♪ ♪ >> Tucker: RECENTLY IT WAS CONSIDERED TOTALLY OUT-OF-BOUNDS TO QUESTION SOMEONE'S PATRIOTISM BECAUSE OF POLITICAL DIFFERENCE IN WASHINGTON. THAT WAS CALLED McCARTHYISM. AND ONLY THE LOWEST SORT OF PEOPLE ENGAGED IN IT. NOW IT IS COMPLETELY PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR PEOPLE ON THE LEFT TO ACCUSE YOU OF TREASON IF YOU DARE. CASE IN POINT, DEPTH TULSI GABBARD, A DEMOCRAT AND FORMER SITTING MEMBER OF CONGRESS, CHALLENGE THE IDEA IT WOULD BE GOOD POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES TO FIGHT A HOT WAR WITH RUSSIA. FOR SAYING THAT, BY THE WAY SHE SPEAKS WITH THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS IN MAKING THAT OBVIOUS POINT, BUT FOR DOING IT, MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES CALLED HER A TRAITOR. "TULSI GABBARD IS PARROTING FALSE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA," WROTE MITT ROMNEY OF YOU CALL. "HER TREASONOUS LIES MAKE WHILE COST LIVES." LUDICROUS BUT STILL ALIVE AGREED. HE SAID TULSI GABBARD IS A "RUSSIAN ASSET" WHO BELONGS IN JAIL. NOW THIS KIND OF STUFF FLIES AROUND THE INTERNET ALL DAY LONG AND MOST PEOPLE KIND OF SHRUG IT OFF AND KEEP MOVING BUT TULSI GABBARD DOES NOT SEEM LIKE SHE IS GOING TO. SHE IS ON THE VERGE TONIGHT OF TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST BOTH MITT ROMNEY AND KEITH OLBERMANN. WE SHOULD TELL YOU, YOU PROBABLY KNOW, KELSEY GARRETT IS A U.S. ARMY RESERVE OFFICER ENTERING JUST TONIGHT TO EXPLAIN HER DECISION. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON. >> THANKS, TUCKER. >> Tucker: HOW DO YOU PLAN TO RESPOND TO THIS? >> FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY I TOOK AN OATH, AS YOU MENTIONED, I STILL SERVE IN THE U.S. ARMY RESERVES, TODAY I AM A HUMAN LIEUTENANT COLONEL AND 19 YEARS AGO WHEN I LISTED IN THE MILITARY I TOOK AN OATH TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. I TOOK THAT VERY SAME OATH WHEN I WAS ELECTED TO SERVE IN CONGRESS, WHERE I SERVED FOR EIGHT YEARS. SENATOR MITT ROMNEY HAS TAKEN THAT OATH, AS HAS EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO HAS HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING, AND IF MITT ROMNEY HAD READ THE CONSTITUTION, HE WOULD KNOW THAT TREASON COME OF A CRIME HE IS ACCUSING ME OF THAT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH IS SO SERIOUS THAT OUR FOUNDERS DEEMED IT TO BE THE ONLY CRIME WORTHY OF BEING DEFINED IN OUR CONSTITUTION. AND SO THE SITUATION WE ARE FACING HERE IS A VERY SERIOUS ONE, NOT BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT ME, BECAUSE IT HAS A MUCH BIGGER IMPACT ON OUR COUNTRY. AND POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE BASICALLY THREATEN AND INTIMIDATE PEOPLE INTO SILENCE, AS MITT ROMNEY, KEITH OLBERMANN, AND OTHERS ARE DOING, THEY ARE HOPING TO ACHIEVE THAT EFFECT, THAT IF ANYBODY DARES TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT, THAT IF ANYBODY DARES TO CRITICIZE WHATEVER THE PERMANENT WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENTS NARRATIVE IS, THEN YOU WILL BE SMEARED AS A TRAITOROUS, TREASONOUS TRADER, AND FRANKLY, IF MITT ROMNEY IS SERIOUSLY BELIEVES I HAVE COMMITTED TREASON, WHY HASN'T HE BROUGHT AT ANY EVIDENCE OR BROUGHT CHARGES, HE CLEARLY DOESN'T CARE THERE ARE ANY CONSEQUENCES, OR AS I MENTIONED, HE IS JUST TRYING TO INTIMIDATE AND BULLY ME AND OTHERS INTO COURT SILENCE. >> Tucker: MAY ASK A QUESTION? MITT ROMNEY FAMOUSLY DODGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM, HE IS A COWARD. YOU SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY AND YOU TALK TO PEOPLE WHO ALSO SERVED AND MIGHT BE CALLED TO FIGHT THIS WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. PEOPLE CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE U.S. MILITARY, HOW MANY BELIEVE RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER A WAR WITH RUSSIA IS A GOOD IDEA CONSTITUTES TREASON? TO A LOT OF FELLOW OFFICERS THINK WHAT YOU SAID IS TREASONOUS? >> OUT A SINGLE PERSON I KNOW, THAT I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING WITH, AND EVEN THOSE I DON'T KNOW PERSONALLY, WHO TAKE THIS OATH TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, TO BE LOYAL TO OUR COUNTRY, WEARING THE UNIFORM, KNOWING WE CAN BE CALLED TO GIVE OUR LIVES IN SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY AT ANY TIME, I AM CONFIDENT IN SAYING THEY WOULD NOT AGREE WITH HIS ACCUSATIONS. >> Tucker: YEAH, I AM NOT SURPRISED AT ALL. THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY FACE THE RISK UNDERSTAND WE NEED THE CONVERSATION. SO HOW DO YOU THINK HE MIGHT REACT TO THIS? >> WE WILL SEE. WE HAVE SENT THE CEASE AND DESIST LETTERS TO SENATOR ROMNEY AS WELL AS KEITH OLBERMANN AND IT IS IN THE HOST THEY WILL RECOGNIZE, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT, ON SECOND THOUGHT, WE UNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS THIS CRIME OF TREASON IS. WE WILL APOLOGIZE AND WE WILL MAKE SURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN BECAUSE IF WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY, WE CARE ABOUT OUR DEMOCRACY, WE CARE ABOUT FREE SPEECH, THE LAST THING ANYONE WITH A PLATFORM SHOULD WANT TO DO IS TO CREATE THIS CHILLING EFFECT WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS, WHETHER THEY ARE MAINSTREAM OR NOT, WHETHER THEY ARE IN LINE WITH THOSE IN POWER IN WASHINGTON OR NOT. THIS IS AMERICA, AND WE ALL NEED TO STAND UP AND PROTECT THIS SPEECH BECAUSE TODAY IT IS ME, TOMORROW IT COULD BE YOU. >> Tucker: YEAH, I MEAN, OLBERMANN IS A SAD HAS BEEN WHO LIVES ALONE WITH HIS CATS BUT MET ROMNEY IS A SITTING U.S. SENATOR. I HOPE
Perfectly said Tulsi 🤗