are trump maga supporters, tommy tuberville said they are. your thoughts, michael steele. >> thank you very much. >> it's with love that i ask. >> can i get a drink? >> yes, you can. as soon as you go off the set, cocktail time. >> here's the deal. yeah, no, i have had this conversation about four times today. believe it or not. and it really is, i mean, look, i'm not that crazy enough to know that there does come a point, and that's why i said what i said about last night being the death knell, the final blow in that coffin, if you will, for this primary, because it is now sealed, the way this is. so what does that mean for someone like me? what does it mean -- there are a lot of folks like me still in the party. >> i know a bunch of them. >> you know a bunch of them, and that is part, the soul searching is pretty much done at this point. >> it is. >> now it becomes more practical. okay, where is the parachute, the off ramp? because this does not get better from here. it really doesn't. and you know, for those who, you know, like to deride a

what do you make of the fact this is a thing now and it's quite common with tommy tuberville doing itars ago, when many of us in louisiana defeated david duke in his runs for office, there were folks who thought that chapter is behind us. even ronald reagan felt the need to come out and condemn david duke and white nationalism. now they act like they never heard of david duke. they have no idea who this guy is, they never heard his name. they pretend not to know him because ultimately, dukism, although duke was defeated, dukism was not defeated, and so now, they can't even bring themselves to condemn white supremacy and white nationalism for fear as tuberville basically acknowledged that represents such a significant portion of their base that they were they to do so, it would hurt them politically. think about that. if al qaeda or isis was actively saying, we are recruiting in your military, because that's what white supremacists admit, they admit they're doing it, they want these people to join their movement. if isis did that, you wouldn't sit there and say, well, i don't believe i

tommy tuberville is not a civil rights lawyer, that is on his background.ng a certain age. what is the likelihood that one doesn't have a relatively good understanding of white nationalism. i'm not sure that a grown man should be confusing the two things. he is saying that calling trump supporters and maga people's the that they are being called white nationalism i am not sure that that's, i'm not sure that it all. >> i agree, but remember, heating robin alabama. i'm not even sure he lives in alabama right now. he just has an apartment in arbon, where he has his, quote, residents. so i don't know if he has kind of history. you cannot simply do what he did as a coach and coach athletes that happened to be athletes of color and claim to be someone who is more progressive in in favor of civil rights. the fact he saying these things, that white nationalism has been part of the country's radar. forget jim crow, ali. forget all that can happen in that situation. let's just talk about what happens and how it has been on the radar since then. look at what happened,

senator tommy tuberville was already facing criticism for blocking nearly 200 military promotions. the policy covers paid leave for workers who have to travel out-of-state to get an abortion. tuberville remains a major backer of donald trump. last week he decried the new york jury that unanimously found trump had sexually assaulted e. jean carroll. tuberville said the jury's decision "makes me want to vote for him twice." we are joined now by former alabama senator doug jones, a democrat who served in the senate from 2018 to 2021. he lost to tuberville in the 2020 election. jones is also a former u.s. attorney who successfully prosecuted two members of the ku klux klan involved in the 1963 bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama, that killed four girls between the ages of 11 and 14. senator doug jones, welcome to democracy now! if you could first respond to your former opponent --tuberville bu for the senate seat that you held -- talking about, responding to the issue of the pentagon secretary lloyd austin trying to route out why supremacist in the military.

