Since announcing her presidential campaign earlier this month, Gabbard has faced an increasing amount of criticism from mainstream Democrats, who've been quick to attack the Leloaloa native for her January 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"That was amazing," Zeese told Kiriakou, recalling Weiss' remarks. "The New York Times on these kinds of issues of US militarism is not to be trusted… and I think they don't like Tulsi because she is challenging the bipartisan pro-war, pro-militarism position that New York Times echoes."
Joining Gabbard in the race for the nomination are several Democrats such as US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); US Rep. John Delaney (D-MD); South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and US Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
But while many may think that Harris is a progressive candidate who previously fought against the death penalty and the three-strikes law, voters would do well to look deeper into the Democrat's past, according to Zeese.
"If you scratch the surface and see what she did, you find that she was a horrible prosecutor, horrible [California] attorney general who did not stand up against these issues and spoke rhetorically, sounded good… played the identity card well as a black Asian woman," he stressed.
"She's challenging in that way, but she is the classic corporate Democrat who you can see what you want in her as a voter, and that's the most successful Obama-type Democrat."
Zeese, who is a member of the Green Party, later told Becker that it's "going to be hard for any third party candidate, left third party in particular, running in 2020." He added that the Green Party needs to build itself up "because the 2020s are going to be a key decade."