The Great America Show - December 21, 2022


SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE SAYS CONGRESS IS SPENDING INSANE AMOUNTS OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND IT’S PUT THIS COUNTRY IN A TAILSPIN

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-VA) joins us to talk about the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill, and why it's an absurdity, an outrage, and a total waste of money.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Darbs and welcome to the Great America Show.
00:00:04.400 I'd like to start out today by giving my Christmas Hanukkah view of the economy
00:00:09.660 because I've been hearing a lot of so-called experts on business channels and the business press,
00:00:16.060 not all but many, talking as though they're short the market and are waiting for Armageddon.
00:00:22.300 I think they've gotten it all wrong and I think they're way overly negative
00:00:26.960 and we've got enough to worry over without listening to or reading more depressive commentary
00:00:32.400 in the business media about what should be a festive Christmas holiday wind-down to our new year, right?
00:00:40.400 The economy has slowed, no doubt. There are pressures in the economy, no doubt.
00:00:45.780 But not as much as some reasonably feared when the Fed raised interest rates this year
00:00:50.980 from 25 basis points up to 4.5%.
00:00:55.260 There's very little chance, in my opinion, we'll see a big Christmas rally on Wall Street,
00:01:00.720 but the stock market has improved markedly.
00:01:03.920 Since late September, when the Dow fell into a bear market for a few weeks,
00:01:08.580 the Dow Jones Industrials have, over the course of what has been a tough, volatile year,
00:01:14.340 recovered nicely from its mid-October low to correction levels,
00:01:18.900 now down 10% with almost two weeks to go in 2022.
00:01:22.960 I personally think the only way we have a recession next year
00:01:27.220 is if the Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates more than another full percent.
00:01:33.100 And I admit Fed Chair Jerome Powell has proven he's capable of inflicting unnecessary pain.
00:01:39.360 But I think he should have gained some modesty after trying to lead markets rather than follow them.
00:01:45.400 And I believe the Fed will try stability in 2023.
00:01:49.900 And that will reassure housing markets and the financial system.
00:01:54.460 The economy, in my opinion, will remain still far too dependent on foreign supply chains,
00:02:00.280 but will bear up under that uncertainty.
00:02:03.640 Most companies right now are in solid financial shape,
00:02:07.440 and we should have a year of moderate growth. 0.96
00:02:10.080 And barring a dramatic surge of idiocy in Washington, D.C., 0.96
00:02:15.120 I believe we'll have a prosperous year. 0.93
00:02:18.520 That's my view, as well as my holiday wish to you. 0.97
00:02:23.220 Speaking of idiocy, the Senate just released its $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, 0.97
00:02:29.720 and our guest today, Senator Tommy Tuberville, 0.99
00:02:32.360 thinks it's an absurdity, an outrage that the Dems,
00:02:36.280 and with a little assist from Senator Mitch McConnell,
00:02:40.100 would move that 4,155-page piece of legislation
00:02:45.080 for what can only be a mindless rubber stamp by the Senate voting this week.
00:02:52.360 Senator Tuberville is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
00:02:56.380 the Senate Agriculture Committee,
00:02:58.060 and Senator, it is always great to have you with us here
00:03:01.620 on The Great America Show, and Merry Christmas.
00:03:05.040 That hugely rich $1.7 trillion omnibus bill,
00:03:10.180 4,000 pages of it?
00:03:12.420 Most of us couldn't read that thing in a month, let alone a week.
00:03:16.540 I'm impressed, Senator.
00:03:18.480 In less than a day, Lou, they think they're going to pass this thing
00:03:21.340 maybe as early as Wednesday,
00:03:23.720 and it's mind-boggling.
00:03:27.140 You know, you're supposed to have this thing done, Lou,
00:03:29.840 by the end of October,
00:03:31.680 and there's been very little work done on it.
00:03:34.880 You don't go through a regular order up here very much.
00:03:37.560 You know, you just have a bunch of people put this thing together
00:03:39.640 and spend money,
00:03:41.400 and the American taxpayer has to pay the bill.
00:03:44.440 But it's not a way to run a hot dog stand, I'll tell you that.
00:03:48.460 Well, it's a big hot hot dog stand, too.
00:03:52.880 $1.7 trillion.
00:03:54.740 And I like the fact that Republicans are bragging
00:03:57.720 about getting all that extra money,
00:04:00.000 $850 billion for the NDAA in the budget
00:04:06.680 for the Defense Department.
