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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us.

00:01:23.040 President Trump should be on the campaign trail today, but instead, the Marxist Dems election

00:01:28.680 interference strategy working at least for a day. The president had to be in the Washington,

00:01:34.360 D.C. appellate court before two Biden judges and one Bush judge. He was there to make his case for

00:01:41.420 immunity in the sham Jack Smith January 6 case. Junkyard Jackal Jack Smith's team maintaining

00:01:48.540 that presidents are not entitled to absolute immunity and that Trump's actions on January 6

00:01:55.580 fall far outside a president's official job duties. So Jack Smith is telling us then that ensuring free

00:02:03.660 and fair elections for the country he leads isn't within a president's official job duties.

00:02:09.560 And that's pure bull. One of President Trump's attorneys, John Laro, spoke after the hearing

00:02:15.200 yesterday. He said if the appellate court doesn't grant President Trump immunity, Joe Biden should

00:02:21.060 be prosecuted for trying to keep Trump from becoming the next president. If we adopt what the special

00:02:26.900 counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora's box to political

00:02:34.320 prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution. In fact, Joe Biden could

00:02:42.860 be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next president of the United States.

00:02:50.460 We don't need political prosecutions. We need political process.

00:02:54.960 President Trump saying what Joe Biden is doing with his political persecution of Trump

00:02:59.960 will cause bedlam in this country. I think they feel this is the way they're going to try and win

00:03:04.640 and that's not the way it goes. It'll be bedlam in the country. It's a very bad thing. It's a very bad

00:03:09.700 precedent. As we said, it's the opening of a Pandora's box and it's a very, it's a very sad thing that's

00:03:16.520 happened with this whole situation. When they talk about threat to democracy, that's your real threat to

00:03:23.580 democracy. And I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity. Very simple. And if you don't,

00:03:30.840 as an example, if this case were lost on immunity and I did nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong,

00:03:37.860 I'm working for the country and I worked on very hard on voter fraud because we have to have free

00:03:44.960 elections. We have to have strong borders. We have to have free elections. Those two things 0.86

00:03:48.300 almost above all. The truth is Biden probably doesn't really even realize what's happening.

00:03:54.060 The man is so far gone, so obviously severely impaired, he's only doing what his puppet masters 1.00

00:04:00.840 tell him to. And Politico is reporting that as Congress looks to pass an almost $1.7 trillion spending

00:04:08.060 bill, a border and immigration deal this week is highly unlikely. Rhino minority leader Mitch McConnell

00:04:15.080 has told Senator James Lankford to work with Dems Senators Chris Murphy and Kristen Sinema to come

00:04:21.980 up with a bill Joe Biden will sign. We can be sure that all the compromise, if there is any,

00:04:28.780 will come from the Republican side of that deal. Our guest today is Senator Tommy Tuberville of the

00:04:35.020 great state of Alabama. And Senator, always great to talk with you. Welcome back to The Great America

00:04:40.880 Show and great to have you with us. Let's start with this apparent negotiation that's been going

00:04:46.080 on between the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and the Biden administration. Your thoughts?

00:04:51.780 Well, number one, the Democrats want nothing to do with closing the borders. That's, you know,

00:04:56.240 they're wanting more voters to come in. They think that we'll vote for them in the long run, Luke.

00:05:00.780 It's a catastrophe. It's one of the worst things that's happened in your and my lifetime,

00:05:05.280 here being a citizen of this great country. But the Democrats want zero solution. The only reason,

00:05:12.020 the only reason that there's any kind of conversation that that's going on with trying

00:05:16.860 to come up with some kind of solution or some kind of new priorities for the border

00:05:20.300 is because the Democrats and a few neocons or Republicans want a hundred billion dollars for

00:05:26.380 Ukraine. I mean, that's the only reason if Ukraine wasn't a factor, Lou, we wouldn't even be 0.62

00:05:31.360 talking about this. So I've heard that Senator Chris Murphy on the Democratic side and Senator

00:05:38.500 James Lankford have been talking over the holidays and trying to work out something. I think they've

00:05:42.500 got something that they agree to, and they're writing a text this week, possibly could vote on it next

00:05:48.080 week. But there's nothing they could do at the border that would satisfy me, to be honest with you,

00:05:52.740 because, you know, at the end of the day, we can come up with all these solutions. They're not going

00:05:58.720 to do anything. There's laws right now to stop what they're doing, Lou. They're not going by them.

