Tulsi Gabbard: “The deep state, unfortunately, has existed within our…”

“I mean, that seems to be what your declassified materials are showing. Can you comment on that? Sure. The deep state, unfortunately, has existed within our government and within the intelligence community for much longer than it precedes President Obama, it precedes Hillary Clinton. I'll go back to kind of the first example in my own life. That was an eye opening experience when the deep state was activated.” (01:43–01:54)

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