{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-mornings-with-maria-to-discuss-secret-service-leadership-failures-kamala-harris-bad-economic-policies/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d to\u00a0Discuss Secret Service Leadership Failures, Kamala Harris\u2019 Bad Economic Policies", "2024-09-26", "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 Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network to discuss the U.S. Secret Service failures that led to the assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July. They also discussed Kamala Harris\u2019 failure to outline policies to boost the U.S. economy.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville can be found below, and his entire interview can be watched on Rumble or YouTube.\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cJoining me now is Alabama senator, Tommy Tuberville. He is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and HELP Committee. Senator, thanks very much for being here. Your reaction to this report.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, disastrous. I\u2019ve got to know President Trump\u2019s detail over the last couple of years, Maria. I\u2019ve been very close. We\u2019ll spend hours with them on a golf course, in the clubhouse. They\u2019re first class, they\u2019re professional, they work hard. It\u2019s a numbers game. But this report goes back to leadership. Leadership of the Secret Service, leadership of the FBI, leadership of the CIA. It changed back during the Democratic-controlled White House back in early 2010, 2011 when they took people that actually worked in these areas and they put in bureaucrats and they put these bureaucrats in and they totally changed all 3 or 4 of these entities in terms of how things are run. DEI is up front, close and personal. Unfortunately, you know, I\u2019d love to have been a professional quarterback, but I didn\u2019t have the ability to do that. We\u2019re putting people in jobs that can\u2019t do these jobs. And if it has anything to do with law enforcement and military, anything to do with protecting American citizens, like the Secret Service, we got to get away from this affirmative action, DEI\u2014put the best people in charge.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cNo, great point. And by the way, Coach, we have a lot of questions about that as well. We\u2019re gonna get to that coming up in terms of you wanting to be a quarterback. I want to get into Israel though first. Despite Israel\u2019s war against Hamas and Iranian proxies and Iran being linked to separate assassination plots against President Trump, the U.S. is still allowing Iranian leaders into the country. The President of Iran speaking at the UN on Tuesday. I guess we had to issue him a visa for that. Trump spoke about this on the threats to his life. [\u2026.] And Senator, I have a letter here that Tom Cotton wrote and Mitch McConnell to President Biden. Sent the note yesterday. He writes, \u2018We write to strongly condemn your administration\u2019s continued delay in providing critical military equipment and weapons to our ally Israel. In the midst of an existential war, we have reason to believe your administration is currently delaying three critical types of military weapons or equipment.\u2019 He goes on to name them. [\u2026] What is the US doing in terms of its support for Israel right now? Are they once again delaying weapons?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, they\u2019re delaying weapons. They\u2019re riding the fence, Maria. An election is coming up. They don\u2019t wanna be seen as helping Israel because they need all these kids\u2019 votes, all over the country. The number one thing that all these young people are looking at, these millennials, these generations Z and X, they are on the Palestinian side, they are on Hamas\u2019 side. And so, they are riding the fence as much as they possibly can. I\u2019m with President Trump on Iran, but, you know, the Ayatollah come into United States. But one thing you always need to understand, keep your friends close, your enemies closer. We need to know where he stands, and you also saw the UN. He probably got a bigger ovation than if Netanyahu were to come. We know where they stand. They\u2019re globalists. They\u2019re not on the Israel side. This is not a birthday party Israel is fighting for. They\u2019re fighting for their damn country. And the well-being and the existence of the Israel state. So, Biden and Harris, they\u2019re taking this very lightly, but they\u2019re riding the fence. It\u2019s going to get them in trouble. It\u2019s going to get them beat at the polls.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cWell, I mean, look, you make a good point because now I\u2019m looking at this story whereas we understand the House has okayed the GOP resolution condemning Biden and Harris over the Afghanistan exit. Now, I mean, Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first solo interview since launching her Presidential campaign and she didn\u2019t say much. She struggled to explain any economic plans and certainly stayed far away from foreign policy, including Afghanistan.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cEmbarrassing, Maria. We all know that. We\u2019ve seen that. They\u2019re trying to get her elected\u2014the worst possible candidate they could put there. But, in 90 days they\u2019re trying to get her across the finish line. She\u2019s the first ever AI presidential candidate\u2014all done by social media, the media, TV, and radio. They\u2019re doing everything they possibly can. They\u2019ll spend billions of dollars to get her across the line. She is the worst candidate. There\u2019s some Democrat senators up here [who are] wondering \u2018How in the world did she get in front of me? I\u2019ve been up for forever. I know the policies, I know how to get things done.\u2019 No chance, didn\u2019t talk to them. She\u2019s the one they wanted because they can control her. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cWell, Senator, what about these polls? They\u2019re incredibly tight\u2014Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump\u2014and yet we\u2019re not getting any information about any policies from Kamala\u2014and we\u2019ve got all of these missteps. I\u2019ve got another letter here to Alejandro Mayorkas and Ronald Roe, Acting Director of the Secret Service, from the Speaker of the House basically talking about these failures in the Secret Service. Alejandro Mayorkas is overseeing all of this. He\u2019s overseeing the Secret Service, he\u2019s overseeing the wide-open border, ten million illegals in the country in the last 3.5 years. Will there be any accountability for Alejandro Mayorkas in the Senate?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMaria, he\u2019s disappeared. If you notice in the last few months, he has not been anywhere. They told him to hide. \u2018We don\u2019t want you out there having to talk about this.\u2019 Same thing with Kamala. They don\u2019t want her talking about [the border]. They\u2019re letting the mainstream media push their agenda, but the problem they\u2019ve got is things are coming out now. We\u2019re starting to understand. People understand, \u2018Wait a minute, we need to hear this from her.\u2019 What was that she was talking about? I didn\u2019t understand it. How in the world is she gonna be the leader of the free world if she can\u2019t give you basic 101 Economics? It\u2019s embarrassing that we would even put her in this situation. She should drop out today and let somebody else run. I don\u2019t know how they plan on getting her across the finish line. President Trump\u2019s gonna win this. The polls are wrong. Everywhere I go, everybody\u2019s saying, \u2018Coach, we have to get President Trump across the line.\u2019\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cYeah, really. I mean, you wanna say anything about this upcoming Georgia-Bama game, Coach?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, it\u2019s gonna be close. I\u2019m going with President Trump, It\u2019s gonna be hard to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I had a hard time. I did a couple of times, but it\u2019s hard to beat them there.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cBoom. Alright, Senator. Good to see you this morning. Thank you, sir.\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-mornings-with-maria-to-discuss-secret-service-leadership-failures-kamala-harris-bad-economic-policies/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 13.201597845181823, "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"}