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Senator Tuberville - September 26th, Hour 3
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So Senator Tupperville of Alabama uh has been out there and he is pushing as hard as he possibly can.
The discussion uh centering around the Department of Defense nominations and votes and the games the left has been trying to play with the rules of the Senate.
And what they didn't realize is Senator Tupperville was way ahead of them and prepared for every antique that they brought up.
For example, last Tuesday, Senator Tupperville announced plans to vote to confirm the commander of of the Marine Corps, and 24 hours later, Schumer gave and filed cloture on three military nominees.
Now, Senator Tubberville has repeatedly said Schumer can bring these nominations to the floor or get the Pentagon to reverse their illegal policy.
Uh the move by Schumer uh proves that to be true because last week Senator Tubberville also followed up on his July twenty-third letter requesting additional information uh regarding the Department of Defense's abortion policy after not receiving a reply by the requested date of September the first.
And Senator Tubberville is still seeking answers to a bunch of questions.
Let me give you a list.
You know, since the policy's implementation, how many service members have used the administrative absence for non-covered reproductive health care policy to receive additional leave and or travel expensive reimbursements for abortion?
You know, how many days of additional leave have been granted for abortion as a result of the policy?
And since implementation, what is the total cost the DOD has incurred due to paying travel expenses associated with the policy?
Does the policy entitled reimbursement for travel expenses and additional time off beyond that which is already prescribed by law for service members or their dependents who choose to give birth?
And other than the non-covered reproductive services, which fall under this new policy, uh, for what medical services does the DOD reimburse all travel expenses and provide an additional twenty-one days of non-uh chargeable paid time off.
Please provide a copy of the RAN Corporation survey, blah, blah, blah, from September 2022, which the DOD referenced uh during a December 7, 2022 briefing to my staff.
Please provide a copy of any other resources.
Anyway, the bottom line is you know, th this isn't about where you stand or where the states ultimately will decide where they stand on the issue of abortion.
This is now the issue of taxpayer-funded abortion and taxpayer funded leave uh on this issue.
And Senator Tupperville joins us now.
Senator, how are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
You know I had two great years in Alabama.
I'm not sure if you're aware of my history.
I know that.
I remember you as an hospital.
Yeah, you're very good and worked your way up.
You've done pretty well in a country.
It's uh that's kind of I was living in a dry county, Athens, Alabama.
Not that I was a big drinker, but I just know just just as a reference.
Um, but honestly, wonderful people are still staying in touch with my old boss, uh Bill Donovan, great guy.
And uh I stay in touch with all my former bosses.
All right, l let me instead of using my words, why don't we put it in your words, what you're doing, why you've come under such fire, how you're handling it, and what you plan to do.
Well, first of all, Sean, thanks for having me on.
But the thing I've noticed, I've you know, I was a football coach for thirty-five years, and so I come up here wanting to learn and help the people of Alabama help the people of the country.
By the way, a darn good coach.
I gotta add that.
Oh well, thank you.
But the you know, the thing about I've noticed about uh uh the Biden Democrats is they've used Congress since I've been here as a punching bag.
They could go around everything that we do.
They don't ask our opinion, they don't want our opinion.
Uh they run this place like a dictatorship, like a communist country.
And it just goes hand in hand with what I'm doing with the holes on the military.
You know, they're trying to make our military woke.
Uh they're not trying to, they're they're they're accomplishing that feat every day, and we're fighting that, but they've already done the same thing, the education and DOJ and FBI, all those things.
But that being said, uh they just go around Congress, and I've told them uh when they first did this, uh they finally gave me a brief and that's you can't do it this way.
I'm gonna put a hold on all your admirals and generals, and uh I'm not gonna pull it off until you put the policy back and let's vote on it.
Vote, let Congress vote.
Let the people of this country have a say so about one of the most controversial subjects, abortion.
But they wanted to do it themselves, so humor's been uh he's been running his mouth quite a bit, and uh it is what it is.
He I finally, as you said, called his hand last week and made him bring three of them up.
I'm not holding the nominations up one at a time.
I'm just holding up one one whole group of three hundred to four hundred, so and I'm gonna stay with that, Sean.
