what that was was if Saudi Arabia promised that whenever someone would buy oil from them, they would have to monetize, take their currency and make it, change it into U.S. dollars to buy the oil.
So that helps prop up our currency.
Plus they would take the extra money, the Saudi Arabians, they'd buy our treasuries.
And so this is called the petrol.
And so what do they get in return?
Well, they got the promise to use our military anywhere they want, which is why we're in Yemen right now helping them commit a genocide, which is why we turn a blind eye when they export Wahhabism around the middle.
I mean, they're the anyway, so that's what the petrol dollar is, but that never gets talked about.
No.
And do you want to talk about it?
I mean, look, I think you gave a pretty good brief summary.
I think it's indicative to the change that we need to have in our foreign policy with our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Look, when we were trying to pass the resolution invoking the War Powers Act to get us out of supporting Saudi Arabia and their genocide in Yemen, we heard from then Secretary of Defense Mattis and others within the administration about why we should continue to support Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen because they're such a great partner in counterterrorism and
that by withdrawing our support, we would somehow undermine our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
None of it really makes sense when you think about this in a rational way.
And none of it makes sense when you think about the humanitarian disaster that we have contributed to creating in Yemen because of this support for Saudi Arabia that's not authorized by, it's not authorized by Congress.
We haven't passed a declaration of war.
Right.
All right.
Okay.
we're still operating on the AUMF, which is what got passed after 9-11, which said George Bush or whoever was president could go fight those terrorists who attacked us.
But they've now morphed that into anybody they They've used that authorization to go after those terrorist groups that attacked us on 9-11 to go and launch a whole series of regime change wars in different countries across the Middle East, actually undermining our national security in the process,
saying, well, we're going to go and use this authorization to go into war in Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein because he's working with al-Qaeda and he's got weapons of mass destruction.
All turns out to be lies.
And this war, among others in the Middle East, have actually strengthened Al-Qaeda and ISIS, directly going against the whole purpose of that authorization.
Of course.
Well, I just want to really wait.
I just want to go through this really fast because so you asked some reasonable questions about, hey, let's get all the information about 9-11, which seems reasonable.
You're a soldier serving in the war that was caused by that, by the 9-11 attacks.
You're also on the Foreign Relations, the Committee of Armed Services.
So you, it seems like, yeah, you know what you're talking about, and it's not a crazy thing, and it certainly seems like a sober, rational thing for you to ask.
Except when you go to the Huffington Post, here's the Huffington Post.
Tulsi Garrett floats 9-11 conspiracy.
So they just, so this is, people don't realize how bad the media is.
And I think they are finding out through you.
The thing is, the thing is with this headline, really what pissed me off about it was not anything that they're saying about me, but it's about those families that I was standing with.
You know, there were two gentlemen there, both of their dads were killed.
One of them was working in the World Trade Center.
He got out from the initial attack, went back in to help other people and never came back out.
The other guy, his dad, was the chief of the New York Fire Department.
He went in to try to help save lives, came out, went back in, and never came back out.
And so these two guys have bonded along with all these other families around this shared pursuit of justice and the truth.
And for the media to disrespect and to dishonor them in this way is it angers me to no end.
I could see why.
Yeah, exactly.
So if they don't like you or your narrative, whatever, this is what they do.
But they're really overplaying their hand.
Well, here, I just want to show real quick, their own article debunks you as being some kind of...
But their own article says this.
There are reasons galore to question U.S.-Saudi ties or be skeptical of Saudi denials of responsibility for catastrophes as the slow, painful revelations of the truth about Washington Post writer, Jamal Khashoggi's killing show.
So it's okay when we have questions, but if someone we don't like has questions, then we call them a crazy nut cuckoo, a conspiracy theorist, because we're the Huffington Post.
In 2016, this is in their own article.
In 2016, Congress passed a bill by overwhelming bipartisan majorities allowing the families of 9-11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
So again, this isn't some, she just wants all the information out.
What kind of crazy conspiracy?
That's not a conspiracy.
Again, they're just trying to use it.
So it's funny.
Here's where they say you're nuts.
Here's where they go.
They go, it's part of the same narrative Gabbard used to attract fringe supporters on the left and right to peddle debunked ideas with serious stakes for millions of vulnerable people, like repeatedly claiming that most Syrian fighters fighting the country's dictator, Bashar Assad, are tied to al-Qaeda and other terror groups.
Well, who the hell do you think they're tied to?
