house majority leader steve scalise coming up later, and senators eric schmitt and tommy tuberville waiting in wings but first fox news peter doocy live from west calm beach what is happening there in palm beach. reporter: if i came from a different country or planet, i would want to go to new jersey too. my home state, but here in palm beach we're tracking confirmation fights over trump's picks, there is nothing they can do if republicans stick together they think that trump and his allies have been executing a successful pressure campaign that pressure is the reason that none. the bad stories about pete hegseth for example forced h-- him out. >> if the fear of donald trump and his -- for retribution were less there is no question this nomination would go down. reporter: corey l. >> said there is no resource we will use to go after those senators. elon musk has threatened primary challenges to people that vote against president trump's picks and "wall street journal" said that building america's future, outside group running half million of ads running pete hegseth and h heritage in ads an

senator tommy tuberville, thank you, sir. we appreciate your wisdom, as always.he word great way too much. miranda, you know, when i got this thing, and you written a great column about hunter biden's pardon today. i heard it last might, and i heard the scope from 2014-2024 which, apparently, is unprecedented or almost unprecedented. kind of tells me that this is an admiration mission -- admission of guilt. this is an admission of guilt by hunter, by his father joe, it's an admission of guilt that burisma money and china money and russian money and all these monies and all these l will lcs by biden family members, it all happened. they just don't want to mess with any of it. that's what i thought. you've got other angles, but what do you think? >> you're absolutely right. that's probably the most glaring aspect of this pardon that makes it very different from any other pardon we've ever seen. it's not a pardon for the crimes which he's been convicted and pleaded guilty, it's for stretches back11 years. not 10 years, but 1 is years. and why is 2014 so crucial? it

joining me now, alabama senator tommy tuberville. enough panting and good to see you. mr.ck exchange and going to be ringing the bell. you probably know and young henry cots probably briefed you and the consumer confidence is soaring, small business confidence is soaring and even business round table ceo confidence is soaring. all this after november 5. what's you make of it senator tuberville. going for this and hoax of nonsense putting people under and trying to dig themselves out and going to put them in at the end of the day. president trump will be a blessing and good for the american people. larry: it's christmas and angels maybe going for new jersey and rescuing that blue state from socialism going for them. drones and i don't want to make anything of it. gnat torr, the other thing is going for them and the reigns leadinglation board and mcfar is woman and turned out that joe mansion and kyrsten sinema stomp it had out and that's a good thing it seems to me. all they want to do is stack it for the unions and not have fair elections >> well, end of the year, larry. d

i don't know what tommy tuberville is talking about, but one thing that tommy tuberville said that should be a key to exactly what rfk jr. is going to do is, he said, i just talked to rfk jr.. and he he we talked about how do we really need all these vaccines that tells you everything about what rfk jr. is about to do. he is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. and i think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the united states of america. >> it's it makes me so sad to hear you say that your entire career is based on trying to protect children of america. and that and again, it sounds like listen to what rfk is saying. he's telling you what he's going to do. seems to be the it seems to be part of the message here is as he goes and returns now to the hill for more meetings with more senators. doctor offit, thank you so much. we'll continue this conversation. sarah. >> all right. president elect donald trump appears to have flip flopped on tiktok. he was then, when he was in office, pushing for a ban in 2020. and now he says he has a warm spot in h

joining us now, from senate arms services alabama senator tommy tuberville.'s great to have you on the show again, is the senator there? here he is. senator, so, is the trump agenda going to get through? are his nominees going to get through with gop senators and can he hit that ground running to shut the border and get energy, us oil & gas in going in a stronger way? >> well, we got a mandate from the american people we do it now or never, liz. it's just unfortunate we have people that think they know better than president trump even the republican party, but we've all got to get on board, liz. and do it and do it in a short period of time. you've got these nominations coming up, going door-to-door to all of the senators. i have pete hegseth yesterday. he did a great job. of course all of the media is following him around and of course wait until kash patel comes up. that'll be worse, but at the end of the day, we've got to have a plan and we started putting that plan together today as republicans, i think we have a good plan but we've got to get everybody o