I'm not changing my mind, so they got huge problems.
They think I'm gonna change my mind because I'm sick and tired of them dictating to us in this country of what they're gonna do instead of going to the proper uh constitutional republic way of going through Congress.
The one thing that I think I've gotten to know about you is you mean it.
There are a lot of Republicans that say things they don't really mean it.
And you know, frankly I get disgusted at times.
I'm frustrated with House Republicans right now.
I'll tell you why, because they had an opportunity all summer long to put together twelve appropriations bills like they said they would and vote on them, and that would have given them leverage when they went to conference with your body, the U.S. Senate, uh and and forced hopefully spending restraints on Washington that they don't want to have,
and it would have forced issues like securing our border and and other money's deeply de desperately necessary for things that you know are their priority agendas, or at least so they tell us.
I think it was a missed opportunity.
But I I know you're serious.
Yeah, well, n nobody wants to do the right thing up here.
What they want to do, Sean, is get re-elected.
And I didn't come up here to get reelected.
If they want to send me back, fine.
I'm gonna do what's best for Alabama and the best for people of Alabama.
You know, this country, Sean, has to go on a diet, uh a spinning diet.
We are dead broke.
We're 33 trillion in debt, and we don't have one damn thing to show for it.
Our roads are bad or bridges are bad or water's bad or infrastructure's bad, or power grids are bad.
Uh i it it's I don't know, where's the money at?
Thirty-three trillion dollars?
Are you kidding me?
And uh and let me tell you something.
We work two, maybe three days a week up here, and then we go home for about four days, and we mosey back up here, and we say, Well, we're gonna get all these problems fixed.
I work seven days a week most of my life.
And uh if you're in government, you should work until you get the job done.
And if we don't do that with this spending bill, I mean the American people better understand what's coming.
Right now, if we don't go on a short diet and try to get things in order in the long run, Sean, we are gonna pay a huge price because inflation and recession and all that's coming, and I'm gonna tell you, we are huge.
It's here.
I uh sixty-one percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
You know, when I lived in in Huntsville and I was on the radio, and by the way, I was the happiest guy in the world because I was doing what I love to do.
I never thought I'd make money doing this.
I made $19,000 a year, and I started doing the afternoon show, and by the time I left I was doing the morning show, the afternoon show, and a Saturday show.
I mean, I couldn't get enough airtime.
Well, you know, it's uh the the South is great, and of course the whole country.
We we live in the greatest country ever, uh, but we're trying our best to bring it to everybody else's level.
We're like a nineteen fifty-seven Chevrolet now.
We just we're we're we look good, but it don't run Very well.
And we we we better start upgrading our country instead of everybody else's country, because if we don't, we're gonna end up in the in a mechanic shop and we're gonna be hard to fix and put it back together.
How would the leaders how's the leadership in the Senate treating you?
Well, I mean, that they're not on my side, obviously, because I'm standing up and you know, McConnell, you know, everybody's got their opinion.
And that all these young activists over here, I call them activists, or they call themselves journalists, they all ask me.
I mean, you know, Senator McConnell's not for you.
I don't I don't work for Senator McConnell.
I work for the people of Alabama.
I work for the people of this country that believe in this country.
And uh, you know, we have differences of opinion.
Everybody does.
Uh you got to stand up what you believe in.
And you know, I'm I didn't vote for one dime to go to Ukraine.
Everybody says, Why?
You got a lot of defense people in in the state of Alabama.
Well, first of all, they can't win.
I mean, they can't win that fight.
I mean, uh, I'm for winning it.
They they can't win it because they're not fighting it to win it.
And Joe Biden is one of the biggest obstacles for them to even having a strategy to win it because he vetoed MiG jets that Poland was offering.
Then he vetoed cluster bombs.
He's you know, he's since you know, at this late date changed his mind, and then Europe doesn't pay their fair share.
Why uh we shouldn't spend a penny if they're not going to protect their own continent.
Seven out of thirty-one NATO countries pay their own way, Sean.
Seven out of thirty-one.
We can't function like that.
That's like half of your offensive line playing during the whole game, the rest of them uh, you know, kind of going through the motions.
