HAVE YOU ON THE CASE.

WE'LL BE BACK TO YOU IF WE NEED

TO.

ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT

MOMENTS LAST NIGHT WAS

TULSI GABBARD SAME

PRESIDENT TRUMP AS BLEVINS HANDS

WERE ORDERING OUR TROOPS OUT OF

NORTHERN SYRIA.

SHE BLAME LAWMAKERS ON BOTH

SIDES WAS A PARTY WHERE WHAT SHE

CALLS THE REGIME CHANGE MORE.

SHE SAID THAT ABOUT 25 TIMES.

SHE BLASTED SIENNA IN

"THE NEW YORK TIMES" WHICH ARE

HOSTING THE DEBATE FOR THEIR

ATTACKS ON HER.

>> "NEW YORK TIMES" ON CNN HAVE

SMEARED VETERANS LIKE MY SELF OR

CALLING FOR AN END TO THIS

REGIME CHANGE WAR.

TWO DAYS AGO

"THE NEW YORK TIMES" PUT OUT AN

ARTICLE SAYING THAT I AM A

RUSSIAN ASSET AND A ASSAD

APOLOGIST.

THIS MORNING, CNN SAID ON

NATIONAL TELEVISION, A

COMMENTATOR SAID I'M AN OUT OF

RUSSIA COMPLETELY DESPICABLE.

>> Dana: LET'S BRING IN

REBECCA HEINRICH.

I WANT TO START WITH HER

PUSHBACK AGAINST THE MODERATORS,

CNN AND "THE NEW YORK TIMES"

CNN AND "THE NEW YORK TIMES."

JUSTIFIED IN HER OUTRAGE ABOUT

IT.

>> I THINK SHE IS JUSTIFIED.

I THINK SOME OF THOSE ARTICLES,

IF THEY DIDN'T ESPECIALLY CALL

HER A RUSSIAN ASSET, ARE

DEFINITELY IMPLYING THAT SHE IS.

BECAUSE SHE TAKES CONTRARY

POSITIONS ON FOREIGN POLICY.

I THINK SHE'S RIGHT TO BE

SERIOUS ABOUT THAT.

IT SEEMS LIKE ANYTIME THE MEDIA

DOESN'T LIKE A CANDIDATE WHETHER

IT'S TULSI GABBARD OR

DONALD TRUMP, THEY START

PLANNING RUSSIA AND SOME SORT OF

CONSPIRACY TO HELP THE RUSSIANS.

>> Dana: SHE DID SAY THE

REGIME CHANGE WAR.

I WANTED TO GET YOUR TAKE

BECAUSE SHE TALKING ABOUT ASSAD.

I RECALL UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA

AND UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP,

REGIME CHANGE FOR ASSAD WAS OFF

THE TABLE.

>> IT WAS OFF THE TABLE.

PRESIDENT OBAMA RECEIVED ALL

KINDS OF FLAK BECAUSE OF HIS

HESITATION FOR PUNISHING ASSAD

FOR USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

SHE'S WRONG ABOUT THE ASSESSMENT

OF THAT.

ASSAD IS STILL IN POWER AND

SYRIA.

TULSI GABBARD I THINK OF HER AS

SORT OF THE FRANKENSTEIN A

FOREIGN POLICY.

SHE WANTS TO BE HAILED AS THE

PEACE CANDIDATE SIMPLY BECAUSE

SHE INSISTS THE UNITED STATES

SHOULD HAVE PEACE.

ALL OF HER SOLUTIONS FOR

ACHIEVING PEACE GO CONTRARY TO

ACHIEVING PEACE WHETHER IT'S

DECIMATING THE DEFENSE BUDGET,

CUTTING AMERICAN NUCLEAR

WEAPONS, OR PARTNERING WITH ITS

BUTCHERS LIKE ASSAD OR

VLADIMIR PUTIN.

>> Dana: SHE HAD AN EXCHANGE

WITH A FELLOW CANDIDATE AND ALSO

A VETERAN, MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG.

LET'S WATCH A LITTLE BIT OF THAT

EXCHANGE.

>> I KNEW ONE OF THE THINGS

KEEPING US SAFE WAS THE FACT

THAT THE FLAG ON MY SHOULDER

REPRESENTED A COUNTRY KNOWN TO

KEEP HIS WORD.

SPIGOTS ARE REALLY WHAT YOU'RE

SAYING, MAYOR PETE, IS THAT YOUW

SAYING, MAYOR PETE, IS THAT YOUU

SAYING, MAYOR PETE, IS THAT YOUD

CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HAVING

U.S. TROOPS IN SYRIA FOR AN

INDEFINITE PERIOD NEXT TIME.

TO CONTINUE THIS REGIME CHANGE

WAR THAT'S CAUSED SO MANY

REFUGEES TO FLEE SYRIA.

>> YOU CAN PUT AN END BACK TO

ENDLESS WAR WITHOUT EMBRACING

DONALD TRUMP'S POLICIES.

>> WHAT IS AN ENDLESS WAR IF

IT'S NOT ANOTHER REGIME CHANGE

WAR?

>> Dana: YOU FOLLOWED IT

CLOSELY AND I WONDER IF YOU

THINK, WHAT WAS IT GOOD

DISTILLATION OF WHERE THE DEBATE

STANDS?

>> I THINK IT WAS AN IMPORTANT

MOMENT.

THAT'S WHY TULSI GABBARD IS

POPULAR BECAUSE AMONG

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, SHE'S

AGAINST THESE ENDLESS WARS.

IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOMEBODY

LIKE PETE BUTTIGIEG TO EXPLAIN

WHAT HE HAS AS AN ALTERNATIVE.

I WOULD ARGUE THAT WHAT

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DONE IS HE'S

RUINED SOME TRUST OR HE HAS PUT

A CRACK AND SOME TRUST IN

REPUBLICANS FOR THE WAY HE'S

GOING ABOUT TRYING TO WITHDRAW

FROM SYRIA.

PETE HAS A HARD TIME EXTENDING

WILD AND ALTERNATIVE IS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THE

ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEY ARE GOING

TO WITHDRAW.

OUR TROOPS ARE IN HARM'S WAY.

EVACUATION IS CAUSING PROBLEMS.

TURKEY IS VIOLATING AGREEMENTS

AND THREATENING U.S. FORCES.

WE COULD HAVE A RISE OF ISIS AND

WE ARE ABANDONING THE KURDS HAVE

HELPED THE UNITED STATES.

ALL OF THESE ARE PROBLEMS THAT

ARE PRESENTED BY THE WAY

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SUDDENLY

WITHDRAWN.

BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN

ALTERNATIVE.

IF NOT THIS WAY, THAN HOW DO WE

DO IT?

>> Dana: PRESIDENT TRUMP

ADDRESS ALL THOSE POINTS IN HIS

PRESS CONFERENCE A LITTLE BIT