1 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:21,719 --> 00:00:25,160 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,760 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,840 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,799 the Federalist dot com, follow us on ex at fbr LST, 6 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,840 make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and 7 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,000 of course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,960 Our guest today, delighted to have with us on the 9 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,439 Federalist Radio Hour is Senator at Tommy Tubberville, the coach 10 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:54,759 Republican Alabama, for a conversation on getting our military back 11 00:00:54,799 --> 00:01:01,000 on track, codifying Trump's executive orders, and the political portal. 12 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,600 If we get a chance to, I'll talk more about 13 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,400 that coming up a little bit later on the podcast day. Senator, 14 00:01:08,439 --> 00:01:09,640 thank you so much for being here. 15 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,079 Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt, thanks for having me on. Good good 16 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:12,680 talking with you. 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,239 Speaker 1: Busy few first few weeks of the new sheriff in town. 18 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,079 Speaker 3: Huh oh my gosh. I think we've had one weekend 19 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,640 off in the last three or four weeks. President Trump's 20 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,519 on a roll, but we knew that he told us 21 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,319 to buckle up or seat belts right after he got elected, 22 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:32,879 and we all prepared all the way till January the twentieth. 23 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,120 But you never really know, you know, really how busy 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,959 you're going to be until you find out how the 25 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,359 Democrats are going to fight back. And my god, we've 26 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:44,159 kicked a hornet's nest with the Democrats and all the 27 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,879 people that want to change our country to socialist, communist country. 28 00:01:47,879 --> 00:01:51,159 And at the end of the day, we're getting things 29 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,120 done and they're trying to slow it down, but we're 30 00:01:54,159 --> 00:01:54,719 on the march. 31 00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:58,159 Speaker 1: Well, to continue the metaphor on the hornets, we're certainly 32 00:01:58,159 --> 00:02:03,959 seeing the rats gurry when there's light being cast upon 33 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:10,360 this criminally wasteful spending, abusive, fraudulent spending that's going on. 34 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:13,319 We're just the beginning there. But first and foremost, were 35 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,759 you surprised to see how much the left in this 36 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:22,560 country absolutely viscerally reacted to an audit of their federal 37 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:26,319 government of the way taxpayer dollars are being used, Especially, 38 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,199 as I mentioned to a House member the other day, 39 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,000 it's fascinating to me that how many Americans are audited 40 00:02:33,039 --> 00:02:35,560 every year, how many small businesses are audited every year, 41 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:38,280 And now we have the left in this country complaining 42 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:39,919 about an audit of the federal. 43 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:43,759 Speaker 3: Government exactly, Matti. And you have to remember Joe Biden 44 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,360 hired eighty thousand new RS agents to go after American citizens, 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,080 but none of them were to go after any waste 46 00:02:50,199 --> 00:02:52,280 or fraud in the federal government. You know, we'd lose 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,719 five hundred billion dollars a year in fraud in this country, 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,439 and we knew it was there, but you didn't get 49 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:02,680 any of these agencies to step up and give you 50 00:03:02,759 --> 00:03:05,159 the books. And we haven't been able to audit. And 51 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:08,080 I'm not saying that there's fraud in our military, but 52 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,000 there's a lot of money that's going places it shouldn't obviously, 53 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,280 but the last eight years you couldn't get an audit, 54 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:18,719 and so DOJE is doing their job. And you know, 55 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:23,080 the republic Democrats basically they have no solution to this, 56 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:27,080 so they're just complaining about us as Republicans getting something 57 00:03:27,159 --> 00:03:29,719 done when they're just saying, oh, we don't need to 58 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:32,280 do this, there's not that much waste out there. But oh, 59 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,560 by the way, we're too treeing in debt over what 60 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:38,000 we spend every year. So it's a disaster and we 61 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,120 knew it, but now we're proving it. 62 00:03:40,919 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention to I think something interesting as 63 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:50,680 we speak today, the new Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth said 64 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:55,520 made some interesting comments, making the lefts head spin once again, 65 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,800 but effectively. He said, you know, Ukraine has to be 66 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,599 realistic about the terms of any peace deal, and that's 67 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:08,879 what the Trump administration really wants here as soon as 68 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,840 humanly possible. And he talked about how it is not 69 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,879 doable to have Ukraine in NATO. What did you think 70 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:19,480 about those comments today? 