You can't survive.
Yeah, everybody's got to be on the same page.
There's been a couple of negotiations with Ukraine and Russia, and and and the United States and NATO won't won't let them negotiate.
They got to get this over, Sean.
There's over 400,000 people died in this in this war, and it's gonna be more, but we can't continue to do this because I said earlier, uh we're what we're doing in Ukraine, we're overlooking the border and southern border, Sean, and I know you've been there.
What a complete disaster we got.
It's uh it's an absolute Adam Schiff show.
It really is.
It's awful.
Um, you know, it's it's just interesting to listen to you and your philosophy.
But you've also examined how our military has gone woke.
I mean, what are the more shocking things that you've learned that I I think our military ought to have real military old-fashioned discipline.
And that is we turn these men and and women into killers that if God forbid this country needs them, that they are prepared to go into battle with the best, greatest, latest military technology behind them and leaders that are there to to give them all the support and the strategies they need to win.
And by the way, I think future wars are going to be fought in office buildings when we're just pressing buttons and firing missiles with enormous accuracy, pinpoint accuracy, and taking out whatever the target is.
That's how we beat the caliphate back, and we did it in short order.
Well, you're exactly right, Sean.
You know, war and conflict's easy, easy to get into.
Peace is hard.
We don't work at peace very well.
That's the reason I like President Trump, because he worked we didn't have a war while he's in office, and he wasn't gonna get into a war.
He understood the consequences of the war, and he understood the quant consequences where we're at financially, because he's a businessman.
But we are becoming woke in the military.
Uh, you know, I I hear all these admirals and generals and and I've been to bases all over the world.
And we let me tell you something, they're nobody bigger for me than than me for military.
I was a military brat.
And if the number one thing we have to have in this country is a strong military, because if we don't, everything else is for nothing because we can lose it in the snap of a finger.
We have to have a strong military.
But I tell you, what we have going on right now uh with transgenders in the military, with with the the gay rights push, all those things.
Listen, I don't care if you say you're a giraffe.
Hey, as long as you're an American and you can do your job, do it.
The army, the military is not an equal opportunity employer.
You go, if you can do the job, I don't care who you are, and you you believe in this country and you want to fight for this country, hey, go get it.
I'm all for you.
But these activists that are getting in the military now, you know, I was for the CQ Brown.
I'd talk to him several times to be the new joint chiefs.
I was one of the eight that voted against him other day, and everybody goes, I thought you liked him.
I said, I did, until I heard him say, We need more black pilots.
Wait a minute.
Hey, I hope they're all black.
I want the best.
You know, I Coached 80% minorities all my life.
Hey, I'm an American.
I don't care who you are, what color you are.
The military needs fighters that can win.
There's no second place in war.
You know, if they're all black, fine.
But we have to have the best, Sean.
We're getting to this merit system, this system of allocation of certain types of groups, and we can't afford that in the military.
You might do it in some of these other things we do, but not in the military because we will lose and get our tails handed to us if we ever have a conflict with Russia or China or me, even Iran.
All right, quick break, right back.
We'll continue more with Senator Tupperville of the great state of Alabama on the other side.
Then we'll hit the phones 800-941 Sean as we continue.
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All right, we continue now with Alabama Senator Tommy Tupperville is with us, or coach, whatever you prefer to call him.
I think you'd probably be rather be called coach.
Let me ask you this.
In all your research and and all your analysis of our military, where is the military gone most woke?
Oh, I would probably say, you know, the the people actually do the war fighting, the sergeants, the lieutenants, and the captains and and all those people.
Uh, you know, that's that's the group that really fights wars.
And if we, and if I thought it would really have really infiltrated down to that position, I'd say, hey, we're in huge problems.
Well we still got great Americans in those positions.
The most woke are the people in charge.
Sean, the people that as the admirals and generals, uh the people that have been there forever that just want to keep a job instead of standing up for their principles.
And you said earlier, you hit it right on the head.
Discipline, organization is what you have to have in any organization to have success.
We're losing that.
We're losing it because of quotas and the things that we're pushing in the military that don't need to be there.
