and if tommy tuberville makes you wait six months or a year or more for your promotion, that's a year'sng. intently timberville could ever care about one day above my aunt mary's life or any of the lives of any leave the military families who are suffering every day now because of him. and only because of him. he lives and breathes cruelty without feeling a thing. today, the senate finally broke tommy tuberville's mindless block on only three of the more than 300 promotions that tommy tuberville is blocking. air force general c q brown was confirmed as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff 83 to 11 with 11 republicans voting against him for no apparent reason whatsoever. it couldn't possibly be his race, right? they would never do that. tommy tuberville was of course one of the nine senators with zero military experience who voted against general brown today. general randi george was confirmed 96 to 1 as the chief of staff of the army. mike lee was the only one to chain himself in voting against him. and general eric smith was confirmed 96 to nothing as commandant of the marine corp

alabama senator, tommy tuberville. his objection to the new policy that will reimburse service members or their families for travel. if they have to go to another state to get an abortion. after six months of frustrating paralysis. the secretaries of the army and the navy and air force wrote this opinion piece. officers in the millions of service they lead are the foundation of america's enduring military advantage. yet, this foundation is being actively eroded by the actions of a single u.s. senator, tommy tuberville. joining us now is the secretary of the air force. air force secretary frank kendall,, army secretary christine wormuth , and navy secretary carlos del toro for this joint interview. let me start with you. air force secretary frank kendall,. how is america less safe and less prepared than it was just six months ago? >> first of all, we are safe and prepared. but he is doing significant damage to our national security. he is put on hold hundreds of officers. each summer we move a large fraction of our gene

what do you make of tommy tuberville blocking these confirmations?ons? i'll tell you that this — confirmations? i'll tell you that this particular - confirmations? i'll tell you that this particular action | that this particular action from senator tommy tuberville makes my blood boil. i was forced from military service by retaliation from the trump administration. the trump administration. the trump administration withheld my name from the motion list to kernel. i could have said in the service and held up the entire commercial list for all the kernels in the us army indefinitely until trump left office or take any action which i did which was i was not going to penalise my fellow peers in the military or for that matter i was not willing to jeopardise us marshals. tommy tuberville is doing the opposite, publicising promotions, holding up publicising promotions, holding up promotions for a political agenda, has nothing to do with the qualifications of these offices and it really makes me angry. the reason for that is because it has an enormous effec

. >> chris, tommy tuberville is literally a case study in the tyranny of the minority. and it is not by coincidence we have the author -- well, it is kind of consistence dns but also a coincidence we have the authors tyranny of the minority on the set tonight. >> that's perfectly fitting. >> the framers did not envision tommy tuberville. thank you, my friend, as always. and thank tuesday you at home for joining me this hour. so today speaker of the house kevin mccarthy announced that despite having no real evidence, he is opening an impeachment inquiry into president biden. lucky for us we don't have to wonder whether or not this is a bad faith effort by speaker mccarthy, and that is because back in 2015 when he was pitching himself for house leadership, mr. mccarthy said the quiet part out loud. >> the question i think you really want to ask me is how am i going to be different? >> i love you asked my question, but go ahead. that was one of my questions. >> what you're going to see is a conservative speaker that takes a conservative congress that puts a strategy to fig

. >> chris, tommy tuberville is literally a case study and tyranny of familiarity. >> yeah. >> it is not by coincidence that we have the author, or it is kind of coincidence but not by coincidence. the author, the tyranny of the minority, on the set tonight. >> that is perfectly fitting. >> i mean, the framers did not center tommy tuberville i, will tell you that. much >> unanimous consent is not in the constitution, i would know it. >> it could no, thank you, my friends, as always. t >> thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. today, speaker at the house kevin mccarthy announced that despite having no real evidence, he is opening an impeachment inquiry into president biden. lucky for us, we don't have to wonder whether or not this is a bad, fake effort by speaker mccarthy, and that is because back in 2015, when he was pitching incel for house leadership, mr. mccarthy said the quiet part out loud. >> the question i think you really want to ask me is how will i be different? >> why don't you answer my questions but go ahead. go right ahead. >> i know you want to ask it. what yo

