 So it seems like at each debate Tulsi Gabbard kind of sets her sights on one particular candidate at first It was Kamala Harris and she basically gave Kamala's campaign a death blow She then tried to target Elizabeth Warren at the last debate It didn't necessarily land, but she got in a pretty solid shot at Pete Buddha judge And I think this one's gonna hurt him a little bit. Take a look But I want to get back to Pete Buddha judge and his comment about Experience I Pete you'll agree that the service that we both have provided to our country as veterans By itself does not qualify us to serve as commander-in-chief I think the most recent example of your Inexperience in national security and foreign policy came from your recent careless statement about how you as president be willing to Send our troops to Mexico to fight the cartels as As commander-in-chief Leader of our armed forces, I bring extensive experience serving for seven years in Congress on the foreign affairs committee On the armed services committee on the homeland security committee meeting with leaders of Countries around the world working with military commanders of different commands Dealing with high-level national security briefings Understanding what's necessary the preparation that I've gotten to walk in on day one to serve as commander-in-chief I know that it's par for the course in Washington to take remarks out of context But that is outlandish even by the standards of today's politics. Are you saying that you didn't say that? I was talking about us Mexico cooperation. We've been doing security cooperation with Mexico for years with law enforcement Cooperation and a military relationship that could continue to be developed with training Relationships for example, do you seriously think anybody on this stage is proposing invading Mexico? Alliances and if your question is about experience, let's also talk about judgment one of the foreign leaders you mentioned meeting Was Basha or a loss of I have in my experience such as it is whether you think it counts or not since it wasn't Accumulated in Washington enough judgment that I would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that Whether you would send our troops to Mexico to fight cartels and your answer was yes The fact checkers can check this out, but your point about judgment is absolutely correct Our commander-in-chief does need to have good judgment And what you've just pointed out is that you would lack the courage to meet with both adversaries and friends To ensure the peace and national security of our nation I take the example of those leaders who have come before us leaders like JFK who met with Khrushchev like Roosevelt who met with Stalin like Reagan who met Like Reagan who met and worked with Gorbachev these issues of national security are incredibly important I will meet with and do what is necessary to make sure that no more of our brothers and sisters in uniform are Needlessly sent into harm's way fighting regime change wars that undermine our national security I'll bring real leadership and experience to the White House So that was certainly one of the highlights of the debate It's one of the instances of you know kind of a back-and-forth that really stood out to me And I really will give Tulsi Gabbard credit I've been critical of her in the past, but she deserves credit because if you are Attending this debate it behooves you to attack the person who is now largely viewed as the new front-runner at least in Iowa Right because if you're a front-runner you have to prove that you are worthy of that position And you have to defend your front-runner status, but for whatever reason People didn't want to attack people to judge like Kamala Harris was handed a golden opportunity to attack people to judge For not reaching out to black voters enough, and she backed away like there were numerous instances where Pete would a judge could have been attacked and People chose not to go after him now Amy Klobuchar to her credit kind of went after him with regard to an experience But you know she she didn't really target him in the way that Tulsi Gabbard did So everyone else on the stage should really thank Tulsi Gabbard for doing their dirty work for them because they should have Really focused on Pete Buttigieg So was important to call him out because this is someone who absolutely is a fraud who needs to be called out So I give her credit for that that being said Do I believe this was as effective as her attack on Kamala Harris? No, I think that this is definitely going to hurt him a little bit I don't know that it will have the same impact that her criticism of Kamala Harris had now I'll tell you why that's the case. So when she Criticized Kamala Harris she threw a bunch of stuff at Kamala Harris Kamala Harris couldn't have possibly responded to everything Every point of criticism that Tulsi brought up in that short period of time So Kamala Harris was kind of just left flailing. She kind of tried to laugh off Tulsi's attacks and so you really want to overwhelm your opponent and This is a strategy that people often denounce It's it's called gish galloping where you just kind of throw a bunch of stuff at someone overwhelm them make it so they can't you know Respond and you kind of you wound them that way, right? But in this instance, Tulsi Gabbard really centered her focus on one thing the idiotic You know prospect of potentially sending US troops to Mexico to combat gang and drug violence And we started the war on drugs that led to the violence in Latin America But that's a different story for a different day She focused on that and because she just focused on that one issue I think it wasn't as powerful as it could have been because you know, I've been talking about Pete Buttigieg lately His record is terrible, right? He has a plethora of scandals in South Bend that she could have also lumped in she could have threw out You know the scandal with him firing the police chief and there's basically an endless supply of content For criticizing Pete Buttigieg But she only focused on the one scandal and as a result He was able to respond directly and kind of defend himself now overall Stepping back. I think that it's pretty apparent that Tulsi Gabbard got the better of that exchange between the both of them Because once she invoked his name, he kind of got in some shots at her But I think she did a good job at like spinning it and directing the conversation back on to him But he wouldn't have been as equipped and prepared to defend himself Had she just thrown a number of things at Pete