00:04:09.920 But the Democrats have got $700 billion for pure ether,
00:04:14.200 the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:04:16.520 I mean, they're funding every one of their wishes and dreams
00:04:19.760 for the next several years, at least.
00:04:23.480 Well, exactly, Lou.
00:04:24.960 And you're right.
00:04:26.600 People don't, if they can go back and just remember,
00:04:28.800 they spent, what, $2 or $3 trillion on their own
00:04:32.620 in reconciliation in the last two years.
00:04:35.600 And this is on top of that.
00:04:38.260 And there's so many things in there.
00:04:40.660 But just to show you how things have changed,
00:04:43.260 I talked to a senator a few days ago.
00:04:45.020 Well, we're standing around on the floor waiting to vote.
00:04:47.620 He said, you know, Coach, he said,
00:04:49.260 just about 15 years ago, I was here.
00:04:52.700 And we were going to spend $8 billion.
00:04:55.380 And we debated it for three months.
00:04:58.780 $8 billion.
00:04:59.340 And now we are, it's nothing to spend $1 trillion in a week.
00:05:05.380 I mean, it's absolutely insane of how we got to this point.
00:05:09.400 And again, it's not our money.
00:05:12.040 It's the American taxpayers' money.
00:05:13.800 And they're the ones going to pay it back,
00:05:15.620 our great, great, great grandkids.
00:05:17.400 And it's putting us in a tailspin that I don't know whether our country will ever get out of it.
00:05:22.540 But Obama said it.
00:05:23.460 He wants to transition this country into something else.
00:05:26.680 And Biden took over after President Trump got it somewhat back on track.
00:05:31.120 And he is running this thing right in the ditch.
00:05:33.500 And I don't know whether we can ever get out.
00:05:35.480 I'm just shocked that the American people put these people back into control in the election a month or so ago.
00:05:41.420 I don't know what people were looking at.
00:05:43.400 Well, I believe some of us are averting our eyes for what is a train wreck that gets bigger and bigger
00:05:49.660 and more complex by the year.
00:05:54.320 Because we're confused.
00:05:56.220 Because many of us who've been around, I'll say, a long time.
00:06:00.620 I'll speak for myself on that.
00:06:02.380 But, I mean, I remember when Republicans used to be concerned about a budget.
00:06:07.520 They didn't want to spend money frivolously.
00:06:10.460 They didn't want the Democrats to do so either and had the ability to communicate that to the American people.
00:06:18.020 I believe most Americans don't even know what's going on because the media won't tell them
00:06:22.500 and the Republican Party won't stand up and make certain that they know.
00:06:28.640 Well, Lou, it's all about getting reelected.
00:06:31.620 It's all about keeping power, having an opportunity to come back up here and be a part of this place.
00:06:41.480 Sometimes I just shake my head.
00:06:44.160 But there's some good people here that want to do the right things.
00:06:48.100 There's just not enough of us.
00:06:49.500 And, you know, sooner or later, we're going to have to get a hold of the reins
00:06:53.260 because right now the horse is running wild and the reins are dragging the ground
00:06:57.500 and just going full speed and it is totally out of control.
00:07:02.920 Yeah, it's a shame.
00:07:04.220 And the best we can hope for is that the horse lands on one of those reins and tumbles to a stop
00:07:10.520 because nothing else seems like it's even in prospect.
00:07:15.420 You know, what are your young staff members?
00:07:18.920 What do they think of this?
00:07:21.000 What kind of show are they putting on for the, you know,
00:07:24.840 what are people we expect to be in government and be public servants?
00:07:28.160 I mean, they're watching one disaster after another thanks to the Biden regime
00:07:34.220 and the Marxist Dems who are setting the agenda, which is to destroy America.
00:07:39.700 And, I mean, they have got one heck of a good start at it.
00:07:43.580 You know, Lou, your staff is probably averaged from age of 25 to 35.
00:07:50.140 And they see it firsthand.
00:07:52.700 You know, they see it before you and anybody else sees it.
00:07:55.260 Even sometimes for me, they get all the documents and they get to read through them
00:07:59.920 and they all understand what's getting ready to happen in this country.
00:08:04.640 The debt that we're in, they say we're in 31, 32 tree.
00:08:08.460 And this thing's north of 43 and maybe more than that with future and mandatory spending.
00:08:15.660 And I feel bad for them.
00:08:17.740 I really do.
00:08:18.500 I feel bad for our young people that's not going to have the opportunity to live in the same type of country
00:08:23.900 that you and I grew up in, where you had, you know, freedom of speech.
00:08:29.140 People love this country and they'd do anything to keep this country afloat.
