Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I Didn’t Go to Syria to Meet with Assad’

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CARLSON: "Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has an unlikely defender, Tulsi gabbard. A secret seven day trip to Syria and Lebanon where she met Assad, along with civilians and soldiers caught up in the conflict there. When she came back, she denounced the previous administrations efforts to oppose Assad. What did she see there? Tulsi gabbard it’s with us tonight. Thank you for joining us. You met with a solid, not many people can say that. Donald Trump at the same time has been emphasizing his plan to take on ISIS one on one. Based on your conversation with Assad, do you think they would welcome an alliance with U.S. Military to fight ISIS?"
GABBARD: "In your intro, I just want to make a correction. I didn’t go to Syria to meet with Assad, I am I met with the Syrian people, to share the care, the love and the aloha that me and my people have for them. When the opportunity presented itself to meet with president Assad, I took it because I believe that if we profess to care for the Syrian people, we want to end the suffering for them, we have to be willing to meet with whomever we need to in order to accomplish that. That was much of what I discussed with him in that meeting. How do we get to a place where we can end this war where the terrorists in his country can be defeated? Terrace like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, all of these other groups that are working with them and make it so with their life, so the Syrian refugees who fled Syria to not only the Middle East but Europe and other parts of the world are able to return home.”