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i don't know if tommy tuberville knows what vetting means.didn't vet pete hegseth as more and more information comes out about his disastrous personal life. so i guess maybe the most generous way you could put it. as far as the mutiny question is concerned i don't know if i would call it mutinous. the gaetz withdrawal surprised me. and donald trump himself has not been throwing his weight around with these nominees. he seems happy to let them die on the vine themselves if they are going to. or not. i am not sure. there is not a lot of evidence he cares either way. he is not using a lot of political muscle to twist arms. so it remains to be seen what they will look like in that case. but i'll tell you this. while you don't make any money bething on the courage of senate republicans, if you start at the baseline of murkowski and collins as the two who will buck the craziest nominees, you really only need two more. unlike the house, all the house guys are up in two years. that's not the case in the senate. you will have some retiring senators. p

senator tommy tuberville. thank you, sir, appreciate your wisdom as always.isdom, joining me onset. miranda devine, ace new york post columnist and fox news contributor and rich lowry, ace editor in chief of national view. miranda, when i got this thing, you wrote a great column about the hunter biden pardon. the scope of 2014-2014. apparently un--- 2014-2024. it's unprecedented and kind of tells me that this is an admission of guilt. admission of guilt by hunter and his father, joe. it's an admission of guilt that all the moneys and all these l.l.c.,s by biden family members, they're all happening and they don't want to mess with any of it. that's what i thought. you got other angles. what do you think? >> you're absolutely right. probably the most glaring aspect of this pardon that make it is very different from any other pardon we've seen and not a pardon for the crimes for which he's being convicted and pleading guilty. it's stretching back 11 years and why is 2014 so crucial? it is because that was the year in february of the may don revolution in ukrain

tommy tuberville most of all. this is not your strongest hand to put forward if you've got a nomination that's surging. and i think what we've seen -- he circumvented the process. trump's trying to throw a hail mary here. he's trying to push the democrats. whey keep telling folks is it's not normal, it's not acceptable, and it's not inevitable. we can fight back, whether you're an independent a democrat, or a republican, hold the line here, put patriotism first. that will move a couple of moderate senators. that's all you need. move four and hegseth goes down. and then we'll have somebody else to deal with, who will probably also be ridiculous but won't be hegseth. >> the only duty these senators have is to the constitution and their country. they do not have a duty to donald trump. somebody needs to whisper that in their ear. thank you very mump. >>> and coming up, as tucker carlson returns to his belove, beloved russia, the kremlin has been literally high fiving trump's cabinet picks. i wonder why. and what that

>> i don't know that tommy tuberville knows what the word vetting means. it's hard to know because he clearly didn't vet pete hegseth since more and more information continues to come out about his disastrous personal life. like -- maybe the most generous way to put it. as far as the mutiny question is concerned, i don't know if i'd call it mutinous. the gaetz withdrawal surprised me. and the other thing that did surprise me is that donald trump himself has not yet been throwing his weights around so it speak with these nominees. he seems happy to kind of let them die on the vine themselves if they're going to or not. i'm not sure there's a lot of evidence he carries either way. he's not using a lot of political muscle to twist arms on capitol hill. so i think it remains to be seen what they look like in that case. i'll tell you this, while you don't make money betting on the courage of senate republicans, if you start from the baseline of having murkowski and collins as two that i think will likely buck the craziest nominees, you really only need two more

hegseth met with senator tommy tuberville of alabama in the senator's office. tuberville spoke with reporters after that meeting. >> he's going to be a great secretary of defense. he understands it. as i tell him we don't need a general officer, admiral, or a person of -- of high command. we need a drill sergeant in the military. we need somebody to straighten the military out, to get the woke, to dei affiliation out and go from there. >> and you don't have any concerns about the allegations against him in "the new yorker" article, sir? >> no. i've looked at all the personal stuff, and again i've known him for a long time, and i would -- there's not going to be anything to this at the end of the day. i've asked him, and he has a good explanation, but i'm not going to explain to y'all about his personal endeavors over the many years. that's up to him. that's not up to me. >> hegseth showed confidence after his first round of meetings. >> i enjoyed the process talking to senators. they've got a very important role in advise and consent, and i welcome their advice