Who do you think those people, who do you think the moderate rebels are?
Who do you think El Nusra is?
I'll just throw, what would you like?
Would you like to inform this writer of this article?
Well, here's one example of how uninformed that writer is.
In the media, they'll often talk about how all of the rebels are holed up in the city of Idlib in Syria.
Failing to mention that it is al-Qaeda that is in control of the city of Idlib, that al-Baghdadi found refuge in the city of Idlib.
So there is a gross negligence or intentional misleading happening to mischaracterize the very same terrorist group that attacked us on 9-11 as quote-unquote rebels.
Right, moderate rebels.
Moderate rebels.
It gets worse than that.
How did this happen?
You know, Trump talked about, gosh, I don't know if it was a few months ago now, how that if any other country went in and tried to attack al-Qaeda in Idlib, that he would use our military to go after anyone who dared to do so, basically acting like the big brother and protector of al-Qaeda in Syria.
And so now we're at a place where al-Qaeda, you know, I mean, they pose a greater threat.
They have a greater presence.
Once again, they're in other parts of the world than they did when they attacked our country on 9-11.
It is our foreign policy that has largely caused and driven this strengthening of al-Qaeda rather than actually accomplishing the mission that I and so many others signed up for after 9-11.
It was because of that attack that motivated my decision.
Say, hey, I want to join the military to go after and defeat and destroy those who visited that evil on us on that day.
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Oh, my God.
Chuck Schumber's on the phone again, and I bet it's something important.
Hello.
Oh, my lord, something terrible has happened.
There are simply no words.
I ask you and your audience for thoughts and prayers.
The world mourns.
Chuck, what happened, buddy?
What happened?
What did you call me?
Chuck, Chuck.
I'm sorry.
What happened?
Senator Schumer, please.
I'm sorry.
What happened, Senator Schumer?
Are you sitting down?
Yes.
My good friend Peter King says he will not seek re-election.
Yeah, Peter King, are you kidding me?
I know, Jimmy.
It's simply too painful for words, isn't it?
How do we process these feelings of loss?
We are only left to comfort each other during this difficult time.
You're upset because Peter King is retiring.
Peter King stood head and shoulders above everyone else.
I really tweeted that.
He's been principled and never let others push him away from his principles.
I really tweeted that, too.
Well, he's a racist, Chuck.
And I will miss him in Congress and value his friendship.
I really tweeted that, too.
Exactly.
What part about King will you miss the most in Congress?
The part where he sticks to his principles no matter how vile and repulsive they are.
That always chokes me up.
I love that.
And so do decent, law-abiding, moderate Americans who make up the best part of this country, not the other lowlives who get mad at stuff all the time.
Well, how about if we read some of the reaction you've been getting on your Twitter page, Chuck?
Oh, well, yes, I'd enjoy that because Americans love plain speaking, principled public servants like Peter King, and they will cherish his memory in Congress, as will I. Okay, well, here's one.
Holy crap, you're awful.
That's one.
Okay, and here's another one.
Someone else wrote, No one honest will miss either of you.
Okay, I see.
People are vetting their pain, Jimmy.
It's understandable.
And people keep writing, what in the world is wrong with you?
Have you been hacked?
Oh, that one's talking about those darn Russians, probably.
Here's another one.
Wow, this is disgusting.
Chuck, resign.
People are still processing their feelings.
This one just says, you simpering Gibbon.
Right.
Is Gibbon capitalized, by the way?
Another writes, Chuck Schumer, way past his sell date, followed by hashtag Chuck Schumer, resign.
Well, that's creative.
And this one says, you wrote this, looked at it again, and still hit tweet, huh?
Well, yes, that's exactly what happened.
I can't argue with that.
I'll just keep reading them on down the page, Chuck.
Oh, you don't have to do that.
God, I hope AOC primaries you.
She's just one district, but yeah.
You're such a pathetic simp.
Didn't someone already say that?
Or did they call me a gibbon?
Your judgment is warped.
Please resign.
That would violate my pledge to serve my constituency.
Retire, you goddamn wet slug.
Well, that's silly.
Slugs are wet by definition, aren't they?
What fresh?
What in fresh hell is this?
I don't even get that one.
Good grief.
Have you lost your mind?
Delete your account.
You're the worst Senate leader imaginable.
I can't wait for someone to primary your ass and send you packing.
You're absolutely useless.
Boy, that guy's upset.
Those were four separate people, Chuck.
