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chx, charles tuberville. wow. haines is back with us. sarah, i'm a fan of everything you right and all of your analysis. and i feel a special pain for family members that see someone they're related to, in this case his brother, and i had a chance to interview paul gosar's brother after his anime murder video of aoc came out. and it was the same need to distance themselves from someone so radical and extreme. but i -- it seems to be a hallmark of this wave and this version of extreme republicanism. >> yeah, i mean, we shouldn't have to rely on these people's family members to come out and disavow them. republican senators should be trying to rein these people in, should be speaking out against this. i mean, this -- him holding up these dod nominees, that affects military morale. it affects readiness. he is an extreme -- and this sort of what's going on with these republicans, right. they have lost the ability to rein in the extremism in their midst. and they used to be able to do it. people like steve king, as rec

juanita, we want to start with this tommy tuberville thing. make sense to applaud expanding broadband, knowing you voted against it and the president's going to come and speak you for it? >> only in their mind of the gop of today, as though we don't have memories, as though we don't have voting records. and if the white house is as as petty as i am, they're going to have a full list of these republicans to compete and go after, not just in speeches and not just online, but on the ground in their home states and in their home districts, because it's critical that there consistencies and their voters in those locations understand who is actually fighting and delivering for them. and not senator tuberville or other republicans, it's democrats and president biden. and that is going to extend into 2020, four if the democrats can get that message out to voters loud and clear. >> but michael, here's the thing. i'd love to tell you that all sorts of tommy tuberville's constituents are tuned into the three of us right now. but i have a sinking feeling

juanita, we've got to start with this tommy tuberville thing.oadband, knowing the voters against it, and the problems relate it with it? >> only in the mind of the gop of today, as that we don't have memories, as that we don't have voting records. and if the white house is especially as i am, then they're gonna have a full list of these republicans to go after, not just online, but on the ground in their home states and in their home districts because it is critical that their constituencies and their voters in those locations understand that who is actually fighting in delivering for them. and it's not senator tuberville or other republicans, it's democrats and president biden. and that's going to be against them in 2024 if the democrats he did that message out to voters loud and clear. >> but, michael, here is the thing. i love to tell you that all sorts of tommy tuberville constituents tuned into that right now, but our thinking -- can tommy tuberville take this approach and say, yes, i'm so happy this is happening, and his voters might not k

you know, the rules of the senate allow for senator tuberville to do this.or not one senator in a body of 100 senators should have that kind of authority. it's really incumbent upon the senate leadership, including senator mcconnell and senator schumer to fix the senate rules so this doesn't happen, because it really does have an adverse impact. the military are frustrated, pcs is a very stressful period for anybody who does it. in the military moves happen quite a bit. they have invested their lives into this career and they're the ones that are most qualified to hold these jobs. to prevent them from doing that is a major issue. >> it's not just the troops moving. it's their spouses and children being uprooted as well. at the end of the day, this is about a pentagon politician that subsidized travel for military members who are seeking abortions or their dependents seeking abortions outside of their state. how does it sit with the military's rank and file that they are essentially being dragged into a culture war? >> it's a real problem. of course military

senator tommy tuberville of alabama.arch in protest of a pentagon policy that provides paid time off and travel expenses for service members who traveled to receive abortion care. tuberville's actions may leave the marine corps without a senate confirmed later next month. that is a lot of sabotaging for members of a party that so-called claim to revere law enforcement and our military. joe walsh, and debbie mucarsel-powell are back with me. all right, i'll start with you, who's your opinion. manse or tuberville? >> our ayman, it's vance all the way. at least with tuberville, he's holding up stuff, because of a policy dispute. we can argue and debate that. but j. d. vance, you nailed him in your open. he's become this -- trump or. this is all revenge. this is all revenge, because trump is indicted. amen, think about this. donald trump is indicted, and the republicans go after the justice department. it says if donald trump robbed a bank, the republicans would investigate the bank. that's more despicable. >> debbie, who ar

juxtapose that to the hold tommy tuberville has on all pentagon nominees and those promotions, that'sthe pipeline. if you were to put those on the floor you would burn through considerable amounts of time and typically are not controversial. that's the difference between what we're seeing from tommy tuberville when it comes to pentagon promotions and what you're seeing here in jd vance's statement. this is part of a much broader effort to push back on the indictment against former president trump and democrats are arguing it is a political move. here is dick durbin in the senate. >> if you're in favor of law enforcement and the administration of justice not filling vacancies of judges doesn't help at all. it's very transparent that this is a political reaction to the arraignment of the former president. >> reporter: and over in the house of representatives there's even more actions being taken. a lot of republicans calling to defund the special counsel's office, other calls to defund a new fbi building. so that process on the appropriations side will take place in the house. we should