71 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 3: One hundred percent on board with that. It's all about NATO, Matt. 72 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:29,279 The Democrats and some Republicans. Since twenty fourteen, after our 73 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,199 Cia overthrew their government in Ukraine and put in a 74 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,240 puppet called Zelenski, they have been marching towards the border 75 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:42,879 of Russia with weapons and things, and basically Putin said, listen, 76 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:47,480 there's going to be a buffer between us in Europe 77 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:50,839 and you're not going to have weapons on our borders 78 00:04:50,879 --> 00:04:53,319 from NATO. So that's not going to happen. That's one 79 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:56,120 of the reasons he went in. But you can't get 80 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,199 the truth from the media or even some Republicans. All 81 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,160 the Democrats. They forced this issue and our sect death 82 00:05:05,399 --> 00:05:10,079 Pete Hexas understands that NATO is off the agenda in 83 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,240 terms of negotiations. President Trump and his group have already 84 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:20,040 started these negotiations through some of our emissaries, and I 85 00:05:20,079 --> 00:05:24,759 hope it's done pretty soon, because you know, Matt, when 86 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,319 I was coming up in life, I barely missed the 87 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,480 Vietnam War. We lost fifty thousand Americans in Vietnam and 88 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,560 that was disastrous. Russia and Ukraine have lost a million 89 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,639 a million of that's a generation, maybe two generations of 90 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,079 young people that have lost their lives for what for 91 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,439 saying that Ukraine is in NATO and it's just an 92 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:53,759 absolute disaster. And President Trump is bound and determined to 93 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:57,120 get this over with soon. He's starting conversations with Putin 94 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,839 and again those have already started. President Trump just has 95 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:03,800 not ed hadn't gotten involved yet, but he will and 96 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,279 hopefully in the next few months, this this disaster will 97 00:06:07,319 --> 00:06:09,959 be over with and we can get back to reality 98 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,199 in Eastern Europe. 99 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: Speaking of over with the Sweetheart deals with the Zolensky 100 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,439 over with that, Biden and the rest of the UNI 101 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:24,639 Party crew, quite frankly members of your own party who 102 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,279 were all in on the funding carte blanche funding for 103 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:37,560 Ukraine and that ongoing war. So that effectively seems over. 104 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,639 What happens next? Do you see on that front? 105 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 3: Well, I'm an Armed Services Committee and when this first started, 106 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,160 I was in Ukraine three months talking to Zelensky and 107 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,160 you know, they were fighting at the border at that time, 108 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,079 and he said, they're coming across, and he said, if 109 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,920 you just tell Biden to put more weapons over force, 110 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:56,399 they might not come. Of course Biden wouldn't do it, 111 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,480 but I took a lot of flak. I didn't vote 112 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,000 for one day to go to Ukraine. 113 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 4: Uh. 114 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:04,199 Speaker 3: You know, we had a lot of the Republicans, not 115 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,639 a lot, but several enough to get money sent over there. 116 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,160 First of all, why would you back a country that 117 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,800 can't win, You know, Ukraine, there's no way they can 118 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,160 beat Russia without us going over and putting our young 119 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:20,000 men and women in the fight. It was just a 120 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,240 situation where I guess a lot of these uniparty people 121 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:26,519 trying to prove a point, but they can't win. 122 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:27,839 Speaker 2: Never we're gonna be able to win. 123 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: Putin has been He's been winning this thing all along. 124 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,360 Now it's interesting now that everybody's wondering, you know, where's 125 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:39,959 the border going, where's the line gonna be. The line's 126 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 gonna be where Putin ended up. I'll promise you that 127 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,839 because they had to earn that, they fought, and they 128 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,839 lost lives for it, and he's not gonna give up 129 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,839 land that he he'd already conquered. Now we do that, 130 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:52,879 we go into Iraq, and we give everything back the 131 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,920 next week after spending tree in dollars. But at the 132 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,560 end of the day, this has been an absolute disaster, 133 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,639 and hopefully we can get along with getting Europe all 134 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:10,800 settled down and understanding that Russia is a threat, but 135 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:13,920 they're not a threat to take over all of Europe 136 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:16,439 because look, they couldn't even take over Ukraine. Hell, they're 137 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:18,319 going to take over Europe, right. 