tommy tuberville will weigh in when we come back. you're watching "mornings with maria."e really close with your brothers and your sisters that are in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles and the things that we did overseas and not everybody can do that. adam! how's it going, brother? we live pretty close to each other. so he's always coming over. when i go to jack's house, we watch a lot of football, hang out. we go outside the friendship has kind of grown into a family i was overseas on a deployment. i got separated from my marines and i got hit in the neck, and it broke my neck and paralyzed me. 14 years ago, i was on a training mission. did a military freefall, and i had some faulty equipment. i hit the ground. going, 30 to 40 knots and was instantly paralyzed. i met jack fanning when he invited us to park city, utah, through his foundation. i was able to actually get on the mountain and ski with my family, i can't put into words what that meant. i got paid in th

larry: joining us now welcome back, tommy tuberville, great friend of the show.enator just one small thing. nothing is small. the senate vote for for this $200 billion gift to state and local workers who don't need social security benefits because they already have very lucrative retirement benefits and healthcare benefits and in fact probably three times in the private sector, but i know you voted against it, but the senate voted i don't know, 70 votes in favor of it. why do we want to spend $200 billion? these public service workers, i don't want to denigrate them. i'm just saying they are already getting three times what the private sector workers get. why do we want to take more money out particularly at a time like this? >> well most jobs are secure larry, unionized but they are supplementing. it's a supplement and i don't understand it either. i don't understand. we have it in my four years here even looked at social security to make it solvent more than 10 years down the road because we're running out of money fast. all this will do is just fast-track to b

alabama senator, tommy tuberville, who met with him said it doesn't bother him. >> what i've talked to him about, what i've read, studied, being around him, i'll vote for him. >> reporter: hegseth is not the only contentious pick being weighed by senate republicans. over the weekend trump announced his choice to lead the fbi, 44-year-old kash patel. >> i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one. >> reporter: patel held leadership roles in defense and intelligence in the first trump term and has promised to use the fbi to go after those he says have targeted trump. nancy cordes, cbs news, west palm beach, florida. >>> donald trump has issued a warning to hamas. in a post on social media the president-elect demanded the release of the israeli hostages before he takes office or, as he put it, there will be all hell to pay in the middle east. his threat coming the same day israel said omare nutra who was believed to be taken hostage alive was killed during the october 7th attack. he was a new york native and he served in the israeli military. his parents have led a public campaign fo

he was on capitol hill yesterday meeting with alabama senator, tommy tuberville who later told reporters that he was not concerned about the many allegations. >> no, i've looked at all the personal stuff, and, again, i've known him for a long time. and i would, there's not going to be anything to this at the end of the day. >> reporter: and these recent allegations follow the revelation that hegseth was accused of rape back in 2017. hegseth says the encounter was consensual, and no charges were filed. he did, however, pay the woman an undisclosed amount as part of a settlement. frances? >> brie, thank you. >>> the fallout continues from president biden's decision to pardon his son hunter. the unconditional pardon is for all past offenses and anything else he might have done effectively shielding him from any government investigation. the decision is drawing criticism from both republicans and democrats. here's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: after wielding presidential power to protect his son hunter biden from a potential prison sentence with a full and unconditional pardon, president bid

>> yeah, well, i don't know that tommy tuberville knows what the word bedding means, that is anotherclearly didn't vet pete hegseth since more and more information continues to come out about is just disastrous personal life. so, i guess that's maybe the most generous way you could put it. as far as immunity question is concerned, i don't know if it would call it mutinous. i would say the matt gaetz withdrawal surprised me. the other thing that surprised me is that donald trump himself has not yet been throwing his weight around, so to speak, with these nominees. he seems kind of happy to let them die on the vine themselves if they are going to, or not. there is no evidence he cares either way. he is not using a lot of political muscle to twist arms on capitol hill, so i think it remains to be seen what they will look like in that case, but i will tell you this, while you don't make any money betting on the courage of senate republicans, if you start from the baseline of having murkowski and collins as two that i think will likely about the craziest nominee is, you only really need t