the senator talking about senator tommy tuberville, holding up a slew of pentagon nominations, people who would be promoted to senior ranks in the military, over a separate issue regarding abortion and concerns tuberville has voiced to change that abortion policy in the pentagon, showing you the power that he any individual senator can have. there's a way around it in the united states senate, around vance' holds and tuberville's holds, something leaders tonight want to use given the precious floor time that senators are gone most of the week and on recess here. showing the power of each individual senator and some trump supporters look to fight back against this investigation into the former president. boris? >> manu raju, katelyn polantz, thank you for the reporting. >>> president biden is staying silent on the indictment of former president trump. he was asked if he would comment. his reply was quote no. first lady jill biden is not staying silent. in her first solo event, arlet signs is at the white house tracking this for us, what did she say? >> reporter: first lady jill biden h

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tuberville replied, for space command in huntsville? ongoing delay of the plan that would move the space command's headquarters from colorado to alabama. the biden administration is considering ditching those plans because of alabama's strict, new anti-abortion laws. okay, so here we go. jen, for the general, i've got to tell you, president biden has a lot to brag on. you have republican senators bragging on his wins, trying to take credit for them, and then branch out. branch out, will you, to abortion, to guns, to major issues, where voters are just not with the republicans. >> it's smart, what they're doing. it's not just the president calling out tommy tuberville. the cabinet is going to a lot of red states. secretary granholm was touting things from the infrastructure bill and also some climate provisions from the inflation reduction act. it's smart because, you know, it's hard for accomplishments to breck through. when you're able to pair the accomplishments with hypocrisy, that is a more interesting story. people in south carolin

you hear tuberville there.ted to move through these one by one, they could do it. some democrats don't want to give into this, jake. he wants a vote on the full senate floor to codify the pentagon abortion policy. so the standoff is going to persist. >> manu raju, thanks so much. >>> joining us now to discuss this and more is senator kirsten gill gillibrand. most republicans seem to be falling in line behind donald trump and accusing the justice department of being a tool of weaponization by joe biden. have you spoken with any of your republican colleagues about the rhetoric they're using? >> no, i haven't. i disagree very strongly with them. >> just yesterday when asked about the indictment, mitch mcconnell said he would "stay out of it." what was your response to that, and do you think he can? >> i think he can. i think any republican who believes in the rule of law, who believes no one is above the law, and who believes that obstruction of justice is a serious crime, especially when dealing with highly sensi

senator tuberville: i know we're over a little bit, mr. chairman. we have unfortunately people in this country that are born with a mental health problem and we're trying to treat them with a lot of prescription drugs. and i think that's fine to a certain degree. sometimes we're overprescribing. the problem is we're creating more mental health problems than we had young people born with mental health problems and we need to understand that. if we start understanding that i think we can understand the problems that we have to overcome because we don't do this. now we're going to lose the country we all grew up in. because mental health is the number one problem in this country. number one problem. and we have to -- because it leads to everything else. it leads to so many things in this country that are negative. so thank you. thank you for your answer. thank you, mr. chairman. chair sanders: senator. >> thank you for convening us. i want to thank both of our witnesses for their testimony and their public service. i want to start with deputy assistant

it's about senator tuberville's hold on defense department nominees. republican is blocking roughly 250 military nominations and promotions. these are not all political appointments. they are service members with families, but much to the chagrin of many of his republican colleagues, tubberville is refusing to end his blockade unless the pentagon changes a policy that reimburses service members that must travel out of state. lisa murkowski put it this way. are we going to start taking hostages now? lauren fox is joining our conversation. that quote is just absolute gold. this reporting is really interesting because there's so much happening on capitol hill that it's sometimes easy to lose sight of something that's so big and so important when it comes to the lives of people who are serving this country in military. >> the senate's core role is to advise and consent. to vote on noim no, ma'am nations. right now because of this hold from tubberville, they are unable to do that on hundreds of military nominations and promotions. they could put them on the

