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Tulsi Gabbard slams COVID relief bill as a 'slap in the face' to Americans - YouTube
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so joining me now is chelsea gabbard
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congresswoman from hawaii she is one of
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two house democrats who broke with their
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party and voted against the stimulus
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bill
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and she joins us now uh congresswoman
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great to have you here tonight thank you
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for being here
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so why did you vote against the bill
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because this bill was a slap in the face
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to the american people
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people who are sitting in their cars
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waiting in line for hours to get free
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food from the food bank
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people who've been without jobs for
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months people who are
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are concerned about getting evicted from
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their apartments or their homes
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because they haven't been able to pay
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their rent uh to say that
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it's okay to give hundreds of billions
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of dollars to corporate special
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interests to foreign countries
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uh to the military-industrial complex
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but to the american people who are
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struggling and suffering and who need
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help the most
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you get 600 bucks it's an absolute
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insult and the american people
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deserve better you know
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on the defense bill uh as i said there
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is seven billion dollars in there we
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heard
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from uh general miller chairman of the
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joint chiefs that he is very concerned
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about the
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chinese build-up of the navy he feels
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that we are
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unprepared um in terms of our naval
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ships
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and he wants to put that money towards
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that do you think that that
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is a wise idea and how ready do you
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think we are
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given your own experience and uh your
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service in iraq
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oh that that's a very big topic about
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our defense
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priorities and and whether you look at
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the big massive spending bill that
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i voted against a couple of nights ago
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that's that's one area where we should
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be asking questions about how are
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taxpayer dollars being used in a
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responsible way that best serves the
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emergency that we're facing
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i think you're also talking about uh
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this national defense
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authorization act uh it is i've actually
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voted against this bill when it came to
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the house floor
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for a couple of reasons number one it is
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a massive
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bloated spending bill it heightens up
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the the new cold war we are in with
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uh increasing tensions between the
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united states and russia and china
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really with serious consequences we're
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talking about nuclear-armed nations here
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and we've got to focus on how we can
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best de-escalate
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those tensions but it also includes a
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provision in there that ties
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this president or any president's hands
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as they're trying to bring our troops
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home from afghanistan so you know i know
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trump vetoed this bill earlier today and
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one of the main reasons he did so was
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because of this provision
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section 230 right this thing that has to
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do with
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giving big tech companies like google
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and facebook and amazon
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total legal immunity and the reason why
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he's taken a stand on this and i support
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his position on this
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is because congress has failed to act in
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in
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making sure that the american people
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have a
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fair and free opportunity to the public
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square and to make sure that these tech
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companies that are censoring people that
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are choosing whose voices are heard and
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whose aren't
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taking sides in political elections that
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they are not
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immune from lawsuits and so i think it's
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a critical thing to hold congress's feet
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to the fire because
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i've introduced legislation to to fix
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section 230
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other people have as well they have
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failed to take action and the american
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people
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deserve to know that these big
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corporations
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uh don't have greater influence over
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their representatives in congress
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than the american people do which is
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unfortunately the situation that we're
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in right now
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yeah um just quickly before i let you go
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i know that you spoke out about the fact
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that some members of congress like
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alexander ocasio-cortez
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uh was showing off her vaccination she
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did a cute instagram video
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of you know the whole thing and it sort
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of rubbed a lot of people the wrong way
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what do you want to say about that
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tonight
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um okay i think of people like my aunt
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who's
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you know she's 65 years old she has a
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severe
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uh underlying health condition that's
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compromised her immune system
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she ca she has basically been imprisoned
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in her home
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because she knows that if she goes out
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she faces a very real danger
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of dying if she catches covet it is
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people like my aunt it is the elderly
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the most vulnerable
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who should be getting this vaccine first
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right alongside our first responders and
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and high-risk health care workers
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because this is
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this is really a matter of life and
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death for them uh for others
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if my colleagues i've called on them if
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members of congress if you are healthy
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if you were under the age of 65
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join me in refusing to get the vaccine
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at least
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until our seniors and elderly americans
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are able to do so
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yeah i think a lot of people agree with
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you on that congresswoman great to have
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you here tonight thank you very much
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