Yeah, but I bet they're Russians.
Man, I hope that becomes a punchline faster than just on this show.
Do you find it?
I find it stunning that nobody in the mainstream press.
I mean, I guess, I guess I don't, I shouldn't anymore, but I still do.
So exactly as you laid out, right?
So Trump said, you better lay off idlib, right?
And then, and then where do we find the leader of Al-Qaeda?
Trump just bragged about getting the leader of Al-Qaeda in idlib.
That's right.
So why didn't you want?
So that this goes, but nobody asked that.
Isn't it funny?
Nobody asked that question of him.
Nobody says, hey, that's kind of a curious coincidence, isn't it, Mr. President?
Isn't it funny?
No one asks these questions.
It just goes to show you the herd mentality of the news.
And this reveals it right here, right?
So either this reporter is intentionally misleading their own or is just unbelievably incompetent and unknowledgeable about what's happening in the country they're probably trying to write about.
And both scenarios are unacceptable if you claim to be a journalist.
Correct.
Correct.
But that's why this show, I actually have a show.
Like, that's why it's so easy that a guy like me could outdo them.
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
That's why I can do it.
So thank God they suck so bad.
And more and more people, I got to tell you, Jimmy, I'm traveling across the country and we have these town halls and these house parties and I meet people all over the place who are saying, hey, I get my information from Jimmy Doer.
I'm not joking.
Well, I'm unbought and unbossed.
I'll tell you that.
Good for you.
Although I did take $2,500 from an anti-interventionist organization who was supporting my work because I tell the truth about Syria.
And some people then tried to write that and say, oh, Jimmy Doerr took $2,500, which isn't, but really, that would keep me in hairdry for about three months.
And took $2,500.
And then he went on to write that the Assad gas attack was a false flag.
Well, hey, it was.
Turns out it was.
Turns out I was right.
That's another thing people don't want to talk about.
It's like Jimmy took money, then he told the truth.
First of all, it's hilarious.
It's like, oh, Jimmy's in the pocket of Big Peace.
Yeah, right.
It's a very illustrious industry.
Yes.
Oh, that's where the money is, baby, on the pro-peace left.
That's where all the money is.
So this guy retweeted it.
He's one of the UK editors of HuffPo.
His name is Chris York.
He goes, this is a great piece, he says, by this hack guy who wrote that stupid story about you.
And immediately underneath him, people called him out.
This guy goes, it's actually a terrible piece that's pure propaganda.
And underneath, did Henry Kissinger proofright this for you?
It's so funny.
And then I said, Tulsi asks obvious questions about terrorist attack and is immediately smeared by Huffbo acts and CIA Stooges.
It's the only card they have to play.
Smear anti-war people as Russians or conspiracy theorists.
Thank God they're overplaying this card so fantastically that most people see through it.
And how do I know most people see through it?
Because if you look, go to this own guy's website, his own Twitter feed.
He's the editor over at the HuffPo in UK.
He tweets this out.
He got ratioed on his own Twitter thread.
This is the editor over at the UK HuffPo, and he's getting ratioed on his own.
Even the people who follow him don't dude, that's bullshit.
Look at that, 267 responses, only 49 likes.
And it's that because it's a terrible piece of propaganda.
So that's how easy it is to that.
I could debunk and break this down in two seconds.
People on Twitter see right through them.
People are seeing through this.
And I think it's through your candidacy that people are being like, what the F is going on?
People, it's really waking people up, I think, right?
I think it is.
And it's causing more people to question some of the information that they're being fed and to try to find.
Like, this doesn't quite sound at a minimum.
You know, this doesn't quite sound right.
Let me try to get more information and dig for the truth.
So I was watching Fox Business with Maria Butafuco and I mean Botaromo.
And I haven't heard of her.
She had on David Stockman, who used to be Reagan's budget director.
It's before your time.
But I remember David Stockman.
And so he was on there and he's saying, you know, we should cut the military budget.
And they're like, what?
What about it?
Did you see this?
I did not know.
So they said, what about Gassad?
He taxes people with gas.
And he goes, oh, would you get out of the, you got to get out of the mainstream media.
That didn't happen.
That's been debunked.
He's saying it right on Fox business.
This is a guy from the Reagan administration.
Seems like a hippie when he goes on Fox business.
That's, I love it.
So I made a video about it.
He put it on his own YouTube channel.
Oh, good.
So that was fun.
Yeah.
Jimmy, you're making friends everywhere you go.