it is the president going to be chasing republicans like senator tuberville around the country, tryingthe bidenomics benefits that they are now praising? >> hi, lawrence. thanks for having me. look, bidenomics, whatever you want to call it, this president has talked about this since he was a candidate biden. i've gotta put up three budgets with this president, budgets are about values, you know this. so, this ethos, bidenomics is not new to me. it's been throughout our budgets. who do you value in this country. where do you think the source of strength and pride are in this country. it's in the middle class. that's why you've seen investments come out of this white house, this administration, focus on the middle class, making sure that we grow from the middle out and the bottom up. it's kind of easy to work for president when the economic ethos is simple. what can we do to build the middle class? because trickle down, frankly, has not worked. as an economic principle in this country, for everyone. >> the biden administration, you took some chances in the economic policies that you adva

. >> tommy tuberville has been at a certain version of this for some time with the defense departments. what's the latest from there? >> yeah. that's right. more than a couple hundred at the moment and growing. 250 or so nominations. so more significant what tommy tuberville is doing, the senator from alabama, saying he would not relent on military proportions, people proposed by the president to move up within the ranks of the military services and often people nominated to be generals and he wants to change the pentagon's policy over abortions saying the pentagon's policy needs to be changed, those who leave the state to get abortion services and that is something that the pentagon is not willing to do at the moment. at the moment that is causing a real concern, not just among depp democrats, but republicans, too, about the national security preparedness and the key nominations can't get filled. >> manu raju, thank you very much for the update. we will talk to you soon. >> cnn anchor and chief political correspondent, dana bash. you have a brand-new show, i am so, so proud of you. i

. >> senator tuberville, tommy tuberville of alabama is holding up military promotions at this pointoductive care including abortions. do you think what he is doing is wrong? >> i don't like blocking military appointees. obviously we need to have our military functioning. we need to have the leadership in place, the promotions in place. so, there's a lot of adverse consequences to it. that's inside baseball in terms of the senate. but -- i don't like biden's policy in terms of military. i still believe in the hyde amendment that we don't use taxpayer funds that fund abortion that might be objectionable -- >> this isn't about taxpayer funds for abortion to be clear. this is about time off and this is about -- that's right. it's a leave policy in order to pay for travel for service members and their families in states where abortion is not provided and they don't have a choice obviously where they're stationed. >> well, i like the idea of those military appointments going through. >> what would you say to him as we look at the fact that they may not. he seems to be intransigent in wher

kristen holmes was reporting who's there, mike lindell, tommy tuberville.erstand there's going to be some other done nors. we do want to know who they are. a lot of them have fled. big ones still remaining. this is his echo chamber tonight. >> absolutely. and for trump now, his defense is the campaign. his campaign is his defense. this is -- it's all the same now. and a big part of trump's campaign has always been the small dollar donors. tonight it's about the big dollar donors, the bundlers, people who can raise money in huge amounts the traditional way. this is something that's a little bit new to him. he's thrived over the years on being sort of the most prolific small dollar donor candidate in our party. i expect tonight to hear him lay this out in very stark terms. we've heard the language, this is the final battle. this is not going to be a campaign -- >> biblical. >> it's not a speech or a campaign about taxes and trade and immigration and this and that. this is basically, they're coming for me because they're coming for you. this campaign is about

well, there's a guy named tuberville, senator from alabama who announced he strongly opposed the legislation. now he's hailing its passage. it's great to see alabama receive critical funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts. [ laughter ] replacing every single lead pipe in this country and putting our children's health back directly, 400,000 schools, 10 million homes. we're fixing crumbling bridges, upgrading our power grid, renovating our airports and ports. and one of you talked about that, how important that is for the great lakes as well. last week we reopened i-95 back where i live, and you go up the east coast, it's one of the most important links in the entire east coast. well, guess what, less than -- a guy driving a truck, anyway, he knocked down a whole bridge and the whole four lanes of the highway. i went up there, and i said we're going to get this the number one project and get it done. within one week of my being there, two weeks of it happening, tanker trucks that crashed and caused this overpass that has 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day and 14,000 trucks, critical to

