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After a years-long investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the Department of Justice has released their findings in a report on the cause of his death. Our guest today is insisting on government accountability. Senator Tommy Tuberville sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, and the Committee on Agriculture. He has been blocking military promotions for admirals and generals as he protests the Pentagon's policies and abortion policy.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you
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with us today. The D.C. swap is buzzing over new developments in the Biden crime family
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scandal. President Biden and his son Hunter have managed, of course, to escape consequences
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for any part of their corrupt lives and may do so yet once again. Not only did Hunter
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get a sweetheart deal in his tax fraud case, a judge yesterday in Arkansas delivered Hunter
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yet another sweetheart deal. The judge handling Hunter Biden's child support case made two
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newsworthy rulings. First, he cut Hunter's child support payments by 75 percent. And then the
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judge ruled that Hunter's daughter will not be allowed to use the Biden name. And Joe Biden
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has never recognized Hunter's daughter as his grandchild, despite paternity tests that prove
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that she is. Hunter's last name, no matter how solid, obviously impressing law enforcement
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and prosecutors and judges. And now, after a years-long investigation into the death of Jeffrey
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Epstein, the Department of Justice has released their findings in a report on the cause of his
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death. The Department of Justice concluded that Epstein's death was suicide. The DOJ blames
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the guards for not checking his cell and leaving excess blankets in the cell. In the 128-page-long
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report, there is no persuasive accounting for why the CCTV cameras on Epstein's cell didn't work,
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why they removed a cellmate the night before his death, or why guards weren't watching a prisoner
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on suicide watch, both of whom were apparently sleeping. Remember, then-Attorney General Bill Barr
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promised the Department of Justice would get to the bottom of what happened, and that there would be
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accountability. You be the judge. Our guest today is insisting on government accountability.
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He's Senator Tommy Tuberville. He has, for the past five months, been blocking military promotions
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for admirals and generals as he protests the Pentagon's woke policies and abortion policy.
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Senator Tuberville sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs,
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and the Committee on Agriculture. Senator, it's great to have you with us here on The Great America
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Show again, and I'd just like to begin with your update as to where you stand on those promotion
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holds in any negotiations. Well, Lou, we're within a week or so of five months of the holds on the
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promotion of all admirals and generals, and just for everybody listening, it's a little bit about
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the abortion policy. Now, we had an abortion policy in the military for years and years,
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but they decided to change it after Roe Wade. Joe Biden and the Secretary of Defense wants to put as
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many people on notice that you can do an abortion at any time if you're a federal employee, so they
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just started with the VA, and now they're with the military. And really, my focus is more on
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legislating from the Pentagon and the White House and creating new law, instead of allowing the
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people of Congress to do that. And so I've told them, I'm not going to change this back.
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They are going to have to, they've got an uphill battle with me, because the next thing will happen
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is they'll come out and say, okay, if we've got a new law that's come from the White House that
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you can only go to church one time a month. I mean, we cannot allow these dictators over there
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to run our country by an iron fist. We can't do it. So you said negotiations. Lou,
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it's almost five months, and they keep telling me, oh, you're hurting readiness and the morale,
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and we need to get on with this. I've talked to the Secretary of Defense 10 minutes and one call
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about three and a half months ago. I've not heard one word from the White House, zero.
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Senator Schumer on the floor, all he does is berate me every day that I'm not a true American,
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and I'm holding up progress in the military. So conversation is kneel, none. They don't want
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to negotiate because they know they're wrong, number one, but they're not going to give in
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because they know if we beat them on this, that there's a possible way that we can continue to
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slow them down for the next year before they completely run our country in the ground.
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Well, I want to just say to you personally, thank you for what you're doing. And think about this,
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Senator, whenever you may get further frustrated by all that's happening in that swamp in D.C.,
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the country deeply appreciates you and your values in representing the American people.
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It's just extraordinary what this government, whether it's the Department of Justice or whether
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it's the Pentagon, the FBI, the intelligence agencies. We have a government that is totally
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out of control. Another way to say that is the Marxist Dems are in total control of our government.
