Former Democratic Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard recently exposed that she had been put on the TSA’s “Quiet Skies” watchlist, which is often used for tracking potential domestic terrorists. Now, she tells Glenn that she’s STILL on that watchlist! Tulsi joins Glenn to discuss this, as well as her endorsement of Donald Trump. She tells Glenn that the Harris/Biden “neocon elitist warmongers” have gotten us dangerously close to war … but seem to be more focused on diversity of skin color and gender identity than diversity of thought and actual military readiness. And as the woman who destroyed Kamala Harris in a 2020 election debate, Gabbard also details her advice to Donald Trump ahead of his first debate with Harris.
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GLENN: We welcome to the program now, Tulsi Gabbard. The author of For Love of Country, which really, took on a whole new meaning, Tulsi. Yesterday, when you endorsed Donald Trump. Welcome.
TULSI: Yes. Good morning, Glenn, it's great to be with you.
GLENN: Yes. Did you realize how much you looked like Wonder Woman? I'm just pointing that out there.
TULSI: No. Hey, I'll take that compliment any day of the week.
GLENN: So tell me, why it is so important for you to now take the step that will make you even less popular with people, on the left.
(laughter)
And put a target on your back, honestly. Because they think he is absolute Hitler.
Why are you joining the campaign?
TULSI: I mean, the title of my book says it all.
It is truly for love of country.
And because I know, first hand, what's at stake, in this election.
You know, so often, we have elections that are kind of reduced to partisan differences, of, well, you know, Democrats think this, and Republicans think that. But this election is very different. It's much bigger than one party versus another. What's at stake here is freedom.
And the fact that we have a candidate, in Donald Trump, who believes in freedom. And the Constitution.
And who -- and I've had personal conversations with him. Who understands the cost of war. And the seriousness of the fact that because of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, we are closer to the brink of nuclear war, now, than ever before.
That's a serious issue, that he looks forward to, as president. Commander-in-chief. To taking on. Walking us back from the brink of war.
And you contrast that with Kamala Harris. Who in so many ways. Over the last three and a half years.
Has shown, she will not hesitate to under mine our freedoms.
We just saw Mark Zuckerberg come out, publicly. And say, yeah. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris essentially bullied Facebook into censoring Americans free speech.
We have seen the political retaliation against Donald Trump. We have seen the political retaliation against the free speech of everyday Americans. And I'm the most recent target for the Kamala Harris administration, for criticizing Kamala Harris.
They put me on a secret domestic terror watch list, which I'm told is still operational and still going on.
And on the issue of war and peace, which doesn't get talked about often enough, in these presidential elections. But really is core to our ability to live in a free and peaceful and prosperous society. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have gotten us embroiled in multiple wars, in different parts of the world.
And it is directly because of their foreign policy, that we sit here, one spark away from nuclear war.
GLENN: So are you -- were you shocked?
Because I was shocked.
It was almost like part of her acceptance speech, at the convention, was written by John Bolton.
She was -- I mean, she sounded like an absolute hawk, like Lindsey Graham, when it comes to war.
Did you feel that way?
TULSI: I did. I did very much so. But it didn't surprise me.
Because it was just another proof point, showing that, you know, people -- Joe Biden hasn't been calling the shots and making the decisions over the last three and a half years.
If Kamala Harris is elected president, neither will she. She is the latest figurehead for the military industrial complex, the Deep State, national security state. All of those who derived the mainstream propaganda media. Those who derive power or profit, from us being in a constant state of war, wrote those talking points.
And that script that was fed into that teleprompter. And Kamala Harris declared it loud and proud. So we know exactly who she will be working for.
Not from the American people. Not for our national security. Nor, quite frankly, does she care one iota, about those of us who wear the uniform and those who serve.
And this is very compelling, especially yesterday, that I made this announcement on the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing in Paris. Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. So who is running the country?
And, you know, I saw. Who was it?
Some Hollywood celebrity came out, it doesn't matter if she doesn't give an interview. It doesn't matter if she doesn't articulate her platform. She just has to win. And I thought, you know, that is voting for an oligarchy.
That's -- because we don't know who is running the country right now. It's obviously somebody, or a group of people.
They have an agenda. None of us have voted for those people.
We don't even know who it is. We're an oligarchy.
TULSI: That's exactly right.
And this is -- this is important for voters to recognize.
And, you know, the more these Hollywood celebrities, and other people say those kinds of things. It just reinforces that fact.
And also, the fact that they think, that we as voters are so stupid, as to fall for it.
To fall for the lie. The facade, that they are -- that they are creating.
Yes. It is Tony Blinken, who has turned the State Department, which is supposed to be the department that is responsible for diplomacy, and preventing more into what is essentially a war department.
And we see Jake Sullivan, president, who is a national security adviser in the White House. And we see people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who still are calling the shots. And many others, whose faces and names. Will not be on the front page.
Or on your television any time soon. Both in the government. And outside of the government.
In the military-industrial complex. Who -- who are -- they are a part of this. They are this cabal of neocon elitist warmongers. Who will put their power and their profits ahead of people, every day of the week.
GLENN: Let me -- let me play a couple of things for you.
Because Donald Trump, I think would be wise to have you in his Department of Defense.
And there's a lot of work to do. Here's Susan rice in 2016, on the imperatives of national security.
VOICE: For starters. A diverse national security workforce, enables us to unlock all of our nation's talent.