00:08:35.560 Now you have the far left and the progressives that just want to bring it to its knees.
00:08:39.940 And Biden and his administration is part of that.
00:08:42.760 I hear the way they talk.
00:08:45.500 I've been to the border.
00:08:46.880 I've been, you see the crime, you see the inflation, you see education in this country
00:08:51.860 that's just absolutely gone.
00:08:55.060 Our education is gone in this country except for a few places.
00:08:58.260 And so the hope is there because we know we're a strong country, Lou.
00:09:03.500 We know we got the values.
00:09:05.140 We know we've been there before.
00:09:07.320 But how do we get back?
00:09:08.720 And it's going to take a lot of hard work to get back to what you and I had the opportunity to grow up in.
00:09:15.500 Exactly.
00:09:16.260 And public school was the foundation.
00:09:19.020 Again, I'll speak only for myself, but public school was the foundation for everything I was able to do afterwards.
00:09:25.380 It's a great equalizer.
00:09:26.660 It doesn't matter what your parents do or how much money you had or you didn't have.
00:09:32.080 You could set a standard for your own achievement so long as you worked hard, had the talent and the commitment to do it.
00:09:44.400 It was the American dream.
00:09:45.720 And it's gone, as you're saying, for tens and perhaps hundreds of millions of Americans over the course of the next several years.
00:09:54.540 We've ruined education.
00:09:56.140 I call it government education now because that's all it is.
00:09:58.760 They're indoctrinating our kids in these government schools that we have.
00:10:02.260 We're fighting hard for school choice.
00:10:04.200 That's our only chance.
00:10:05.360 These teachers unions have absolutely drove us to brink of disaster.
00:10:10.960 I saw a chart the other day, Lou, that we don't grow much as teachers anymore.
00:10:15.000 Most people get out in these progressive.
00:10:18.240 They get into the educational field through administration.
00:10:21.560 And they control things through administration down to the teachers.
00:10:24.740 And so we have so many more administrators than we have teachers now.
00:10:29.800 And again, it's just it's pushing us over the cliff of all these progressive ideas.
00:10:34.080 And again, it's teaching against the Constitution.
00:10:37.460 It's teaching against moral values.
00:10:39.880 God, the things that we all grew up in teaching against family.
00:10:44.180 My God, look at this.
00:10:45.280 Look at this gender identity situation we're in right now.
00:10:50.000 You know, these kids don't know whether a boy or a girl anymore.
00:10:52.820 I mean, it's just that's what's being taught in these schools.
00:10:56.000 So how do you keep this country to the point, Lou, of keeping what we've got instead of destroying ourselves from within?
00:11:06.280 And that's exactly what's happening.
00:11:09.000 We don't share either the same views about the country.
00:11:12.780 We don't share the same values, the same patriotism.
00:11:17.040 America first is, you know, putting America first for some of us, but not all of us.
00:11:23.720 I hope still most of us, but I'm not sure of that.
00:11:27.300 We have a society that is not too clear on whether or not they believe in God.
00:11:34.220 We see Christianity is declining in this country.
00:11:38.480 Religion is declining in this country.
00:11:41.140 The moral compass is being established by government-paid teachers, teachers who are not interested in religion, who, as a matter of fact, are in many cases, they're opposed to it mightily.
00:11:54.100 They're opposed to the family.
00:11:56.440 They're Marxist Dems.
00:11:58.000 They're indoctrinating our students.
00:12:00.780 Many of those students will become college professors.
00:12:04.120 They'll be indoctrinating their next round of union teachers in our public schools.
00:12:08.780 And meanwhile, middle-class families, working families are taking on their student loan debts, trying to get their kids through school.
00:12:18.000 We're paying a fortune to indoctrinate our children to destroy the country.
00:12:22.060 I mean, it's really that straightforward, I think.
00:12:24.840 What's your reaction?
00:12:26.000 Well, the tip of the iceberg is what you talked about.
00:12:30.180 And again, it all goes back to moral values.
00:12:32.620 And where did we learn those?
00:12:33.680 We learned them at school.
00:12:34.800 We learned them at home with family, a mom and dad.
00:12:37.780 And over half the kids in this country, Lou, no matter who, black, white, and making a difference, have one or no parent.
00:12:43.680 I saw that coaching in the last 40 years.
00:12:47.700 You know, I'd go into these homes and I'd just be shocked at how many aunts and uncles are raising a lot of these kids and grandparents.
00:12:54.100 You know, we've lost that continuity of discipline at home.
00:13:00.820 And, of course, now there's no discipline in school.
