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Senator Tuberville, as always sir, welcome. I just wanna\u2014we\u2019re going to play a couple quick clips for you, but I assume you saw it or saw part of this interview. One of the most disturbing parts I think to me is she lost her cool. There is a temperament thing that you always look for in presidential candidates no matter how hot it may be in the kitchen, you\u2019re supposed to keep your cool. And I think she lost her cool. I think she blew up basically at Bret Baier last night. I don\u2019t know if you see it the same way or\u2014you\u2019ve been around these things for a long time\u2014or do you have a different take?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo, I totally agree with you, Larry. She came across last night like a \u2018Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,\u2019 and the only thing that we learned was how obsessed\u2014absolutely obsessed\u2014she was with Donald Trump. There were no policies. I listened to everything she said about immigration, and I\u2019ve been going through all this for four years in the Senate and listened to all these lies\u2014things [they have] supposedly done. There wasn\u2019t one true thing she said about immigration, and I think she\u2019s just totally out of touch. She tries to listen to everybody on her side about \u2018Hey listen, try to switch everything back to Donald Trump. Don\u2019t say anything. Blame him, play the blame game.\u2019 Again, it\u2019s not going to work.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah, here comes a clip. This is early in the interview\u2014regarding the number of migrants released into the U.S. Roll some tape. Take a listen please, sir.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSo, that\u2019s very odd. She just wouldn\u2019t deal\u2014Bret\u2019s asking it six different ways\u2014she just didn\u2019t want to deal with it at all. And, I want to just read you a quote from Alejandro Mayorkas, obviously Homeland Security Secretary, March 21st, so just barely in office\u2014QUOTE, \u2018We are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the past administration. The cruelty of the past administration with a orderly, humane, and safe immigration process,\u2019 END QUOTE. That was right at the time that they canceled all 94 executive orders that former President Trump had issued. Now, those are factoids. I\u2019m not making this stuff up. I\u2019m not making the quote up. And I\u2019m not making up the cancellation of 94 executive orders, and at least ten million illegals have come across the line, probably more than that. So, she has to\u2014it seems to me no matter how patriotic she is against Mr. Trump\u2014she still has to deal with these facts that are seemingly so unpopular in this election, Senator?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, she\u2019s not gone by any facts, Larry, ever since she\u2019s been running for this office for what, 60, 65 days. They\u2019ve told her, \u2018Don\u2019t give any numbers out. Don\u2019t talk about any numbers. Just flip everything back to Donald Trump, about how all these problems were happening before they took office.\u2019 They created these problems. I went to the border in March of 2021 right after they took over and Ted Cruz and myself, along with Mike Lee, we went down and we looked at these cages that they had all these kids in that were just absolutely stacked up like Cordwood. They care nothing about these kids. Mayorkas, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden, have lied to the American people, Larry, for the last three and a half years. It has been an absolute disgrace. And [\u2026] going back to what you talked about in the previous segment about this demonstrator being killed. We should be in DEFCON ONE because they have let people in this country that are terrorists in the last three and a half years. And the American people are in trouble because of this.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. Let me play\u2014here\u2019s some more about reversing Trump border policies, senator. Let\u2019s just take a listen, please.\u201d [\u2026]\n\n\u201cSee, this one baffles me because the bill that she\u2019s talking about, as Bret Baier explained, but she, I guess, [\u2026] didn\u2019t wanna listen or maybe she already knew. That wasn\u2019t a bill to close the border. That was a bill to open the border and expand citizenship rolls. And even her own party, which had three houses at that point, was not in favor of it. I mean, that\u2019s just, I don\u2019t know, untruthful cognitive dissonance. I don\u2019t know what the polite phrase is, Senator Tuberville, but she sure wasn\u2019t speaking the truth.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo. She lied about that. And I don\u2019t think she really knew what was going on when she first went in. I don\u2019t think she was too much around the things that were happening, especially what was going on in the Senate, Larry, but there was no bill. You have to remember it\u2019s like Bret Baier said, they had the House and the Senate and the White House. They could have done anything they wanted\u2014brought it to the floor. We never saw anything like that. The only bill that we\u2019ve seen is the one that McConnell put together with [\u2026] James Lankford, and we voted it down because it was a disaster bill. It would have codified everything that they had done the last three years, and we obviously didn\u2019t want that. But no, sometimes it sounds like she doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on or what has really happened. She hadn\u2019t really studied it, but I\u2019m telling you there has been nothing done about immigration in the last four years that the Biden-Harris administration even thought about stopping or trying to correct.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cThat bill that she always refers to, which was an election year ploy, it wasn\u2019t Trump who killed that bill. They were already a bunch of Republican senators who were against that bill. There are Democratic senators who are against that bill, probably for different reasons. And that bill would have allowed roughly\u2014I\u2019m gonna just do this in round numbers\u2014that bill would have allowed roughly two million illegals coming in every year in that bill codified, and probably a bigger number because it didn\u2019t include people being airlifted in the way they\u2019ve been doing that. And so, over a period of four years, that would have been another eight to ten million illegals. So, what\u2019s so great about that bill in the first place?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, the one thing that really got me, Larry, just reading it, when I got to the point in the bill that says, \u2018We [\u2026] continue to fund sanctuary cities.\u2019 Game, set, match for me.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cAnd then almost a thousand more lawyers that were being sent to the border to be able to enhance the release of immigrants into our country. It [\u2026] had nothing to do with stopping anything at the border. It was making it easier for them to come to the country and then funding them once they got here. We\u2019re spending billions a month just keeping them in this country.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. You know, sir, game, set, match on that sanctuary city stuff. Sanctuary cities, they will not be able to return criminals back to the border authorities to send them back home. That\u2019s so important. You hit the nail in the head. That\u2019s such an important point, which Trump keeps making if folks keep listening. Anyway, Senator Tommy Tuberville, we appreciate it, 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", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"]], "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-reacts-to-kamala-harris-failure-to-answer-for-failed-border-policies/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8895319662988186, "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"}