like tommy tuberville's lack of character. his lack of intellect. on johnson in wisconsin, his lack of intellect. his selfish approach to everything, i'm talking about both of these guys now. but tuberville is specific. and for him to say that he does not know much about what is going on in the pentagon. he doesn't have to go to the pentagon. either write down across the bridge. go to quantico. look at the trading class of marine corps offices. he could go in his home state to any post in his home state. and look at the caliber of officers serving. and look at the sacrifice that they make. i'm not talking about the selleck revise of carrying arms in the war. i'm talking about the sacrifice of taking families from one pose to another. year after year after year. and this year. the start of the school year right now and august for many of them. they do not know where they are going. where they are serving. what the rank is gonna be. what's the pay scale is gonna be. and what the promotion prospects are going to be. shame on top of the tuberville. >> sh

and the politics of tommy tuberville, his whole is hurting the military and, by the way, bringing upic of reproductive freedom over and over again. the politics are so bad for the gop. do you have thoughts on how republicans can even begin to play this? >> i don't really. it's funny listening to david plouffe before about mitch mcconnell. we are so used to now thinking the house republicans are the problem for the republicans nationally, and comparably, the senate is only saying that the upper chamber is also off at the trolley, the trolley got off the rails. nikki haley had this thing where she have to have a competency test for the president. i think if you had a political iq test for the senate, the first person to fail out would be tommy tuberville, who is adjust, hey, let's make it a republican party look bad on the military and also raise the issue of abortion and hand these issues so that democrats -- democrats love tuberville -- that's the briar patch that joe biden would love to live in for the next 18 months. but for the country but great for -- >> it is testament to the fa

shame on tommy tuberville. >> shame on tommy tuberville.ame on republicans for saying they wish that our troops were more like russian troops. you know, this is personal. mika, of course, mika's brother served in the united states army. mika has a nephew who got out of college, could have got a job anywhere. he decided he wanted to serve his country, and he wanted to be in the marine corps. he has busted his ass. he has gone through hell like all marines do, like all marines do. he has sacrificed. why? because he loves this country. >> like all marines do. >> he wants to give his all to this country. that's why you become a marine. i'm not sure why you become a football coach. i like football coaches. i loved coaching football. it was one of the best jobs i've had. it ain't being a marine, tommy. it ain't being a marine. it ain't being a member of the united states army. it ain't being a ranger. i mean, i can go down the services and the sacrifice these men and women make. you know, mike talks about it. mike talks about the sacrifices that

unless tommy tuberville let us have this vote early, and he did.nd we are able to confirm a new chairman to the joint chiefs of staff. we have over 300 other officers. what is to say their jobs are not equally important? what is to say that their families should be left and continue to be left in limbo? we have children who are pulled out of school thinking the going to move to a new duty station, and we can't start them at new schools, spouses have quit their jobs, who now don't have a job, military families who are paying out of pocket because they're in this limbo situation. officer after officer, doing two jobs, both the one they are assigned to, and the one they're now acting in without the confirmation process. >> senator tammy duckworth, thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with a man in for alex. good evening. >> i was gonna tell you quickly, as watching that opening segment you are doing about the red wave that wasn't, and i was think

as tommy tuberville continues to block a military nominations. then, might one-on-one with sales ceo mark benioff. historic's on the state of san francisco getting back to work in this town, and artificial intelligence. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i'm stephanie roe. live from san francisco. this week we could learn more from d a fani willis and judge scott mcafee about whether donald trump and his codefendants will be tried and october for the alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election down in georgia. and if all of this evening, willis still says trump and the others should be tried together. meanwhile, the fulton county sheriff's not waiting to get ready for the trial. today he talked about that with my colleague blaine alexander. >> how do you secure the courthouse for such a complex trial for that amount of time? >> we've had enough practice. so we have different gantt trials that have gone on with r.i.c.o. cases involving 28 defendants. what does that look like? so we have, w

thank you, alabama for sending us tommy tuberville. ve relatives in the military that are being affected by this. they cannot go to school because kids cannot get their orders to sign up. it's a lot of implications of what tommy taber bill from alabama is doing. it's hurting the military which is basically going to lead to the republican party losing the military vote for the first time in history. they deserve it. vote out republicans. host: that's robin in tennessee. chris murphy, the democratic senator from connecticut tweeting at yesterday what this whole situation tells us about what republicans want here. the congressman saying that it tells us there is nothing the gop cares about more than controlling women's health care. republicans are clearly willing to do anything including her military readiness in order to ban abortion. this is joel in mountain home, arkansas, good morning, your next. caller: good morning. it's my turn to call. it's been 30 days and i enjoyed listening to c-span each day. i will continue listening for over