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Your thoughts? Well, you're exactly right. And you know, I was a football coach, Lou. I was in
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education for 40 years, and I did this for service. I want to give back to the greatest country on the
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face of the earth. And I wanted to go help the people of Alabama work to help our military become
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stronger. And that's the reason it hurts me to do this for our military, because my dad was career
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military, actually died on active duty. And of course, I want to do things for people in this
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country to make their lives better. But I'm going to tell you, since I've been there for two and a
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half years, it has opened my eyes to what is really going on in this country. As you said, we have
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let our FBI become infiltrated with I don't know who knows what. Same thing with the CIA. The same
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thing with the DOJ, which is absolutely the most corrupt thing. And everybody wants to impeach Biden
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and all this. The first guy needs to go is Merrick Garland and Mayorkas. Those two need to go because
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they have created such havoc for our country. But they've also destroyed our education. But they've
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been doing that for years. Now they're working on our military. And it's the most woke military in
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our history and continue to be that every day. And that's their aim. They want to bring down those
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institutions. And when they finish up with our education and our military, they will have all
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five or most important institutions in this country absolutely bottomed out in terms of being true
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Americanism and making us more of a socialist country. Senator, I just want to continue with
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the holds that you've got on those promotions for the for the general officers. And what do they say to
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you? Do they have any kind of sincere and straightforward account of themselves? And haven't they? I just can't
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believe it. To me, I'm absolutely bamboozled by the fact that they don't understand that you're a
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serious man during the people's work. And the office of U.S. Senator is Trump's right now. They're all of
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their brass and stars. Well, and to the people need to understand this. Again, I really feel bad for some
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of these people, some of these generals and admirals. Some of them I don't, because I know
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there's a portion of them that's going to be woke. And I'm sick of that. But that being said,
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you would think that there would be some kind of conversation. I guess I think we've hit the
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10th time that we've had to go to the floor in the Senate and fight off all the radical talk from
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the Elizabeth Warrens and the Blumenthalts and, and the Bennets, you know, coming and attacking me
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saying that I'm, I'm holding back readiness. And, you know, people need to get on with their lives.
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We need to get families moved. You know, wait a minute now. I mean, the military, this military
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is supposed to be the protector, not just of our country, but of the world.
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We protect NATO. And, but what they're doing to it, Lou, is totally opposite of the direction
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this military needs to be going. It's going in the same direction, as I said earlier, as the FBI,
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the DOJ, the CIA, it's, it's out of control. And every time I talk with Secretary Austin and Milley
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and open hearings, and you can go back and listen to my questioning, I tell them and listen, you know,
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this is not an equal opportunity employer, the military. I mean, the military is there to protect
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the citizens of this country and our allies. And we're going the opposite way with all the
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transition, transgender people that want to be in the military. And somebody asked me, you know,
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what do you think about President Trump? You know, he discriminated. I said, wait a minute.
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I mean, you don't discriminate being in the military because you flat feet, you can't get in the military.
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So what makes you think that we can take people in there that can't uphold the rule of being a
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military person in terms of discipline and order and fighting? I mean, that's who we need in our
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military. We don't need an identity politics military. We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville,
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and he is taking it to the, the woke crowd in the swamp. And in particular, as we're talking today,
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the U.S. military and the holding up promotions for the general officers until he gets an accounting
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from their respect for the American people and their representatives. We're coming right back
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We're back now with Senator Tuberville. Senator, I want to, again, just thank you for being here with
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us on The Great America Show. Thank you for what you're doing. Let us, give us a sense of the
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support you have from the leadership in the Senate, as well as your, your colleagues in the conference.
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Well, we've got some, you know, Senator Mike Lee has stood up with me most of the time that I've
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been challenged on the floor about this, the holes. We've had J.D. Vance. We've had Senator
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Marshall. We've had Joni Ernst. We've had several that have really stuck by us. There's not a lot,
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you know, that have been vocal. And that's our prerogative. You know, and people ask me about
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Senator McConnell. He came out pretty much and said he didn't agree with my assessment of how I was
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doing things. But like I tell him, I said, listen, it's prerogative of every center to put a hold on
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anything they want. That's, that's the only power you have when you're in the minority. And so as a
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party, as Republicans, we need to figure out are we're the pro-life or we're not. And at the end of
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the day, you can't ride the fence on this. And people say, well, you know, it's hurt us in the
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election. Listen, this is, this is prerogative of anybody to, to say what you want to say and to
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believe what you want to believe. I'm, I'm pro-life. I believe in the sanctity of life. And I don't
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believe in, in abortion, you know, in this country. And again, this is really not about
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abortion when it comes to this loop about, you know, because we've had an abortion policy. We've
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had several dozen abortions a year in the military for rape, incest, and health of the mom. But now
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they want to do it at any time. They also want to be able to pay for flights for the service member
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to go to any state that they want to go to. And then, of course, the Hyde Amendment says
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money used for an abortion is illegal in the United States. And you know who voted for that? Joe Biden
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himself. So they have a short memory, but we have got to stand by our principles in this country,
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especially in the Republican Party, because we know where the Democrats stand and it needs to
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continue to be a fight. We need to fight for the unborn. I mean, this is a crazy thing. These,
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these people have signed up for the U.S. military and had this woke doctrine just slammed down their
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throats. And that's why I understand we're losing just scores of experienced, talented,
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Well, I'm going to be used as an excuse for the woke policies in the military because they're pointing
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at me now that I'm hurting readiness. I'm hurting recruiting in the military on all levels, which is
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totally false. It's all their woke policies that they're pushing in training and recruitment and
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the less discipline that we have that we've normally had. And it's bending over backwards for all these
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identity politics groups. And so our recruiting is down. It was down last year, 15,000, Lou, in Army.