00:13:04.360 You can't do anything to these kids.
00:13:06.040 A lot of these teachers are getting out.
00:13:07.740 The good ones are getting out because they can't control the kids in the classroom because they're not supported by what I said earlier, all these woke administrators that are taking over schools.
00:13:17.680 And so this is a disaster waiting to happen.
00:13:22.220 And is it getting worse?
00:13:24.740 And we've got to come up with a solution.
00:13:26.980 But the solution to me, again, is getting back to our moral values but giving kids an opportunity to go to a school that they want, such as school choice.
00:13:36.920 It's school choice, I think you're exactly right, is a big part of the solution, if not the solution.
00:13:44.540 And you wonder, how can America first be a bad thing in America?
00:13:49.960 I mean, unless you're a Marxist, American first ought to be just automatic for people.
00:13:55.980 It no longer is, is it?
00:13:58.600 Nobody.
00:13:59.340 You know, a lot of people up here don't love this country, Lou.
00:14:02.140 They don't love the country because they think we've taken advantage of other countries.
00:14:06.920 And, you know, this climate change agenda that the Left has right now, they're forcing us, the taxpayers, to spend trillions of dollars on something that we shouldn't be spending on.
00:14:18.160 We should be spending it on the people of this country to make our people stronger and better.
00:14:23.240 But you've got John Kerry flying around, and you've got a lot of these quacks that are making a lot of money off of this climate change. 1.00
00:14:32.420 And again, we're, we're all environmentalists.
00:14:34.620 We love, we love the world that we live in.
00:14:36.960 We want to protect it.
00:14:38.720 But if we don't protect the values and the ground of where we come from, then we're not going to make it.
00:14:46.300 If we want to work with climate change, let's, let's change our pollution.
00:14:50.280 Let's save our water.
00:14:51.380 You know, let's clean the oceans up. 0.93
00:14:54.640 Let's do things like that.
00:14:55.840 But to say that carbon is something that's going to put this world under, when many, many scientists will tell you straight up, that has nothing.
00:15:04.060 We can't control that.
00:15:05.140 You know, we have carbon coming from our breath that we, the oxygen that we breathe. 0.98
00:15:08.940 And it's just mind-boggling me how these Al Gore's and John Kerry's have made millions of dollars off this, and they're hypocrites, number one. 0.94
00:15:18.880 But they also, they're very controlling.
00:15:21.780 And they've, they've convinced our kids in these schools, these woke schools, that climate change is going to end this earth in a matter of years.
00:15:30.140 And it never happens.
00:15:31.560 They've been saying this for many, many years.
00:15:33.440 And you know that, Lou, you've heard it in your lifetime.
00:15:35.680 And it's just something that they can complain about and make money off of.
00:15:40.180 Yeah, the original back in the 70s was it's a global cooling.
00:15:45.420 We're going to have an ice age.
00:15:47.300 That's what the geniuses figured then.
00:15:49.400 And now we're going to have, I don't know what.
00:15:52.000 The fact of the matter is, these, these people are just a good part. 0.84
00:15:57.260 You know, they're, they're con artists.
00:15:59.700 They, and some of them, maybe most of them know it. 0.98
00:16:02.840 But the others that just are just following a bunch of fools in a, in a silly direction, you know, electric vehicles, everybody is so crazy about electric vehicles. 0.84
00:16:14.260 I was looking at a report the other day, you're talking about 60% of fossil fuel usage will be, is necessary to convert, I think it was just 25% of the automobiles to electric. 0.96
00:16:24.680 And meanwhile, the left is trying to kill fossil fuels, so how in the world are we going to generate electricity? 0.98
00:16:30.880 These idiots don't even take, take notice of just basic facts and their relationship to the reality they say they want to create. 1.00
00:16:41.060 These folks, for being smart boys, aren't very bright, but they are sure good salesmen. 1.00
00:16:47.920 You can't, you can't do away with fossil fuels. They're tricking themselves. They're trying to trick the American people and people all over the world. It's impossible. You know, they talk about these cars, other than still aluminum that's in the car.
00:17:00.820 The other 56% comes from petroleum that they make, you know, the holstering, the dashboards, the seats, everything that goes in a car.
00:17:10.780 I mean, you can't do away with fossil fuels. It is the biggest hoax that they're pulling over people all over the world because it's all about control.
00:17:20.740 They want to control everything that you do. And so they're pushing this. I'll tell you who I really like. And I keep hearing him on TV. The CEO of Toyota keeps saying, we're not doing this. We're not going to EV cars. It doesn't work. People need to wake up. I love this guy.