Buttigieg So she you know, she talked about how that Statement really demonstrates how he's inexperienced to lead and then she went on to talk about her experience and how she serves on You know different committees and whatnot. I would have spent that time just still hammering Pete Buttigieg With that being said, we'll focus on what was said there So he responded by saying actually you took me out of context. That's not necessarily what I said And then he said do you seriously think anybody on this stage is for invading Mexico? Now he tried to play this off as if you know She was being hyperbolic and she was misrepresenting what he said and Tulsi Gabbard asked for a fact check And I'm going to fact check her now. She is 100% correct And I'll let you see for yourself So this is from Brian Anderson of the Sacramento Bee who writes South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg said at a Latino forum in Los Angeles on Sunday that he'd be willing to send US troops into Mexico To combat gang and drug violence There was a scenario where we could have security cooperation But a judge said even so he added the caveat I'd only order American troops into conflict if American lives were on the line And if it was necessary to meet treaty obligations his campaign later clarified that Buddha judge would only be open to military use As a last resort in response to Mexican cartel violence or an outside threat that endangers the country's security So what he tried to do was make it seem as if she was accusing him of wanting to invade Mexico Now that's preposterous and that's kind of clever on his part But the facts are the facts. He said what he said she called him out for it knocked him for it And she's right So fact check it's 100% true. So what did he try to do? He tried to Spin this and make it about her, which is really what you want to do, right? If you're backed into a corner you deflect and rather than playing defense you start playing offense So he knocked her for Predictably meeting with Assad now this has been tried out time and again whenever somebody is backed into a corner by Tulsi Gabbard Kamala Harris was the same way they bring up Assad. She did this after the debate I think Tim Ryan after the debate when she Got into a heated back and forth with him in that very first debate He also knocked her for meeting with Assange. It's not Assange Assad And yeah, it's just at this point in time It's just tired, right? I think that diplomacy is important and Pete would have judged kind of Shed light into his horrible foreign policy when she defended herself now. I think that she did a good job at actually Spinning this and defending herself and also kind of demonstrating why he's a warmonger So, you know, she likened her meeting with Assad for you know purposes of diplomacy To you know, when JFK met with Khrushchev and Roosevelt met with Stalin and then what did Pete Buttigieg say? Like how Trump met with Kim as if that's a bad thing I dislike Donald Trump But what would you prefer Pete Buttigieg because Donald Trump is either hot or cold, right? He's he's at a hundred percent or zero percent or would we prefer him making this half-assed attempt to you know Work out some type of peace deal with Kim Jong-un Look, I've said this before Donald Trump is in over his head and he doesn't really know what he's doing like he doesn't really have any Core philosophy when it comes to diplomacy or foreign policy. So he doesn't really know what he's doing, right? He is influenced by who strokes his ego the best. He's a child. He's a man, baby So I don't think he's actually going to be capable of achieving some sort of lasting peace But should we give him credit for at least trying? Yes Because what Pete Buttigieg is doing is he's doing what Hillary Clinton did to Obama back in 2008 When she criticized Obama for saying he would meet with Iran without preconditions This is part of diplomacy and Tulsi Gabbard is right to say that it's it's okay to meet with our adversaries Now Tulsi Gabbard is not perfect here because while I do believe that her meeting with Assad for purposes of peace mattered um, I don't like that she will give our allies a pass for example She has a relationship with Modi that makes me feel very uncomfortable because he is a fascist and He is currently escalating tensions with Pakistan by just taking over Kashmir and this could lead to nuclear war, right? These are both nuclear armed countries So it goes both ways like you can't just agree to meet with our adversaries and then continue meeting with our allies and give them a Pass like I also want you to use your position as commander-in-chief to put pressure on our allies So pressure, you know the leader of the Philippines for example Robert Duterte To stop doing all of these extra judicial killings of his own people Call out Myanmar for their genocide of the Rohingya like use your position of power To actually fight for peace and not give our allies a pass So, you know, I have my criticisms of Tulsi Gabbard there with that being said on the substance of this exchange Um, she was a hundred percent correct So overall I think that she definitely got the better of this exchange Mainstream media is probably not going to see that this way because they love people to judge And they they don't like Tulsi Gabbard So we'll see how this plays out. We'll see how this affects people to judge in the polls if I had to predict This probably won't have the impact that it had You know when Tulsi hit Kamala Harris But if this just like knocks him down a few pegs in and of itself, that's great And I am wholly grateful to Tulsi for doing what nobody else really seemed to want to do on the debate stage You like you've got to go after the frontrunner And Tulsi Gabbard did that now do I wish she'd also direct her, you know, I or at Biden Yes, because he also is a regime change Candidate, right? He voted for the Iraq war like the same thing that she criticizes Hillary Clinton for I mean She doesn't criticize Joe Biden for so I don't necessarily know the criteria that she uses to evaluate who she's going to attack You know, there's certainly some type of logic to it You know based on coming to the debate and who she's going to target Maybe just she she selects targets that she thinks she can pull voters in from maybe that's it But I don't know but overall great job to Tulsi here I think she did a good job in calling on people to judge there's area for improvement But at the same time what she did was great I'll take what I can get he needs to be called out and she did just that