138 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: And they're depleted, let's face it. I mean, one thing 139 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:23,879 that you can see is that they're depleted. The other 140 00:08:23,959 --> 00:08:26,240 thing you can see is that in so many ways 141 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:29,399 the armed forces of the United States of America are 142 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,840 depleted because of what has gone on in Ukraine. And 143 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:37,039 you talk about putting the country, your country in peril 144 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,440 over this battle, as you said, that could not be 145 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,559 won by Ukraine. Again, it has the stink of Vietnam 146 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,279 all over it. 147 00:08:47,799 --> 00:08:50,879 Speaker 3: We can't stay out of war. It's just absolutely amazing 148 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:53,679 to me. The thing about President Trump, he's a deal maker, 149 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,000 but he's also a peacemaker. He loves peace and he 150 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,759 does not want us fighting wars. And we had this 151 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,279 year war in Afghanistan, in Iraq. Our biggest adversary is China. 152 00:09:04,639 --> 00:09:07,080 And what do we do after getting out of Afghanistan? 153 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,600 We just jump right in this. We didn't fight, we 154 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,159 didn't fight, but we sent, as you just said, all 155 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,320 of our equipment, you know, two tree and two and 156 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,720 two hundred billion dollars in money. We kept up their government. 157 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,399 It was like they were part of our country. And 158 00:09:21,519 --> 00:09:24,399 we're taking better care of Ukrainians than we were of 159 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,240 the American people here in the United States borders. So 160 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,159 it's been a disaster. I don't know where they get 161 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:33,960 all this foreign policy from. But again I go, I'm 162 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,320 been in all these meetings for four and a half years, 163 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,519 and it just seems like that we have so many 164 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:43,320 people up here that are so mad at at some 165 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:46,240 of our adversaries, like Russia, that anything that they do, 166 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,879 you know, we you know, we got to snap back 167 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:51,159 at it. Let's let's get on with it. Knowing that 168 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,159 Russia has now joined forces with China and North Korea 169 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,080 and Iran, we have created a monster here for the 170 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,000 future generations of this country. And hopefully we can kind 171 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 of separate all that and get back to reality and 172 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,720 try to make friends with Russia and try to make 173 00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:10,879 friends with some of these people that want to that 174 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:13,639 that really don't want to fight, but we keep pushing 175 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,679 them around like we're the big dog in the hunt, 176 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,320 and we're really not anymore. 177 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: You have some colleagues in the Senate and Congress in 178 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,039 general who seem to hate their own president, the President 179 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,440 of the United States, more than they hate any real 180 00:10:27,639 --> 00:10:31,639 tyrant in the world. I mean the posturing with the 181 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:35,679 Ukraine flags. It was like they were more pleased to 182 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,519 put up their little yellow and blue Ukraine flags and 183 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,960 they were the you know, the old glory. It was 184 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:47,759 just an amazing time. Speaking of fighting, you fought like 185 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,919 hell to get abortion travel benefits out of the Pentagon. 186 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 2: You stood up it. 187 00:10:55,039 --> 00:10:58,159 Speaker 1: Certainly it costs you, no doubt about it, but you 188 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,279 stood up every day to fight against it. And you 189 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,679 had people, you know, on both sides of the aisle, 190 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:07,279 quite frankly screaming at you. How can you hold up 191 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:11,240 you know, military appointments and assignments. This is terrible, senator, 192 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,279 How can you possibly do this? You did it for life, 193 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,480 You did it for a principle, and you must feel 194 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:23,639 very gratified with one of the first executive orders doing 195 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:24,279 away with that. 196 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, money for abortion travel out of the military was 197 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:32,240 totally against the law by an administration knew it, but 198 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:35,360 they really didn't care, you know, they just wanted to 199 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,639 spend taxpayers money. Roe Wade went down. They was looking 200 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:41,759 for any way to spend get back to abortion, because 201 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:43,759 that's their thing that they fall back on trying to 202 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:47,120 get votes. But I appreciate you guys standing with me, 203 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,000 and one really as you just said, many Republicans they 204 00:11:51,039 --> 00:11:53,519 went after me. It got brutal, and I made it 205 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,799 almost a year. But then they Shumer and some of 206 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,840 the Republicans were just going to go around me and 207 00:11:58,919 --> 00:12:01,960 vote a ruled