independent counsel, which i served, it called for this vast report to do what? to go to the house of representatives for purpose of the impeachment. let s get the justice department out of that business entirely. tucker: just leaking against people they don t like. that is terrible. inha fact, let me comment on tht if i may. tucker: very quickly if you would. when i read the new york times article, my first reaction was we need an investigation right now as to whost leaked this. we think we know. what was their motivation and why the timing? this was many months ago and there s been no suggestion whatsoever to support this outrageous charge against the president. tucker: pretty scary. ken starr, thank you very much. my pleasure. tucker: kelsey gabbard from hawaii is running for president asaske a democrat. some of our foreign policy news diverts from those with the officials in washington so they re trying to destroy andin
of ridiculously accused of loving saddam hussein. people whoho opposed the intervention in libya in 2011 were accused of being apologists for colonel qaddafi and now she is being accused of being a supporter of someone that she actually called a brutal dictator because she s asking why it is that we are spending a billion dollars a year, or were, arming rebels we don t know, trying to remove the leader of a foreign country and engaging in all kinds of policies that are actually worsening the security of the united states rather than helping them. you can criticize her but to accuse her of being a supporter of or a best friend of as claire mccaskill put it, it s just idiotic but it s really toxic as well but it s the kind of the argument hauled out always to defend washington foreign policy. tucker: it s the kind of argument that ends the argument. at
at those words. maybe trump is right. russia is a nuclear armed power on the other side of the planet. it does not have the power to invade the t united states. it can t close international shipping lanes, it is not seriously threaten our key allies like japan or great britain. isis there some reason than that we should inherently be in conflict with russia? is there more over vast public support in this country for fighting a a proxy war in syria with the kremlin? and how many american parents anxious to send their kids to die for the territorial and integrity of ukraine? an issue that we are supposed to think is very important. outside a few neighbors in washington, not very many people it turns out. so trump did raise a fair question at that press conferenceai in 2016, in washington, saying that out loud is considered treason. vladimir putin policies almost being parroted byna donald trump. you had him say only nice things about putin. he never spoke ill about russia.
intelligence agencies. that s unprecedented. the list goes on. tucker: let me ask you, there s no question that he has a different view from the neocon establishment in washington, the ones that have destroyed our country in the world and have never gone to great dome of prison unfortunately as a result of it they did. so he is different, there s no doubt about that but i m just wondering is a kind of factual matter, is there something wrong if i were to say on the air i kind of like russia, or i think they are a lot better than china, t would that make my loyalty to america suspect? with that qualify me for an fbi investigation? no. but if you are a presidential candidate and said to the public, to the russians, please from hillary clinton, please steal from her, that would actually and that you actually knew at the intelligence agencies that the russians were stealing from her and that trump was using it hundreds of times and we actually don t know what else these intercepts
i am not a supporter of congresswoman her candidacy. at the democratic the democratic party liberals about some of her support for the war oned terror, her affinity for hindu nationalism in india, or affection for some really terrible dictators that i think she should answer for it and clear about but what s really going on is twofold. one is that in that 2016 she resigned from the democratic national committee because she accused debbie wasserman schultz and the dnc of cheating on behalf of hillary and unsupported bernie sanders, so democrats hate her for that. but theyey also hater because she s been questioning a lot of washington orthodoxy that both political parties support, including why it p is that we continue to try and change the regimes of countries far away like in syria why we continue to prop up regimes that make the world hate us like we do in