Tulsi Gabbard

First of all, I sent out a blast to every member of Congress, encouraging them to co-sponsor the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.

And...

It was my version of what you went through with the petition.

Very, very few.

And I don't remember the exact number.

I think we got... I'd have to go back and look at the number, but I think we got like Rand Paul in the Senate to introduce it in the Senate.

But a very small handful of members of Congress actually signed on to this legislation.

Why?

They tell themselves that...

and this is me guessing because nobody ever gave me a good reason why not to.

What I imagine is they tell themselves, well, you know, this dictator's a bad guy and we gotta take him out and well, if we gotta work with these people or those people, then that'll help us to get there.

And then, you know, like they don't actually think it through.

I can't even, even if I were to, you know, kind of like red team it and put myself in their shoes, I can't come up

with a rational, logical argument about why they would refuse to sign legislation called the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.

Either they are ignorant and choose to be ignorant,

Or they believe that the ends justifies the means.

But the ends that they are looking at, again, they are not rooted in reality.

When you look at the real consequences of their policies and their decisions...

it turns out time and time again to be an outcome that is counter to the best interest of our security and the interests of the American people.

Actually, there was a reporter just off the House floor, you know, all 435 members of Congress go and you vote, and the reporters, you know, they'll huddle around the few exits that are there and try to catch people on their way in or out.