00:06:02.280 They're breaking the law, the Constitution. Joe Biden's broke laws every day. He's been in office,

00:06:06.420 and it's not going to change. Is the Republican leadership in the Senate and obviously the House

00:06:14.180 as well, do they really believe the American people are dumb enough to believe that the Republicans

00:06:21.100 are getting anything for going along with Biden, that there is any way in the world that Biden would

00:06:27.680 start shutting down what is now the cartel border along that 2,000-mile stretch?

00:06:34.040 Yeah, my understanding, Lou, is they're coming up with some kind of number metric of how many

00:06:39.460 would be feasible or that we would allow to come across. And I'm thinking, wait a minute,

00:06:45.540 one illegal coming across is against the law, and they're talking about 4,000 or 5,000 a day.

00:06:51.080 Then, okay, we'll cut it down from 10,000 to 4,000 or 5,000. Now, if the American people swallow that

00:06:55.780 and agree to that, along with Democrats and a few Republicans, we got huge problems because

00:07:02.700 these people are costing us billions of dollars a month. They're bringing across drugs.

00:07:10.280 There's 190 countries, 193 countries in our world, and 190 countries have been known that

00:07:18.080 have been participating and come across our borders. So I don't think the American people are going to buy

00:07:23.660 anything other than what President Trump was trying to do is build a dang wall, get it up,

00:07:28.080 and then allow the people that we won't allow to come here. That's the only way that we're going 0.89

00:07:32.560 to be able to handle this. Well, there's something very interesting going on because Biden, who's in

00:07:37.240 immense trouble because of his approval numbers, he's got the lowest polling of any president of

00:07:42.220 modern history. But on the issues, the approval rating on issues, his approval rating right now

00:07:48.680 is 26% on immigration and border security. That's the lowest on any issue, and it ranks amongst the

00:07:57.060 very highest issues for the American people. And yet, there is no response whatsoever. There's no

00:08:04.420 change in direction by this Marxist-dim party of Democrats, and no change of policy or direction

00:08:12.240 whatsoever on the part of the Biden regime. What do you think?

00:08:17.820 That's the reason in 2016, Lou, that the American people elected a non-politician businessman by the name of

00:08:25.400 Donald J. Trump because he ran on his number one agenda was stopping people at the border, and people are sick

00:08:34.120 and tired of it because our American tax dollars go more to anything, go to the people that are coming across

00:08:40.140 more than the people that need help here in our country. And so it's going to be the same idea here. It's going

00:08:46.280 to be the same agenda. President Trump's going to run on the border. He'll win because of that. We cannot continue

00:08:52.100 to do that, and we've got to get the Republicans on board with President Trump. There's 18 of us that

00:08:58.580 have said, hey, we're for President Trump. I don't know where the other ones are. Sooner or later, I guess

00:09:03.440 they'll come to their senses and say, we've got to have a Republican in there that's going to be for

00:09:09.680 the American people. But that is exactly why Joe Biden, his numbers have just tanked because of

00:09:18.360 what he's done at the border. And again, you know, you've got Mayorkas. They're thinking about

00:09:22.900 impeaching. The guy's not going to close the border. You can impeach him all you want. I mean,

00:09:26.920 he's already told everybody the border is not open. It's closed. Well, I'll tell you right there,

00:09:30.600 he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. So we have got to have people that actually care about

00:09:34.860 this country and the people of this country. Well, you're talking about 18 endorsements out of the

00:09:39.760 Senate. Is Senator Lankford one of those endorsing the president?

00:09:43.140 You know, I don't know whether he is or not. I know that Senator Tom Cotton was the last one that

00:09:49.380 came out last week. I was the very first one because, you know, I represent Alabama and we're

00:09:53.800 strong for the Constitution and for the president, President Trump. And of course, he's up here in

00:10:00.680 D.C. today, right down the street from my office, having to go to court again because the Marxist

00:10:06.840 Democrats are going after him, trying to keep him off the ballot because they know if he wins,

00:10:10.800 he's fixing to close shop with what they're doing and they can't allow that to happen.

00:10:14.880 So they're going to fight him every way they possibly can. They're going to try to put him

00:10:17.620 in jail. It's criminal what they're doing. But I think the American people who are finally

00:10:22.180 seeing through it, if they don't, we got huge problems anyway.