00:17:37.140 I do too. And I loved his statement. He said, the silent majority is not interested in electric vehicles. Here is the head of Toyota who understands the American people better than does our president, the Democrat party, the left wing, and the so-called environmentalist. And I think he's a hundred percent right. Don't you?
00:18:00.820 Oh, I guarantee you. And all these woke CEOs of the companies here in the United States, they're, they're following the Pied Piper. You know, they're, they're going down this, this road that's going to end. And there's no way, there's no way we can make enough electricity to fuel to all these batteries that they're going to make.
00:18:21.760 And Lou, did you know, to make a thousand of these batteries for cars, we're a thousand pounds. To make a thousand pound battery, you have to dig up 500,000 pounds of dirt to get the minerals. 500,000 for one battery.
00:18:35.060 Now, how many of these whack jobs on the left you think are going to let us dig holes here in the United States, the EPA? They're not going to do it. And so where are we going to do it? We're going to do it somewhere else. The Congo, we don't own the Congo. China does. 0.87
00:18:47.460 And so what we, there's no plans like putting a game plan together for a football game. You better be able to run the ball. You better be able to throw it. You got to be able to stop both of them. You got to have a good kicking game. We have zero plan here. Nothing.
00:19:01.760 And you also need a pretty good understanding of time management. And these folks obviously do not. And no one talks about, you're talking about John Kerry and everybody flying around, telling everybody what fools they are to be using fossil fuels.
00:19:17.080 Meanwhile, those aircraft they're flying around in is sucking this stuff up at, you know, at orders of magnitude, greater, greater rates. But, you know, I never hear anybody say we're going to ground those airplanes. There's not going to be any more of that air pollution, right? You know, at 40,000 feet for these so-called evangelists of environmentalism. Isn't that interesting? I don't want to be affected personally by it.
00:19:42.740 Oh, yeah. No, they, again, they're hypocritical and, you know, private plane puts out many, many, many more tons of carbon than a passenger jet. I don't know if you knew that or not, but yeah, and it is, it's so hypocritical, but, you know, there's so many things, Lou, going on right now. This ESG governance, the environmental, social governance that they're putting these rankings on these corporations. 0.89
00:20:07.940 It's the biggest joke in the world. I mean, it's a joke and it's just more control. And these woke CEOs are just lapping it up like lapdogs and they want to be politically correct and don't get them in trouble.
00:20:23.300 At the end of the day, you know, their stockholders are going to look around going, what in the world are y'all doing?
00:20:27.980 I get a kick out of Larry Fink at BlackRock. I mean, he's been pushing this stuff. You're talking about the biggest investment firm in the country with assets.
00:20:42.340 They're sitting there pushing that stuff out because, for one thing, it keeps people from examining EBITDA and profit margins and scale for their investments.
00:20:56.480 They're worried about ES and G. Meanwhile, the governance is they do exactly what the CEO says.
00:21:03.080 The board of directors are slaves to the CEO, and that's the way it goes. This isn't about governance.
00:21:12.740 I mean, we're looking at a market right now, a stock market, with fewer issues than it had 20 years ago, vastly more capital, but it's being drawn off and sent to China primarily.
00:21:28.700 I don't know what the market would be at today if Wall Street wasn't shipping all that capital to China and to other places around the world instead of investing in the United States.
00:21:39.860 And they want to talk about ES and G? These are hypocrites. They know what they're doing. 0.97
00:21:45.380 They've outsourced millions of jobs that will never be recovered.
00:21:49.060 They've devastated manufacturing in this country, and now we're dependent on so-called supply chains around the world.
00:21:56.220 And we're seeing what's happening as a result of that.
00:22:00.160 These business leaders are playing their book, and they need to be brought to heel.
00:22:05.980 And the only countervailing influence I know is the federal government, and they own the federal government right now.
00:22:13.220 The best thing that President Trump was doing is trying to bring our manufacturing out of Asia, out of China. 0.81
00:22:19.660 I'm doing a speech on the floor today about child medicines.
00:22:23.000 We are very low in child medicines, going to either over-the-counter or prescriptions.
00:22:31.040 I'm talking about amoxicillin, antibiotics, ibuprofen, anything that's used in a child form.
00:22:39.400 You don't want to use the adult version because it's not made for these young bodies.
00:22:46.340 We have a huge shortage of these type of drugs for young kids.
00:22:52.380 The flu is going to be rampant this year, just the normal flu, because we're getting back to understanding that probably what a lot we had anyway.
00:23:00.820 But it's just a huge problem.