all 11 no votes, coming from republicans, one of whom was tommy tuberville. and when pressed on his no vote, tuberville had this to say about general bragg. >> when he talks about race, and other things he wants to make sent to the military. let me say, our military is not an equal opportunity employer. we are looking for the best of the best, to do whatever. we are not looking for different groups, social justice groups. we don't want, to single-handedly, destroy our military from within. >> he talked about race, and things he wanted to mix and to the military. mixing in the military. it's not the best of the best. they don't want to single-handedly destroy the military from within. for many reasons, i think it is a gross, and racist thing to say, from a man who will be the second black chief of staff. it's also not true. the department of defense isn't literally,, equal opportunity employer. the d.o.d. has an office of equal employment opportunity under the inspector general, and an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion, focusing on, quote, equal opport

when we come back, and the senate, it is tommy tuberville's military blockade. over in the house, speaker mccarthy's has a biden impeachment inquiry is on the way. we took about what republicans in both chambers are up to with doug jones and charlie dent. and later, -- all things tech on tomorrow's big meeting on capitol hill and the doj's antitrust lawsuit against google. the 11th hour, just getting underway on a tuesday night in san francisco. ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ jardiance ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪ ♪ at each day's staaart. ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to seee. ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c. ♪ jardiance works 24/7 in your body to flush out some sugar! and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can lower the risk of cardiovascular death, too. jardiance may cause serious side effects including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function, and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-

alex wagner tonight begins right now. >> chris, tommy tuberville is literally a case study in the tyrannyf the minority. and it is not by coincidence we have the author -- well, it is kind of consistence dns but also a coincidence we have the authors tyranny of the minority on the set tonight. >> that's perfectly fitting. >> the framers did not envision tommy tuberville. thank you, my friend, as always. and thank tuesday you

clear that we will not allow anyone to shift this onto democrats. >> for months, alabama senar tommy tuberville has been blocking promotions for hundreds of military nominees. finally, facing criticism for both sides of the aisle -- tuberville tried to force an individual promotion vote, but majority leader chuck schumer beat him to the punch. it took several hours. but earlier this evening, the senate confirmed a new chair of the joint chiefs. joining me now, former democratic senator doug jones of alabama. he ran against tuberville back in 2020, and former republican congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania. senator jones, when this hearing was happening, you are the first person i wanted to call. because, the last time you were here, we talked about. this and it is still going on. what are you thinking tonight? >> i'm glad senator schumer has decided to put a couple of these things on the floor. and it's proving the point -- and by the way, stephanie ruhle, i watched that last segment. maybe you ought to let charlie dent answer this question. >> [laughter] -- >> -- okay? but the fact is, i'm

senator tommy tuberville, as always, thank you very much for your time.ht along we're going to have some heavy-duty political analysis, maybe even some campaign management. katie pavlich, editor for townhall.com and fox news contributor and if that weren't enough, charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and also a fox news contributor. mitt romney is retiring from the u.s. senate. >> [laughter] larry: i want to begin with that one, okay, charlie hurt? i don't know, my response is run, jason run, jason chaffetz, who is a great friend and fox contributor. >> yeah. larry: he has had, you know hasn't made up his mind, the poor guy. i think he wants to earn a living or whatever. mitt romney is retiring charlie hurt. why is -- mitt romney is a good guy until he got affected by the trump derangement syndrome. this is one of these weird stories, charlie hurt. take it from there, what do you think? >> well i think that jason chaffetz would be an awesome improvement but you could put hunter biden in there and that would be an improvement. larry: latch laugh

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sahel, do we have any sense that tommy tuberville is beginning to feel any of this pressure? is the latest from the hill? >> reporter: the short answer is, no, we have not seen any indication whatsoever that senator tuberville is softening his hard line when it comes to military promotions. if anything, he appears to be doubling down. his office spent the august recess distributing clips and evidence of allies of his who are defending his position and there are several of them. it is unclear whether this pressure from the leaders of the navy and air force and army will impact him. they say this abortion travel policy is important because service members need to be treated equally. they call it unfair military leaders and their families saying it is taking a personal toll and despite what others say, it is jeopardizing national security and damaging the military. now, there are a couple of ways you can imagine tommy tuberville backs off, if he feels pressure from his constituents, not clear that happened to a significant degree yet, feels pressure from senate republican leader

