and later on alabama senator tommy tuberville will weigh in on what appears to be a new border bill to stop the tsunami of illegal immigration. speaks of that, continental wocongresswoman marjorie taylor greene it tell us about impending impeachment of alejandro mayorkas, but first edward launches launches launchlawrence is live at white house. reporter: you could feel the intensity here at white house. the attack hit near a living area at the particular base. in early morning, as people were still in their beds, dozens more were injured. u.s. officials telling fox that or drone got through because u.s. drone was to come back at the same time, so far iranian proxies attacked u.s. positions at least 165 times, since october 7, 80 service members have been injur injured now 3 killed. the administration stops short of going after iran. >> we don't seek a war with iran, we don't see to widen this conflict, we have said and we will continue to call out the fact that iran does fund and equip the groups, and provide them cap capabilities they use to attack our service members, we'll not hesit

bring in alabama senator tommy tuberville, mr. tuberville, as always, welcome.e of what i said is tongue and cheek and i'm being quite serious. iowa's going to be cold in jan, montanaens know it's going to be cold in january. pretty much everybody but john kerry know it's going to be cold in january and hot in august. this global warming staff and green new deal stuff and over a trillion. i say it's a hoax. there's no immediate danger. i done want to put words in your mouth, please disagree if you do. you think this is a hoax. >> well, i've always said that john kerry is a climate con, larry. it's a money grab. it's all it is. it's a money grab. we have spent -- we spend $1.2 trillion on the infrastructure bill and ev cars will be really hot. they're hot all right. we're supposed to have built close to 500,000 charging stations across the country with this infrastructure bill and all we've built, zero. we've built zero charging stations and that's how it's going to be. if we're going to do it. has to be privatized like gas stations and not going to work with the

that was senator tommy tuberville. we appreciate -- i would say, folks i especially, he taught at all these big universities. coaches are teachers and he has been through this and you can hear him on the harm of all of this racism and social justice nonsense. anyway, still ahead here on "kudlow," we're going to talk to house speaker mike johnson. he joins us live from the border in eagle pass, texas, where he is camped out with 60 members of congress i hope they're all getting tough on president biden's catastrophic open border. what was it, 300,000 illegal immigrants in the month of december alone. three, happy new year, 300,000. and by the way i love immigrants, legal immigrants. that's what this country needs and we've got to stop this divisive racism as senator tuberville has said. we heard it from alan dershowitz last night. i'm kudlow. this is the "kudlow" show. we will be right back. please stick around. happy new year. we'll solve these problems, trust me. we can do it. ♪ oh thanks! i splurged a little because

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. >> joining me now, talk some more about this, we welcome alabama senator tommy tu tuberville, he was head football coach at four different major universities spanning 22 years, we're talking about auburn, ole miss, texas tech and cincinnati. and here is the key, that means, he was a teacher, and a mentor to literally thousands of students. down through the years. and i think that is a very important point nowadays, with this craziness. sep tuberville, happy new year, welcome back, you had long time experiencing, and major big universities, most bigger than the ivy schools, i think, what do you make of the this whole story as you watch it unfolded? >> well, this is been unfolding for years. one of the reasons that i'm senator, when i retired from coaching, back 6 or 7 years ago, i knew we were having problems in education, but not in the dean or professors or students or some policies, it has been pushed by a lot of administrations, you are seeing it now. in the ivy league, it goes all over the country, it is indoctrination in a lot of different thing that kids are kidding in the woki

. >> former football coach tommy tuberville introduced legislation to create a uniform nil system. endorses tuberville's bill, it docks athletes to enter the transfer port tall. previously had to sit out a year. >> just to leave for money, you need to pay a price. you are breaking a contract. you are going somewhere else. and you have got to set out a year before you play. >> power conference schools can now lure conference athletes to secure bigger paydays. almost like free agency in the pros. still some want congress on the sidelines. >> be very, very careful before you ask congress to get involved because congress has a tendency to micromanage. >> oklahoma state has a brand squad helping athletes manage themselves. but schools can only do so much. >> ncaa has not been able to do this and i believe that congress is the only ones that will be able to do this level playing field. >> haley mudge plays softball at florida state. she is applying nil earnings toward a nursing degree. >> i will be becoming more of how can i save this money in the future or how can i get this much money

here is tommy tuberville from alabama. a senator. here is what he thinks about this?> instead of worrying about fentanyl that's coming across the border every day that's killing 100,000 people in the united states of america every year, for him to be worried about something other than that fentanyl shows you the direction that schumer is headed. >> dana: all right. apparently richard hudson, the congressman from north carolina, uses these. this is one of those things when government is just at you all the time. >> there are actually a lot of republicans interested in it. schumer wants to do a study on that not trying to ban it. cassidy said we should look at it. everyone is concerned about this new generation where people are consuming the jeweling and getting to high schoolers and becoming addicted for the rest of their lives and it falls into that category but first responders use it to stay awake and alert and that's important as well. >> what does government have any role in telling the specifics of this? gas stoves, electric cars, now this? the list of overregula