. >> david, i want to play what republican senator tommy tuberville said about the pardon well, i'll put it this way. >> if it was my son, i'd pardon him too. but here's what i didn't like don't lie to us. don't tell us you're not going to do it and then do it. uh, that's not what a president should be like david, do you think that's reaction to something most people, especially parents, would probably agree with well, yeah. >> everybody saw the opening of your show. i think so, i think so, but the other thing is he got a lot of credit for and i think deservedly so, for not interfering in his son's case for saying this. we're going to i'm going to respect the rule of law. i trust the justice department and so on and all of that seems like a lie. now to which really does have material impact for an already skeptical public. >> yeah. >> and it just contributes to the cynicism that people have about the whole system. and, and i think that helps president trump because he, he's the one who says he wants to tear everything up. this looks like um, everybody just takes care of their own. >>

because i don't want to get it wrong. >> there are tommy tuberville saying that hegseth had discussed a separate incident, a 2017 sexual assault allegation that he had faced. that's something that hegseth has denied. but as you can hear from there, jim, that republican senators are supporting him in large measure. but there is still enough that potentially could scuttle the nomination if they decided to break ranks here, which is why his confirmation process at the moment seems to be a bit dicey, especially if more and more of these revelations come out. but at the moment trump team pushing ahead and trying to lock down that republican support. >> jim. yeah can't lose too many votes in this process. manu raju thank you very much. let's discuss more now with cnn political commentator jamal simmons and former trump administration official matt morris. matt, i do want to talk about some of the other nominees, but you worked on the trump transition the first time around. how does this compare with the first time around? pete hegseth you know, some of the controversy swirling around him ri

but he was never criminally charged, and alabama senator tommy tuberville, who met with him today, saiddoesn't bother him. >> what i have talked to him about, what i've read and studied and been around him, i would vote for him. >> reporter: hegseth is not the only contentious picked being weighed by senate republicans. over the weekend, trump announced his choice to lead the fbi, 44-year-old kash patel. >> i would shut down the fbi hoover building on day one. >> reporter: patel held leadership roles in defense and intelligence in the first trump term, and has promised to use the fbi to go after those he says have targeted trump. >> we will go out and find the conspirators not just in government but in the media yes. >> reporter: all of these picks will have to undergo confirmation hearings in the new year, and because republicans will have just a slim majority in the senate, each nominee can only afford to lose a handful of republican votes. tonight one of those republicans, maine's susan collins, says she doesn't know enough about kash patel to make a decision, and interestingly linds

. >> some republicans, including ones like senator tommy tuberville of alabama, someone who's very close, have brushed off these reports of excessive drinking. >> is he a drunk? i mean, does he hang out in bars overnight? does he drink for lunch and dinner and breakfast? >> michael: "does he piss martinis and shit olives? no? well, then, give this man a security clearance." [laughs] i'm sorry, but "he's not drunk every second of his life" is a pretty low bar, which, by the way, is the only bar that pete hegseth hasn't been thrown out of. look, you can argue what the exact definition of a drinking problem is, but i think a good barometer is: is everyone in the county talking about how much you drink? then you probably have a drinking problem. so that's one excuse for putting hegseth in charge of the defense department. let's hear another one from oklahoma senator markwayne mullin -- yes, that's his name. >> what i'm saying is, when you're talking about drinking at 10:00 in the morning, that's a drinking problem. now, it doesn't mean that there should be a stigma. >> well, then, there's a

and alabama senator tommy tuberville, who met with him, said it doesn't bother him. >> what i've talkedout, what i've read, what i've studied and being around him, i'll vote for him. >> reporter: hegseth is not the only contentious pick being weighed by senate republicans. over the weekend trump announced his choice to lead the fbi, 44-year-old kash patel. >> i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one. >> reporter: patel held leadership roles in defense and intelligence in the first trump term and has promised to use the fbi to go after those he says have targeted trump. >> we will go out and find the conspirators not just in government but in the media. yes. >> reporter: maine republican susan collins said she doesn't know enough about kash patel yet to make a decision about confirmation, and lindsey graham of south carolina was non-committal too. these nominees can only afford to lose a handful of republican votes if they want to get confirmed, especially if all democratic senators vote no. nancy cordes, cbs news, west palm beach, florida. >> we turn now to the dangerous winter