I love it.
I love it.
So I got to ask you, what did I want to ask you?
I wanted to ask you two questions.
I have to ask you about your, oh, so if Bernie Sanders, oh, this is what people ask.
People go, if Bernie Sanders is already running, why is Tulsi running?
Now, I have an answer for that, but I'll let you answer it.
Look, I made the decision to run for president not long before Bernie made his decision.
First of all, if we're talking about timing, but I made my decision because of very serious issues that I'm concerned about with regard to our country and our foreign policy.
You know, the missile alert that we had in Hawaii back in last year was a massive wake-up call for me in seeing the direct nuclear threat, the existential threat that's facing every single one of us.
As you know, Jimmy, we got that text alert early on a Saturday morning in Hawaii from our civil defense.
It said, missile incoming, seek immediate shelter.
This is not a drill.
And in those minutes, you know, we thought that our loved ones, our families, our friends had literally just minutes to live, 15 minutes to find immediate shelter.
This is not a drill.
And that's what became so stark and clear as, you know, we had college students sprinting across their campus.
We had, you know, parents.
There's a father who lowered his little girl down a manhole trying to find that shelter and realizing there is no shelter.
There is no shelter.
And not just in Hawaii.
If we were to get an attack here right now, you know, where would you go?
No, I get this is double five eighths.
Okay.
So you're going to be okay.
This is all code.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But that was a serious wake-up call for all of us to see two things: both how our leaders have failed us in creating the situation where nuclear strategists are saying, hey, we're closer and closer to the brink of nuclear catastrophe now than ever before, at least in our lifetimes.
And number two, there is no shelter.
So that was a major turning point for me to recognize how once again essential it is that we have a president, commander-in-chief, who's ready to walk in on day one and do that job.
So you have to.
And that's what I'm prepared to do.
So you have a much, for me, for my taste, you have a much clearer foreign policy than Bernie.
I love Bernie.
I'm sure you love Bernie, right?
And so that, for me, I think it's important.
Your voice is important to be heard.
That's why it was so important to get you on a debate stage.
And you see how it scares them.
You see how much it scares them just to have your voice, one person, one person using their whatever 30 seconds they get to answer a question to just mention the word regime change war scares the hell out of them so much.
You see what happens, right?
Yeah.
And you see, I mean, you played that clip earlier saying, well, what is a regime change war?
And you saw that a little bit in the last debate.
And it's frustrating, really.
It's frustrating with that format because it does not allow for a real debate to occur between us.
You know, oh, time's up, time's up.
Commercial break.
You know, we got to go make some money.
Rather than allowing, you know, hey, I want to get across the very specific things that I'll do as commander-in-chief.
I will call a summit within my first week in office between the United States, Russia, and China to begin to de-escalate these tensions, begin to work to end this new Cold War and nuclear arms race, lead with a foreign policy based on cooperation rather than conflict.
Bring our troops home from Afghanistan, end these regime change wars, make sure that we're bringing our taxpayer dollars back here to serve people here at home.
I'm not interested in talking in fluffy language or throwing these words out that sound like platitudes but mean absolutely nothing.
This is the most important responsibility the president has to serve as commander in chief.
Yet I can't think of any candidate or any media outlet that's hosting these debates that is treating this responsibility with the seriousness it deserves.
Oh, come on.
You don't think that Anderson Cooper.
Anyway, I don't know how you feel about being asked questions by a member of the Vanderbilt family.
If there's anybody who has his finger on the pulse of what's happening on regular people, it's got to be a guy who grew.
I mean, Anderson Cooper grew up on the tough streets of Fifth Avenue.
And then, you know, he went to Yale where then he joined the CIA.
And then he was done with that because he wanted to go into reporting.
And anyway, how do you feel about that being asked questions by a guy who was the editor of the New York Times who just got done smearing you and has cheered on every war?
The person sitting next to him who came straight from Goldman Sachs, who husband now still works at Wall Street.
And then the guy next to you is a member of the Vanderbilt family.
These are the 1% are supposed to be representing America, asking our Democratic people that are supposed to be president, the next president.
They're the ones representing us.
They don't speak.
That's why.
So you'll never see a Jimmy Breslin on there asking a question or a Jimmy Breslin type.
You'll never see someone like me on there asking a question.
It's all people who are, you know, Anderson Cooper is worth $100 million before his inheritance.
That's how much he's worth.
So these are the people they have asking questions.