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Now, this year, it's probably going to be that or worse. We will not meet our goals in the Air Force
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or Navy. Now, Marines seem to be doing well because they stick with what they believe in, you know,
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the discipline, the hard-nosed factor of being a Marine. And so all those are working out. But
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at the end of the day, they're going to blame me for their weakness in recruiting, which is fine.
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I'll take the blame for it. I've done that before all my life being a coach. But that being said, they know
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really deep down what's causing this. And something good is going to come out of all this.
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I surely hope that the military comes to its senses. But watching Lloyd Austin and General Milley, you
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mentioned, these are not very smart people in very important jobs, let alone having the character that you
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would expect of a secretary of defense or a general officer. It's just very disappointing to me.
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I want to turn to a couple of other things, if I may, which is obviously what has happened in Russia.
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Vladimir Putin says that things are not going to be all bunnies and rainbows for
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Gregoshin, the leader of the Wagner group, who has decided he wanted to go to Belarus instead of
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try to get inside the Kremlin walls. Your thoughts on what has transpired there and what it means to
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the country? Yeah, that looked like a total mess at the beginning. I don't know whether we're
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involved in that or not. You never know, you know, with the people in our intelligence agency loop. But
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Ukraine is obviously not doing very well. You know, I'm a supporter of Ukraine, but I'm not
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presenting any more money. I hadn't voted for any money to go to Ukraine. I just don't think it's
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our fight. I think we caused a lot of it by telling Russia that we're going to try to get Ukraine into
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NATO, which they don't need to be in NATO. They need to be a neutral country. And, you know, there's a
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I think we've made a lot of mistakes in this. We've got a lot of people killed probably
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in Ukrainians and Russians that should have. The problem I have with all this is we don't
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negotiate at all. And we should be negotiating every day. And Joe Biden not talking to Vladimir
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Putin since the war started. To me, that's a war crime itself. I mean, that's your job as a leader
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to stop this absolute madness. Now, Boghossian is, you know, he's a he's a thug. And, you know,
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I think he got more mad at the minister of defense in Russia because he got bombed while they were in
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Bakhmut. And there were some bombs that came over their heads or maybe hit in his troops. And
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he blamed the minister of defense. But they got problems. You know, Russia is going to have
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problems. Putin is trying to juggle a lot of a lot of eggs at one time, trying to keep everybody
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happy, knowing that, you know, he started this thing should never done it. But you can also blame
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the United States for not going in and trying to negotiate and get us out, getting Ukraine out of
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this mess, rush out of it and get the world back to peace. It just seems like that there's nothing
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there's not been one positive step in the last year of this war. And hopefully we can get this
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thing over soon because, you know, there's more and more people getting killed every day. And we're
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not there. We don't see it. We're not living it. But you can imagine what the people of Ukraine and
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the Russian people are going through as we speak. Absolutely. And our hearts go out to everyone
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who is who's just been devastated by this needless, needless invasion and war of attrition that's
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followed over the course of the past almost year and a half. We're talking with Senator Tommy
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Tuberville. We're going to be talking about what is China doing in this hemisphere? And what are the
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prospects of another Cuba missile crisis? We're coming right back with Senator Tuberville. Stay with us.
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And now we're back with Senator Tommy Tuberville. And Senator, let's talk about, if we may,
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this report that the Biden administration will do nothing about the another spy balloon over the
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United States. Yeah, this is a tough, touchy situation. We're in a Cold War with China. We know
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that they're our biggest adversary. They've got a growing military. I don't know how we stand up to
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them. Nobody would know unless we start fighting them. And we surely don't want that to happen.