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it's pretty unclear, though, whether senator tommy tuberville thinks white nationalism is a bad thing. and that's because today's republican party is increasingly embracing white nationalism and explicitly white christian nationalism. in texas, republican legislators have introduced a bunch of new bills that seem to be trying to turn texas public schools into centers of christian nationalism. the texas state senate has just passed a bill mandating that the ten commandments be displayed prominently. it was not enough to just have the ten commandments in every public school. they must now be in every public classroom across the state. and they are sort of the jumping off point. the washington post reports, one bill introduced by texas republicans would allow schools to mandate a period of prayer and bible reading on each school day. another said school personnel must be allowed to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty. another would allow schools to replace school counselors with chaplains. that last proposal -- the one replacing public school counselors with christian cham

take a look at alabama senator tommy tuberville's comments this week. whether he believed white nationalists should be allowed in the military, he said, democrats call them that. i call them americans. i wish i could say that i was surprised by this. what we are witnessing in realtime is not just the normalization of extremism, of white supremacy, of neo-nazi ideologies, but the widespread acceptance of those ideas and one of america's two political parties. joining me now are katherine stewart, author of the power worshippers, inside the dangerous rise of religious nationalism, and rich benjamin, author of searching for whitetopia, an improbable journey into the heart of white america. it's great to have you both on the show. katherine stewart, i'll start with you. we have a host of conservative pundits this week seizing on the fact that the texas mall shooter was hispanic, to argue that he could not actually be a true neo-nazi, a true white nationalist. i mean, what is your reaction to that? and can you help us explain why there is a growing number of

tommy tuberville doesn't understand the modern military.olitics. it endangers our national security and he should resign in disgrace. this is so far beyond the norms of the senate. this is not even this rart. this is one guy who should resign in shame. >> to hear him say out loud that the reason he said what he said to my colleague in the second sound we played, is because we are them, they are us. white nationalists are, quote, trump republicans, feels like a moment. feels like a-ha, that's why the insurrection was a normal tourist visit because we are them and they are them in their view. to hear them malign and smeer chairman milley, the first time i saw it, it didn't make sense to me. if you want to understand white rage, they see angry white supremacist s as them. trump republicans is what tuberville said. where do we go from here? >> that's why i'm trying not to label it anti wokeness, it's pro white nationalism. i always think about the tuskegee airmen in moments like this. these are men that went overseas and defended their country,

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one man blockade of over 200 military nominees. >> reporter: tommy tuberville is digging in. >> i'm the rule of law. >> democrats are ratcheting up the alarms. >> this will get worse and worse, because temporary commands or extensions were reach the point were they can't do anymore. >> it is only grown in the last five months, more than 200 nominations at a standstill. over his refusal to drop his hold on the typically very routine process of approving military promotions in the senate, oliver his opposition to the pentagon's unrelated abortion policy. >> it is not about abortion procedures about taxpayer- funded abortion. >> reporter: the policy, which officially went into effect in february, has access and support for members choosing to get an abortion, providing travel expenses if there is stationed in states that anna restrict abortions and allowing paid need to do so. >> if democrats want me to drop my hold, the answer is simple, i have laid out to conditions, either follow the law, were change the law. >> vowing to keep it up until the pentagon overturns the policy on abortio

i think that is what you saw in tommy tuberville's comments, unfortunately. >> and donna, that's not ocking every single high level military promotion in the united states in protest over the pentagon's policy espoused by lloyd austin, the defense secretary to ensure all military personnel or women in the military can obtain medical care, critical obstetric medical care that they need, gynecological exams and the like as well as abortions now that roe v. wade has been overturned by going and getting the money from the defense budget to travel to a state where they can see ob/gyns. so defense secretary austin has condemned this. we've heard from senator shaheen, from senator warren, others on the armed services committee arguing that his hold on military promotions is basically delaying the confirmation of all our general and flag officers, hundreds of general and flag officers who cannot be promoted, and it's affecting national security. donna. >> well, the threat to national security is a real one. when you can't have the military promotions allowing service members to transition fro

of the joint chiefs of staff is being held up by a single senator, alabama republican senator tommy tuberville of military appointments for everyone with a one star ranking and above. tuberville's unprecedented action is in protest against defense secretary austin saying that the military will pay for women service members and their dependents to travel for reproductive health care including abortions. lieutenant general steph twitty, former deputy commander european commander joins us now. so general brown's appointment would mark the first time in history that the pentagon's two top leaders are black men. minority leader mcconnell said he does not support tuberville's move. what does the military committee think of this? >> first of all, let me just say c.q. brown's recent soon to be appointment here, of course you know we haven't had a black american since colin powell back in '86 through '93 i believe, maybe '89 through '93. i will tell you c.q. brown is the right person for the job. a guy of tremendous character. he's an absolute outstanding pilot and war fighter and so he is the right ma

