{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-save-act-report-on-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cKudlow\u201d to Discuss\u00a0SAVE Act,\u00a0Report on Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal", "2024-09-10", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network to discuss the need for the U.S. Senate to quickly pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act which would prohibit foreign nationals from voting in U.S. elections. Senator Tuberville also discussed the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee report condemning the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville can be found below, and his entire interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nON AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL DEBACLE:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cAlright. Joining me now. Welcome back to the show, Alabama Senator, Mr. Tommy Tuberville. Senator Tuberville, sir. Welcome. I have an agenda for you, Senator.\n\nIt\u2019s been so long since I\u2019ve seen you, but I want to begin with this Afghanistan business because this report coming out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is absolutely brutal in the details and virtually the entire military establishment opposed it. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris thought they were smarter. Guess what? They weren\u2019t. What do you make of this?\n\nAnd what do you make of the untruths? You know, moving towards the center with flip-flops and all that. What do you make of this, Senator Tuberville?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s kinda showing the character of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, as we get into all of this, Larry. All of it\u2019s coming back. I\u2019m on the Armed Services Committee. I went through all these hearings right after the Afghanistan debacle. And not one person would really tell us, \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re all for this.\u2019 They really weren\u2019t. [\u2026] We were all for getting out. But it was a debacle. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden basically instigated this.\n\nRemember, Kamala Harris was the last one in the room she says when they came up with a decision to leave the way they did and got people killed\u2014it actually put our allies in harm\u2019s way. They did not know that we were withdrawing from Afghanistan until we were taking off in planes and running for cover and leaving people behind.\n\nBut it was a tragedy. It got our people in trouble over there that actually had worked with us, Larry. The interpreters, people from Afghanistan that really laid it on the line for us to help take out the Taliban. But again, [\u2026] right from the very beginning, you could tell Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were not truthful.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI mean, if you\u2019re Secretary of Defense and Chairman Joint Chiefs and head of CENTCOM, Central Command, if they\u2019re all against it, if the head of your national intelligence is against it, it\u2019s inconceivable to me that they would buck that. I mean, Joe Biden felt he knew better. And Kamala, as you say, she was the last person in the room, and she was bragging about it. And then he went and had to lie. But the thing is he had to lie [that it] was a great success.\n\nThen he had to lie a second time saying no Americans were killed. I mean, here\u2019s the thing. I know mistakes are made in politics and government at the high table. I understand that.\n\nWhat I don\u2019t know, Senator, is why it seems so many untruths from this particular administration. [\u2026] Listen, I\u2019ve worked for two presidents. I\u2019ve been around a couple more. I\u2019ve seen many others. You\u2019ve seen them too.\n\nI know that presidents can exaggerate or embellish. But all of these just flat out \u2018untruths,\u2019 I\u2019ll call them. I think have caught up to both Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris. I don\u2019t think American voters want to see that. And in the information age where information is easier to come to and the truth is easy to get. I don\u2019t think American voters like this one darn bit. I think they see it as a sign of weakness, not strength.\n\nWhat do you think?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cI think you\u2019re gonna see this tomorrow night in the debate, Larry. That\u2019s why people want Kamala Harris to come out and say what she believes in. And, you know, I hope one of the questions is about Afghanistan. Why did you [Kamala Harris] wanna do it the way that you did it?\u2019 A lot of things are out there that are very, very untruthful.\n\nAnd American people don\u2019t like people to lie to them. And they\u2019ve been lied to from day one about taxes, about the military, about Ukraine, about the things going on over there, about what\u2019s happening in our country. \u2018Oh we can run this country without fossil fuels. We can go [\u2026] all electric.\u2019 We can\u2019t do it. They have absolutely started believing these lies, and I hope this catches up with Kamala Harris tomorrow night. The American people need to know the truth.