what tommy tuberville is doing now, in blocking 300 military promotions, is as far as we can tell, unprecedentedhe doesn't like that a pentagon policy of reimbursing service members for travel for medical procedures includes travel expenses for abortion in states where the procedure is now banned. >> any support for leadership for what you're doing? >> oh yeah. i'm getting more and more out of the building. they're seeing the attack mode right now. all of the people who are coming out of the white house. speaking against me. it's a hard topic to get on top of. but we're pro-life. and we should be. where the republicans. >> that's true. they are the republicans. in other words, he is holding up u.s. military promotions to force pregnancy on members of the armed services. that is the kind of thing republicans are all about. senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, shares the senate rules committee, and she joins me now. first, on the substance here. again, my understanding is that there is this reimbursement policy for service members if they have to travel for medical care anyway. this is no

alex wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. >> chris, tommy tuberville is literally a casee author, the tyranny of the minority, on the set tonight. >> that is perfectly fitting. >> i mean, the framers did not center tommy tuberville i, will tell you that. much >> unanimous consent is not in the constitution, i would know it. >> it could no, thank you, my friends, as always. t >> thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. today, speaker at the house kevin mccarthy announced that despite having no rea

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this stems from of course senator tommy tuberville's block from all military promotions in protest ofolicy. pressure has been mounting on both sides of the political aisle for the albion republicans are back down. he has had so far he is not doing that. he said he is not budging. our next guest is tim kaine, he's on the armed services and father of a marine reservist. thank you for being here senator. he is not backing down, that's what he told my colleague manu raju yesterday. how do you see this ending? >> caitlin, this is unprecedented. senator tuberville has the right not to like the pentagon policy, but he's been given the opportunity to change it. we are on the armed services committee together. he was given a vote in the armed services committee to change the policy. he failed, and couldn't convince his colleagues to go along with him. when we had the bill on the floor of the senate, we said, we'll give you a vote on the floor. he refused to even ask for a vote because he knew he would lose both democratic and republican votes. he should not take out his inability to persuade h

it's coach tommy tuberville who has never served a day in his life. it's radicals who want to defund the troops right now. it really rubs everyone the wrong way. but it also drives independents away from the gop. this is not the party of john mccain and colin powell anymore, and ultimately it's undermining our national security. there's the political part of this where they're driving away independents, and i think ultimately it could cost them the election. but ultimately it's weakening our national security to see our political leaders fighting with our military leaders and to have someone like mark milley focused on this instead of focusing on our shores and focusing on our troops, it's something that putin likes to see. the stakes are incredibly high, and i don't think most americans are paying enough attention to it frankly. >> i'm going to talk more about what you referenced. republican senator tommy tuberville, you talk about how all of this could impact national security, but what about morale in general? these politicians, as you point out, m

i guess we'll start right there with senator tommy tuberville.s wreaking havoc on military promotions in the lives of so many who serve this country, as you have, and also, quite frankly, making the military a place that will lose a lot of great women if his position on abortion is held. >> yeah, that's true, mika. one in five of our service members are women, and they have every right to expect when they raise their right hand and agree to serve this country and defend our constitution the military and the system will look after them and their health care and the health care of their families. so you're right, some may vote with their feet. some make tough decisions. i had to make this decision myself in 2015 to retire and walk away from the uniform. it's never an easy decision to make. some of them are now facing that very decision whether it's worth staying in and waiting until we don't know when this hold will be lifted or getting on with our lives. as for what can be done, the thing that needs to be done now, his republican colleagues, parti

and what do you think they think of tommy tuberville?at position that says he cares about veterans, he cares about the military, and don't worry, this won't impact anything it's just fundamentally flawed. so absolutely our active duty have to stay apolitical. but what they are thinking, the first thing everyone is thinking about is their family. these are children that thought they were moing. i glue up as a navy brat. i had my children when i was in active duty. they are constantly moving. it's a rough life to begin with. and now the uncertainty, which school will i be at? or for the spouse, doo i change jobs, can i fill the position in that new city, do i rent the house. so that's the first thing everyone thinks about. i believe the active duty officers can figure it out. they are going to work it. there's tons of readiness issue, but a personal perspective, do they really want to stick around in an organization that treats their family this way. so at a certain point, you're impacting not just today's readiness, you're talking about t