i know you want to talk about the fact that republican senator tommy tuberville of alabama is currentlyons from going through. flag officers, generals, colonels, admirals. he's saying he's not going to support them until there's a floor vote on a pentagon policy that allows individual service members to be reimbursed for their own travel and time off or their dependents to get abortions if they're in a state where they can't get one. do you -- is this affecting national security, do you think? all these promotions not going through. >> it's staggering. look, you don't have to take my word for it. seven former secretaries of defense, republicans and democrats, wrote a letter last week saying senator tuberville's hold, which is on all flag officers' promotions in the d.o.d., is hurting our readiness, it's hurting our national defense. and why is he doing it? he's doing it because in the wake of the first constitutional right being stripped from the american people in our history since reconstruction, women's right to choose, the department of defense is trying to make it a little less mis

in our radio interview this week republican senator tommy tuberville of alabama had quite the flamingking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists, people that don't believe in our agenda as -- the joe biden agenda. >> you mentioned the biden administration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? >> well, they call them that. i call them american. >> now, on first blush senator tuberville seems to be taking up the cause of white nationalists, people who believe in building a white-centric state. and he seems to be arguing they deserve to be armed and trained and to serve in the u.s. military. tuberville's office has since aeliminate it'd something of a cleanup effort, releasing a statement to alabama.com saying "senator tuberville's quote shows he was being skeptical of the notion that there are white nationalists in the military, not that he believes they should be in the military." today tuberville talked to cnn off camera and said, quote, here's

this was alabama republican senator tommy tuberville in a radio interview he did last week. >> democratseed to get out the white nationalists, the wh white extremists, people that don't believe in our agenda, the joe biden agenda. >> you mentioned the administration trying to keep white nationalists in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? >> well, they call them that. i call them american. >> his office then tried to explain that comment and released a statement saying, quote, senator tuberville's quote shows he was being skeptical of the notion that there were white nationalists in the military, no that he believes they should be in the military. senator tuberville spoke off camera to cnn today saying, quote, here's the problem, democrats portray all maga republicans at white nationalists. that's not true. we have a lot of great people in the military that are magas. that was what i was talking about. jason and van back with me tonight. >> look, it was clear what he was saying, and it's hard to walk that back. michael jackson couldn't moon w

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you had tommy tuberville say this makes me want to vote for donald trump twice.m. he said how great the court system was, how it's the bedrock of our democracy. those senators are contradicting what donald trump's lawyer said. number two, there was not a new york city jury. we had one juror from the bronx, one from manhattan, all the rest were from westchester. we had three women, six men, mostly working class people. these are the people who are supposed to be trump voters. >> that's important to underline. we're hearing it's a bunch of libs from greenwich village. >> only two were from new york city out of nine. >> what's your reaction when you hear comments like that from supporters who run to the defense of donald trump, saying we should dismiss this? >> you know what, i don't hear it. i'm so full of happiness and joy. i am putting that out of my mind. i know robby is going to take care of it. >> we have alexi with a question for you. >> reporter: hi, e. jean. i'm sorry for all you've been through and none of the republican statements even acknowledge some of

last week, republican senator tommy tuberville of alabama defended white nationalists in the militaryst say, it is interesting how conservatives tend to get personally offended by the idea of white supremacy being a threat to the nation. why are you offended if you do not hold those views? >> sir, if there are folks with a white nationalist belief, of which there are in this country, unfortunately, do you believe they should be serving in the military? >> you've got a divide in that first. what is that a white nationalist? >> someone who propagates nazism, someone who doesn't believe black and white people are equal. >> a white nationalist is a nazi? >> that is one of their beliefs. >> i don't look at it like that. >> how do you look at it? >> i look at a white nationalist as a trump republican. that's what we are called all the time. >> do you agree with that assumption? >> i agree that we should not be characterizing trump supporters as white nationalists. >> wow. he thinks the senator doth protest too much. new reporting from hunter walker at talking points memo, he uncovered evide