>> i strongly support the stent that senator tuberville has taken.ly cannot have the federal government subsidizing abortion in this country and directly or indirectly. that includes of the pentagon. i commend him for the stand that he is taken. look, a hold of you that the way forward is to expose the extremism of joe biden and the democrats. the disdain clearly and with compassion and on principle for this entity of life. >> now the tough topic. social security, medicare. you've waited into these waters at a very dangerous and shark infested for most of politicals out there. if some of the americans to put withholding into their savings accounts. make no mistake diverting any significant portion of social security taxes into a private accounts would make the program unworkable, funnel untold wealth in the hands of wall street reporters and leave what millions of families destitute. why take this position when you know that will be the critique of it? >> first off look, joe biden's policy on our national debt is insolvency. sadly, my former running

we have >> during his speech, president chastised republicans such as senator tommy tuberville of alabama for praising the benefits, a buy-back programs while voting against them. 26 million american borrowers could find out tomorrow if the u.s. supreme court will reject president biden's student debt relief plan and the justices are slated to announce their next round of opinions in the morning and the lone ruane is one of only 7 cases remaining this term. the justices will determine whether borrowers who earn less than $125,000 annually. >> will receive up to $20,000 in federal debt forgiveness. the decision comes about 3 months before loan slated to resume. this all follows a 3 year pandemic pause. the justices will also announce their ruling on affirmative action in college admissions in the coming days. >> and still ahead at 6, florida's controversial don't say law goes into effect in just days. details on how it affects families with young students. >> the expansion of one of florida's most controversial laws goes into effect saturday. florida's parental rights in education law will

senator tuberville: i know we're over a little bit, mr. chairman. we have unfortunately people in this country that are born with a mental health problem and we're trying to treat them with a lot of prescription drugs. and i think that's fine to a certain degree. sometimes we're overprescribing. the problem is we're creating more mental health problems than we had young people born with mental health problems and we need to understand that. if we start understanding that i think we can understand the problems that we have to overcome because we don't do this. now we're going to lose the country we all grew up in. because mental health is the number one problem in this country. number one problem. and we have to -- because it leads to everything else. it leads to so many things in this country that are negative. so thank you. thank you for your answer. thank you, mr. chairman. chair sanders: senator. >> thank you for convening us. i want to thank both of our witnesses for their testimony and their public service. i want to start with deputy assistant

a guy named super bowl from alabama -- tuberville who was supposed to legislation and here's what he said -- great to see alabama receive critical funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts. [applause] [laughter] we are replacing every single leadpipe in this country and putting our children's health back. 400,000 schools, 10 million homes. [applause] building bridges and getting -- upgrading our power grid. you can talk about how important that is for the great lakes as well. last week, we opened i-95 back where i live in you go up the east coast, it's one of the most important lengths in the entire east coast. guess what? the guy driving a truck not down the whole bridge and block four lanes of the highway. i went up there and i said we are going to get this to be the number one project. within one week of my being there, two weeks of it happening, tanker trucks crashed and caused this overpass to collapse as 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day 14,000 trucks. it's critical to our economy. did it with union workers. [applause] used all american products, all-american material. we

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tuberville: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: reserving the right to object, this is the ninth time that my colleagues on the left have come to the floor to try to break my hold on the department of defense nominees. this is the ninth time i've come to the floor to keep my word. since the last time we did this, nothing has changed, and so my hold will remain in place. i want to be clear about this because my democratic colleagues have been spreading a little bit of disinformation. i'm not blocking anyone from getting confirmed. i'm not blocking a single vote. i'm only blocking unanimous consent. if the democrats want to vote on these nominees one at a time, i'm all for it and will probably vote for them. i understand that senator cardin is a strong supporter of this nominee. i am a strong supporter of the naval academy. i had several relatives that have gone to the naval academy. it's possible that when these come up, i will vote on all of them. but so far, let me just respond to some of the false claims that i've bee

tommy tuberville. says broadband is coming.en gets to say see you at the groundbreaking which is what he did tim mitch mcconnell. john cornyn has been doing it. people who voted against things that their constituents are going to get and they want to take credit and they don't deserve it for voting against it. ten points 5 million new applicants for new loans. one of my favorites, u.s. consumer confidence. we talked about that. it's a 17 month high. i'm not saying -- >> jesse: you are going to say 17 year? >> judge jeanine: firmware? >> jessica: from covid. it does matter. you say when he doesn't have stuff to run on, it's not true. >> judge jeanine: the ordinary american looks at their pay paycheck. can't buy what used it to buy. they can't retire. you can't buy a house. stop talking about jobs after covid. >> jessica: why question mike that's the reality of the jobs. >> judge jeanine: he lied and he said he created millions of new jobs when it was covid jobs or coming back and he lied about afghanistan. he said it was a succe