We're spending money on tra uh on transgender restrooms, and we don't have coverings for 100 100 million F-35s.
Uh and and now I understand that they want all electric vehicles for war.
I'm like, oh, great.
On the battlefield, we're gonna put in charging stations.
I'm sure that our enemies are not gonna take those out.
Why would they ever attack those?
Oh, it's just it's it's sad to see this climate uh nonsense go on.
You know, uh, you know, I've I've listened to scientists after scientists and we'd want to make sure we're doing the right thing.
We and we're all environmentalists.
You I tell you what, we're gonna have to bail out these car companies in about five years because this EV stuff they're pushing, they can't make it.
And nobody's gonna buy that that stuff.
And you Ford lost four point five billion last year.
Exactly.
You're becoming the the bear Bryant Nick Sabin of uh Alabama politics.
Uh glad you're out there, coach, and keep keep up the fight.
We appreciate it.
Thank you, Sean.
God bless.
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Is it Stinney in California?
How are you, Stinny?
What's going on?
Hey, all right, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
By the way, uh, congrats on setting up that debate.
That's fantastic.
Thank you.
You know, some people criticize me for it.
I'm like, why?
Uh you know, you got two of the most prominent governors.
You got this migration from you know, blue states to red states.
Well, why is this all happening?
Why is there such a dramatically different governing vision between these these types of states?
And I think the two biggest representatives of it would be, you know, maybe Texas, but Florida and and California.
I mean, you you can't get any you're more I I can't think of two more diametrically opposed viewpoints in terms of governance, can you?
Not at all.
As a matter of fact, I got two points, and I'll keep it uh pithy here.
The first point is I'd like to make a suggestion that uh perhaps you could have a real time, and I'm talking somebody like Blue Chip IBM or somebody that has a good reputation, have a real-time fact checker, because when you have a policy debate, they're gonna be slinging stuff, and to be able to have that for the viewers would be absolutely fantastic.
The second thing is uh I wanted to get to the point about uh when I was in college, I had a wise professor that once said there is no such thing as coincidences in politics.
And if this isn't a wag the dog moment with uh Newsom being on 60 minutes, I mean, come on.
We know that there's some back channel stuff going on in this shadow campaign, and it's for real.
And if we think it's just a coincidence, we got another thing coming.
Listen, I'm suspicious.
I was out there, I did the interview with by the way.
This is how this debate organically kind of sprang up.
I was doing the interview with Gavin Newsom, and while there, I mean, him and and Governor DeSantis have been, you know, slinging barbs at each other, and newsome even spent money on I think like a hundred grand on ads in the state of Florida going after Governor DeSantis.
But you know, they've been kind of attacking each other.
I'm like, can I put you guys in a room and we'll debate it?
Let's discuss it.
And you know, lo and behold, this thing came together.
It was uh heavier lift than I thought.
Uh, but I promise not to talk about the internal workings of it.
I'm gonna keep my word.
Um, but I'm glad it's happening.
I think it's gonna be very, very informative.
I do.
And I think uh you know, we've got to explain to people, you know, that policies and political philosophy has a huge impact on us and our lives and our futures.
You know, I'm calling it red state versus blue state.
You know, we always talk about the federal government, but the state governments have a much greater impact on our lives than than the federal government in so many ways.
Wouldn't you agree?
Absolutely.
And you're the perfect guy to get this thing in line.
And and I've as a just a viewer I'm just going to say it's fantastic.
And if you could put a fact checker in there that would nullify any of the the wrong stuff that's being you know said.
Look I I kind of view that as the role is they need to fact check each other.
In other words, I would imagine that both will be very well versed in each other's policies and positions and statistics.
And so in that sense that's kind of like their job.
You know I have a job and that's to get each discussion moving and going and keep the debate flow going.
And you know I'm not part of the debate.
I'm just going to bring up the topics.
Honestly, you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what we're going to talk about.
You know, how about two different very diametrically opposed approaches to COVID.
How about the issue of sanctuary state versus non-sanctuary state?
How do you explain a 13 and a half percent income tax in one state and zero percent in another state these I mean these are deep profound differences.