nbc news to a previous statement by hegseth hegseth was on capitol hill yesterday meeting with tommy tubervillers he was not concerned about the many allegations. >>> meanwhile, president-elect trump warned of serious repercussions if the hostages were not released by the time he takes office he wrote on social media there will be hell to pay in the middle east if it doesn't happen the president-elect announced in the social media post his pick arkansas businessman warren stevens as ambassador to the uk. he backed candidates other than trump until this year. for your news headlines, frank, we send it back to you. >> frances, thank you. frances rivera in new york city. >>> we have three big stock stories of the morning we start with the mystery chart. zscaler under pressure this morning despite the better than expected results for the quarter. before the pre-market moves, zscaler shares were down 6% this year compared with the tech software itg 20% pop since january. >>> u.s. steel under pressure after president-elect trump plans to block the deal. trump said he is against the u.s. steel being b

senator tommy tuberville thought it was appropriate to jam up the promotion work. in the past, the dod has not necessarily been interested in tracking this. now they are concerned when they try to take care of their people, they will be penalized ace on a political agenda as opposed to we are providing high-quality health care for personnel to maintain mission readiness. >> you alluded to it, this has become a political issue, people are talking about this -- i don't hear discussion about women in the military. this creates certain barriers for everyone. what is it about living in the military that makes it much more challenging? >> i was a women in the military don't have the same autonomy as women who are not in the military. as an officer in the military, i cannot travel more than 150 miles away from my duty station without permission of my commander. i have to put out leave or pass request to do that. civilian women can do whatever they want when they are not at work. we also don't have the luxury of where we are station. i can be stationed at any state or coun

his name is tommy tuberville, the senator from alabama. >> there's more rumors up there going around about matt gaetz and pete hegseth, and all of them will have some kind of rumor when it comes down to it. we got to look at facts. we got to help president trump. he's not going to pick somebody that's a criminal. he's not going to do that. >> oh, is that so? is he not going to do that? again, that's a senator they need. that's the why whipping the votes and telling the republicans they need to vote for every trump nominee. what's the last thing he said again? say that again. >> he's not going to pick somebody that's a criminal. he's not going to do that. >> he's not going to pick somebody that's a criminal. right after senator tuberville said that, trump, in fact, named a convicted felon, his relative, charles kushner, to be the ambassador to france, followed very shortly by trump naming peter navarro to be his new trade adviser. mr. navarro just got out of federal prison this summer. >> he's not going to pick somebody that's a criminal. he's not going to do that. >> yes, yes, yes, h

hi lindsey graham, hi, tommy tuberville, high bill haggerty. aren't you glad you took the reputational huhumiliating hit to vouch for matt gaetz and he dropped out and now we've got the ethics committee accusing him officially of statutory rape and drug use including him allegedly setting up an e-mail address in his congressional office he specifically used to score pot. was that worth it for you? do you want to do it again? don't forget all the congressional republicans who went on the record and voted to make sure that this information would be kept secret so matt gaetz could have a chance of becoming attorney general of the united states without the public ever finding out all the evidence that congress collected about, again, statutory rape, prostitution, drug use, et cetera. that includes the very, very, very pious, bibically guided speaker of the house who went out in public and strenuously argued that the american public should not be allowed to know the evidence that the house had collected about matt gaetz. and the american public shou

al oalabama senator was with me tommy tuberville. >> are we buying drones from dji chinese drugmaker.uying drones, there's no doubt about that. i talked to a drugmaker and why are we buying drones from china, they better technology than what we have that handles the technology parts and the biggest type of material and plastic. the something that needs to be discussed with arm services the house and the senate. >> training we navigate stone institute senior fellow author of plan but china's project to destroy america here we are trying to guess what the drones in the sky that were talking about the last couple weeks. my guess i'd been saying this is communist china, your reaction? >> it certainly is for communist china even a majority of them. the increased tempo of the drone flights against her military bases is occurring at the same time with increased frequency of incursion and attempted incursion of the basis by chinese and other nationals. what is occurring there preparing to attack the united states from american soil. i don't know why we need engraved invitation from beijing it