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tuberville: madam president, i join my republican colleagues on the floor today in support of expanding broadband access across rural america. i recently had the honor of becoming ranking member of the agriculture committee, subcommittee on rural development and energy, which has jurisdiction over the u.s. department of agriculture's broadband programs. my top priority as ranking member is expanding broadband access to unserved populations who need it most so our rural communities are not left behind. in today's economy, people need fast and reliable internet to work, to go to school, virtual meetings, and even see their doctor through telemedicine. our farmers need an internet signal to operate their farms, their facilities, drive tractors, irrigate crops, apply pesticides and apply precision agricultural technologies without they do not have an opportunity to compete. recently the usda increased the requirements for sufficient broadband access from speeds of 25 over 3 mega biets per second to 100 over 25 megabites per secretary. yet, one out of ten people in my state of -- state of al

chairman. >> thank you senator tuberville tuberville. at her gillibrand. >> thank you madam chairwoman. in your testimony mr. gendenbien you noted the class 1 mover formula. can you talk more about this? >> yes. the new mover was well-intended but it has a ceiling of 74% one class 3 and four are identical so well we like to do, but it has no floor so it really causes a problem and in 2020 and in 2022, the divergence in three and four cost the farmers about $900 million so really bit like to go back to the original higher up which would eliminate those massive losses. >> i couldn't agree more. in your testimony you also discussed the mental health and stress hardship faced by members in our room at communities and i'm actively working on legislation to make mental health resources widely available to our farming and ranching in rural communities. expand beyond the regional scope of the farm network to create a national hotline. where national hotline for distressed farmers and ranchers help us to address this complicated problem? >> yes,

. >> reporter: and back in washington, milley says he spoke with senator tuberville over a one man blockade at the number of general officers that could affect military readiness. >> it is a large number. and each one is to replace somebody else and somebody will replace them, so you multiply it by three. so you are looking at potentially between 1,000 and 2,000 officers are impacted. and most are married, so now you are looking at another about 4,000 family members. >> a backup of the whole system. >> it is becoming a backup of the whole system. >> reporter: in congressional hearings, chairman of the joint chiefs has repeatedly defended the department against ac accusations of being too woke. >> we're about fighting and winning on battlefields and we're all about readiness now and in the future, modernization. i think the accusations of woke areoverexaggerated. >> reporter: part of the tmessae we expect to hear today in normandy is one of unity. the unity that was critical to the success of d-day nearly eight decades ago between the u.s., the uk, france and others, canada for example. and

there's a guy named tuberville, a senator from alabama, who announced a strongly opposed legislation,ow he's hailing the passage. here is what he csaid, quote -- it's great to see alabama receive critically important funds. we're replacing every single lead pipe in this country, and putting our children's health back directly. 400,000 schools, 10 million homes, fixing troubling bridges, upgrading our power grid, ren nating our air force and airports. last week, we were up on i-95, back where i live, you go up the east coast, one of the most important links for the entire east coast. guess what? less than -- a guy driving a truck, anyway, knocked down a whole bridge, and blocked four lanes of the highway. i went up there, and i said this is the number one project to get done. within one week of my being there, two weeks of happening, tanker trucks that crashed and caused this overpass that has 150,000 vehicles traveling on it every day, and 14,000 trucks, it's critical to our economy. we did it with union work respect, we closed all the loopholes, we used all american products. all ame

. >> reporter: back in washington, milley spoke with senator tommy tuberville over the one-man blockadele by tend of summer and affect military readiness. >> it's a large number. and you figure each one is to replace somebody else, multiplied by three. so, you're really looking at potentially between 1,000, 2,000 officers are impacted. then most of them are married. now you're looking at about another 4,000 family members. >> this could be a backup of the whole system it sounds like. >> it is becoming a backup of the whole system. >> reporter: in congressional hearings, the chairman of joint chiefs has repeatedly defended the department against accusations of being too woke, an issue he says the exaggerated. >> we're about fighting and winning on the battlefield. and we're all about readiness. readiness in the future and modernization. i think the accusations of woke are grossly overexaggerated. >> milley has said in the past that have a military standpoint, it would be a very difficult task to push russian forces out of all the parts of ukraine that they currently occupy. has that asse

we already see that the military had had no promotions approved because of senator tuberville having stopped all of those promotions on an issue he doesn't like about the reproductive rights policy of the defense secretary, lloyd austin. >> he is throwing a visit procedurally. it will have zero impact on jack smith and the department of justice to pursue the indictment. but i think what it reflects is something we've heard over and over. the message will be on weapon saiks. and you'll see a public questioning of jack smith's credentials. they will try to try down his credentials. they're already giving a talk about cases like virginia governor mcdonald where he was, that conviction was tossed out by unanimous supreme court. jack smith has a lot of successes under his belt. republicans will choose the ones that make their case. >> donald trump's strategy is to win the white house. not this case in the southern district of florida and i think what you will see him do and the lawyers, the esteemed lawyers and others with us today on this, but procedurally, if donald trump can delay the