They're not insignificant and they certainly impact the the citizens of their respective states.
I mean I lived in California five years.
California is stunningly beautiful.
It is I was like the poorest person in Santa Barbara of my twenties.
And I wouldn't be surprised if your debate gets a higher debate than the other debates honestly.
I listen I I have to look at ratings.
I don't dwell on them you never get too high you never get too low.
I just kind of keep a steady you know perspective on it.
I I'm able to do that because I've been doing this so long and there's an ebb and flow to these things but I honestly I I just want it to be a quality debate.
That's what my goal is here.
And I think I think it will be I think it'll emerge as a quality debate.
And I believe me I'm going to be doing a lot of work in the lead up to this I promise you I'll be prepared.
Thank you.
All right my friend thank you I appreciate it.
Uh all right let's go to Alabama Rob uh next how do you like Senator Tubberville?
I like him.
Man that was a bonus here in Coach Taberville on your show.
Greetings from your state of your former residents and regards from Rick and Bubba Sean.
By the way I don't hear from my buddies Rick and Bubba I haven't heard from them in a long time.
I miss Rick and Bubba.
I mean they're two awesome guys love them.
We used to hang out they come up to New York and they you know be plugging a book whatever and we'd hang out.
I just love those guys good guys I've got an eight year old and a nine year old and we raise them on Rick and Bubba and we raise them on you too in the afternoon.
So I think they're growing still playing Rick and Bubba Rick and Bubba Rick and Bubba they still play that four but yeah it's great to hear Coach Severville I was I'm an Albert said that's that's my former head coach down there.
Oh really you play football for him how was he as a coach?
I didn't play for him I was a I was a student there he was coaching a little bit before I got there.
Well you got some you know a history of a phenomenal coaches I don't think there's a better coach in all of college football than Nick Saban.
Maybe I'm wrong uh I just think the guy is a winner.
And and I know you guys are struggling a little bit more the last two years but honestly this guy's going to find a way to build a team to win.
He always does and you can't underestimate him and you know then you know what do you what else can you add about Bear Bryant right?
Well even an Auburn guy's got to respect those two guys' records.
There's they've been very successful.
So you're war eagle and then you're watching Sabin on on the on the sidelines for Bama and you got to be thinking this sucks well hey I'm actually married to an Alabama grad so we got that going I just go to the deer go to the woods in the winter and deer hunt instead of watch football till Ober gets a little better.
Auburn's been struggling a little bit more by the way they came under fire if I'm not mistaken the the football coach I forget his name off the top of my head you would know it um they had like a baptism that 200 kids chose to be a part of correct yes correct all right Coach Freeze that's up that's our new coach.
Kids chose to be a part of it.
Some WECO group started protesting it, but hey, the baptism's occurred, and nothing that can be said after the fact can change what happened.
No, you can't undo the baptism, you know, once you commit your life to Jesus, right?
But here's the thing.
You know, they were saying, well, the there had to be enormous pressure.
So Freedom from Religion Foundation.
I know these people have debated them over the years, and you know, they just need to get a life as far as I'm concerned.
But if kids won't want to voluntarily, you know, participate in uh in a baptism.
Gee, I think it's better than a keg party.
I think it's better than smoking weed or doing drugs.
Uh I think it's more productive.
Just just, you know, my thoughts.
Yeah.
And last time I chat the Constitution was still in existence in this country, so that would include freedom of religion, right?
I gotta imagine the people of Alabama rolling their eyes saying, you know what, just keep your little New York DC values where you are, and we'll run our country we'll run our state the way we want.
Leave us alone.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
You're welcome to come back on now, though, whenever you feel like it.
Ah, listen, I I I loved my time there.
Um I feel very blessed to have had my time down there.
You know, as a kid that grew up in Long Island, New York, the when I left New York, and my experiences brought me five years to Rhode Island, five years to California.
That's where you know, uh I started radio on a c you know college station.
They rightly fired me, I deserved it.
Um and my first paid gig was in Huntsville, and then four years in Atlanta.
And I will tell you that experience, sixteen years away from New York, I didn't think I'd ever make it back to New York, and I got hired when Fox News went on the air.