. >> bill: tommy tuberville, the senator out of alabama. thought saying something like this was a threat to democracy. this man doesn't have a spec of integrity. >> the white house and biden team heavely creditizing anyone who may question elections. president biden goes to virginia and talking about abortion and then calling the real governor -- former governor terry mccauliffe when youngkin is the governor and has a 54% approval rating. >> dana: or did the president get confused? did he actually think governor mccauliffe? >> he said is the real governor. he knows that glenn youngkin is the governor. criticizing them over the past year when it came to the elections he was heavily involved in leading up to november last year. they know who he is. it wasn't confusing this time. >> bill: the other thing about the event. reading about it last night. it was about abortion and women's rights. the white house, i think they were smart yesterday. they launched their general election campaign but at that event, there were at least a dozen interrupti

. >> reporter: gop former football coach tommy tuberville introduced legislation for a system.esident charlie baker endorses tuberville's bill. it documents athletes from entering the transfer portals to switch schools. previously they had to sit out a year for transferring. >> just to leave for money you have to pay a price. you're breaking a contract you're going somewhere else and you have to sit out a year before you play. >> reporter: power conference schools can now lure top athletes to secure bigger paydays. it's almost like free agency in the pros but some still want congress on the sidelines. >> be very, very careful before you ask congress to get involved. because congress has a tendency to micro manage. >> reporter: oklahoma state has a brand squad helping athletes manage themselves. but schools can only do so much. >> the ncaa has not been able to do this, and i believe that congress is the only ones that will be able to do this level playing field. >> reporter: kayleigh mudge plays softball and she's applying nil toward a nursing degree. and i'm thinking how can i

and and i'm proud that mike lee and others in the senate, tommy tuberville, j.d.ere is no way they would ever vote for this thing. i hope they stand strong over there, and we in the house, we aren't going for it. and if any of our are republican colleagues want to cross the line and sign a discharge petition and vote with the democrats on that, good luck in their primary elections and good luck getting reelected. maria: some of them over there in the senate leadership are actually trump haters, right in now trump is leading, the largest lead in the des moines register the history this morning ahead of the iowa caucuses tomorrow night. >> i'm going out there tonight. it's going to be really cold, and we're going to do everything we can to produce if a huge victory for president trump in iowa. and i think we'll see it happen. maria: all right. congressman, good to see you this morning. we'll, of course, be watching. marjorie taylor greene this morning in georgia. >>> quick break and then taiwan has a new president this morning. for the first time in eight years, the

. -- senit where one or two people, tummy -- tommy tuberville or matt gaetz can hold up the entire process, to a point where things are fairly broken in washington. even going back, i was thinking about this for a few days. i was covering alexander hamilton and i can imagine myself asking and pressing lighted to make the elect carol college. let exactly where y are right about so much overflowing the governnt they felt like you need to put in a buffer between the institution and the u.s., and that people in the popular vote. even going back now, moving up to the civil rights movement, that w something that was completely missed by white media. it took years of repetition and advocacy, to some extent, first small black local outlets to raise issues where there is imperft democracy to even to rise to mainstream media coverage. . there's a fine line between telling our institutional line for bng blind to the founding principles. at the end of the day it should really be trust, and thereby question everything. and, i tnk we all to a certain extent this january 6 because of our focus on the ins

that right now in the senate and in a lot of different institutions where one or two people, tommy tuberville or matt gates, can completely hold up the entire process to a point where things are fairly broken in washington, even, you know, going back, i was i've been thinking about this for a few days now. you know, if i were an embed covering alexander hamilton, you know, i could imagine myself asking, pressing, why did you make the electoral college? what exactly woke mob were you worried about so much of overthrowing the government that you felt like you needed to put in a buffer between the institutions in the us and the people and the popular vote and even going back now, i think you know a little bit about moving up to the civil rights movement. that was something that was completely missed by mainstream white media. it took years of repetition and advocacy. see, to some extent for black press, small, black, local outlets to raise issues with, again, our imperfect democracy for there for it even to rise to mainstream media coverage. so i think there's a fine line between, you know, toei

