The legislation that I introduced in Congress was called the Protect Women Sports Act.

There were a number of leading Democrats on the House floor with really harmful words,

which sends a message to anyone else who's even thinking about the truth,

step in line and shut up. That's the message that they sent, come play.

Are you hopeful about the future of the country?

And all honesty.

All right, we're here with a woman who needs no introduction, but I'll give one anyway.

Tulsi Gabbard, a former Congresswoman, former presidential candidate veteran.

Thanks for being here, talking to me.

Great to be here, Matt. Thank you.

So I guess we'll start with, I'll be obviously the reason you've been in the news most recently.

You're announced that you're leaving the Democrat Party.

I think your exact words were an elitist cabal of war mongers among other very accurate labels.

Yes.

So can you walk me through that problem even like back to the beginning when you first started

thinking that you had to make this move? Can you kind of walk through that?

It's something that has been building up over time.

I don't think there was one exact specific moment where I knew that this was

what had to be done, but look going all the way back from when I was running for president

and seeing even in that election in the Democratic primary in 2020, Democrat leaders working

with the for-profit, corporate media, interfering in our democracy by limiting who voters were exposed to.

When I made the decision to run for president, I naively thought like, hey, you know,

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