tommy tuberville is doing the exact opposite.qualifications of these officers. and it really, really makes me angry. the reason it makes me so angry is because it has an enormous effect on readiness. it has an enormous effect on the ability of the military to retain the best and the brightest that now look at their service as notjust apolitical, but politcised. well, it's important to mention that senator tuberville does argue — he says his actions are not harming military readiness. you say he's wrong? well, i mean, clearly, the secretaries of the service — army, air force, and navy — have said this. every living secretary of defense, months back — i think it was back in may — signed a letter criticising senator tuberville's hold. this has been going on for months. it is affecting my friends and peers that are that, even at the colonel level, cannot get their promotions because there are restrictions on the number of people that can serve in certain billets. this is having an effect on spouses' employment, this is having effect

select stearns & foster® adjustable mattress sets. >> democrats going after the alabama senator tommy tubervilleberville firing back saying democrats are unwilling to compromise on the issue of abortion. aishah hosni watching all that back and forth again today live on the hill. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. the senate returns and all of a sudden there is a lot of action. we're seeing really the senate republicans ban together behind tommy tuberville trying to turn the tables back against the democrats saying -- asking what is the left doing to resolve this situation? take a look at this. where we stand now. this is the 301 promotions and appointments on hold by senator tuberville who is not happy with the military's abortion policy. the democrats continue attacks. chuck schumer could use his powers to go around these and bring each and every individual nomination to the floor for a vote. tuberville and senate republicans say democrats haven't done that yet because they're playing politics. >> it will take three hours to do one nominee. >> they aren't doing it why? >> they don't wa

national security implications and morale for the troops and the officer corps being held by tommy tuberville, one senator. >> senator tuberville is doing something that's unprecedented, never before has anamerican senator held the promotion, not of one or two or three but of hundreds of the entire flag rank officers, generals and admirals. i respect he has a policy disagreement with president biden. that's part of what we do here in the senate. we have disagreements. his path forward should be asking for and getting a vote on the senate up or down. he has been offered that in the past one of the foundations of our democracy is civilian control of a non-partisan, non-political military this is taking hundreds and hundreds of senior military officers and inserting them into the middle of a partisan dispute and holding up them and their families from being able to move to new posts, to new places of service in accordance with the promotion process. it's about 300 right now by the end of the year, it will grow to almost 600 senior officers senator tuberville should abandon his hold, ask for and

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does life beautifully. >>> a feud between democrats and republican senator tommy tuberville is escalatederville has blocked military nominees over abortion policies he claims is illegal. the senator could hold up the confirmation of the nation's highest ranking military officer on the left there in the photo. he was nominated to replace general mark milley as the next joint chiefs chairman. general milley is expected to leave the post in three and a half weeks. manu raju joins us now. you talked to senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> he's trying to ratchet up the pressure campaign on tommy tuberville saying that he, the democrats, aren't going to change their approach. they want tuberville to relent, allow these nominations to move forward and be approved quickly by a voice vote in the u.s. senate. that's typically done. but schumer does have the ability as a senate majority leader to schedule votes. he could take time consuming procedural steps to overcome those objections. that's something he could certainly do with the joint chiefs nominee. when i asked him whether he would commi

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. >> that was tommy tuberville, >> that was tommy tuberville, alabama senator tommy tuberville, as thesdom and reason about impeachment. even today, mccarthy was trying to have a both ways, presumably because he understands the republican conference simply does not have the goods. >> -- all we are trying to do is not impeachment. -- answer this question. >> -- fund the government, sir? >> i strongly suspect have mccarthy's going to go ahead with impeachment anyway. the justification, whatever they make up after the fact, it doesn't actually matter. you kind of knew everything you had to know about this whole enterprise on january 21st, 2021. congressman joe neguse is a democrat of colorado. he was an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. and he joins me now. what is your sense of how -- i guess, here's my point of view. the way momentum works in this kind of thing, my read on this is that mccarthy is trying to sort of live each day, and get through that day. so, it's like, you want an inquiry, i will give you an inquiry? -- it just seems hard for me, for