. >> reporter: back in washington, milley says he spoke with senator tommy tuberville over a one-maneneral officers, a number that could triple by the end of summer and affect military readiness. >> it's a large number, and each one is to replace somebody else and somebody replace them, so multiple it by three. you're looking at between 1,000 to 2,000 officers are impacted, then most of them, married, so you're looking at another 4,000 family members. >> reporter: this could be a back-up of the whole system, it sounds like. >> it will be. >> reporter: in congressional hearings, the chairman of the joint chiefs has repeatedly defended the department. >> we're about fighting and winning on battlefields. and we're all about readiness. we're all about readiness now, read readiness in the future, monetization. i think the accusations of woke are grossly overexaggerated. >> reporter: milley will mark 44 years in the service this month. it will be the last four of those that are the most highly scrutinized, a position that has given him the ear of the president on key issues like ukraine an

. >> reporter: back in washington, he said he spoke with senator tommy tuberville over a one-man blockade that could affect readiness. >> you're looking at potentially a thousand or 2,000 affected. it is becoming a backed up system. >> he has defended the department for being to woke, which he says he's fighting. >> we're all about readiness, modernization. i think it's grossly overexaggerated. >> general milley will mark 44 years in service, a position that has given the ear of the president but has put him in the cross hairs on some of the attacks in the defense department. the white house doubling down on its criticism of china's actions saying china was acting in an unsafe manner by cutting in front of that warship and the white house saying china should evaluate its behavior in international water ways. the white house is confident they are making progress in opening up the critical lines of communication with beijing. >> let's go to ukraine where sam kiley is standing by no far from the russian border. cnn has exclusive new reporting on recent sabotage attacks inside russia. i know

senator tommy tuberville blames high inflation on the administration shift away from fossil fuels. it's making things more expensive. the travel, the transportation >> fertilizer for farmers. it is a disaster right now. president biden says some of his policies will take time to have an impact and insists he isn't finished. i'm not here to declare victory and the economy here to stay. >> plans to review around incredibly quickly. we have >> that was hannah brandt reporting for us. a new federal watchdog report says more than 200 billion dollars may have been stolen from 2 covid-19 relief initiatives. the numbers issued by the small business administration a much greater than previous projections. the report suggests the paycheck protection and the covid-19 economic injury, disaster loan programs. we're very vulnerable to fraud, especially early on in the pandemic. a senior official from the small business administration is disputing the findings saying that the study was flawed. a live look hero what's happening along the embarcadero in san francisco, breezy and cool along the coas

tommy tuberville,, the candid are four -- for the most part, caitlin, these are the die hards.who were asked by trump staff to be here. or you know, who loved the chance to see the former president. but they were not mean to people who were in the distinction or even on his past presidential campaign. you're looking at a very very different motif here. >> yeah, of course, it's telling who he surrounds himself with. maggie, you say it's clear that he is determined to fight these charges. obviously, in the court of public opinion. a lot of questions about is what is legal strategy actually in the courthouse looks like. does this remind you, in any way, of how he responded to what is obviously a very different situation, but also came with a lot of follow, which was the access hollywood tape that came around, of course, the last time he was running for president? >> very much so. he has basically a few moves, caitlin, that he uses over and over again. we saw it for the first time in his political life, when the access hollywood tape came out. his impulse, you know, -- was when a c

well, there is a guy named tuberville, senator from alabama, announcing he strongly opposed the legislation, now he's hailing its passage here is what he said, quote, it's great to see alabama receive critical funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts. we're replacing every single lead pipe in this country and putting our children's health back directly. 400,000 schools, 10 million homes. we're fixing crumbling bridges, upgrading our power grid, renovating our airports and ports and, dick, one of you talked about that, how important that is for the great lakes as well last week we opened i-95 5 back where i live and you go up the east coast, it's one of the most important lengths in the entire east coast well, guess what, less than -- a guy driving a truck hit -- anyway, he knocked down a whole bridge and the whole four lanes of the highway i went up there and i said we're going to get this -- the number one project to get done. within one week of my being there, two weeks of it happening, tanker trucks that crashed and cause this had overpass that has 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day

