WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network to discuss the U.S. Secret Service failures that led to the assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July. They also discussed Kamala Harris’ failure to outline policies to boost the U.S. economy.
Excerpts from Senator Tuberville can be found below, and his entire interview can be watched on Rumble or YouTube.
BARTIROMO: “Joining me now is Alabama senator, Tommy Tuberville. He is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and HELP Committee. Senator, thanks very much for being here. Your reaction to this report.”
TUBERVILLE: “Well, disastrous. I’ve got to know President Trump’s detail over the last couple of years, Maria. I’ve been very close. We’ll spend hours with them on a golf course, in the clubhouse. They’re first class, they’re professional, they work hard. It’s a numbers game. But this report goes back to leadership. Leadership of the Secret Service, leadership of the FBI, leadership of the CIA. It changed back during the Democratic-controlled White House back in early 2010, 2011 when they took people that actually worked in these areas and they put in bureaucrats and they put these bureaucrats in and they totally changed all 3 or 4 of these entities in terms of how things are run. DEI is up front, close and personal. Unfortunately, you know, I’d love to have been a professional quarterback, but I didn’t have the ability to do that. We’re putting people in jobs that can’t do these jobs. And if it has anything to do with law enforcement and military, anything to do with protecting American citizens, like the Secret Service, we got to get away from this affirmative action, DEI—put the best people in charge.”
BARTIROMO: “No, great point. And by the way, Coach, we have a lot of questions about that as well. We’re gonna get to that coming up in terms of you wanting to be a quarterback. I want to get into Israel though first. Despite Israel’s war against Hamas and Iranian proxies and Iran being linked to separate assassination plots against President Trump, the U.S. is still allowing Iranian leaders into the country. The President of Iran speaking at the UN on Tuesday. I guess we had to issue him a visa for that. Trump spoke about this on the threats to his life. [….] And Senator, I have a letter here that Tom Cotton wrote and Mitch McConnell to President Biden. Sent the note yesterday. He writes, ‘We write to strongly condemn your administration’s continued delay in providing critical military equipment and weapons to our ally Israel. In the midst of an existential war, we have reason to believe your administration is currently delaying three critical types of military weapons or equipment.’ He goes on to name them. […] What is the US doing in terms of its support for Israel right now? Are they once again delaying weapons?”
TUBERVILLE: “Oh, they’re delaying weapons. They’re riding the fence, Maria. An election is coming up. They don’t wanna be seen as helping Israel because they need all these kids’ votes, all over the country. The number one thing that all these young people are looking at, these millennials, these generations Z and X, they are on the Palestinian side, they are on Hamas’ side. And so, they are riding the fence as much as they possibly can. I’m with President Trump on Iran, but, you know, the Ayatollah come into United States. But one thing you always need to understand, keep your friends close, your enemies closer. We need to know where he stands, and you also saw the UN. He probably got a bigger ovation than if Netanyahu were to come. We know where they stand. They’re globalists. They’re not on the Israel side. This is not a birthday party Israel is fighting for. They’re fighting for their damn country. And the well-being and the existence of the Israel state. So, Biden and Harris, they’re taking this very lightly, but they’re riding the fence. It’s going to get them in trouble. It’s going to get them beat at the polls.”
BARTIROMO: “Well, I mean, look, you make a good point because now I’m looking at this story whereas we understand the House has okayed the GOP resolution condemning Biden and Harris over the Afghanistan exit. Now, I mean, Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first solo interview since launching her Presidential campaign and she didn’t say much. She struggled to explain any economic plans and certainly stayed far away from foreign policy, including Afghanistan.” […]
TUBERVILLE: “Embarrassing, Maria. We all know that. We’ve seen that. They’re trying to get her elected—the worst possible candidate they could put there. But, in 90 days they’re trying to get her across the finish line. She’s the first ever AI presidential candidate—all done by social media, the media, TV, and radio. They’re doing everything they possibly can. They’ll spend billions of dollars to get her across the line. She is the worst candidate. There’s some Democrat senators up here [who are] wondering ‘How in the world did she get in front of me? I’ve been up for forever. I know the policies, I know how to get things done.’ No chance, didn’t talk to them. She’s the one they wanted because they can control her. That’s what it’s all about.”
BARTIROMO: “Well, Senator, what about these polls? They’re incredibly tight—Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump—and yet we’re not getting any information about any policies from Kamala—and we’ve got all of these missteps. I’ve got another letter here to Alejandro Mayorkas and Ronald Roe, Acting Director of the Secret Service, from the Speaker of the House basically talking about these failures in the Secret Service. Alejandro Mayorkas is overseeing all of this. He’s overseeing the Secret Service, he’s overseeing the wide-open border, ten million illegals in the country in the last 3.5 years. Will there be any accountability for Alejandro Mayorkas in the Senate?”
TUBERVILLE: “Maria, he’s disappeared. If you notice in the last few months, he has not been anywhere. They told him to hide. ‘We don’t want you out there having to talk about this.’ Same thing with Kamala. They don’t want her talking about [the border]. They’re letting the mainstream media push their agenda, but the problem they’ve got is things are coming out now. We’re starting to understand. People understand, ‘Wait a minute, we need to hear this from her.’ What was that she was talking about? I didn’t understand it. How in the world is she gonna be the leader of the free world if she can’t give you basic 101 Economics? It’s embarrassing that we would even put her in this situation. She should drop out today and let somebody else run. I don’t know how they plan on getting her across the finish line. President Trump’s gonna win this. The polls are wrong. Everywhere I go, everybody’s saying, ‘Coach, we have to get President Trump across the line.’”
BARTIROMO: “Yeah, really. I mean, you wanna say anything about this upcoming Georgia-Bama game, Coach?”
TUBERVILLE: “Well, it’s gonna be close. I’m going with President Trump, It’s gonna be hard to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I had a hard time. I did a couple of times, but it’s hard to beat them there.”
BARTIROMO: “Boom. Alright, Senator. Good to see you this morning. Thank you, sir.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs, and HELP Committees.
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