00:23:02.920 And all that stuff comes from China.
00:23:04.740 And here in Congress, we've got a blind eye of saying we're worried about something else instead of going and saying, okay, we're going to start manufacturing in this country some way, somehow.
00:23:16.600 We're going to tax incentives.
00:23:18.580 We're going to do everything we possibly can.
00:23:20.580 President Trump did that.
00:23:22.000 He had a plan.
00:23:23.200 Well, this group here has zero plan other than trying to make money for their party off something that American taxpayers are going to pay a price for.
00:23:30.680 Yeah, and Joe Biden is not interested in crossing his good friends, the CCP, who have been funding his family business, I'll put it that way, for decades.
00:23:44.660 It's straightforward.
00:23:46.780 You know, you talk about that dependency for childhood medicines, and I know that there are considerable shortages.
00:23:53.300 But I think most Americans don't realize we're dependent on China and, to a degree, India for 97% of all of the ingredients in our pharmaceuticals and our pharmaceuticals.
00:24:08.580 Not just our pharmaceuticals, but to process it, we're dependent upon China and India.
00:24:15.160 We're in a heck of a mess.
00:24:16.920 That is a huge strategic advantage if we go to war, if we have a conflict with communist China, is it? 0.70
00:24:26.780 Not if and when, Lou, we go to war.
00:24:29.840 China's already said they're going to Taiwan.
00:24:32.240 And when that happens, obviously there are going to be blockades of the Taiwan Straits.
00:24:36.460 There's not going to be a thing going in or out.
00:24:38.660 Then what are we going to do?
00:24:39.620 Because, as you said, a huge majority of the things that we get, not just for medicines, but everything else, comes from China, from the child labor they have there to the cheap labor. 0.93
00:24:52.240 You know, we're not smart enough to force things to come back over here.
00:24:56.500 Again, we were on the way with President Trump.
00:24:58.940 He understood it.
00:24:59.780 He started putting tariffs on China, started trying to build our country back up.
00:25:05.180 Well, these people coming in and out, you never hear anything about it.
00:25:09.720 It's just status quo.
00:25:11.940 Everything is going to be hunky-dory.
00:25:14.340 You let them go into Taiwan and see what happens to our economy. 1.00
00:25:18.620 We won't be making many cars, much machinery.
00:25:23.400 There's going to be all kinds of things that are going to be huge shortages.
00:25:27.360 Microchips.
00:25:28.200 It's semiconductors.
00:25:29.660 You know, I want to ask you about that because we've got an invasion underway right now, and we haven't taken a defensive position or policy, and that is our southern border, 2,000 miles of it, is wide open to illegal immigrants, to the cartels.
00:25:49.700 I say on this broadcast, always, the Mexican drug cartels control both sides of that border, and this administration is the most pro-cartel administration in this country's history.
00:26:04.320 We are headed for a real reckoning unless something happens.
00:26:10.240 And I have to say, and I want to do something I seldom do, I want to say thank you to John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
00:26:17.980 That Supreme Court is all that stands between us and disaster because Congress doesn't have the time or the will to move, and I'm by Congress, I mean the Congress and the Senate, and they're the only hope we've got that they will insist, enforce the Constitution and responsibility on the part of this Marxist administration.
00:26:41.820 Well, thank goodness John Roberts finally stepped up because this was a must. 0.96
00:26:46.340 I mean, even he had to say, this is stupid, and I would love to ask President Biden face-to-face, what are you trying to prove here? 0.98
00:26:54.020 I mean, you're responsible for the national security of this country. 0.99
00:26:58.260 I've been there several times.
00:26:59.500 I was just down there a couple of weeks ago.
00:27:01.080 These people will run over you coming into the United States, and we're giving them a phone. 0.99
00:27:05.480 We're giving them thousands of dollars worth of hotel vouchers.
00:27:09.100 We'll give them a Medicaid card.
00:27:10.780 We'll give them a plane flight or a bus flight anywhere they want to go.
00:27:13.520 There's not a city in this country now, after two years of the Biden administration, you can't walk whether it's a small town or a big city that you don't see illegal standing on the corner looking for either something to do, something to eat, somewhere to sleep.
00:27:28.320 It is a bad, bad situation going to get worse.
00:27:31.320 They say we've had four or five million come here.
00:27:33.320 Let me tell you, there's been eight to ten million come in, because these gotaways, and they're getting away for a reason.
00:27:40.240 They're carrying drugs. 0.70
00:27:41.180 They're carrying human trafficking. 0.93
00:27:42.740 They're carrying everything.