it that I was wrong and and 208 00:12:02,039 --> 00:12:03,720 they were going to bypass me. And I didn't want 209 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:05,799 that to happen. Change a rule in the Senate where 210 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:08,519 you couldn't put a hole on somebody, so It's just 211 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,519 one of those things that you have to deal with 212 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:15,240 up here, knowing that people think that they're they're reletive, 213 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:18,360 they want to be relevant, and but there was times 214 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:20,919 I had to stand on the Senate floor three or 215 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,399 four o'clock in the morning fighting back against Republicans and 216 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,639 it was just absolutely amazing. But now that it's funny, 217 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:31,879 I watched, uh, you know, the President do this executive order. 218 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,399 Of course all of those same republic Republicans are just 219 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,639 clapping and yelling that that was the right thing to do, 220 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:40,960 and yeah, I just it's just hypocrites. 221 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: But uh uh yeah, we we got it done. 222 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,799 Speaker 3: But we're we're gonna have a press conference next week 223 00:12:46,879 --> 00:12:50,039 over to Pentagon with Pete Headseth and thanking him for 224 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,159 helping President Trump push this across. But we have to 225 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,279 get this done into law and uh uh you know, 226 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,639 get it voted on the floor. The next Democrat that 227 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:01,679 comes will change it all the way back because it's 228 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:04,039 only in the executive order they. 229 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,039 Speaker 2: Talk about hivpocritical. 230 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you mentioned all of the heat that 231 00:13:08,399 --> 00:13:10,799 you took over this, you know, and again it was 232 00:13:11,039 --> 00:13:14,600 how can you you know, stop the Pentagon? Our military 233 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:17,960 needs these critical appointments and all of these sorts of things. 234 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:20,559 You know, on the left side of the aisle. These 235 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,879 are the same people who have over the last few 236 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:25,320 weeks been trying to do everything in their power to 237 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,440 hold up appointments. They failed miserably. But how do you 238 00:13:29,519 --> 00:13:30,240 square all of that? 239 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 3: I guess, well, I mean, it's just typical everybody does 240 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,320 something that. It's like right now with President Trump with 241 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,039 all this USAID and firing all these people and trying 242 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:43,039 to get all that corrected, with the money going out. 243 00:13:44,399 --> 00:13:46,559 With Joe Biden, you know, he had even went through 244 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,159 the Supreme Court on this forgiven student loans, and after 245 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:52,679 they said you can't forgive student loans, he did it anyway, 246 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,759 and he went against the Supreme Court. So President Trump 247 00:13:56,919 --> 00:13:59,039 went in on this issue. The American people are behind 248 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,679 him seventy seven and people says, we want to change 249 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,159 our country and quit spending money and let money leak 250 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,799 out of this country when it shouldn't. And so they 251 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:11,559 just started this though, Matt, this is you're getting ready 252 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,840 to see probably three or four years of just waste 253 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,519 being found out, and the American people are going to 254 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,840 be get madder and matter as this goes along, in 255 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,279 which they should be, because it's their money that they 256 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:27,240 send up here that all these politicians squander. 257 00:14:29,639 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 4: Have you been keeping track of the Trump scorecard? The 258 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:35,159 Watched Out on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every 259 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,919 day Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the 260 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,480 economy and how it affects your wallet. In only a 261 00:14:40,559 --> 00:14:46,399 few weeks, border crossings have plummeted, DEI programs canceled, Mexico caved, 262 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,080 Canada caved, Panama caved, and dog is saving billions. Whether 263 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,080 it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, it's 264 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:54,080 affecting you financially. 265 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: Be informed. 266 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:56,879 Speaker 4: Check out the Watchdout on Wall Street podcast with Chris 267 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,879 Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 268 00:15:02,799 --> 00:15:06,879 Speaker 1: Why are Democrats dying on this hill? I think I 269 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,600 understand fully what's going on, having covered the swamp for 270 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,000 as long as I do. The rats are crawling out, 271 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,960 as I mentioned before, but this isn't just that we're 272 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:18,360 right now. 273 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: We have the. 274 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: Auditors as I like to call them, exposing how many 275 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,879 billions upon billions of dollars leftist entities, in particular nngos 276 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,279 and news organizations got to promote this leftist, tear down 277 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:39,240 America agenda, but we're also seeing the real potential of 278 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:42,879 crimes having been committed. Where do you think all of 279 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:46,720 this goes and who will ultimately be held accountable? Will 280 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:48,039 anybody be held accountable? 