In this episode, Lisa welcomes Senator Tommy Tuberville to discuss a range of topics. Tuberville explains his decision to lift the hold on military promotions, his concerns about Pentagon's abortion policies, and the lack of communication from the White House. He also discusses his reservations about funding Ukraine, the need for border security, and the issue of federal funding for universities with large endowments. The Senator criticizes Biden's proposed changes to Title IX and expresses his belief that Democrats are indoctrinating students with their ideologies. The Truth with Lisa Boothe with new episodes every Monday & Thursday.
The last time we had Senator Tommy Tuberville on the show, he had placed a hold on military promotions to protest the Pentagon's abortion policies post Row versus Wade overturning. He has since lifted that hold, at least for three star generals in below why we'll get his take on that. He also came under intense scrutiny from colleagues on the right. Is that why we don't win more battles? Because we're too uncomfortable with being uncomfortable? We'll also talk about Ukraine's Zelensky coming to Capitol Hill asking for more money for Ukraine from both the White House and Congress. Where does he stand on that. We'll get into Title nine changes that Biden's trying to make, removing protections for biological women, for women in sports, and then also get his take on these university presidents beclowning themselves before Capitol Hill. All of that and more with Senator Tommy Tubberville from Alabama. Stay tuned well, Senator, it's great to have you back on the show. I appreciate you making the time.
Thank you some Merry Christmas you too.
I can't believe it's come so soon. It's the years just flown by. So, Senator, the last time I had you on the show, we had discussed you had placed a hold on military promotions and protests of the Pentagon's abortion policies that they put in place post Row versus Wade overturning. You have since lifted that hold for three star generals and blow Why.
Well, let's go back to how they started. It started holding promotions because of facilitating taxpayer money for abortion in the military and executive overreach. So I thought it would last about a month, two months. You know, we've had senators that have had holes on a thousand promotion before and the other At that time, the Pentagon and even the White House worked with them and worked their problem out. I had zero, I mean zero communication with a White House and very very little from the Pentagon. They could have cared less. I mean, they don't care anything about the unborn, nor they did care anything about the military. They say they do as long as they get to spend money on something, whether it's military or whatever, infrastructure, they just want to spend, spend, spend. So as Republicans, we love both. We were for the unborn and we're for the military. We're for a strong military. So after eleven months, you know, my objective was after no negotiation, is to get it in the NDAA, which is the military budget. And we had it in there. It comes from the House. All we had to do is vote on it. When it came to committee. Two weeks ago. It was coming to committee, I had Democrats voting with me, and so we had it all planned. It was going to be put back in the military as the old policy, and lo and behold, Chuck Schumer changed the rules and took that policy out, which was illegal. But that's why they do things up here. You know. They don't care. As long as they get their way, They're going to do it their way. So once they pulled it out of the NDAA, the military budget, I had no way out, but I was going to continue to hold. And then I had about a dozen of my colleagues on the right, the Republicans said we're going to vote against you, coach, We're going to vote to change the rules. With the Democrats, we got to get on and promote these people. No guts, no glory, okay. And so instead of changing the rule, Uh, it was over. Now I'm not finished fighting, you know, for for the unborn. We're gonna continue down this path to try to get it back, and when hopefully we get President Trump in the office, we will move this policy back the way it was. But right now, uh, with Republican help, the Democrats beat me.
Do you think that's why conservatives often lose because we're too uncomfortable with being uncomfortable or making things uncomfortable.
I don't think there's any doubt. I think that you have people that do things just for a vote instead of things that they should stand up for. The you know, the Constitution, the right to life, the Second Amendment. You know, we've got people on our side that just and they just can't handle the pressure. And to me, that's when you really are supposed to stand up for the American people. It's when things get really, really tough. But I tell you it's there's few and far between of a lot of nerves up here when it comes to standing up, you know, to the left.
You know, Zelensky, Ukraine's president, came to President Zelensky came to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional leaders as well as the White House. Brighten is trying to put pressure on Congress to get Ukraine funding approved before Christmas. Where do you stand on that funding?