There's some 320 million people, in the United States.
Nearly 40 percent are minorities.
And an increasing number of them are earning college and graduate degrees.
As America becomes more diverse, so too, do our best people.
The next Colin Powell, or Madeleine Albright. Or Bill Richardson.
GLENN: Stop.
I don't want to waste your time. She goes on, and she says that, inclusion is a national security imperative.
Now I want you to listen to the lieutenant colonel, who is a man, posing as a woman, who is with space force. Listen to this.
VOICE: So inclusion is a national security imperative.
We fight today, and we are going to fight in the future, using brain power.
And if that brain, who is going to revolutionize the way we fight in space. We fight in cyber, just happens to be in a trans body. You should want them all serving alongside me. And for your organizations, it's the same way.
Those perspectives that we get from a diverse set of individuals. It's been talked about on stage, a lot, regarding the science behind high-performing teams. We need those perspectives.
But it's inclusion that actually drives that. Because you can bring people in. And if they don't feel safe, to speak up. If they don't feel safe to bring their full selves to work, you're not going to get the value of the diversity.
GLENN: Okay. So, Tulsi, the kind of inclusion that I look for, and I think most Americans are for.
Is diversity of thought. Somebody at the table who has the guts to say, general. Mr. President, please do not do that. And here's why.
We don't -- we are focused on all the wrong kind of inclusion. That means nothing, to people.
Where does this fit on a priority list for you?
TULSI: Well, the fact that they care more about the color of your skin. Or how you identify, or your sexuality.
Then they do about your capability, and what you bring to the table, in service to our country. Is -- is really indicative of their entire philosophy, of their identity politics. And it's put our country in a dangerous place. I served in the Army for over 21 years, and I can tell you, having people surrounding myself with people in different positions. I started as a -- as a private. I'm now lieutenant colonel. I tell my soldiers.
Now, I'm a battalion commander. I tell them, if you disagree with my plans, or my positions, I want you to tell me.
That you disagree. And tell me why. Because you may have a better idea.
That's exactly what we should be looking. That diversity of thought, that environment. That is inclusive of people, who have a -- a -- a different way of cooling do go things.
So that we can come up with the best plan. The best course of action.
The best outcome.
And that's true of the military.
And every agency outside the government.
That to me, is what real leadership is about.
And that is essential, that changes. Another reason it's important that Donald Trump wins this election.
GLENN: So a couple of other questions, then I'll let you go.
You debated Kamala. And you pretty much wiped the floor with her.
What advice are you going to Donald Trump, if any, and what do you think about the attempt to change the rules now? By Kamala, in the debate?
TULSI: Yeah. You know. Donald Trump is not a politician. I think that's what people really, really love about him.
It wouldn't surprise you to know, again. He wouldn't do debate press like a typical politician would.
So it -- but it's been great to be able to spend some time with him. And his team.
Really for me. If there's anything I can help at all.
Why it's the fact that I shared a stage with Kamala Harris.
I know how she thinks and how she is going to -- how she's going to try to lay some traps. Try to bait Donald Trump into walking into the narrative, that she will try to push for the American people. And, quite frankly, how she's going to try, how she's -- how she will try to hide her record.
That to me, is the biggest thing. She says one thing, that is directly opposite to what her record shows. And this really will be an opportunity, for Donald Trump to expose that to the American people.
And to your second question about Kamala Harris is trying to change the rules now, less than two weeks before the debate. I think that points to that fact. That points to her weakness. That the American people need to see. She's demanding that the debate be seated. And that she be allowed to bring in notes into the debate.
Why does she need notes? If she knows the issues. If she knows the most important policies and the challenges the American people are facing today, why does she need notes?
Well, we know why. It goes back to the thing we started with, is because she needs somebody else to tell her, what to say.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Last question. Yesterday, I had RFK Jr on at this time. And conservatives like me. People who have been waiting for people to wake up, and see the insanity in the country.
Are excited. Because you're now campaigning for Donald Trump. RFK is campaigning for Donald Trump.
And it seems like there are people waking up to see, this -- this party, that says that they are protecting democracy. Is the furthest thing from, you know, defenders of democracy.
Do you see people waking up.
Have you experienced -- do you think it's happening.
Or are we --
TULSI: No. It is. It is.
And I'll give you two brief anecdotes that happened within the last 24 hours.
I land in an airport, late last night. At about 11 o'clock at night.
Was walking off the plane. And a guy named Jake walked up to me.
Said, hey. I really appreciated what you did today, and he talked about his family. His family came from a long line of traditional Democrat, you know, construction union, hard-working American families. They have voted Democrat, almost their entire lives.
And it is not until just recently, just over these past few days, that they have -- he got calls from his dad yesterday, after I made my announcement. And he said, wait. Hang on a second.
What's going on here. I need to pay closer attention to this. And rethink the way that I thought I needed to vote. Second story. There's a teacher at a small private school. Who I met during my campaign of the presidency.
In 2020. Follows me on Instagram. He talks about real education. Not the broken education system. But he's always voted for a third party candidate. He voted for me. But he voted for third party candidates.
And that's what he was going to do, and his statement yesterday to me, and on his Instagram was, hey, I think we need to rethink things. If Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, and other common sense minded Americans who we support, are now endorsing Donald Trump.
He's like, I need to check myself. I need to look in the mirror and say, what am I doing to actually make a difference, rather than just make a statement?
GLENN: That is fantastic news.