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we talked about this last week with regard to tommy tuberville.e confederacy. yeah, the army now allows in women and it is no longer all white and it is moving forward and that seems to be what they are attacking. i think they are making a really big political miscalculation by attacking the military. they are not going after joe biden, they are going after the military and that is one of the few institutions that has high popularity rating. i think they are continuing to drive independents away. >> and just to be clear, there is no woke party. i think this is a politically complicated argument to make as a message, amy. you have to convince the country that there is woke people who assemble and gather and run woke -- i mean, that is not reality. joe biden spent the weekend talking to kevin mccarthy. what is this about? >> wokism isn't a thing. and to bring it into the light of somehow the military is too woke, it is really a shame that we have a presidential candidate doing this. it actually hurts our military. diversity and inclusion efforts hav

tommy tuberville is the first senator to do that, and why is he doing it?ry and you need an abortion, we will pay for you to travel to another state. we will allow you to have paid leave instead of unpaid leave, and we're going to let you have a little extra time before you have to tell your commanding officer. that's it. it's not paying for abortion. it's not anything else. it's those three thing, and he wants to make it harder for people that are confronted with that incredibly difficult choice. so this is the aftermath of a 50-year campaign to overturn roe versus wade, to strip the american people of their first freedom, our first fundamental right since reconstruction in this country, and they've won that battle for the moment. there are 18 states that have banned abortion since roe was overturned, nine with no exceptions for rape or incest. the state tommy tuberville comes from, alabama, is a state that has no exceptions for rape or incest. if you're a doctor, you're going to jail for 99 years. you're subject to 99 years if you perform an abortion, and

alabama republican senator tommy tuberville has come under fire for comments defending white nationalists pentagon's efforts to rid them from its ranks. he made the comments last week while talking to npr's alabama-based station wbhm. >> you mentioned the biden administration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? >> well, they call them that. i call them americans. amy: tuberville and his team have since unsuccessfully tried to walk back the comments. tuberville told nbc's julie tsirkin, "i look at a white nationalist as a trump republican." tuberville was already under fire for holding up military nominees over a pentagon policy which covers paid leave for employees who have to travel out-of-state to get an abortion. tuberville also said the fact that a jury found donald trump liable for the sexual abuse of e. jean carroll "makes me want to vote for him twice." in related news, "the washington post" is reporting suspected pentagon leaker jack teixeira was obsessed with guns and was preparing f

alabama republican senator tommy tuberville already holding up more than 200 general and flag officer promotions now says general brown can get that that line because he will use his power because he's mad. the pentagon said if a service member lives nay state where abortion is banned, it will give them travel benefits to go out of state if necessary. what is your message to senator tuberville tonight? is there anything the democrats can do about this? >> look, my message to senator tuberville is, we need the military to move faster. general brown famously said a few years ago that we need to either modernize more quickly, or we will lose. we need to move faster. we need to modernize. senator tuberville, the 68-year-old white man from alabama wants to take us backwards, take us back to the 1950s. there are 80,000 women who serve in the military. they don't get to choose where they get stationed. and they don't need a 68-year-old white guy from alabama telling them what to do with their bodies and what health care decisions to make. >> appreciate your time tonight, sir. thank you very