00:27:43.660 And they are, our border is a sieve.
00:27:47.160 And it's embarrassing that a country like this will allow this to happen, but they're looking for votes.
00:27:53.100 They could care less about the sanctity of this country.
00:27:56.080 They're looking for votes, and I hope it backfires on them.
00:28:00.940 There's no way we can stop them.
00:28:03.160 Thank goodness John Roberts stood up in this situation.
00:28:06.980 I hope he stands by it for a lot longer time, because, Lou, it's not only serious.
00:28:12.860 This is a dangerous situation that's killing our kids every day with all this fentanyl.
00:28:17.000 Absolutely, and, you know, my wife and I pulled into a pilot truck stop on the way back from picking up one of our granddaughters,
00:28:28.520 and about nine o'clock at night, and there at the truck stop, a big white bus without any lettering, any identification on it,
00:28:36.860 pulls up and out files, and I mean files, in one military straight line.
00:28:42.760 I couldn't judge the number, but it had to be somewhere around 70, 80 people, all of them young men,
00:28:51.980 going into the truck stop to get something to eat, and I just, my wife said immediately,
00:29:00.780 these are illegal immigrants, not a woman there, all male, all, you know, 0.99
00:29:07.440 and they're being shipped in the middle of the night all around the country,
00:29:10.460 and we know what's going on in every, almost every major city in the country.
00:29:15.880 Your thoughts on that?
00:29:17.580 Well, I got on a plane leaving McAllen, Texas, not too long ago,
00:29:20.800 coming off the border after going down there and seeing the billions that we're spending,
00:29:24.620 and I get on the plane, and they pull two busloads up and filled the plane.
00:29:28.240 There was five senators on there, and they pulled the planes up and unloaded them,
00:29:32.760 and I sat next to this young girl, probably 19, had a two or three-month-old with her
00:29:37.300 and couldn't speak English and had an envelope and had a little money in it.
00:29:41.960 She had diapers and a plastic bag, and it had McAllen, Houston, Denver,
00:29:47.840 and I would love to ask her, you know, who's going to meet you in Denver?
00:29:51.360 I mean, she cried the whole time.
00:29:53.180 We landed in Houston.
00:29:54.380 I helped her get to her gate.
00:29:56.300 She had no clue how to get there.
00:29:57.520 I mean, they just turned these people loose, and they haven't been vaccinated.
00:30:03.020 They haven't been tested, and they're worried about COVID,
00:30:05.920 and they're kicking our military out for not taking a vaccine,
00:30:08.480 and they're letting millions of people in this country come in without being tested,
00:30:13.320 and it makes no sense whatsoever.
00:30:15.560 Again, they don't care.
00:30:17.220 The problem is they don't care about the country like they should,
00:30:20.160 and they want to change this.
00:30:21.940 It's fundamentally changed the United States, and they're doing it.
00:30:24.480 Yeah, fundamental transformation, just like Barack Obama promised.
00:30:30.640 It's the Marxist philosophy that he brought to the federal government,
00:30:36.660 and it is only built and diffused throughout our executive branch,
00:30:42.000 everywhere you turn, whether it's Department of Justice, FBI.
00:30:46.920 I want to get your reaction to Mitch McConnell's statement, too,
00:30:50.300 that everybody knows who's responsible for January 6th.
00:30:54.960 He didn't say the name Donald Trump, but he tried to insinuate it.
00:30:58.240 He forgot about Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the security agencies,
00:31:03.080 and their responsibility.
00:31:05.640 Your thoughts about this J6? 0.72
00:31:09.740 They're going after Donald Trump.
00:31:13.220 I understand that a reference, a referral to the Justice Department
00:31:18.260 for criminal prosecution is not much,
00:31:21.160 but it's more than any president should have to endure,
00:31:24.380 especially one who's been investigated by these.
00:31:28.960 I'm going to try to use a word that's a little better,
00:31:31.880 by these left-wing Dems.
00:31:35.720 They persecuted him for nearly, this is the seventh year,
00:31:39.700 and he hasn't been found guilty of any wrongdoing.
00:31:43.080 And their DOJ and FBI are a bunch of crooks, we know, as a result.
00:31:47.260 Your thoughts?
00:31:48.240 Well, they couldn't let him win, Lou.
00:31:50.720 A lot of them were probably going to jail, and they knew that.
00:31:53.860 So everything was compromised all through that election,
00:31:56.520 and we all know that.
00:31:57.480 And my first day on the Senate floor two years ago was January 6th,
00:32:00.800 and there was no preparation around the Capitol.