I'm about, believe it or not, in what, ten days I will be starting my twenty-eighth year at the Fox News Channel on from day one.
Wow.
And I never thought, trust me, you the if you would have made the bet in October 96th that I'd be still standing starting my twenty-eighth year.
That was a bad, bad bet.
And you know, now we're the longest running primetime cable host in in history.
I'm very grateful to all of you that made that happen for me.
Well done.
Well, my question, Sean, was about um this has been bothering me since 2020.
And with the mail-in voting issue, it was impl the restrictions around mail-in voting were implemented because of supposedly the COVID crisis and people couldn't get uh to vote in person.
But my concern has always been when this new election rolls around next year or this this fall, what's uh what's the what's gonna prevent people from doing the same thing and having multiple dead people voting two or three times and having the same challenges we had in 2020?
Why aren't Congressional and House Republicans standing up and raising all kind of hell to get these these mail-in voting allowances taken away since the COVID pandemic is over?
Can you help me understand that?
Well, a lot of things changed in 2020.
There for example, states have laws where partisan observers get to watch uh voting and vote counting.
They made no accommodation for COVID.
And you know, to put somebody a thousand feet away, two thousand feet away, and say, okay, you're observing the election, it's just it's farcical.
It's just nonsense.
Right.
And you know, and then you know, Pennsylvania, I I I just can't believe they pulled this off and got away with it.
They have constitutionally, state constitution, very stringent criteria for mail-in voting.
And then the state legislature, rather rather than do the heavy lift and get the constitutional amendment passed.
Uh, they just chose to bypass that process, take the easy route, just pass legislation.
The problem is that's unconstitutional.
Wisconsin, I mean, the there was a three-four decision that and the dissent written by the chief justice in Wisconsin.
It was a stingy rebuke about how they weren't following the laws of the state of Wisconsin.
And yeah, I do I like no, I don't I don't like a lot of these laws.
Uh we ought not be voting for 90 days or you know, 60 days before an election.
Uh a lot of states allow legal ballot harvesting.
That's that's somebody else taking your ballot and handing it in for you.
I wonder if some of them might might open them up.
You think that's a possibility?
Because I do.
Uh and I would prefer election Day national holiday.
I'd prefer paper ballots.
I'd prefer uh say, you know, partisan observers watching the voting all day, and when the polls close, watch the vote counting all night.
Uh, I want, of course, voter IDs, signature verification, updated voter roles, chain of custody controls, and I want those partisan observers.
Every precinct in America should have partisan observers watching the vote and the vote counting.
Just to keep it fair.
That would add integrity to the system and confidence in the results.
So, you know what?
Nobody could say, oh, uh, you know, the election was stolen.
Hillary Clinton is out there still saying, yeah, Russia's gonna probably interfere like they did before with Donald Trump.
You know, don't don't, you know, don't think they won't do it again.
I'm like, okay, that's been debunked, Hillary.
You know, you're you what are you the only person on earth that believes your phony, dirty Russian dossier?
But yeah, that's the system I have.
Now, with that said, we don't have it.
So, Republicans, I'm telling people, and the RNC has actually picked up on this, thankfully, that you gotta get over your reluctance to vote early and vote by mail.
Unfortunately, it's the system we have, not the one we wish we had.
And then the next thing is legal ballot harvesting, which Democrats have mastered.
We got to get in that game too and match their efforts and surpass their efforts.
And then when we win elections, guess what?
We could probably change it to the system I just described, but not until then.
But Republicans have got to get in that game.
You cannot start election day down hundreds of thousands of votes and feel like you're in the game.
Because the first thing they'll do is day of voting.
Oh, we're up by 15 points, 14, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3.
It's a dead heat.
Oops, Republican lost.
That's because, you know, the the early voting has so favored Democrats.
Republicans need to, in the words of the RNC bank their vote, and they need to get into the legal, you know, chief word here, legal ballot harvesting efforts the Democrats are involved in.
I've been saying this now since 2020.
Republicans need to get better faster.
They're not moving at a speed I'm comfortable with.
I find them too slow to move.
But anyway, my friend, God bless you, man.
Appreciate the call.
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