. >>> topping our political radar today, republican senator tommy tuberville going viral for this. >>ts in the military? >> well, they call them that. i call them americans. >> yes, that's the alabama republican senator telling a radio station white nationalists should not be blocked from serving in the military. the senator's office pretty quickly trying to clean things up, insisting the senator meant to say he's skeptical there are white nationalists in the military. the house speaker kevin mccarthy says he plans to call the fbi director chris wray, that after the bureau ignored a subpoena. oversight committee republicans requesting documents from the fbi that they say tie president biden to an illegal foreign payment scheme. director wray telling a senate panel yesterday he's willing to cooperate. >> we are committed to working collaboratively with both committees. but we also have to balance sources and methods and ongoing investigations and we will continue to work through the accommodation process. >> senator dianne feinstein shows up a little late to work and she says she's bac

when asked what white nationalists are he said, you mean trump republicans, that tommy tuberville.cans spinning the durham report despite a complete and utter lack of any new revelations or bombshells in side of it to justify attacks on law enforcement is where we begin. daniel goldman of new york. he was the former lead counsel for the first house impeachment inquiry into donald trump. joining us, new york times pulitzer prize winning national security reporter who hospital done extensive reporting on the durham roar. we read from it yesterday. charlie savage is here. plus, barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney now a law professor at the university of michigan is here. i'm sorry. we read from charlie's new story today, charlie savage. we read from your big investigation into the durham probe itself in that when the new durham report came out i want to actually start with you. it seems like while we are also conditioned to see the trump right realize their delusions of grandeur in durham, there couldn't have been less for them to grab on to. it really does amount to a grasping at s

and i'm thinking of people like tommy tuberville who has asked about a white nationalist and whethere they call them that, as an white nationalist. i call them americans. is that the kind of stop normalizing mainstreaming white supremacy, by a sitting u.s. senator, that further emboldens nazis to come out and play? >> yes, absolutely! another good example just in the last few weeks is paul gosar's, the revelation that they employs on their staff, somehow contributed to actually say alachua contributed to nick fuentes and other white power activists, has posted on white power websites. now all of this has made somewhat more complicated because this is an opportunistic movement that is constantly seeking ways to expand and reinvent itself. so we have just come through this story of the allen texas shooting with the latino neo-nazi gunman. and now we seem to have in this white house event a southern diane person who has identified with part of this movement and with a neo-nazi flag. the sort of expanding access to the symbols is one of the things that is different in this present a move

in a scathing letter he criticized republican senator tommy tuberville for holding up 200 nominationson reproductive health policies which include leave and travel allowances for abortions. democratic texas state senator roland gutierrez says he's planning a 2024 run for republican ted cruz's seat. sources telling the "washington post" he will make a decision soon. gutierrez has become a fierce champion of the families impacted by the uvalde school shootings. last week democratic congressman colin allred announced he seat well. >>> the college football nvitation to visit 1600 pennsylvania avenue next month citing scheduling conflicts. thanks for your time today. hope to see you tomorrow. "cnn news central" starts right now.

reverend al, take a listen to senator tommy tuberville. to say this week. >> we are losing in the military so fast our readiness in terms of recruitment. i can tell you why. the democrats are attacking our militaries that we need to get out the white extremists, white nationalists, people who don't believe in our agenda, as joe biden's agenda. they are destroying it. >> you mentioned the biden ministration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow would nationalists in the military. >> well, they call them that. i call them americans. >> reverend al, that's part of the problem. >> that is exactly the problem. we have people that are unashamedly saying that white nationalism is fine. that white supremacy is allowable. even in the military. we have not seen the days since the days of andrew jackson as president, as vice president. openly, people that are in high places in government can brace this whole theme of white nationalism and which is just another way of saying white supremacy.