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI mean, I\u2019m thinking Mr. Trump\u2019s got to put it to her. I hope he does it in a polite way, but I believe he will. You know, if you think back, Senator, John Kerry tried to flip-flop. Actually, if you go back even further 35 years, former governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, tried to flip flop. John Kerry tried to flip flop.\n\nThese advisers think Americans are stupid. We\u2019re gonna be liberals or worse during our political careers. But for six or eight weeks while running for president, we\u2019re gonna somehow be centrist. It\u2019s never worked. It\u2019s never worked in the past. I can\u2019t think of any reason why it\u2019s gonna work now.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. No. And you\u2019re gonna find out tomorrow, you know, about exactly what Bernie Sanders said on one of the TV shows during the weekend\u2014[he] said, \u2018Kamala Harris is just trying to get elected.\u2019\n\nShe\u2019s gonna say, basically, whatever she needs to say to get the American people on her side, but the truth will come out. And again, I think President Trump understands that he needs for her to talk. He needs for her to tell exactly what she believes in because she\u2019s lied to us about the border. Larry, this border has almost brought this country down\u2014the way they\u2019ve handled it. And she\u2019s been in charge of it, and she won\u2019t take any credit for it. She said we\u2019re gonna get this bipartisan [border] bill passed that the Senate voted down. That bipartisan bill was a disaster for the American people and the border.\n\nWe do not need a bill that\u2019s gonna allow 5,000 people a day to come in. So [\u2026] they\u2019re trying to [\u2026] put lipstick on this pig. She does not know what she\u2019s doing. She doesn\u2019t know how to do it. She\u2019s not qualified to do it.\n\nAnd we dang sure don\u2019t need somebody that\u2019s been in her for four years that\u2019s got us in all this trouble. I\u2019m a football coach. I\u2019ve been here three and a half years. I\u2019m telling you; they have destroyed the federal government in Washington, D. C. in three and a half years.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYou know, CNN, Kamala was trying to say she\u2019s for the wall, Trump\u2019s wall. She\u2019s got his wall in her ads, alright, or worse. And, actually, my old colleague, Erin Burnett, we used to work at CNBC together. Erin is at CNN. She did a story that said at least 50 times, Kamala came out against the wall. Now she\u2019s trying to tell us she\u2019s for the wall.\n\nReally? I mean, I don\u2019t think Mr. Trump is gonna let that one slide.\n\nWhat do you think, Senator?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. No. You\u2019re exactly right. And if she\u2019s for the wall, Larry, you know, there\u2019s hundreds of millions of dollars worth of materials laying down on the path of the wall. Hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nThey\u2019re selling it every day. You can go online right now and buy it for 10 to 20 cents on the dollar. So, if she\u2019s gonna build that wall, she gonna have to turn around and rebuy the things that she and Joe Biden are selling online. The American people deserve to know that they\u2019re losing millions of dollars a day because of their incompetence of not building wall now instead of saying, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re gonna build it later.\u2019 That\u2019s not ever gonna happen under a Kamala Harris administration.\u201d\n\nON IMPORTANCE OF PASSING THE SAVE ACT:\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cI\u2019ve got one more for you, Senator. Actually, maybe two more, but one more\u2014the SAVE Act. Citizenship. You gotta be a citizen to vote. I know you and some others are pushing that in the Senate. I think this might come out of the debates also tomorrow night. Any hope of any progress on that SAVE Act?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, Mike Lee and I have been pushing this for months. Basically, just says common sense. By the way, you can buy a Webster Dictionary anywhere. But in D.C., it doesn\u2019t have common sense in it. There\u2019s no common sense up here [\u2026].\n\nDon\u2019t you think you should be an American citizen to vote for people that are gonna represent you? Sure, you should. They do not want that to happen.\n\nI was in Bogot\u00e1, Columbia last week and the people down there are even going, \u2018What are y\u2019all doing in your elections? Are they fair? Are they not fair?\u2019 I go to somewhere in Dallas, Texas, or Phoenix. [\u2026] Everybody\u2019s first question there is not [about the] economy and not [about the] border. It\u2019s \u2018Are we gonna have fair elections?\u2019\n\nPeople are dying to know that this is gonna be fair this year, and I\u2019m like President Trump. And what he said the other day, if we find out that people broke the law, whether it\u2019s Secretaries of States or people at the voting booths or people voted more than once, they are gonna pay the price and go to jail if he gets elected. And that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re gonna be able to stop this, Larry.\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, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "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-kudlow-to-discuss-save-act-report-on-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0480920318514109, "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"}