00:32:05.740 Nancy Pelosi's fault.
00:32:07.020 She's never been brought up.
00:32:08.240 Why did you not bring a National Guard?
00:32:10.900 Why didn't you protect the Capitol?
00:32:12.680 That's your job.
00:32:13.840 That's your responsibility.
00:32:15.780 A lot of people had fault.
00:32:18.120 President Trump had a little fault in that
00:32:19.680 because he brought them all here.
00:32:21.580 Now, he didn't tell them to come and physically come into the Capitol.
00:32:25.940 Basically, he said, hey, let's have a peaceful protest.
00:32:28.460 So there's a lot of blame, Lou, to go around on that.
00:32:32.300 But that's behind us.
00:32:33.520 I kept that night on the Senate floor, about 10 o'clock,
00:32:36.780 I kept hearing from the Dems and Schumer,
00:32:39.260 how about this is worse than 9-11, this is worse than Pearl Harbor.
00:32:43.400 I'm thinking, what in the world are y'all talking about?
00:32:46.780 You know, this is a protest that people mad about something.
00:32:50.440 It's over with.
00:32:51.720 We spent $500 million the next six months on National Guard
00:32:55.340 being around the Capitol, which was fences everywhere.
00:33:00.560 There was nobody in danger.
00:33:03.520 It's absolutely amazing how far they took it.
00:33:06.320 But they've lived off of it.
00:33:07.540 And hopefully this thing will wrap up and we'll get a decent,
00:33:12.080 we'll get Nancy Pelosi going,
00:33:13.840 we'll get a bunch of these people that can't tell the truth off this committee,
00:33:17.560 and we'll get back to what we need to do here in Congress
00:33:21.440 is work for the American people.
00:33:24.180 Well, you know, the left, they loved it.
00:33:27.640 You know, they just sucked it right up. 0.81
00:33:29.480 And the Dems there on Capitol Hill and the House and the Senate, 0.95
00:33:33.820 oh, they were having a big time putting on a show.
00:33:36.860 And this January 6th committee, the biggest farts you've ever seen.
00:33:42.140 And, you know, but we did get to know better.
00:33:44.080 A guy named Kenzinger and Liz Cheney, the rest of the Dems,
00:33:49.120 we didn't know so well and never will want to know very well. 0.99
00:33:53.180 But to think that those two ignorant, let me rephrase that. 0.98
00:33:58.080 Let me just say those two individuals are, I mean, 0.99
00:34:02.380 they're an insult to everyone, every decent person,
00:34:06.760 and what they're doing in the nation's Capitol
00:34:08.800 and the Republican Party is beyond me.
00:34:11.020 We always give our guests the last word, Senator,
00:34:13.720 and I turn it to you for your concluding thoughts.
00:34:16.260 And I want to say thank you.
00:34:17.720 I always enjoy talking with you.
00:34:19.540 Thank you, Lou.
00:34:20.040 You know, we're going into the holiday season with Christmas and New Year's,
00:34:23.760 and next year is going to be a very tough year economically.
00:34:26.340 I can tell people that right now.
00:34:27.480 If we're not in a recession now,
00:34:29.640 we will be with what Powell's doing with our interest rates.
00:34:33.040 But we live in the best country on the face of the earth.
00:34:36.200 When you were born here, you hit the lottery.
00:34:39.520 I'm hoping people that have the ability to keep us the strongest
00:34:44.500 and best country on the face of the earth
00:34:46.220 will make the right decisions.
00:34:47.660 Right now, we're not going in that direction,
00:34:50.100 but I think hopefully next year, you know,
00:34:52.600 we'll start working for the American people with the House in charge,
00:34:56.420 you know, with Republican leadership.
00:34:59.420 I just hope that people will be patient and understand
00:35:03.060 and start watching what's going on and understanding that,
00:35:06.320 you know, we're at the brink of a lot of problems,
00:35:09.140 and we need to overcome some of those problems.
00:35:11.180 But God bless, and Merry Christmas to everybody.
00:35:13.880 Senator Tommy Tuberville, Great American.
00:35:17.040 We thank you for being with us.
00:35:18.400 Tomorrow, our guest is a 25-year veteran of the FBI.
00:35:22.320 We'll be taking up overwhelming corruption at the DOJ and FBI
00:35:27.820 and what can be done about it all.
00:35:30.540 James Galeano, CBS News security and law enforcement analyst,
00:35:35.120 joins us tomorrow.
00:35:36.640 Till then, thanks, and God bless you,
00:35:39.900 and may God bless America.