>> andrew, hegseth met with tommy tuberville, sort of a donald trump superfan. what are senate republican saying tonight about hegseth? >> they are still giving trump the benefit of the doubt and by extension pete hegseth. we are not sing like we saw with the matt gaetz nomination, the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by senators trying to preemptively kill his nomination. that's a reflection of the fact that senate republicans do not want to do anything at this point to upset donald trump. we are seeing them stand by the fbi background check process which is coming under assault by the trump transition team which is trying to prevent the fbi from carrying out these background checks. earlier tonight, republicans and democrats, senators were back in town for the first time since the thanksgiving break, and i asked republicans about this. they were pretty much uniform in saying, yes, it should be the fbi that carries out these background checks. the trump team is trying to prevent that from happening right now. even the incoming senate majority leader john thune tol

make america healthy again committee forming in congress, tommy tuberville is for all of this yet trying to protect farmers. gives you an idea more people get on board with what kennedy is saying here. let's go after the chemicals in our food and get healthier food and farm to table. get rid of all of the additives that make us gain weight. high fructose corn syrup. sugar and salt. our food is unhealthy in the united states. it will get bipartisan support and i think it's really important. >> harris: the u.s. supreme court is considering a challenge to a tennessee law banning puberty blockers and transition sur -- sur gerjy for children. >> there are always risks involved and the legislatures job to regulate the immediate cain. they look and risks and benefits. in these cases we talk about kids making decisions that could result in life long lack of fertility, life long lack of sexual function. dealing with cognitive impairments, tumors, bone den see, blood clots, serious risks. >> harris: first take a look at your screen. the up coming high court ruling could affect 22 other states with

. >> bret: republican alabama senator and former college football coach tommy tuberville is working toeld. >> the problem was in 2021. the supreme court says okay, we see this lawsuit, and we agree with the athletes, they need to be able to make money off of name, image and likeness. and it has gone down hill from there. there was no rules put into it. it was just wild wild west? schools with threetsd learning more from nil appeared to be succeeding of the teams that qualified for a college playoff spot also had the highest valued rosters. >> there is a class within the class of schools across the country that have the best infrastructure, the best systems, the best fundraising. the best corporate deals involved. >> a 1-member college playoff committee is it schools received playoff spots but not all were among the top 12 ranked teams, at the end of the regular season, the nine major conferences across the power 4 and group of 5. held championship games. the five winners of those games that were ranked the highest received guaranteed playoff spots. that included schools from each of th

maria: alabama senator tommy tuberville was here with me and he weighed in on the same. >> are we buyingrugmaker? >> were buying drones from china, no doubt about that, i talked to a drone maker and i said why are we buying drones from china, their better technology than what we have that handles the technology parts that works a different type of materials and plastics in they make them cheaper and better, our technology is way behind and that's the reason we are buying them. that something is that needs to be discussed with armed services, the house and the senate and. maria: we cannot get specific answers on this, we don't know if the drones are from china. but it does fit into the way that china operates. this is what they do, then surveillance programs on america and they are pretty aggressive in terms of the spy balloon hovering over our military installation all that time. >> ball typhoon is through their cyber offensive this is in the pentagon security review. ball typhoon has access and has access to the major telecommunication there are surveillance efforts that are on a grand

general after matt gaetz withdrew and he met with chuck grassley and pete hegseth met with senator tommy tuberville seems kind normal on the surface. these picks, the ones i mentioned, are anything but normal and that includes kash patel who in a sea of problematic picks stands out. if you listen to what republicans are saying publicly about kash patel, you might think he will sail the confirmation is the next rector the fbi. >> i think kash patel is a very strong nominee. i think kash patel is going to be confirmed by the senate. >> i have encouraged former president trump to bring it to the table. he represents a change we need to see. >> he has a well-rounded background. i look forward to supporting him and pushing this nomination across the finish line. >> now, when you hear those comments you may think, kash patel will get confirm. here is the thing that support to remember about washington. the most important conversations about nominees are typically happening behind the scenes. that's what happened with matt gaetz before it became clear that too many republicans opposed him. he didn't have

