{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-america-reports-to-preview-tpusa-event-at-auburn-university/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins\u00a0America Reports\u00a0to Preview TPUSA Event at Auburn University", "2025-11-05", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined America Reports on Fox News to preview the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event tonight at Auburn University. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Sen. Tuberville has been outspoken about the importance of carrying on Charlie\u2019s legacy by educating our young people about the Constitution and our country\u2019s Christian values. He will be joined by Eric and Lara Trump and Benny Johnson in Auburn tonight.\n\nThey also discussed the ongoing slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. Sen. Tuberville condemned these brutal crimes on the Senate floor last month.\n\nRead excerpts from the interview below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nROBERTS: \u201cA week after its big event at Ole Miss, Turning Point USA is heading to Auburn University in Alabama for its next tour stop. Tonight\u2019s star-studded event will include Eric and Laura Trump. And it comes as Turning Point USA\u2019s CEO and the widow of Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk, joins Jesse Watters Primetime for an exclusive interview tonight at eight o\u2019clock. Let\u2019s bring in Alabama Republican Senator and former Auburn football head coach, Tommy Tuberville, who will be at tonight\u2019s event.\n\nCoach, good to have you with us tonight. We had this huge event at Ole Miss last week. What are you expecting for tonight? And [just] as importantly, how soon are you leaving D.C.?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI\u2019ll leave here about three o\u2019clock, John. But thanks for having me on. It will be phenomenal tonight. They\u2019re already lining up at Auburn. There won\u2019t be enough room. Unfortunately, people will have to stand outside. But hopefully, they can see it somewhere\u2014whether highlights or get the gist of it\u2014but this is a great event.\n\nYou know, we had this scheduled back in July. I was going to introduce Charlie Kirk tonight. Unfortunately, we know what happened. It didn\u2019t end up that way, but we\u2019re going to carry Charlie\u2019s legacy on as they already have after the assassination.\u201d\n\nROBERTS: \u201cYeah. And in terms of carrying on his legacy, [\u2026] certainly Erica Kirk certainly is the driving force behind that now. We\u2019ve mentioned that she\u2019s going to be on [with] Jesse Watters tonight with an exclusive interview. There\u2019s a really touching moment in that interview when Jesse talked to her and asked her about wanting to see Charlie when he was in the hospital. I believe he had already passed at that point. And she talked about the strength of his character in that moment and where she thought that the whole movement was headed. Listen to this.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\nROBERTS: \u201cI mean, what an extraordinary moment that was. That the fact that even in death, Charlie Kirk was saying, \u2018You\u2019ve launched this in ways that you couldn\u2019t even believe.\u2019\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing that interview, John, and also watching this [movement] grow. This is a movement that this country needs. And we need it, as you saw, I just saw some figures that you had on the election last night. We got a lot of young people in this country that absolutely are looking at this country in a different light. They\u2019re looking at socialism, communism, and they\u2019re looking at free stuff. All those things that go along with what they want to do, but I think Turning Point is going to have a huge impact on a lot of individuals tonight, last week, and weeks to come.\u201d\n\nROBERTS: \u201cYeah. I mean, no question. When you look at the number of chapters that have been requested at universities and high schools across the country and the number that are being set up, it really is quite incredible.\n\nI wanted to ask you about another issue that has really come to the forefront. We did an interview last week with a fellow from Open Doors USA, which is a Christian organization that\u2019s monitoring what many people are calling a genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Immediately after that interview, President Trump weighed in, saying that he was going to declare Nigeria to be a country of particular concern and saying that he would send the U.S. military in to take care of Boko Haram if the Nigerian government didn\u2019t do anything about it. Here\u2019s what Karoline Leavitt said about it in the briefing yesterday.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\nROBERTS: \u201cThe Nigerian government, in the wake of what the President said last week, denied any notion of there being a genocide against Christians, saying it\u2019s just merely reflective of the rampant violence across the country. But you\u2019re on the [Senate] Armed Services Committee. Would you support U.S. troops going into Nigeria?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYou bet I would\u201462,000 Christians killed in Nigeria, 100,000 killed in Africa, 18,000 churches burned. Now there\u2019s a lot of evidence there, and that\u2019s probably an underestimate, John. But we cannot allow this to happen to people that can\u2019t defend themselves. It\u2019s just absolutely insane. If we need to get involved in something like this, President Trump could end that in a heartbeat. This wouldn\u2019t be like going into Russia or China or North Korea or Iran. This would be going and helping innocent people that would be able to take back over their country. It\u2019s a shame something like this happened, but we can\u2019t overlook it. We can\u2019t underestimate it.\u201d\n\nROBERTS: \u201cWell, hopefully, the Nigerian government will come to the table on this and come to the plate, but it doesn\u2019t look like they\u2019ve got any inkling of doing that at least now.\n\nSafe travels, Senator, and we\u2019ll see it tonight at Auburn.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you, John.\u201d\n\nROBERTS: \u201cAppreciate it.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-america-reports-to-preview-tpusa-event-at-auburn-university/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6682840175926685, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}