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alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is calling for a floor vote this month on joint chiefs of staff chair mark milley's replacement. he has been locking military over his objection to the defense department's abortion policy. >> mr. president, today our nation marks the 22nd anniversary of the september 11th attacks. we mourn the loss of some 3,000 americans who were murdered by terrorists. it was one of the darkest days in our history. just last week we marked another sad anniversary, the second anniversary of president biden's surrender in afghanistan. on 9/11, 2021, the taliban controlled more territory in afghanistan than they did on 9/11 of 2001. that is an absolute disgrace. the responsibility goes straight to our commander-in-chief. at the time president biden called it an extraordinary success, nobody else thought so. the american people overwhelmingly reject this idea. our allies certainly reject this idea. it was not a success. it was the worst embarrassment of our nation in decades. in two years since the fall of afghanistan, there has been absolutely no accountabil

a defiant senator tommy tuberville appearing on news nation wednesday. can bring him to the floor one of the time. p can't hold them up saying he won't back down unless the issue goes through congress. but if we just go through congress and vote on it, accept whatever. but right now they're just trying to force it down the taxpayer strokes for the first time in history. the army, navy marine corps are all without senate confirmed leaders and more vacancies are on the way. >> like general mark milley whose tenure as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ends in october. but before that happens, his replacement general cq. brown needs to be confirmed rather than schedule an individual vote. congressional democrats are calling on their republican counterparts to pressure tuberville to finally relent. but the alabama senator is refusing to budge. i can hold up groups at a time. that's what i'm doing until the pentagon gets rid of a policy. he maintains is illegal. i'm just trying to protect integrity of the constitution. how we do things here. >> let the law

senator tommy tuberville of alabama as you has placed a hold on certain senior appointments at the pentagonause the objects to the biden policy to have taxpayers pay for elected abortions for active-duty military and their dependents. it's very controversial. the media has gone after him. is he right? >> yes. i support what he's doing. first of all, what the defense department is doing is outside the law. they are breaking, violating the law by funding abortion tourism with tax dollars. and so when agencies do that the congress has to stand up and push back against it. i also look and see, we have a limited amount of money in a defense budget. we are running low on ammunition. ammunition. our recruiting is in the absolute gutter now. and your funding abortion tourism. is that something that is helping to protect this country? so we need to fight back against it. i can tell you when i'm president, on day one the policy goes into the trashcan where it belongs. [applause] >> now governor, you and your wife casey are devout and faithful catholics. and i know your faith means a lot to you. could

>> trying to ration up the pressure campaign on tommy tuberville.going to change the approach. they want tuberville to relent, pop, drop his blockade and allow the nominations to move forward and be approved quickly by a voice in the u.s. senate. typically done for norm emanations like this. taking procedural steps to overcome those objections. three leading to the joint chiefs nominee. anna joined chief of staff to many, he made very clear that he was not going to do that. we wanted tuberville to back down. this is a problem creek by republicans up to them to solve it. senator mcconnell, senator food have said they disagree with tuberville. it's down to the republican party. we will not get the bring to democrats when this is a republican problem. >> in talking to republicans, a lot of them disagree with approvals tactics but they are not leaning on him to back off. including republican leader mitch mcconnell. who is publicly brooklyn tuberville is not calling on them, not pressure on him by the scenes. . anderson, some are calling on schumer >> ha

alex >> tommy tuberville in the waiting room i cannot wait to see. senator klobuchar for that. wow. the sky is still doing. it >> really, it's one of these things where, like, some things, you read about, there's like tightest, close issues, this is just like. on the substance, on the process, on the politics, on everything. bad. >> doug himself into a hole he cannot get out of. another part of it, thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining me. this hour. have you ever wanted to have a candle lit family style dinner with former president donald trump and his adult sons? no? maybe? yes? today, we got the news that the former president is hosting just that a family style candle lit dinner at mar-a-lago. that's happening later this year. in a point of this candle lit meal is to raise funds to help pay the legal bills for the many, many criminal codefendants and witnesses in all the many, many legal cases against trump. now, we do not know how much a seat at the special dinner will cost, as yet, candles set a mood. though they are expensive we do know that mr. trump reporte

i know tommy tuberville doesn't care, obviously. >> but he knows this. he knows this. >> on a personal level, planning for service families, for children of service members, they should be in their new locations, in their new schools. everything has been held up. their lives have been put on hold because the promotions aren't going through. then, of course, planning for our military, long-term planning for our military can't be done because, as these service chiefs said, they don't have a full range of power to make a lot of those decisions. so readiness is at risk. willie, you know, the republicans are forfeiting what they always claim to have, which is some special thing with the military, despite the fact they spent years trashing the united states military, saying they wish they were more like russians, saying that they're weak, saying they're woke. it's all a lie. our military is stronger than it's ever been. compared to the rest of the world, the strongest it's been since 1945. yet, you have one republican senator, which other senators are allowing