point, with elon musk and twitter, america has woken up and they're tuned into the clown show as tommy tubervillec and the congress knew for months and months that the budget deed line was coming and the congress has not passed a budget on time since 1998 and it's like seven out of 14 fiscal years they have been doing continuing resolutions in the dead of night and they don't read the bills and they basically shove it down the american people's throats and sneak in government pork and waste at eleventh hour and nobody reads like just trying to redefine the the democrat criticism and feels like a distraction of nuts and bolts of this happening and you point out, bob, inside dc. jot prior speaker passing the bill and reading the bill. i haven't heard anything so outrageous as that and we're blessed to have a president that ran a business. that actually knew what it took to run a business. understood what it takes to make a payroll and what it makes to have profitability and reinvest and create 401(k)s and i hate the bashing of corporate america, elizabeth. corporate america is made up of americans

obvious trump appendage is alabama senator tommy tuberville. >> several senators up here are trying to be relevant. wait a minute. the people of alabama give a referendum to me, said, you vote for whatever donald trump wants. and that's exactly what i'm doing. so these people from the senate from alaska, donald trump wins alaska. she is going to play judge and jury over donald trump's picks. i don't understand this. >> why to we pay you? we should get a rubber stamp and get the money instead, right? no surprise that tuberville doesn't understand his explicit article 2 clause 2 constitutional duty to advice the president on and consent or refuse the appointments of judges, secretaries and ambassadors. this is the guy who thinks the three branches of the government are the house, senate and executive. he is displaying the corrosive effects of trump's grips on america where he and his fat cats are looking to blow up the constitution because it restrains his power too much. what they want for america instead is a model based on russia and hungary where the victims have demogished the check

this is what he told senator tommy tuberville about his stance on abortion. >> i asked him i said in the past you've been pro-abortion. and he said well, you know -- both he and trump came to an agreement. roe v. wade is gone. gone back to the states. let the people vote on it. >> okay. so kennedy has also expressed a desire to meet with democrats and there are a few that want to meet with him. incoming gop leader john thune said some democrats aren't responding to invitations from some of trump's cabinet picks. labor secretary nominee deremer makes her hill debut today. her sponsorship of the pro act that some republicans oppose, that may become a problem for her. bill, at this hour as we almost get into the holiday season and congress takes a break, there are no, zero no votes on the scoreboard. very few yes votes for these candidates. not enough to confirm them just yet. a lot more senators are just saying i want to wait, get through the process and see the background checks and want to get through the hearing. they are holding their tongue. >> bill: we'll see you then. nice to se

after the meeting yesterday senator tommy tuberville of alabama not only endorsed kennedy but echoed some of rfk's anti-vaccine talking points. >> what i was excited to hear him about is get away from guessing and do facts, do science, stay with it, don't be guessing. and that's what a lot of these vaccines have done. they haven't been 100% proven. if you look at the number of vaccines these young babies get over a short period of time, it's dozens and dozens of them. and he's totally against that. he wants to make sure that parents understand the good and the bad and the ugly instead of just forcing parents to give vaccines to their kids. >> but not all republicans are rushing to support kennedy. senator tom tillis of north carolina says he has questions on his vaccine stance, and senator john kennedy of louisiana openly criticized a lawyer that works for rfk jr. who had lobbied the fda to have the polio vaccine approval revoked. >> i'm all about science, right? if you've got a vaccine, for example, and you've got an opinion against the vaccine, then match up your data against the m

