Tulsi Gabbard

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.

And I remember this woman, I forget what outlet she was with, one of the main ones, and she was trying to justify that to me.

She was saying, well, Congresswoman, don't you think that sometimes you have to work with people who you don't like?

in order to accomplish your objective.

And I just remember looking at her, I'm saying, so you are justifying us providing money and weapons to the very exact same terrorist group that attacked us on 9-11?

You think there's justification for that?

And she's like, oh, well, you know, I mean, I just, you know, some people might say, well, you know, I was just like, give me a break.

What planet are— Yeah, and it's not, okay, well, these guys are, you know, drug runners or, you know, they've got, like, running diamonds in the black market.

I mean, you know, this is not—these are not, like, hoodlums in the neighborhood that they're talking about here.

I'm all about the direct approach, man.