00:10:25.640 Right. And by the way, the order of endorsements for President Trump from the senators,

00:10:32.040 by the way, they are ordered by intelligence, character and judgment. And you wouldn't be surprised

00:10:38.800 to learn that Senator Tommy Tuberville is number one in those endorsements. Senator, we're coming

00:10:44.480 right back with you. Folks, stay with us. We're going to take up a lot of issues you don't want to

00:10:50.100 miss. We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville. We'll be right back.

00:10:59.540 We're back now. We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville. I want to turn to the GOP lawmakers.

00:11:06.280 They're not too pleased about the one point, almost seven trillion dollars that Johnson and

00:11:13.180 Schumer have come to come to agreement on. Apparently, what is the sense? Because I know

00:11:19.220 there's a lot of hostility and disappointment and frustration in the House with what Speaker Mike

00:11:25.280 Johnson did with the the triumvirate of I'll call them basically rhinos and dims. 0.66

00:11:33.340 What is the situation in the Senate on the budget agreement?

00:11:37.840 Well, first of all, Lou, when we go back home in our states, the people of this country that

00:11:42.100 actually pay the taxes and pay the bills, they want the budget cut. They want to see

00:11:46.600 see our deficit go down. Thirty four trillion dollars and lose. September the 18th, we were

00:11:51.340 thirty three trillion. And in December the 28th, we went to thirty four trillion. That's three months.

00:11:56.980 We are out of control up here. And, you know, they come up with this top line of one point,

00:12:02.240 whatever it is, six or seven trillion dollars. And it says, oh, we've got that's a six billion

00:12:08.340 dollar cut. Wait a minute. That's a drop in the bucket. We better start understanding we cannot

00:12:14.380 continue to spend like this. Evidently, they don't want to shut the government down. It's going to take

00:12:21.100 that. I'm telling you, it's going to take shutting the government down to get people's attention up

00:12:26.000 here. But I tell you, they it's it's like they saw a ghost. If you bring up, shut the government

00:12:31.840 down. And and again, we we went over, Lou, three, three, four weeks ago before we left for Christmas,

00:12:38.040 we went over for the first time. Twenty three million federal employees. Think about that. Twenty three

00:12:44.660 million. It's never been that high and it's growing every day. We have lost our minds.

00:12:48.960 Yeah. And by the way, President Biden just gave them all a big raise. Well, most Americans are

00:12:56.860 suffering right now under inflation and also a slowing economy. Let's turn to the Defense Department

00:13:05.520 undergoing a review, quote unquote, over Lloyd Austin's disappearance, his hospitalization,

00:13:14.100 telling no one what he including the president. It's just the most it's the most astounding

00:13:21.440 conduct by any secretary of defense I've ever heard of your your reaction.

00:13:27.960 Lou, you know, the big thing about the White House and their organization, it's kind of like being a head

00:13:32.680 coach. You've got assistants or if you're a CEO of a big business, you've got people that work for you.

00:13:37.460 The decency is if you have one of your top subordinates that has a problem, health problem

00:13:43.040 or whatever, you know, you call your boss and everybody up here knows that Joe Biden's out to

00:13:49.920 lunch most of the time. And I think this is a huge slap in the face to to the White House and the

00:13:55.360 President of the United States for him not to call. Now, he probably had to call somebody. But the thing

00:14:00.420 everybody shouldn't understand is he's got hundreds of people that work for him. And I'm talking about

00:14:04.820 the secretary of defense. You know, somebody should have made a call to the White House say,

00:14:09.300 hey, by the way, secretary of defense is down. He's in ICU. But there was no call. I mean,

00:14:14.000 no communication. Communication is the number one thing that drives what goes on in an organization

00:14:19.480 like the White House, the government or anything that goes on. So, again, I everybody asked me,

00:14:25.580 should he be fired? Hey, that's not my job. That job, the president of the United States. And if the

00:14:29.780 people have no confidence in Joe Biden, which I'm telling you, most people don't. I don't care if

00:14:34.100 you're Republican or Democrat. You know, he's the one that needs to go. And so hopefully in 10

00:14:39.440 months that happens. You know, Senator, as you're as you're talking, I'm thinking here we are with

00:14:45.900 a president, as you referred to out, excuse me, out to lunch. He is he's mentally impaired. He is not

00:14:53.540 a healthy man. He is not fit to be in the job. And I think everyone understands that with his

00:14:59.300 cognitive impairment, with his corruption, with his he is a compromised president. He is nothing