tommy tuberville holding up military appointments, joe manchin holding up epa appointments. stop everything and biden? >> these are congressional tools and what's important to take a step back and realize the biden administration is holding up documents that we've requested we've had to threaten contempt multiple agencies whether it's the state department, whether it's department of defense, whether it's the fbi, the doj. they have to respond to congress , so i support senators using every tool to demand that accountability, and also, take back our constitutional responsibility. stuart: so you want the tapes, you want the transcripts, you want to know what's been going on, and when you get that information, you'll open up congress, is that it? >> certainly we want to make sure there is transparency and accountability and it should not be a question they turnover those documents. stuart: is it going to work? >> it better work. we're going to continue to focus on delivering that accountability and it has worked so far so these tools are an important tool for congress to assert

you see senator tuberville holding up military nominations right now.curity, they hurt our country, they hurt our democracy, and a lot of that stuff so is not just into americans, but also around the world. i mean, there are hurting our reputation around the world and, frankly, our enemies are cheering about this. and it is shameful. >> the truth matters, but only if you hear it. david there are all sorts of republicans arguing that there are two justices systems and don't ramp is not getting special treatment, but he did get special treatment today. no rest, no mugshot, no bond, no bail, did not have to surrender his passport, and he does not have any travel restrictions of any kind he would not see anyone else facing these charges with that kind of special treatment. >> stephanie i'm not sure there is a case for why he was released pretrial. if the notion is that he could be a danger to himself, the community, or the country, this is somebody who is mishandled classified information. we do not know what other documents he has or whether he misused the

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you have tommy tuberville blocking army promotions, and j.d.oing to be blocking nominations and promotions within the doj, did i get that right? >> reporter: they do. they could force schumer to take valuable floor time confirming these people. they could hold that up by objecting. if chuck schumer wanted to, he could confirm all 250 defense department and military flag officers one by one. that would take up an insane amount of time, and the same with doj, which is what j.d. vance is trying to do, so, yes, it could be done. practically, no, it would take a really long time. and this is government these days, katy. it's very irrational at times. >> jake sherman, thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> coming up next, while all of our eyes were on donald trump's arraignment in miami yesterday, another grand jury was meeting again in washington, d.c. who showed up? who these men are and what they might have been talking about. e might have been talking about. pantene's pro-vitamin formula repairs hair. as well as the leading luxury bonding treatment.

. >> back in washington, milley says he spoke with senator tommy tuberville over a one-man blockade in a number that could trickle by the end of summer, and defect military readiness. >> it's a large number, and then, you figure that each one is to replace somebody else, and so, you multiply it by. three so, you're really looking at potentially, between 2000, 3000 officers impacted. and most of them are married, so now you're looking at about another 4000 family members. >> it's gonna be a backup of the whole system, it sounds like. >> it will be a backup of the whole system. it is becoming that. >> the chairman of joint chiefs has repeatedly defended the governor that department against accusations of being too woke, an issue he says is exaggerated. >> we're all about ready, and we're all about 20 and the future, and i think the accusations are grossly over exaggerated. >> milley has said in the past that from a military standpoint -- sorry, it would be a very difficult task to push russian forces out of all the parts of ukraine that they currently occupy. has that assessment changed

tommy tuberville, the senator is going to be here as well as mike lin lindell, a real who's who of magald, some of his most staunch supporters, and that's something he has started to do when he holds these kinds of press conferences to get the support, to have the people in the crowd cheering for him. but again, this is a shift that we're about to see really take place here, which is them moving on from that court appearance. we saw this after manhattan as well, the indictment there, and putting this all into the political spectrum. he is expected to continue his entire campaign schedule. there are events already on the calendar, and i'm told they're not going away, and i'm told by people around him, that he is defiant. now, the one thing i will say is that there are still trump allies out there who believe that this is really damning, and they are very concerned about this and his lelectability in 2024. >> kristen holmes, appreciate it. back with the panel here in new york. alyssa, i mean, of course that's what he's going to say, of course that's what he's going to do. why would he do

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