here's what he told senator tommy tuberville yesterday about his stance on abortion. >> i just askedhe past you've been pro-abortion. and he said, well, you know, it's -- [inaudible] president trump has sat down and talked about it, and both of them came to an agreement, hey, roe/is gone, gone back to the states. let the people vote on it. >> reporter: and, stuart, we'll also see for the first time trump's labor secretary nominee, lori chavez roemer, she makes her debut on the hill this afternoon. stuart? stuart: thank you very much, indeed. the hosts of pod save america roasted president biden for essentially disappearing after trump's win. watch. >> trump isn't president yet. a fact that's getting easier and easier to forget as joe biden seems to be disappearing from the public stage as his term comes to an end. >> i guess what i'm more concerned is less am i seeing joe biden enough, it's more like do i feel confident that joe biden behind the scenes is thinking about every single way he can try to future-proof the white house, and do i think joe biden himself is at, like, command

amna: he refused to take media questions while meeting with alabama sitter tommy tuberville. new yorker's jane mayer investigated headset's time leaving two nonprofits for military veterans and uncovered allegations of federal mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct. she joins us now. good to see you. thanks for being with us. you reviewed documents. you also spoke with headsets former colleagues at these groups that he ran. what kind of picture did they painted him as a leader? -- paint of him as a leader? >> it was a future that was increasingly alarming in some ways. it was a picture of a leader pushed out of his leadership positions in two groups that work for veterans because there were so many concerns about his financial mismanagement and personal conduct. in these relatively small groups with relatively small budgets, the first group had only 10 people working at it, veterans for freedom, and it raised a lot of questions about how he would manage the largest department in the federal government, the mostly full and largest military in the world. >>

drum up support for trump's nomination from people like trump sycophant slash human jockstrap tommy tuberville we're going to look at facts, not rumors. there's more rumors up there going around about matt gaetz and pete hegseth, and all of them have some kind of rumor when it comes down to it. we've got to look at facts. we've got to help president trump. he's not going to pick somebody that's a criminal, he's not going to do that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: tommy, i've got some news you might want to hear. [ laughter ] the president is a criminal. 34 times over. [ cheers and applause ] he's a convicted criminal. truth be told, he's not even looking for a cabinet, he's looking for cellmates, okay? [ laughter ] team trump is said to be "optimistic" about gaetz's nomination. but if gaetz wants enough votes to get confirmed in the senate, he's got a lot of work to do. not on his face. he's already done too much on that. [ laughter ] he looks like he got the forehead got zamboni'd or something. [ laughter ] maybe instead of attorney general, he could be our plastic surgeon general? [ laughter ] i thi

the big change since the tea party movement is that you now have united states senators, who tommy tuberville demonstrated, he doesn't know what the civil rights act is, people are coming in because he's a football coach, he doesn't know anything. >> vibes. >> you're seeing a political party descend into whatever is hot on social media, that's what the voters want. and they're not expecting marjorie taylor greene to deliver anything or laurent boebert to do anything other than keep the vibes going. >> and support donald trump. >> and just support trump, no matter what. >> we have lost some outstanding middle of the road senators who really worked across the aisle doing a lot of great things over the years. from 2018, 2020, 2022, and now. and they're being replaced -- the senate unfortunately, to some extent, is becoming a lot like the house. >> how visceral is the fear of being primaried? it does seem, you have proven, there is life after being a senator. it's not as if it's the end of the world. mitt romney has said that, but these senators seem to be so terrified they will not be in their s

. >> republican alabama senator tommy tuberville coached football at ole miss, auburn and texas techg elected to congress. he has co-sponsored nil legislation alongside independent west virginia senator joe manchin he plans to reintroduce or modify protecting athletes schools or parts or pass act alongside a democrat in congress. >> over the years the money has gotten higher and higher student athletes wait a minute why don't we get some of that money? why don't we share in the revenue. and that is what ask come. >> bret: which led to the legal actions. >> how woulds pass act address some of this. >> well, there is all kinds of problems in it right now. number one you have the collectives. >> checkives made up of boosters individual donors and businesses. the groups are estimated to control around 80% of the nil market. >> i don't think the federal government is the way to do it. i think it creates a whole lot more complications. >> checkives arrange for athto bepaid for endorsements, l media posts. >> the ncaa is the reason checkives exist because of the interim policy put together