And you wonder why nothing ever gets done in this country because those are the people pushing propaganda.
All right, I'm talking too much.
You should be talking.
Well, you asked what I thought.
I actually made a very clear statement directly to them during the debate about what I thought about these debates really being a disservice to voters and how the DNC partnering with the corporate media has turned it into a political reality TV show, looking out more for profits and ratings and creating more conflict rather than actually seeing this as a platform to inform voters so that they can make the best choice possible.
Okay.
So since the last time you were on the show, you came out with your new single payer plus.
Healthcare.
So a lot of people are working on releasing the full and detailed plan, but I've been talking a lot about this with people in the town hall meetings that we're having.
And one thing that's really interesting, I did an interview earlier today with a local TV news station.
They're saying, well, you know, you're not going to be able to get this passed through Congress because, you know, everybody there hates anything that is a single payer program.
But we've been hearing very different things from people on the road.
Every single town hall meeting we have, every house party we have, we have Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Libertarians all coming together, coming together both to listen, to show support, to recognize that we've got to stand united as Americans for our country.
And hearing from that, there was a guy who came to a town hall in Iowa who talked about how he gets together with the same group of guys every single weekend for coffee and breakfast on a Sunday morning.
And all of his friends voted for Trump.
And all of his friends are supporting whether it's a Medicare for all or a single payer plus type program because they're all very concerned about their health care and the ability to make sure that whether it's for themselves or their loved ones or their kids, some of who may have preexisting conditions or rare diseases, that they are not going to be able to afford the kinds of medicines and care that they need.
So again, this is one of many issues where if you really expose the Washington attitude of self-serving politicians and the pay-to-play culture that big insurance and big pharma are contributing to and actually just focus on how this is actually an issue that's bringing people together around one of the most basic essential needs that we have,
then you see the opportunity to say, healthcare should be about health care, not about a greedy for-profit driven system that actually ends up hurting people the most.
So it used to be that people were 100%, well, so nine out of 10 Democrats, one polled a couple of years ago, said they were for single-payer health care.
And then even a majority of Trump voters were for single-payer health care.
Then that really scared the hell out of them, right?
Them being the lobbyists, the donor class, the big pharma health insurance.
And so they figured out, well, we got to start telling the pollsters to start asking this question in a way that scares the hell out of people away from Medicare for All.
So then they started to ask it this way.
Hey, Bernie Sanders wants to take away all your health care.
He wants to make private health care illegal and have the government run there.
It's like people are like, holy shit, that seems radical, right?
Even though that's not radical what he's proposing, but the way they're proposed, the way they're couching it makes people afraid, right?
So now you see the numbers going down for people's approval of Medicare or single payer, but it's not actually, what they're just doing is responding to the scare tactics that are being used in the questioning.
So what you seem to be supporting, and I just want to get clarified, Clara, I know your plan isn't out yet, but people are saying, oh, Tulsi flip-flopped on Medicare for All.
Now you seem to be not wanting to outlaw private insurance, more like, say, what works in Australia.
So now I'm very familiar.
I've been to Australia.
I know how their system works.
So you want to explain that I could help too.
Yeah, I mean, really, in a nutshell, it is making sure that through a single payer plus plan, every single American would automatically be able to get the care that they need through this plan.
If you also want to purchase a supplementary insurance plan or you've got an employer-sponsored plan or you have something else going on, you have the freedom to do so if you want.
But that does not undermine or take away from every single person being able to get the quality care that every single American deserves.
And everybody pays in.
So nobody gets to opt out.
So the way it works in Australia, and they call their system Medicare, is everybody pays in.
That's right.
And so, but you can also then purchase, but when you pay in, you don't get to choose your doctor, but you get to choose your hospital.
You get to go to a hospital, you get to get taken care of, but you might have to share a room and you don't get to choose your doctor.
Now, if you buy private insurance on top of that, you're allowed to then also pick your doctor and get a private room because you're paying more for that thing.
So that's the way they run it there.
And it seems everybody, when I was there, everybody was really happy with their health care and they couldn't believe how we did it here in the United States.
So that to me is a thousand percent improvement.
That certainly is still Medicare for all.
It's just a Medicare for all.
So the problem it used to be if people kept private insurance was that some people could opt out.
You can't have that.
Everybody has to pay in.
That's how it works, right?
So you're going to have to.
So that's really what makes it so that you're bringing the costs down because obviously you're taking away the massive big insurance overhead profits.