00:15:07.480 more than a puppet. And people, I think, truly understand that now. Then you have Lloyd Austin,

00:15:13.160 who doesn't even understand his own military chain of command or the national authority chain of

00:15:20.660 command. There are two people who have that responsibility. That's the president of the United

00:15:25.060 States. And that is the secretary of defense. And he just goes for, you know, I'm sure it was not a

00:15:30.600 pleasant walk, but a walk to a hospital and is in ICU and nobody knows about it. This is just to me,

00:15:38.900 it's just absolutely nuts. But it happens in every department. He has people who have no qualification,

00:15:44.800 no energy and no work ethic and actually have no plan to achieve anything. I think we may consider

00:15:50.760 many of those secretaries of these departments, they're sort of heroes because they are not doing

00:15:56.540 what damage they certainly could. But this is this is a pretend government, a pretend administration

00:16:04.680 and a pretend president, it seems to me, Senator. Well, we've talked about this before. This is the

00:16:11.020 most dangerous time and year in my lifetime. We've we're on the verge of three wars, which could just

00:16:17.760 catapult into something that we would be it would be devastating, not just our country, but all

00:16:23.600 countries. And and the guy that it pulls the strings for our military, 1.5 million, which I think is

00:16:32.640 we've got some good military people, but I think they've created a situation where probably the weakest

00:16:37.300 that we've been, you know, somebody has got to be in charge. And and you as you said, all of his people

00:16:43.860 that work for him, you know, the secretary of transportation is a disaster. The secretary of

00:16:48.440 Homeland Security is a disaster. You could just go on and on. But the country's kind of running

00:16:55.260 on on autopilot right now. And, you know, we we've got a constitution that we go by. The problem is

00:17:02.500 they don't go by the constitution. They break it every day. And we can't afford to continue to do that.

00:17:08.260 So November can't get here soon enough. I'm hoping that a lot of the Democrats even see this. The guy

00:17:15.060 and the people that are running this country right now are running it straight into the ground,

00:17:19.220 changing it to a fascist Marxist country with all kind of ideas that the American people don't

00:17:25.140 deserve. The American taxpayer don't deserve. We have got to turn this ship around in the right direction.

00:17:31.860 And the polls give us reason for optimism. We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville.

00:17:36.980 Stay with us. We're coming right back. We'll we'll continue this fascinating conversation

00:17:42.500 and why it is why it is that all those people who attack Senator Tuberville on his abortion protest

00:17:49.460 over military readiness. Well, they're not they're not even remarking on the defense secretary's

00:17:56.660 vanishing. We'll take that up next. Stay with us.

00:17:59.140 We're back with Senator Tommy Tuberville and Senator, you've introduced legislation to stop

00:18:10.500 the Department of Veterans Affairs from using resources that are going in some cases to health

00:18:17.940 care for illegal immigrants. Is the party, the Republican Party and the leadership behind you on

00:18:25.700 this? Are they asserting that the will of the people? Because certainly the American people want

00:18:31.540 that to go to our veterans. Well, the problem we have right now, Lou, is there's so many problems going

00:18:36.580 on in our country that we're having to try to adjust to to try to get some answers. What you're talking

00:18:43.220 about is obviously thousands and thousands of people are coming across the border who we don't know who

00:18:48.820 they are. They're just shipping them all over our country. It's an embarrassment to know that

00:18:54.180 that that we've got an administration that doesn't really understand what's going on. But they do

00:18:58.420 understand that we're paying in three years. We've paid close to five hundred billion dollars for all

00:19:03.380 these people. Five hundred billion that we don't have. And what really gets me is I'm on the VA committee

00:19:09.380 and there's 22 million veterans in our country today. 22 million. And I go out to the VAs across the

00:19:15.620 country. And the people working in the VA say, coach, we can really only treat 11 million of

00:19:21.780 them because we don't have the facilities. And you've got to understand, Lou, the VA is the biggest

00:19:26.260 health care system in the world. So our veterans stand in line to get in. So we've really created

00:19:32.260 these community care systems in the rural areas all across the country where our veterans don't have

00:19:37.540 to drive three hours to a VA if they're not close to one, that they can go to community care and

00:19:42.660 have their care taken care of. Well, now Joe Biden has opened up the can of worms and said, hey,

00:19:48.340 we're going to allow illegals to go to those community care centers. I mean, now the VA is

00:19:56.340 back to square one. I mean, we have veterans that are not getting care. The illegals are in front of 1.00

00:20:01.940 the line now. You can't make this up. Right. You can't. And unfortunately, and as you suggested,

00:20:08.420 the crises are so many, so, so, so many of them that it's almost impossible to deal with even

00:20:16.740 one of them because all of the resources, all of the attention and the focus is dissipated across

00:20:23.860 this. What is a revolution at work? It's a quiet one. It is a stealthy revolution. And it's being

00:20:31.220 carried out by the government that wants to call Republicans and conservatives insurrectionists when

00:20:36.900 indeed they are the ones who are trying to overthrow the American way of life in this republic.