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Do you you know, where do you stand on it? In general?
First of all, I hadn't voted for a dime to go to Ukraine. I've been over there. I've seen what's happening there. They have no chance to win unless we put troops on the ground, and we're not going to do that as long as I got to say so about it. But I'm scared to death that there's gonna be some kind of false flat that the Biden administration is gonna get us tied up in this with Russia. We have no business doing this. They're not in NATO. Uh. You know, we do support Ukraine and they're people. But if we'd have really supported them after the first two months, when Putin and Zelenski got together and try to come up with a peace deal, uh, Boris Johnson from the UK and Joe Biden got involved and said, no, you're not gonna make a deal with Russia. We're gonna fight them, and we're gonna we're gonna support you, We're gonna give you the money. So Uh, everybody up here, just on the left, they just say you know, we got to give them money because they're gonna continue to go once they once they beat Ukraine, they're gonna go to Poland and Hungary, then they're gonna go to Germany. Hey, these people barely made it over the border of Ukraine in two years. Okay, they they they don't have the ability to do that. But what we've done is we forced them into the hands of China and North Korea and Iran. We built them a bigger uh so called team in other words, to be able to fight against democracy in this world. We're totally wrong with this. Zelenski's up here begging we do have a chip in the game here now that our biggest threat is our southern border, and as Republicans, most of us have said, no way is any money going to Ukraine until we close that border down. There's finally some negotiations from the White House. I think that really started two days ago. But this is more important. It's more important for the Democrats to let people come into this country for potential voters than it is for us to close it down, protect the American people, and then protect our allies.
Would you support it if it was tied to border security? Funding.
Well, Lisa, you got to remember this. We can send all the money down there that we want. Okay, there's laws in place right now that we could really stop a lot of things going on at the border, but the Democrats don't want to go over the law. They're breaking law every day what they're doing at the border. So what worries me is we have some kind of deal made to put a little money down there to change a few things around, saying it's really going to help at the border. But unless you have people that are motivated to do what's right and go by the constitution and protect this country, it scares me to death they won't do it. Now. I would hope that we can come up with something, as you just said, that would help, and if they did that, I would I would potentially vote for some money to go to Ukraine. But I just don't see I really don't see that happening. Just knowing these people up here, being around them every day and understanding their philosophy and their ideology of changing, transforming this country is something that it's never been.
I mean, we saw the disastrous performance from University of Presidents on Capitol Hill. Recently, we've seen the anti semitism that's taken place in college and universities across the country. Harvard's got an endowment of something like over fifty billion dollars, yet they've received federal money. You know, I think of something like twenty two million, twenty sixteen to you over a period of time. I'm from twenty sixteen to I think twenty twenty one or something like that. They've also received nine million dollars in coronavirus funding as well. Why are we funding a university that already has such a large endowment that allows for anti semitism, and now the president has been credibly accused of plagiarism, So why are we giving them federal money?
Lisa, That's one of the reasons I'm here. As you well know, I coached for forty years. I traveled throughout the country, been through every state, been at universities, recruited almost all the big high schools in our great country. In the last fifteen years, I've seen this firsthand. Now it obviously showed up at Harvard and Penn and MIT. Let me tell you something, It is deeper in our high school and our secondary education than it is in our universities. And that's where it starts. They are in doctrinating these kids through our unions. The unions are our biggest, i'd guess enemy in terms of indoctrinating and our kids. But it finally came up. Just listening to those three talked last week and a hearing about not standing up for the rights of people on their campus, students on their campus. It makes you absolutely sick. But I have seen this. I've seen it for fifteen and I started about fifteen years ago, and when I got out of coach and I said, I've got to do something to try to bring light to what's going on here. And folks, what you just saw last week in that hearing is a very small part of what's going on in our educational system and it has to stop. If it doesn't, we have no chance of remaining a democracy or remaining anything that resembles the United States of America the last two hundred and forty seven years.