281 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:48,399 Speaker 2: Well? 282 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 3: I hope they are. And you brought the word out 283 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:53,080 that is exactly right. They have been exposed, but they 284 00:15:53,679 --> 00:15:54,639 do not want to take. 285 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: Credit for it. 286 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 3: They have no solutions for what happened, They have no 287 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,080 excuses for what happened. They have been exposed of what 288 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,840 they've done and how they've done it. What gets me 289 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,879 is you just said were the Democrats were for years 290 00:16:10,639 --> 00:16:14,039 paying for a lot of the media exposure they were getting, 291 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,679 And it's obvious and if you look back on going point, 292 00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:19,919 they all had the same talking points every week and 293 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,559 they just passed them around their groups. But again it's 294 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:28,399 the American people will just keep listening and watching. Everything 295 00:16:28,559 --> 00:16:32,720 is going to come out because President Trump, he is 296 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:35,840 not liable to a federal judge is trying to get him, 297 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,320 keep him from running the country like he was elected, 298 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:41,080 and so he's going to continue to do the things 299 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,200 that people send him over there in sixteen hundred Pennsylvania 300 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,240 avenue to do. And I'm looking for him to just 301 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:51,279 continue to expose all the things, all the corruption, all 302 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,879 the nonsense that the Democrats have tried to push when again, 303 00:16:55,039 --> 00:16:57,799 they have no solution for anything. All they want to 304 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,879 do is give away money, re elected and remain in power. 305 00:17:02,159 --> 00:17:04,480 And they cannot stand it. They have yet to figure 306 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:07,079 out why they lost that election. And I just love 307 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:07,839 every minute of it. 308 00:17:08,799 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: Do you see this thing turning violent as it has 309 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:11,559 in the past. 310 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 2: They're calling for it. 311 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 3: I've been watching some of these things on TV, and 312 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,160 so we got to go into the streets and we've 313 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,200 got to fight in the streets. And that's exactly opposite 314 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:23,200 what needs to be done. They just need to be 315 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,000 exposed for who they are. They're trying to keep the 316 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:28,720 target off their back and try to push it out 317 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:31,359 there that hey, you know, if we go out there 318 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,480 and make enough fuss about it, then the Republicans might 319 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:36,400 stand down on this. 320 00:17:36,559 --> 00:17:37,519 Speaker 2: But I got news for them. 321 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 3: That little boy over there in the blonde hair that's 322 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,160 now back again as president. He is he is, he 323 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:50,000 has got a mission to fulfill, and he doesn't care 324 00:17:50,039 --> 00:17:52,400 what any of the any of these Democrats say, or 325 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,799 even these these Rhino Republicans. 326 00:17:54,839 --> 00:17:55,759 Speaker 2: He could care less. 327 00:17:55,799 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 3: He's going to work for the American people, and that's 328 00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,519 exactly what he should do. 329 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:01,799 Speaker 2: Don't listen to these judges. 330 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 3: Keep going, keep exposing things, and let's start putting people 331 00:18:05,759 --> 00:18:08,319 in jail. If we don't put people in jail, if 332 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,519 we don't hold an accountable Matt, then what have we achieved? 333 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:14,319 It Just bringing all that out's one thing, But let's 334 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:17,599 put him in jail. And you know we cannot have 335 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:18,880 this continue to happen. 336 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: Well, we just have a few minutes left with our 337 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,960 guests today. Senator Tommy Tubberville, the coach a Republican Alabama, 338 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:29,119 I've really enjoyed our conversation. I want to let you 339 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:34,680 know that my brother, who was an adopted citizen of Alabama, 340 00:18:34,759 --> 00:18:37,680 served on the Huntsville Police Department for a long time 341 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,119 where he got an itched for reasons that he doesn't 342 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,039 even know, got an itch to be an attorney. So 343 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,119 he's an attorney there in Tulsa, Oklahoma these days. But 344 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,839 he loves his adopted home, Alabama, gets there often and 345 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,960 he loves exactly what you're talking about, the return of 346 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,680 law and order in America and We've had war years 347 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,640 in particular of absolute lawlessness and lawfare on that front. 