You're creating the ability for our government, the largest purchaser of prescription drugs in the world to negotiate lower prescription drug prices with big pharmaceutical companies, taking advantage of that leverage that we have as their number one client in the world, bringing those costs down and making it so that, hey, I don't go, I personally, I don't go to see the doctor very often.
Obviously, I want to be able to be there, him or her to be there when I need him, but I just, I don't go and see the doctor very often.
Other people may have other needs.
They need to go and see the doctor more often.
This is what allows us to keep those prices down, keep the costs down for everyone, while also taking a very clear focus on preventive care.
I think too often we talk about the healthcare system and the rising costs of health care in a one-dimensional way without actually focusing on what it would look like to have a health care system that promotes prevention and health and well-being.
Yeah, that Medicare for all will happen before that happens.
I'll tell you that.
You think you're going to beat big sugar and fast food and junk.
I think we just start with information.
You know, I think there's a lot of, I think we start with informing people about, you know, even just the simple things like putting the calorie and nutritional content up on the on different menus.
I don't know about you.
It makes me look twice for, okay, maybe I want to choose this over that.
And number two, dealing with the food deserts that we have in this country in a lot of urban cities, a lot of communities of color, communities of poverty where they don't have choices.
So you can give people information, but if they don't have the option that they can either afford or walk down the street, we were in Detroit not long ago and we were visiting with some urban farmers there.
And they just talked about in their neighborhood, the liquor store was the only place that they could go to get, you know, their milk or their bread or the groceries that they needed.
So there's, look, there's no whole foods.
There's no local like farmer's market going on there.
And this is something those people were trying to fix.
They're growing food.
They're turning vacant lots into urban gardens, teaching people how to grow food, how to cook healthy food.
These kinds of things are happening in communities across the country.
I think we got to place a greater emphasis on that, both information and access to quality, healthy food.
But you still are a firm supporter of Medicare for all.
You just have a little bit.
And it's not, you know, I hear when I, I don't want to, but when I hear Pete talking about his plan, it seems very disingenuous.
I think that's, that's, that's one of the problems with using kind of the, the term Medicare for all has become something so ambiguous and meaning something different to so many other people, which which i think requires like actually some explanation okay all right do you have to leave because i was just going to start playing these videos of you having a birthday party with joy behar it was such a good time well look we've got five minutes let's wrap it up in the next five minutes so uh i can i show you this is this facts are important
and we'll get to that.
I want to start with something that I think is also important about facts because recently on your show here I was just going to get to that.
Good.
Helping you out.
You want me to ask you a question?
Just try to count.
If I had a nickel for every time Joy Behar interrupts you during this, right?
I could finance the next political campaign.
Here we go.
Have accused me of being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse, or a useful idiot I think was the term that you used.
Which basically means that I'm naive or lack intelligence to know what's going on.
I want to let your viewers know exactly who I am.
Set the record straight.
I am a patriot.
I love our country.
I am a strong and intelligent woman of color.
And I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security, and the freedom of all Americans in this country.
It was the attacks on 9-11.
Now, obviously, her own crowd sees through her on this and starts to applaud for you because they don't like what's happening to you.
They see through it.
They might disagree with your politics, but they don't agree with the smearing of a veteran and the red-baiting of a sitting congresswoman.
So they start to...
And so Joy can't have that.
She's got to immediately step on the laugh, which is the applause.
This is what we say in comedy.
Joy's a comedian.
She's stepping on the laugh.
She's stepping on the applause, which ruins it.
And to do what?
Why wouldn't she...
First of all, you're obviously not in the...
You're not done talking.
You're obviously in the middle.
You started to talk about why you decided to volunteer.
and so she decides to cut you off because she can't have this.
She's got to control the narrative.
And, you know, it would be the...
You know, the decent thing would be, hey, I smeared you when you weren't here, so I'm going to go ahead and let you talk.
But she doesn't do that.
And she thinks people don't see through it, but people do.
And so let me just play a little more.
Well, I guess we're getting a little bit far ahead of ourselves, but Franklin Graham finds you refreshing.
He doesn't find me refreshing.
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader says he could vote for you.
Joy, this is why...
I mean, you're on Tucker Carlson at least ten times.
Why don't you go on Chris Wallace?
So that's called smearing someone by association, right?
So that's an underhanded trick.
That's a scummy tactic that someone of poor character would use to assault someone of good character.
And so what...
So here I'll show you.