republican senators battle with the pentagon over access to abortions is ramping up alabama senator tommy tubervillenues to hold that military nominations while the defense department offers travel funds and time off for service members seeking reproductive care during a senate hearing on thursday. defense secretary lloyd austin said nearly 80,000 women in the military live in states with abortion restrictions. tuberville is using a senate rule to block military promotions and says he will keep blocking them as long as the pentagon continues to pay for travel and time off or service members and their dependents who are seeking an abortion. >> biden administration wants to mobilize our military against the weakest. and the most defenseless. the unborn might hold is to and an illegal abuse of taxpayer funds. >> the top republican in the senate, minority leader, mitch mcconnell criticized tuberville's hold, but tuberville says he's not backing down department of defense officials warned the delay will impact the military's readiness and morale at a time when every branch is struggling with recruitment.

alabama republican tommy tuberville who is protesting a memo in the overturning of roe v.h said the military would reimburse transportation costs for travel for troops and their families to receive reproductive health care including abortions. >> we have had an abortion policy, but they just went around congress, said we are going to do this on our own. that's not now you do things in washington, d.c. not how they are gonna do things with me with the ability to put a block and holds on their nominees. i told them that. if you do this, i'm gonna block them. so they were warned in advance but they did it anyway and but they could care less. they are trying to run, you know, this country from the white house without going through congress and i am not gonna put up with it. >> secretary austin said he believes they are on firm legal ground. joining us to discuss the tomorrow nation and more defendant is a sabrina, he said does -- this hold does apply to general brown. he wrote this weekend on op-ed no job is going unfilled. the military keeps officers in place until replacemen

that view, echoed, apparently, by senator tommy tuberville, and alabama republican, who sits on the armed recent radio interview. they complain about paragon efforts to keep extremists out of the military. >> we are losing in the military so fast, our readiness in terms of recruitment. and why? i can tell you why. because the democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the weight extremists, the white nationalist, the people that don't believe in our agenda, as joe biden's agenda. there are destroying it. >> you mentioned the biden administration trying to prevent white nationalists from being in the military. do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military? >> well, they call them that. i call them americans. >> i call them americans. the office tends to do a bit of cleanup, trying to clarify is being skeptical of the notion that there is white nationalists in the military, not that they should be in the military. even though, as you heard the senator deliberately say that. an opinion columnist for the new york times, his most recent column, fantas

then there's senator tommy tuberville of alabama who said the ruling only makes him want to, quote, voteu heard that right. trump's sexual abuse makes the senator want to vote for him twice. other republicans took a defensive approach. responding with the same tired attacks on the integrity of the legal system. senator lindsey graham declared that, quote, the new york legal system is off the rails. while senator marco rubio called both the jury and the case, quote, a joke. i'm not sure what is a joke to the senator about a sexual abuse, maybe he can explain that to us. but the most common republican refrain was indifference to the jury finding trump liable for sexual abuse. mike pence rushed of the verdict saying it's not, quote, where the american people are focused. call me crazy but i think more than a few people out there do care when a candidate has committed sexual abuse. and here is section, presidential candidate nikki haley asked if this verdict undermines the party? >> i have always said that anyone feels like they have been sexually assaulted in any way should come forward and

i wanna play recent comments from republican senator tommy tuberville, tuberville of alabama.lleague, julie tsirkin, asked the senator for clarification after he criticized efforts to weed out white nationalists from the military, saying they were simply americans to him. here's the conversation. >> sir, there are folks with white nationalist beliefs, of which there are in this country unfortunately, do you believe they should be serving in the military? >> we've got to define that first. what is a white nationalist? >> someone who propagates nazism, someone who doesn't believe black and brown people are equals. >> you think white nationalist is a nazi? >> well, that is one of their beliefs. >> well, i don't look at it like that. >> how do you look at it? >> i look at a white nationalist as a trump republican. that's what we are told all the time, a maga person. >> do you agree with that assumption? >> i agree that we should not be characterizing trump supporters as white nationalists. >> derek, this is dangerous. members of congress are normalizing, defending white nationalis