348 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,759 You've been a coach for a long time. You have 349 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,400 been fighting for women in sports, your Protection of Women 350 00:19:12,519 --> 00:19:15,160 and Girls in Sports Act. That was a big issue 351 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,400 in November in the elections, and it's a critical issue. 352 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,640 But you keep at every turn over the last several 353 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,440 years you've got installed on that front. 354 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:29,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had it up for vote twice and I 355 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:32,160 even had one time a Republicans vote against me. 356 00:19:32,319 --> 00:19:34,039 Speaker 2: And it's nothing. 357 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 3: But I never thought I'd ever have to address anything 358 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:41,519 like this, especially as a senator. And if you go 359 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,680 back and look at the election, even President Trump will 360 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,480 tell you this. I think he was going to win. 361 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,799 But their last three months they really hammered home biological 362 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,400 men and boys participating against girls and women in sports. 363 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,599 And it was a game changer, and a lot of 364 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,240 people came his side. You know, they started hearing the 365 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,119 reasoning what they were doing. They had no uh, they 366 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:06,640 had nothing to fight with other than the fact that 367 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:09,680 you know, they're trying to create more transgender boys and 368 00:20:09,799 --> 00:20:13,359 girls across the country. Uh, you know, with their ideology, 369 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,599 and uh, you know, kids started getting hurt. They started 370 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,000 reading what was happening in the Olympics, the boxers boxing 371 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:22,319 the Olympics. 372 00:20:21,839 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 2: And it's just it's sad. It's sad to. 373 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 3: See mental illness of what the and I do call 374 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,599 that mental illness. If you've got to You've got a 375 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,759 bunch of Senators and congressmen on the Democratic side that 376 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,400 I actually think this should happen in the greatest country 377 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,319 on the face of the earth, of you know, destroying 378 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:42,920 Title nine and women's sports, because that's what it's going 379 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,240 to do if we continue on with this. 380 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 2: But we've got to uh handle on it now. 381 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 3: But I've got to get it to the floor, which 382 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,400 I will hopefully in the next two or three months. 383 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:51,559 Speaker 2: We've got to make this law. 384 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: President Trump stopped it by an executive order, but again 385 00:20:54,759 --> 00:20:57,480 it goes back to one thing that only lasts as 386 00:20:57,519 --> 00:21:00,000 long as that president's there, and you have a Democrat 387 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,880 comn heal change it. So we've got to make it 388 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,119 law that no biological men or boys can participate in 389 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,279 any women's sports or we're going to lose women's sports 390 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,160 as we know it. But it's been one of the 391 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,559 best things I've seen Title nine in the last fifty years. 392 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:15,839 It really helped women all across this country. 393 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,599 Speaker 1: Indeed, you've got a narrow window to do it. Obviously, 394 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,480 about eighteen months really before you know it's full scale campaigning, 395 00:21:22,519 --> 00:21:25,640 and you lose the ability, you lose the agenda, and 396 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,759 you know that the accomplished media is going to do 397 00:21:27,839 --> 00:21:31,640 everything in its power to paint any thing from Trump 398 00:21:31,759 --> 00:21:37,000 and conservatives. As you know, however, they're defining a tyranny 399 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,559 and you know, despotism and all the words that they're 400 00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:42,200 trying to use for this sort of stuff. Trying to 401 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,759 get our country back. Now again, you've been you were 402 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:47,480 a coach for a long time. You saw Title nine 403 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,039 in the Sports Areadi. You saw how important it was. 404 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,000 You also saw some of the best athletes this country 405 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,640 has ever produced. Let me close with this question, what 406 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,559 do you think about college sports today? All of the 407 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,880 changes from when you were there, The portal that's played 408 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,839 such a significant role, the ability to transfer here and 409 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,599 there at any time, basically, and and can we have 410 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,960 a portal where we transfer out bad politicians out of 411 00:22:19,799 --> 00:22:21,640 the Congress? Is that possible? 412 00:22:23,079 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good. 413 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:30,039 Speaker 3: But you know, the college athletics is in bad trouble, 414 00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:33,920 and you know this NIO seems great undless. I've always 415 00:22:34,039 --> 00:22:38,480 was for players have an opportunity to make money because 416 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,559 they don't have chance to do a part time job, 417 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:43,480 because it's it's a hard job being a college athlete. 