For instance, that's like saying, say, what if Trump said something nice about Nancy Pelosi?
Like if he endorsed her for speaker?
What if something like that...
I mean, something like that happened?
I think she deserves it.
She's fought long and hard.
She's a very capable person.
And, you know, you have other people shooting at her trying to take over the speakership.
If she has a problem, I think I would be able to very easily supply her the necessary votes.
So apparently now Nancy Pelosi has to answer, hey, Trump seems to like you, Nancy.
Donald Trump, the guy who everyone says is the racist, he likes you.
So that's what Joy Behar was just doing to you, was the cheapest, most underhanded thing you could do.
And she's a grown-up.
She has kids herself, right?
So it makes me shudder to imparts to her own kids as if She's doing that on camera in think like what she a parent, that's the kind of thing.
front of the whole country.
she thinks people don't notice and let me tell you something people do because the first comment underneath this video underneath the view's own youtube channel the first comment was this tulsi is not a russian agent but i'm 100 sure now that joy is hillary's agent that's got 1.3 000 likes it's the first comment most popular comment under their own video they see right through her so did you get a lot of that did you get a lot why i didn't know joy what did what did you get after i don't want to put words what did you get after you were on the the view because that's a brilliant move for
you to actually present yourself here's who i actually am not the caricature they make i i wouldn't let uh those kinds of smears go unchecked not not just it's not about taking some kind of self-righteous stand the problem is with this this smear campaign that uh is being waged by hillary clinton joy behar and other people um it's it's really a message to the american people that if you stand up and speak truth to power that if
you are offering a dissenting voice if you are calling for peace calling for an end to regime change wars calling for an end to the new cold war and arms race then you too will be smeared as they are doing to me uh when we look at the freedom of speech that we have in this country that we look at you know the freedom to assemble freedom to protest freedom to gather peacefully uh what they are doing is directly undermining
those freedoms by creating this culture um really of fear and silencing people from raising their voices in our democracy and i think that's a very dangerous
thing uh i 100 agree with you um which reminds me of one more thing i have to ask you before you go so thanks for staying and indulging me um people made a ruckus out of your uh vote they said was anti-bds right um there was a tell us why you voted for that because there's a reason and then you also voted for rashid talib's also bill that kind of spoke to that too so can you talk about that yes there were a few bills that came before congress uh either for
co-sponsorship or actually came to the floor for a vote um i took a vote on a bill that uh spoke to finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in the middle east part of that bill said uh i don't have the exact language of base it it did condemn the bds movement uh which i didn't necessarily agree with the language but i voted on it because i don't think that this bds movement is the only or perhaps even the best way to achieve that uh
peaceful outcome of stability and security for both the palestinian people and the israeli people i think that's got to be our focus and objective uh right alongside that i co-sponsored a bill uh i think was originally introduced by ilhan omar and congressman john lewis okay that spoke to the protection of freedom of speech in our own country uh which i wholeheartedly uh stand up for to protect and
defend especially as a service member willing to give my life to do so so while i personally disagree with the tactics of the bds movement to achieve that objective um i absolutely unwholeheartedly support the rights for those who choose to be involved with that or who are choosing that as their method of protest to be able to continue to do so without fear of repercussions either from state government or our federal government.
So the natural question then is: if you don't support the BDS, which is a nonviolent way to protest the occupation, and what nonviolent protests, because when they nonviolently protest, they shoot them.
So this would be another.
So what would be a way that they could protest nonviolently if you don't support BDS?
Well, this is a movement, I think, that especially this legislation is specifically talking about people here in the United States as a way for them to lodge their positions and protesting positions within our own government, which I support their right to do so.
As we look to the negotiations ultimately that need to take place between the Palestinian leadership and the Israeli leadership, I think that that negotiation process is ultimately what's going to be required to find a lasting peaceful resolution.
Right.
But don't you think though?
So I think that, you know, the way it worked this out.
See, again, I'm older than you, so I remember the apartheid state in South Africa and how they used divestment.
And that was actually a good pressure point.
So I think you got to, whatever is nonviolent, I'm okay for it.
But you support a two-state solution, right?
I do.
Okay.
All right.
Tulsi Gabbard, thanks for coming in on Veterans Day.
Now you're off to a town hall tonight.
Thank you.
Yes, we're going to have a town hall this evening focused on honoring veterans and talking about a lot of the other issues that we face.
Okay, Tulsi Gabbard, thanks very much.
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