he trashes tommy tuberville, tuberville gets his back up, and this goes on and on.n, it's been going on for so long. this also is going on with ambassadors before, where they were holding up every ambassador. >> still doing that. >> they're still holding up ambassadors. molly, agree with you. i agree with you. i do think sometimes democrats just play by marquess of queensberry rules. >> mm-hmm. >> i think the democrats need somebody that runs -- is respectful of everybody in the chamber but says, if you're going to affect military readiness by holding up 600 promotions in the military, if you are going to protect our ability to have american interest represented across the globe, and hold up one ambassador after another, i'm going to make you do it. i'm going to make you do it in front of everybody else, and you're going to be responsible for everybody sitting in the chambers for four, five, six, seven weeks. no breaks. i'm going to tell every democrat when they call for a recess to vote it down and keep them in there. after i finish with the 600 military promotions

republican senator tommy tuberville of alabama on wednesday accusing the navy of being woke. ng poems over the loud speakers. meanwhile, tuberville's block on military promotions has prevented over 300 service members so far from being confirmed into new positions. joining us now, former supreme allied commander of nato, retired four-star navy admiral james stavridis. he is the chief international analyst for nbc news. joe, i know you have the first question, but i cannot -- i just don't understand why republicans can't figure out a way to deal with tommy tuberville. >> well, they don't care enough to. they really don't. they're totally fine with the readiness of the united states suffering, obviously. obviously, by their own actions, you know, i'll tell ya what, if i'm running that conference, i'm getting everybody in a press conference and we're telling tommy, "hey, tommy, you're not coaching football anymore. we're not talking about x's and o's. we're not talking about whether you go to the astro bowl or blue bonnet bowl or whatever bowl you want to go to." by the way, the

i was calling in regards to tommy tuberville, you had made the comment earlier. i'm not sure how he is allowed to bring religious views into government. this seems to be a reoccurring theme with the republicans. they need to remove their views. many of us don't feel the same way and we should not be forced to feel the same way. that is all i would like to say for today. thank you for taking my call. guest: i think that is the reality of the senate, the interesting dynamic in the body is one member of the senate can hold up a number of nominees single-handedly and that is a unique aspect. -- aspect you don't have in the house. he is plucking unanimous consent for these noncontroversial nominees because of the abortion policy. it only takes one member of the senate to throw a wrench in the plans a leader schumer who wants to clears leads nominees -- clear these nominees. host: bill is in idaho, republican line. caller: how are you guys doing today? my question for you, mr. cohen, is you seem to know a lot about the inside things democrats and republicans are trying

. >> and you also wrote about senator tommy tuberville, blocking a military promotions.en have you react to me on the other side. >> right now, we are so woke in the military. the secretary of the navy, he needs to get the billing ships, he needs to get to recruiting. and he needs to get wokeness out of our navy. we've got people doing homes on aircraft carriers, over the loudspeaker. >> you have written about the real harm that is being done here, with these blockades by the senator. talk me more about that. >> you know, i think there is a curiosity, in say february of march. tommy tuberville, the right-wing senator of alabama, was more unless engage in this posture exercise, if you are concerned about travel reimbursements for u.s. troops. and for a while, it's seen as this just blow over soon enough, because there was an opportunity for grandstanding. but that was in the spring, and now here we are towards the end of summer, it's still ongoing, it's imposing real hardships. just this week, the secretary of the navy said that tommy tuberville is aiding and abetting com

it has been a chaotic number of months for our military on the backs of tommy tuberville blocking army promotions and now facing a potential shutdown that could stop their pay. now you have the former commander-in-chief threatening death to our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. look, general mark milley is a leader. he is a patriot. he is a man of integrity, a man of honor. he is a man who served his country for his entire life and for the former commander-in-chief to attack him and threaten his life is ridiculous. it is reckless. it's radical. it's bad for our national security. right now vladimir putin is watching this and celebrating. our enemies are celebrating. to see a former commander-in-chief attacking the senior leader of our military and by default the entire military is unprecedented, unconscionable. jack smith is right to try to gag him because this is bad for our national security. this is treasonous. what trump is doing is treasonous. i think they should find ways to stop him from doing it and lock him up if necessary. if you did this or i did this or the average ame