418 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,519 But that being said, when the NIO was originated from 419 00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:52,000 the Supreme Court saying that they can make money off 420 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,200 their name, image and likeness, there was no regulations put 421 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,119 in it. And so the wild wild West has hit sports. 422 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:01,759 And what's will happen is you're going to have the 423 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,200 halves make it. The big schools that do have money 424 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,079 that's able to go out and buy players. There was 425 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:12,440 some schools this year just in football paid over twenty 426 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:15,759 million dollars for their football team. Twenty million for one year. 427 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,039 Speaker 1: Was that Indiana? 428 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 3: Uh No, Indiana was the one that won a national championship. 429 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,160 But at the end of the day, what happened to education. 430 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:28,480 There's no rules about anymore about you have to have 431 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,960 so many hours and going towards your degree and you've 432 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:32,279 got to. 433 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: Make good grades. 434 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 3: Everything now is about money and uh you know, we've 435 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,200 we've crossed that line and we've got to get some 436 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:42,720 of it back. The portal this one is a big 437 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,200 problem too. Where they can transfer after the first year 438 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,279 and go anywhere. Each year that they're playing, playing a 439 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,920 different team, and you're you're teaching young men and young 440 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:57,640 women to not uphold you know, uh, basically a contract 441 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,680 of going to a school, see leaving for certain reasons, 442 00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:03,440 but just to get up and leave to go and 443 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:07,160 make twenty thousand more dollars at another school means that 444 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:09,680 you might make that money, but you're never gonna get 445 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,160 a degree once you transfer. Once it's almost impossible to 446 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,039 get a degree unless you stay five, six, seven years. 447 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,720 So it's we're in tough times. Ted Cruz and I 448 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:22,160 are trying to do a bill to help help out 449 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,640 on this. But you know, the the genies out of 450 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,680 the bottle here on this and it's gonna be hard 451 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:31,759 to get it back in and make it fair for 452 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,920 everybody from for all one hundred and thirty six football schools, 453 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,359 and then you go basketball, it's it's even worse. But 454 00:24:39,759 --> 00:24:42,839 what's gonna happen, Matt, is you're going to lose Olympic 455 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:47,599 sports and women's sports because there's not gonna be enough 456 00:24:47,759 --> 00:24:50,519 money to pay for all the money that's bought for 457 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,559 payers in football and basketball. So it's just unfortunate. We're 458 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:59,559 gonna we're going to eliminate opportunities to build leadership for 459 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,599 women and a lot of men in some of the 460 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,440 smaller sports. 461 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: I think a lot of Americans agree with you. They say, 462 00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:08,279 it's not just March madness, it's madness all year long 463 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,960 in these sports. And how much money is involved. And 464 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,000 money is not a bad thing, but accountability it has 465 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,799 to be there, and that's what you mentioned. That's a 466 00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:20,960 big problem. I really, I know you've got to get going. 467 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:23,519 You've got a hearing. I very much appreciate your time, 468 00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:27,000 your perspective. I hope we can talk again in the 469 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:30,319 not too distant future with some more victories for America. 470 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 2: Let's do it, Matt. Thank you, God bless you too. 471 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: God bless you, my friend. Thanks to my guest today, 472 00:25:36,039 --> 00:25:39,839 Senator Tommy Tubberville, Republic in Alabama. And now a final 473 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,880 word on the Federalist Radio Hour. About the Federalist Radio Hour, 474 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,200 we very much enjoy bringing you some of the most 475 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,519 interesting people in this country in the world on topics 476 00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:55,599 that are important to you and I think that are 477 00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:01,279 important to Americans everywhere. Just in the past few weeks alone, 478 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:07,160 we've brought you conversations with newsmakers of all kinds, congress members, 479 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:14,799 and advocates of conservative policies, everything from the Doge audits 480 00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:19,720 and the exposure of criminally wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars 481 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,119 to the very battles for our children, our schools, our government, 482 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,880 and the soul of this blessed Republic. 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