IRAN VOWING TO RETAILUATE AFTERU

IRAN VOWING TO RETAILUATE AFTERS

IRAN VOWING TO RETAILUATE AFTER.

AIRSTRIKES TAKE DOWN QASSEM

SOLEIMANI.

STEVE: HERE WITH HER REACTION IS

HOUSE ARMED SERVICES MEMBER

TULSI GABBARD WHO JOINS US FROM

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SHE'S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.

TULSI, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.

>> GOOD WHO MORNING.

ALOE E THAT.

STEVE: STEVE LOW THAT, INDEED.

WE KNOW YOU WERE HAVING A TOWN

HALL LAST NIGHT WHEN THIS NEWS

BROKE.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE

PRESIDENT'S ORDER TO TAKE OUT

SULEMANI?

>> THIS WAS VERY CLEARLY AN ACT

OF WAR BY THIS PRESIDENT WITHOUT

ANY KIND OF AUTHORIZATION OR

DECLARATION OF WAR FROM

CONGRESS.

CLEARLY VIOLATING THE

CONSTITUTION.

IT FURTHER ESCALATES THIS TIT

FOR TAT THAT'S GOING ON AND ON

AND ON, WILL E LIS SIT A VERY

SERIOUS RESPONSE FROM IRAN AND

PUSHING US DEEPER AND DEEPER

INTO THIS QUAGMIRE, AND IT

REALLY BEGS THE QUESTION FOR

WHAT?

WHAT ARE WE --

AINSLEY: HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY

THAT?

>> WHAT IS THE END STATE AND THE

GOAL HERE?

LOOK, I'VE SAID FOR A LONG TIME

THAT GOING TO WAR WITH IRAN

WOULD MAKE THE WAR IN IRAQ AND

EVEN AFGHANISTAN LOOK LIKE A

PICNIC.

IT WILL BE FAR MORE COSTLY AND

DEVASTATING IN AMERICAN LIVES

AND IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS.

AND I DON'T BELIEVE THE AMERICAN

PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH

IRAN.

THEY UNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS THIS

IS.

AINSLEY: CONGRESSWOMAN, HOW DO

YOU JUSTIFY IT WHEN YOU LACK AT

THE STATISTICS?

70% OF ALL U.S. DEATHS IN IRAQ

FROM 2003-2007 WERE ORCHESTRATED

BY ASSUME HANDNY.

WHEN THEY -- SULEMANI.

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO JUST STAND BY

AND LET THE IRANIAN-BACKED

MILITIAS INVADE OUR TERRITORY

AND POSSIBLY KILL AMERICANS?

>> NO, LOOK, THERE IS NO

QUESTION ABOUT HOW EVIL THIS GUY

IS.

NO ONE SHOULD SHED A SINGLE TEAR

FOR HIS DEATH.

BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY THE

QUESTION HERE.

THE REAL QUESTION IS WHAT ARE WE

TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE IN

THIS COUNTRY, AND WHERE WILL

THIS DECISION THAT THIS

PRESIDENT MADE TO ESCALATE THIS,

THESE TENSIONS AND THIS CRISIS

AND COMMIT THIS ACT OF WAR

WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL

AUTHORIZATION?

IT WILL LEAD US TO AN OUTCOME

THAT ACTUALLY FURTHER UNDERMINES

OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND

NEEDLESSLY SENDS MORE OF OUR

TROOPS INTO HARM'S WAY.

YOU KNOW, TRUMP TALKED A LOT IN

HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY

AND EVEN SINCE HE'S BEEN IN

OFFICE ABOUT HOW HE WANTS TO END

FOREVER WARS, BUT HIS ACTIONS

TELL A DIFFERENT STORY.

JUST SINCE MAY OF LAST YEAR

ALONE, MAY OF 2019 ALONE, WE'VE

SEEN MORE THAN 15,000 U.S.

TROOPS, ADDITIONAL U.S. TROOPS

BEING DEPLOYED ACROSS THE MIDDLE

EAST.

ALL OF THESE ACTIONS PUSHING US

CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THIS WAR

WITH IRAN.

AND THIS STEP THAT HE JUST TOOK

LAST NIGHT SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY

ESCALATED THE SITUATION.

BRIAN: SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR

INFLUENCE IN IRAN, WHEN YOU

LOOK -- EXCUSE ME, IN SYRIA,

WHEN YOU LOOK AT IRAN'S

INFLUENCE IN LEBANON, WHEN YOU

LOOK AT IRAN'S INFLUENCE IN

IRAQ, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR

INFLUENCE WITHOUT THE,

THROUGHOUT THE REGION AND NOW

THEIR PURSUIT, COVERT AND OVERT

OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON, ARE YOU

COMFORTABLE WITH US JUST PULLING

BACK AND WATCHING, SITTING IN

THE STANDS AND SAYING PASS THE

POPCORN?

>> NO.

I THINK WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT

WHY AND HOW WE'VE GOTTEN TO THIS

POINT WHERE IRAN HAS A MUCH

GREATER LEVEL OF INFLUENCE AND

PRESENCE IN IRAQ AND SYRIA.

AS YOU MENTIONED.

IT WAS BECAUSE OF OUR REGIME

CHANGE WARS IN IRAQ AND AND

LIBYA AND SYRIA THAT WE'VE SEEN

THESE COUNTRIES TURN IRAQ AND

SYRIA ESPECIALLY TURN MORE

TOWARDS IRAN FOR HELP AND FOR

ASSISTANCE, STRENGTHENING THEIR

PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLOWING FOR

IRAN TO GAIN FAR GREATER

INFLUENCE AND PRESENCE IN MANY

DIFFERENT RESPECTS IN THESE

COUNTRIES.

REALLY THE QUESTION THAT WE NEED

TO ASK OURSELVES NOW IS WE HAVE

MEN AND WOMEN IN HARM'S WAY

TODAY IN THESE COUNTRIES, AND

WHAT PURPOSE ARE THEY SERVING?

ORIGINALLY IT WAS THAT THEY

NEEDED TO GO AND TO PREVENT

ANOTHER al-QAEDA INSURGENCY,

AN ATTACK AND THREAT TO THE

UNITED STATES, TO DEFEAT THESE

TERRORISTS THAT ATTACKED US ON

9/11.

THAT'S THE CONGRESSIONAL

AUTHORIZATION THAT OUR TROOPS

ARE THERE FOR.

BUT REALLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING NOW

IS THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY THE CASE.

al-QAEDA'S STRONGER, AND IT IS

BECOMING MORE CLEAR THAT OUR

TROOPS ARE REALLY THERE TO FIGHT

AGAINST IRAN.

ONCE AGAIN, A WAR THAT CONGRESS

HAS NOT AUTHORIZED.

THERE HAS BEEN NO --

BRIAN: RIGHT.

I DON'T THINK --

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I THINK THAT WAS A RESPONSE TO

THE --

>> IT JUST HAPPENED.

IT JUST HAPPENED THOUGH.

STEVE: CONGRESSWOMAN, YOU

MENTIONED CONGRESS.

CONGRESS RETURNS TO WORK

TOGETHER.

THAT'S YOUR OTHER FULL-TIME JOB

IN ADDITION TO RUNNING FOR

PRESIDENT.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE

LOOKING IN AT NANCY PELOSI AND

WONDERING WHAT EXACTLY IS

HAPPENING WITH IMPEACHMENT.

SHE STILL HASN'T TURNED OVER THE