00:20:42.020 I want to turn real quickly, if I may, Senator, to The Federalist, an article that they've just come

00:20:46.900 out with. The headline is Politicos who attack Tuberville's abortion protest over military

00:20:54.020 readiness are missing in action on defense secretary's secret leave. It is a remarkable piece

00:21:02.340 in talking about all of the flack that you took for trying to stand up and succeeding to stand up for

00:21:13.060 conservative values on abortion for the military, a military that is just ignoring what is law

00:21:22.500 and what is tradition in our society. And then to know none of those people that attack you

00:21:29.140 are talking are attacking the defense secretary or the president for simply being a he was AWOL.

00:21:35.300 That's all there is to it. The secretary of defense for the first time was AWOL.

00:21:40.500 Well, the thing that for a year, you know, when I put these holes on on promotions for admirals

00:21:47.700 and generals, I thought it would last about two or three weeks that the White House would call the

00:21:51.700 Pentagon and call coach. Let's sit down. Let's work this out. And I never heard. I talked two minutes,

00:21:57.060 probably a total of two minutes to the secretary of defense, 11 months after about five months.

00:22:01.220 I'm going, hey, these people don't care. They don't care about our military. And, you know,

00:22:06.020 I start to wonder, you know, what the heck's going on here? Well, finally, Chuck Schumer says,

00:22:11.780 hey, we're just going to go around coach and we're going to drop a Senate rule and just not allow him

00:22:17.380 to put holes on this, which is only power we have when you're in the minority in the Senate.

00:22:23.140 Then I had Senator Dan Sullivan and Senator Joni Earths go on the floor of the Senate and attack me 0.94

00:22:28.900 and my character, people that are on my own side that's supposed to be for a pro-life. You know,

00:22:35.940 it was kind of embarrassing to me, but they were going to go around me. I was going to lose. I did

00:22:41.460 everything I possibly could. So eventually I had to give up their promotions. But it's just disheartening.

00:22:46.420 Now, listen, I believe in the military 100%. My dad died on active duty. He landed at Utah Beach

00:22:53.220 back on D-Day, all those things. If we don't have a strong military, we're nothing in this country.

00:22:58.260 We're nothing. And so we have got to have a strong military. But they kept fighting me saying that,

00:23:03.300 you know, we've got to get these admirals and generals. Wait a minute. You know,

00:23:06.260 you look at some of these people that are admirals and generals. First of all, we've got 44 four-star

00:23:10.820 generals. We had seven during World War II. Seven for 12 million military people. Now we only have

00:23:16.340 1.5. What the heck we need 44 four? That's just another example of bloated government. But I am for

00:23:24.740 leadership. I'm for military. We need to build it stronger. We've got some great people in our

00:23:29.300 military. We got great, some great leaders. But Lou, you know, we live, we're living in tough times,

00:23:34.740 but hey, they forced me to give up on this. But I'll be back. I'll be back. But I'm going to fight for the

00:23:40.580 military and I'm going to fight for the people of this country. And we appreciate all that you're

00:23:45.540 doing. And I know the country does. And I want to point out about Senator Joni Ernst. She is a member

00:23:52.660 of the reserves, the National Guard, a colonel in the National Guard. And she is not standing up for

00:23:59.940 veterans when she attacks Tommy Tuberville. I mean, it's just outrageous what she did and what the

00:24:06.020 Republican leadership in the Senate did. And I will tell you, we commend you and we appreciate

00:24:12.340 you. Senator, we thank you for your time. I know you got to run boat. Senator Tommy Tuberville,

00:24:19.460 God bless you. And thanks so much. Thank you, Lou. Happy New Year. Thanks, everybody,

00:24:23.940 for being with us. Join us here tomorrow. Our guest will be Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana,

00:24:29.620 who's just introduced legislation to impeach the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. And please

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