that the oversight committee is pursuing a legislative purpose. hillary clinton suggests that 2020 candidate congresswoman tulsi gabbard may be the favorite of the russian government. clinton said that russia has quote, got their eye on somebody who s currently in the democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. gabbard hit back at the comment with a series of tweets over the weekend writing hillary and her gang of rich powerful elite are going after me to send a message to shut up, tow the line or be destroyed. we the people will not be silenced. gabbard pushed back on claims she is planning a third-party run in 2020. the hawaii congresswoman has previously defended bashar al assad, an ally of russian president vladimir putin. a recent report from the new york times and nbc news analysis from february showed that russia news sites and social media linked to the kremlin have been promoting
predictions, but i think they ve got their eye on somebody who s currently in the democratic primary. and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. she s the favorite of the russians. they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that s assuming jill stein will give it up, which she might not because she s also a russian asset. she s a russian asset, i mean, totally. okay, gabbard responded with a series of tweets friday slamming the former secretary of state calling her the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the democratic party for so long. now clinton didn t name gabbard in the interview. when asked by cnn if she was referring to the hawaii congresswoman, clinton s spokesperson said if the nesting doll fits. later he clarified by a tweet, clinton had been referring to republicans, not russians in her grooming comment. gabbard reiterated she would not run as a third-party candida
stein, saying she s a total asset. what was interesting was she was saying something about grooming someone for 2020. pretty clear who it was. she doesn t say it outright but it doesn t take a detective to figure out who she is talking about. she is talking about tulsi gabba gabbard, hawaii congresswoman, and she s gotten more coverage than other candidates on rt and other propaganda machines. she s gotten boosted on boxes on twitter thavt have been tied to russia. it s important to note that tulsi gabbard ruled out a third party campaign, saying there was a smear and it was baseless. take a listen to what hillary clinton had to say in this podcast. they re also going to do third party again. and i m not making any
eight days left to qualify for the first debate, there are a few other candidates who are still close to making it. billionaire environmentalist tom steyer has hit the fund-raising numbers already. he only needs one more poll to put him at 2% or more and he s into the debate. ta tulsi gabbard, the hawaii congresswoman. we asked the democratic party today for any information into how they were planning to structure a two-part debate if they need to do another one of those, if more than ten people qualify, if they get 11 or 12 or 13, they re not saying yet what their plans are for that, but, again, julian castro is in as of today, and meanwhile this rollicking giant democratic field rolls on in an election season that took some surprising turns today. and that news is next. stay with us. this is jamie. you re going to be seeing a lot more of him now. -i m not calling him dad.
you can t beat president trump with double talk on this plan. vice president biden, you re just simply inaccurate in what you re describing. the reality is that our plan will bring health care to all americans under a medicare for all system. our plan will allow people to start signing up on the first day. reporter: harris faced tough criticism for her record as a prosecutor in california, from hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard. but i m deeply concerned about this record. she fight to keep tax bail system in place, that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way. reporter: according to a cnn fact check, harris advocated for higher bail amounts from gun-related crimes after being elected san francisco s district attorney in 2004, but she also introduced legislation as a senator in 2017 to reform or replace the practice gabbard criticized. as the elected attorney general of california, i did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 mil