"I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits," Harris said. "Especially when people are at zero."
WASHINGTON – Sen. Kamala Harris hit back at Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during an interview with CNN on Wednesday after the congresswoman from Hawaii tore into Harris for her record as a California prosecutor on the debate stage in Detroit.
The senator from Calfornia then slammed Gabbard for previous comments she made about Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, calling her an"apologist" for a man"who has murdered the people of his country like cockroaches." Gabbard has agreed that Assad is one of the"brutal dictators in the world." And during a CNN town hall in March, she declined to call him a war criminal but said that"if there is evidence that he committed war crimes, he should be prosecuted as such."
Gabbard said she would "never apologize for doing all that I can to prevent more of my brothers and sister from being sent into harm's way to fight counterproductive regime change wars." Cooper pressed her on the subject, saying,"On a factual basis, Bashar al-Assad is a murderer and a torturer. Do you not agree with that?" Analysis: Go easy on him? Sorry, Joe Biden. Not at this debate, or anytime soon."There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," Gabbard said.
She said making the call whether to seek the death penalty"was a very difficult decision" and"not about some fancy opinion on a stage." After Harris went after former Vice President Joe Biden during the first Democratic debate in Miami for opposing federally mandated busing to integrate schools while he was in Congress, Gabbard accused Harris of making "a false accusation that Joe Biden is a racist.
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