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But both countries need each other. I don't, I don't, and we, I hear all this talk back and
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forth about, we got to do this to them and them to us, you know, about trade and the economy. You
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know, you got to remember Xi Jinping wakes up every day knowing that he's got to feed 1.4 billion
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people. Now we only got 330 million people and we struggle with that. Can you imagine? So he's got more
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problems than what you would think. But he's putting a lot of money in his defense. He has
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gone to Cuba, evidently. I haven't read anything recently on that. But obviously, if you look at
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one thing, Lou, if you look at what we did in just a few months back, we put a base or two bases
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basically in the Philippines. And I would imagine that got to the underneath
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the skin of Xi Jinping. And he saw us do that. And we put Marines, we're putting all
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kind of battalions in the Philippines. I would imagine that triggered his thoughts of, hey,
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if they're going to do that, where's the next place we can go? And here we come to Cuba.
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Now, I would imagine there's some something to that. But we got to stop this madness knowing
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that we don't need to do anything in terms of creating a war with China and they don't
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need to do it with us. We need each other, to be honest with you. And we need to work
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with each other. But I just it goes back to what Ukraine, we have no leadership in the
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White House. We have no leadership in the Pentagon. And we got problems with Ukraine and Russia.
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Nobody's trying to stop it. And we should be trying to stop it every day. And it's the same
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thing. We send Blinken over there, the Secretary of State to China, and they pretty much laugh
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at him every time he goes over there. What kind of kind of dignitary is this guy? What kind
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of negotiating skills is Tony Blinken got? You know, Joe Biden needs to do it himself.
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I guarantee you one thing. Donald Trump would have been over there already. He'd have been
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he'd have been in Russia trying to put a stop to this. He would have he would have been already
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back to China, back to North Korea. I understand that that's what he's got to do. That's his
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job. I don't understand. I don't understand what Joe Biden thinks his job is. His job is
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to stop this damn war in Ukraine. And his job is to settle all this commotion down with
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China instead of escalating it. But it seemed like he wants war. He wants to keep everything
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going, stirred up, because he's got obviously problems himself. But just because he's got
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problems, he doesn't need to put America in peril.
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Yeah. America has been in peril, I believe, Senator, from the moment that he walked into
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the White House. We know he's an impaired and puppet president. We have no idea. We can
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suspect who in the world is guiding this country to the degree that it is being guided in terms
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of foreign policy. But right now, this is a this is a perilous, perilous time, don't you
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Oh, there's no doubt about it. We're the ship without a rudder, Luke. And, you know, the
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American people have no confidence in this foreign policy of anybody in Washington, D.C.
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It is just it's just kind of a makeshift. What do we do now? There's not been one move
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starting with Afghanistan that anybody believes in. Every foreign country I travel to, they
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look at us going, what in the world happened in Afghanistan? You know, we just left. We
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talked a lot of our allies into going into helping us. People don't talk about this a
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lot, Luke, in Afghanistan of helping us. You know, we didn't even let them know we were
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leaving. We just packed up and left. Wait a minute. Where are y'all going? We're out
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of here. And, you know, you don't run foreign policy like we need our friends. We need our
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neighbors. We need our allies. But, you know, these people do things on a whim instead of
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calculated, understanding what the consequences are if you make a decision one way, if you make
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it the other. And it but it's just goes back to one thing. There's no leadership in this
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administration. And my gosh, if we don't get them out of there, it I just worry about what
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Well, Senator, we always give our guests the very last word. And I'm going to ask for your
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concluding thoughts. Now, it's been great talking with you and appreciate all that you're doing
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to to repeat myself. Thanks for all you're doing for the country.
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Well, thank you. And we got a tough row ahead of us. And we got big election come up here
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and a half. But you're in a half a long time, Lou, Lou. And we we have got to find somebody
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that's got some common sense in the Defense Department, in our CIA, the DOJ. I hope we
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don't get into a fight about impeachment with President Biden. But I am willing to hopefully
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they go after Mayorkas, who is open to borders and killed many, many thousands of people here
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in this country with all the drugs he's let in. And then obviously, Merrick Garland, who's
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mad at the world because he's not a Supreme Court justice. And he's just taken up the whim of
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attacking everything that America is about because he's mad at the country for not being
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in the Supreme Court. So hopefully we can get it straight. But people need to get on their
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knees and pray at night when they get up and pray at night before they go to bed for our
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Amen, Senator. I appreciate your thoughts. And we will join you in that prayer. This country
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is in, as you say, very, very deep trouble. Senator Tuberville, we appreciate everything
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you're doing for this country, this great country of ours. Thanks so much.
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Thanks for being with us, everybody. Our guest here tomorrow will be conservative Republican
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Congressman Matt Rosendale. He represents Montana's Second District, and he's a great American.
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Be sure to follow me on Truth Social and Twitter at Lou Dobbs. That's at Lou Dobbs. And our
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website is loudobs.com. Thanks. God bless you. And God bless America.