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alabama senator tommy tuberville said rather disgustingly that the new york jury verdict against the ex president, quote, makes me want to vote for him twice. yeah, that's how you respond to sexual abuse. espond t liability for sexual abuse. even former trump critics like senator marco rubio and lindsey graham are again falling over themselves to defend trump. rubio called both the jury and the case a joke. graham went after the entire new york legal system, tweeting it was off the rails. you have trump's 2024 competition, his presidential rivals would take a chance to take a shot at the disgraced front runner, right? think again. ron desantis dodging and downplay when asked about the verdict last week. >> i've been pretty busy. i know there is different stuff in the news. we've been busy on monday sticking it to the ccp. >> too busy! to notice the former president was found liable of sexual abuse. his former vice president, mike pence, choosing his words very carefully. >> it my four and a half years serving alongside the president, i never heard or witnessed a and behavior of that

there is senator tommy tuberville of alabama who said the ruling only makes him want to vote for trumpu heard that right. trump's sexual abuse makes the senator want to vote for him twice. other republicans took a defensive approach, responding with the same attired attacks on the integrity of the legal system. senator lindsey graham to declare that, quote, the legal system is off the rails. marco rubio called both the jury and the case, quote, a joke. i am not sure what is a joke to the senator about sexual abuse. maybe he can explain that to us. the most common are rob luckin refrained was indifference to a jury finding the de facto leader of their party liable for sexual abuse. trump's former vice president mike pence brushed off the verdict saying it is not clear where the american people are focused. call me crazy, but i think that more than a few people out there do care when a candidate has committed sexual abuse. here is presidential candidate nikki haley just this morning when she was asked if this verdict undermines the party. >> i have always said that anyone that feels like

not necessarily, when you have people like tommy tuberville who wants to vote for him twice. and called the jurors of new york city, our legal system, a joke. these are not serious people, and i cannot see how this is possibly a good political strategy for republicans moving forward to continue to support trump in this way. >> nick, let me ask you about recent polling by nbc news. we went and looked at, you know, did a deep dive on it, and that poll among suburban women, again, who have often decided these elections, 54% say trump is being held to the same standard as everyone else. just 39% say he's being unfairly targeted and i bring that up because that 54% is a higher number than in many other categories. it tells us they're more sensitive to this or more willing to accept the fact that he's being treated fairly. does that tell you something? >> look, this is bad news for trump: don't let anybody try to spin this as 3d chess, come out stronger because of this. it's terrible. he was found liable for sexual battery, it's a terrible thing, and most people think it's a bad th

apparently if you have been following information trail like i have, letters like from ted cruz, tommy tubervillead sherman. liz: california. >> brad sherman. we they have information on webull you want to trade on any platform, it is a lot of stuff, whether that is being kept safe. whether that information, the ability for webull to keep that safe is properly monitored by the sec and finra. now fin raw provides front line regulation. sec steps in after more serious stuff but here is what the congressman and senators including tuberville are saying, if a lot of your operation is over in china, apparently the data over there, have you gone to china, you, finra, bonn there to look at that information to make sure it is secure. just so you know, we should put up tuberville's statement. we have a statement right there. just basically saying, he also mentioned mumu. that is another chinese, they're another chinese discount brokerage. collect highly sensitive personal information true, for millions of u.s. customers, including personal identification information, social security numbers, blah, blah, ma

i mean, tommy tuberville basically said it. if you wonder why we can't get anything done, the analogy i often use is i think that, you know, background checks, incremental improvement. we can't do anything about that. why is that? it is as if there is a beam in the republican house and there is asbestos flaking off of it. that is bad. that might cause cancer. we should do something about that. the rest of the people say, hold it. if you pull the beam out, the whole house comes down. in other words, the entire republican gop mantra, their totem is guns and gun radicalization. it is very difficult for it to be pulled out of the home. >> cynthia, is there a solution to this? between the gun issue and the tacit support of or refusal to condemn extremist, violent extremism. it kind of feels like a dead end. what is the answer? ryan talked about background checks pulling in 85%. most americans don't support white nationalism either. they would like normal government. >> i mean, there is some good news. i run a research lab. we test a