I'd definitely been I mean, I think as conservatives, you know, we've kind of known, as you pointed out, that this has been going on. But I think for people who you know, were maybe more independence or center left, I think the riser are starting to open a little bit about what's happening on college campuses and utter universities. I wanted to ask you, so, Joe Biden has tried to make changes or wants to make changes to Title nine to remove protections for women in sports for biological women. Where does that stand and what does that ultimately mean for the country.
Well, it means that women in this country are going to be short changed. We fought for years. When I was coaching, I saw Title nine basically come into effect. I actually when I first started coaching, coached girls basketball back in Arkansas, and Title nine came in and you're basically it made it even for men and women in terms of scholarships, budgets, coaches, and so fifty years, that's been the most successful things that's happened out of the federal government. And now Joe Biden, right after he got in he started attacking. One of the first things he did, he started siding with transgender whether it's in the military, whether it's going to schools, whether it's competing against women in sports. He sided with them, the one percent or the point zero point five percent of the country over the women and girls in this country. It's absolutely amazing how some people have grabbed onto that in the Democratic Party and say that's that's the direction we need to go. You know, do away with gender. You know, there's no gender in this country. We're all the same. And I'm telling you it is it's just something else that they've brought to the plate up here in the three years I've been here that tries to change and transition our country to something else that we have not been.
Why do you think they want to do it, because, as you pointed out, it's such a small percentage of the population. It flies in the sense of common sense, flies in the face of what's right. So why do you think they're pushing so hard for it?
Well, first of all, they can never done it had it not been taught and indoctrinated and our kids starting at elementary school to high school to our universities. And I think they've gotten to the point where they saw the indoctrination starting to pay off of what they've been doing with radicalizing our kids in our universities where they can speak up and they can side with the Democrats, and they can side with non genders, and the trends and all the things that are going on in this country that are attacking just true Americans, and so they think they've got a better balance of people that are doing this, and they've got a bigger audience. I think now though, they're finding hey, wait a minute, that audience is not quite as big as what we thought. We don't have as many supporters as we think. And I think next year it's one of the things that's going to show up in the elections, not just in the presidential race, but all over the country that's going to make a difference and us going back to the American values, the American way, and going back to getting away from this nonsense of men can have babies. There's sixty four different genders. Men should be able to compete in women's sports because it's their right. It is not their right. What's right in this country is to go by moral values and make it fair for everybody to have an opportunity to be an American to have success in the things that they do.
No, I agree. I do worry a little bit though, that our chances of success in twenty twenty four being a little overblown and we're becoming a little bit complacent. We've had some tough election cycles, these last three election cycles, and we know that Democrats are trying to get abortion on the ballot and swing states. So I mean, isn't there a danger in US Republicans getting a little too bold heading into twenty and you're also trying to put Trump in jail. We don't know how successful they're going to be with that. So isn't there a danger in being a little too bullish or a little too complacent?
Oh, there's a big danger. And if we let our guard down whatsoever, I mean, we're going to end up blackly. We're in twenty twenty. What I've seen since I've been here in the last three years, with the things that went on in the voting last time, if they go on again, if we allow that to happen again, we will not be successful. And so that's not a federal problem. That's a state problem. But we have made sure that our state attorney generals are secretary of states and a lot of these states have woken up and looked at the problems a lot of times. And you look at what happened with the Attorney General Bill Barr after the election. There was a lot of problems. They didn't want to look at it because their phrase, they're going to be called racist. They did not look at the evidence. They said, well, we're just not going to get into that. We're already having some rights across the country. It's time we stand up and do what's right. Don't worry about what's going to happen. Worry about what's right and what's going to happen in this country if we don't stand up. So you're exactly right, we can't get complacent. We have to look forward. We've got to get values back in this country.
We've got to get a lot back. It's really falling apart. Senator, I really appreciate you taking the time to join the show. It's always an honor to have you on.
Thank you so much, sir, Thank you ladies, and Merry Christmas.
That was Senator Tommy tuber Bill. Appreciate him taking the time to join the show. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. I want to thank John Cassio and my producer for putting the show together. Until next time,