{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-marshall-lead-press-conference-demanding-more-security-for-president-trump/", "Tuberville, Marshall Lead Press Conference Demanding More Security for President Trump", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Following the second attempt to assassinate President Trump, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) led a press conference with U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) calling for heightened security for President Trump and transparency from the United States Secret Service. Senator Tuberville highlighted the divisive messaging from the Left, which has fueled these attempts to assassinate President Trump.\n\nU.S. Senators Tuberville and Marshall were joined by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Mike Lee (R-UT).\n\nRead Senator Tuberville\u2019s opening remarks below or watch the full press conference on Rumble.\n\n\u201cThanks everybody for coming. We will have a couple more coming in.\n\n[It\u2019s a] pretty serious time. You know, this administration has created a bunch of firsts for this country. Over 10 million illegals. Violent crime [is up] 37%, rape [is up] 42%, robbery [is up] 63%, and fentanyl is everywhere. Gas prices [have reached] record highs for a long length of time. Our military is being destroyed from within. Our three letter agencies are having huge problems\u2014they\u2019re being weaponized. The world is in absolute chaos. This administration is setting records of incompetency. Congratulations, if that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do, because they\u2019ve been able to accomplish that.\n\nAnd now, after multiple assassination attempts, they can\u2019t even give the former president and possibly future president [the] security that his family needs. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous. This isn\u2019t surprising. We have a huge mental health problem in this country.\n\nBut when you hear on TV and radio and on social media about \u2018this guy is Hitler, this guy is fascist, he\u2019s a threat to democracy.\u2019 What do you expect?\n\nAll you have to do is look at some of these tweets I have here from some of our so-called politicians. And then you got people like Hillary Clinton, George Clooney, Joy Reid, Robert De Niro\u2014wannabe politicians. It\u2019s time for them to shut up because somebody is gonna get killed, other than the fireman that got killed already in Pennsylvania.\n\nMentally ill people hear this violent, dangerous rhetoric, and we\u2019re gonna have a copycat. It\u2019s coming. And it\u2019s just unfortunate. Somebody\u2019s gonna get killed, even after the fireman in Pennsylvania. So, what\u2019s it going to take?\n\n66 days ago was the first assassination attempt. What have we learned? Zero. And we don\u2019t need some 10,000-word report. We just need to know what happened and how do we fix it. We up here have no clue, no clue or any information of what\u2019s happened.\n\nIf Joe Biden and Kamala Harris care anything about this country, they need to immediately grant President Trump as much as they possibly can\u2014the security around he and his family.\n\nOne thing about President Trump, he\u2019s different. He doesn\u2019t work six to eight hours a day. He\u2019s gonna work 14-16 hours a day. You\u2019re not gonna stop him from going to outdoor events. He\u2019s also gonna do more than one event, sometimes two to three events a day, and you can\u2019t do it with just a basic group of Secret Service. It can\u2019t happen. You have to and we have to give him more support\u2014whether it\u2019s Rangers, whether it\u2019s Navy SEALS, whether it\u2019s more DHS, I don\u2019t care. We got 48 days. And if we have something disastrous happen in this time frame between now and the election, we know what could happen. We need to take care of this President.\n\nAgain, he is different. He\u2019s actually gonna do his job. He\u2019s actually gonna go out and do his campaigning, and he\u2019s not gonna sit in the basement. He\u2019s gonna do what he needs to do.\n\nFolks, we\u2019re in DEFCON 1. And up here on the Hill in the last few days, I don\u2019t feel that. I don\u2019t feel [\u2026] a sense of urgency. The Secret Service has to lay the law down to the people here in Congress [and] say, \u2018We gotta get help.\u2019\n\nI hear the [\u2026] Regional Director down in South Florida talking about [how] he\u2019s not the sitting president. We all know that. But he\u2019s had two assassination attempts. My God. Wake up and smell the roses. We\u2019ve gotta do something. Let\u2019s don\u2019t wait till it\u2019s too late.\n\nWe are not a third world country. And I guarantee you, third world countries give better protection to presidents and former presidents than we do, and that\u2019s a shame. So hopefully, we get something done in the near future because we don\u2019t need a disaster on our hands, and this is serious.\n\nBecause there\u2019s so much love for this president across the country about how hard he works. This administration is responsible for protecting him. That\u2019s very unusual when you have a former president having to ask the present administration\u2014that he\u2019s running against\u2014for protection. It\u2019s their time to put up and shut up.\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/tuberville-marshall-lead-press-conference-demanding-more-security-for-president-trump/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9677910022437572, "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"}