that is slow compared to tommy t tuberville. we'll have more on what this says about the former president and his party in a moment. first, at the new hampshire trump event where senator scott will give his expected endorsement. what do we know about this event tonight? >> reporter: this is a huge pick-up for donald trump. in typical trump fashion, they are trying to make this potential, or this expected tim scott endorsement a moment. we saw the senator tease this endorsement earlier today. he tweeted a photo right before boarding the private plane that trump flies on and flying with him to new hampshire for this event tonight. i'm told that he will come up and give remarks and praise the former president and call for four more years. what's important to note is how this came together. donald trump and his team, according to my conversations with his campaign. they've really pursued tim scott for this endorsement ever since he dropped out of presidential race last year. and they were really hoping that he would give his endorse

tommy tuberville of alabama giving his thoughts on how the u.s. shoulperceive.clip] >> we have cause this. this administration has caused this. it is going to get worse. we all knew someone was going to have a problem with these bases. we have to make decisions but as a republican we have no voice. lindsey graham is screaming to bomb them but we need to find out who did it first. the first thing we need to do is blockade, take their oil money away from them. president trump they were scared but not now. >> they ve from the biden administration so take that into consideration and you are pointing out that you have colleagues that have come to a solution as to who is to blame although this is a bit vague. is there division among senator republicans on what would be a worthy response? >> i am not want to jump into war. all of my life we have been in n the gulf. we need to find out what is going on doesn't have any power to hit anybody. they're not gonna listen to us. from charlottesville, virginia we have george. good morning. caller: i am prior service navy and ar

. >> talk about spreading, you can also cover the mini trumps, tommy tuberville. >> right. >> the newaker of the house. they are all mini trumps, all republicans caught in honestly,t you know in your life, you can't recognize these republicans. this is all out there, and it's accurate information that can be used against him that trump has amassed over the course of four to eight years. >> right. >> he has given the democrats on a silver platter. take it and run with it. >> yes. i think the white house is seeing more and more they need to fill the vacuum, they need to push back, that they need to -- you know, they were aggressively boring, and it worked for a long time. they weren't able to claim their accomplishments if they were aggressively boring, and they weren't able to shift the narrative. now, they really n that. they need to claim, you know, they did inflation reduction. they need to claim that victory. there are a lot of victories. you know, right now, inflation is going down. they should claim that victory. they have to be the ones who do it. they're going to have to be the

you've got other people like tommy tuberville talking about fentanyl and illegal immigrants floodingborder, and they have a chance to close the border. they have a chance for the biggest border security bill ever, and they're the ones who are killing it. make no mistake. mike johnson is killing our best chance to have a border security bill that actually works. all these republicans doing the same, mika, and as "the wall street journal" said, if they want to run with -- on the platform of, we hope the economy is destroyed and let's keep the border open, let them do it. they're going to lose the house. they'll lose the senate and the white house. >> well, add the overturning of roe to that, they're just going to -- i mean, america is trying to get solutions to guns, to women's rights, and to things like this. >> border security. >> i mean, it's important to both sides. it's definitely important to the republican side. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of "way too early," jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and pulitzer prize-winning colum

>> senator tommy tuberville of course, had a months' long blockade of military promotions, finally forced it might take you to catch up? >> well, first of all, we have capable people who were occupying those roles during the several months, the ten months roughly that those holds were in place, but they were very debilitating. they had a significant impact on our abilities to make strategic choices and move forward. we have a lot of qualified people who can keep the trains running so to speak, but you need the leadership that will be in place for a period of years to really make real progress and to change the strategic direction and move organizations forward. we couldn't do that. it was putting the brakes on a lot of the things we wanted to do. it was also disruptive for individuals who serve their country loyally, often in combat for 30-odd years or more, and don't expect to be treated this way by the u.s. congress. it was very bad for morale, and we have a powerful, strong group of people, and senior leaders i'm very pleased to have on my team to work with, and they absorbed it and we

. >> maybe he can run against tommy tuberville. >> probably could. >>> back to presidential politicsng to hone in on its likely opponent in the general election, donald trump. take a look. >> the democracy is still america's sacred cause, and it is the most urgent question of our time. it is what the 2024 election is all about. choice is clear. donald trump's campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. >> joining us now, principal deputy campaign manager for president biden's re-election bid, quentin folkes. good to have you on the set in washington. coming off the gop debate last night and the trump town hall, what is the biden campaign reaction, especially to what was shown on fox last night? >> look, last night, america had split screen, saw the republican party and what they want to do. nikki haley and ron desantis on one side and donald trump on the other, praising out of touch things for the american people, doubling down