1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: This is Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, widely regarded as the 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: dumbest member of the United States Senate. I don't say 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: that lightly. I'm going to prove it in just a 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: few seconds when we watch his interview with Kate Lee Collins. 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: The man is an imbecile. I don't say that to 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: call names. I use the word because it's precise and accurate. 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: It describes perfectly what Tommy Tuberville is. That he is 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: in the United States Senate, which was once known as 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: the greatest deliberative body in the world, is a shame, 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: and it's a travesty, and it is an appalling embarrassment 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: for the state of Alabama. 12 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: But just to be clear, you agree that white nationalists 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: should not be serving in the US military. Is that 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: what you're saying? 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: If people think that a white nist is a racist, 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 3: I agree with that. 17 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: I agree that a white nationalist is someone who believes 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: that the white race is superior to other races. 19 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: Well, that's some people's opinion, and I don't think I 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: mean a lot. 21 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 2: Pardon what's your opinion? 22 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 3: My opinion of a white nationalist, if somebody wants call 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 3: them white natal to me, is an American. It's an American. 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 3: Now if that white nationalist is a racist, I'm totally 25 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 3: against anything that they want to do because I am 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 3: one hundred and ten percent against racism. But I want 27 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 3: somebody that's in our military that's strong, that believes in 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 3: this country, that's an American, that will fight along anybody, 29 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 3: whether it's a man or woman, black or white, writ 30 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 3: it doesn't make any difference. And so I'm totally against 31 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 3: identity politics. I think it's ruining this country. And I 32 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 3: think that Democrats ought to be ashamed for how they're 33 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: doing this because it's dividing this country and it's making 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 3: this country sweaker every day. 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: Deceit of Alabama is a beautiful place. It's often caricatured, though, 36 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: along with Mississippi, as a backwater, a place where ignorance, racism, 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: and idiocy formed together in a molten stew of malice, 38 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: particularly racial malice. It's a broad generalization, and like all 39 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: broad generalizations, it's unfair. Most Americans don't know about the 40 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: first Alabama Volunteers. They were from the Hill country of Alabama, 41 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: and they were General Sherman's personal guard during the Civil War. 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: Sherman said those men the men who stayed loyal to 43 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: the Union could be trusted beyond all others because they 44 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: had placed their country above their communities, above their families. 45 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: They placed the Union higher than anything else to preserve it, 46 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: to maintain it. It was a stunning active principle. Tommy 47 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: Tuberville is holding up the military promotions of two hundred 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: and sixty four senior officers that require Senate confirmation for 49 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: their advancement. These are men and women who have spent 50 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: their entire life in the service of their country. At 51 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: the most they make, maybe if you're the commandant of 52 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: the Marine Corps, a little over two hundred thousand dollars 53 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: a year. These people aren't millionaire football coaches, entitled princelings 54 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: from places like Auburn. They're hard working, their public servants. 55 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: They are our very best. When they are promoted, their 56 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: housing allowances increases. When they are promoted, their income goes up. 57 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: In the end, military families are a big part of 58 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: America's working class families, and by denying promotion, Tommy Tuberville 59 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: is denying an increase in the financial security and livelihoods 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: of the people in this country who deserve it the 61 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: very most. More importantly than that, he is upsetting the readiness, 62 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: he is upsetting the command structures of the United States 63 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: military for politics for the first time, because of Tommy Tuberville. 64 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: Since nineteen ten, the United States Marine Corps does not 65 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: have a commandant in place. The last commandant told the 66 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: Congress that the Marine Corps was thirty three percent at 67 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: force in the Pacific and it would be the Marines 68 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: who would be the first into the against the Chinese 69 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: in the Western Pacific. Why is a United States Senator 70 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: who has taken an oath of office to support and 71 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: defend the Constitution of the United States weakening the American military. 72 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: He's doing it because he was offended. He was offended 73 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: by the military trying to cut a cancer out from 74 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: its ranks. And what that cancer is is white supremacy. 75 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: What is white supremacy? It is a doctrine of belief 76 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: that holds white skin is superior to all others. It 77 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: is a doctrine of delusion that holds the white man 78 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: is a superior being and that every other race is subordinated. 79 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: Where does this come from? All of its stems from 80 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: an essay that was written in the eighteen fifties by 81 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: a Frenchman named Arthur de Gobinaal. He coined a phrase 82 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: in that essay which was called the inequality of the Races. 83 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: He was the first person to introduce the term Arrian. 84 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: And when he introduced the term Arian, he introduced that 85 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: as the master race. They were members of a political 86 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: party they called themselves a National Socialists. We know them 87 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: as Nazis. And here in twenty twenty three America, the 88 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: Nazi flag is flying. It's flying when the Patriot Front marches, 89 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: and it's flying in front of this synagogue. It's flying 90 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: because imbeciles like Tommy Tuberville have given moral succor to 91 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: white supremacists, have courted them to be part of their 92 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: political coalition, have apologized for their sick doctrine what Tommy 93 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: Tuberville stands for, or the doctrines of Jim Crow, the 94 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: doctrines of segregation, the doctrines that hold one race is 95 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: superior to another. And Bob Marley was right when he 96 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: quoted in his song from HeLa Selassie. And until that 97 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: is no longer the case, than everywhere there is war. 98 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: The great challenge of this era in America's history is 99 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: for this generation to deal finally with America's permanent sin, 100 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: and to advance the proposition for this generation and the 101 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: next that all men and women are created equal, endowed 102 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: by Creator, with inalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit 103 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: of happiness, that we embrace the vision of doctor King, 104 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: who saw a day when men and women would be 105 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: judged by the content of their character. Tommy Tuberville is 106 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: a man of astoundingly low character. He is a divider. 107 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: He is unprepared for his important duties. He is risking 108 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: the national security of the United States, and he's doing 109 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: it for reasons of racial Animis is it possible that 110 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: this man, who is being interviewed by Caitlin Collins truly 111 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: doesn't understand what he's saying. Is it possible that his 112 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: IQ measures under eighty what is wrong with him and 113 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: what is wrong with his Republican Senate colleagues. The day 114 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: would tolerate this. The Republican Party that I was once 115 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: part of took this nation's national security seriously. This generation 116 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: of MAGA Republicans treats it like a joke. And the 117 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: result of that is, one day, I promise you, it 118 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: will get some of our very best young men and 119 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: women killed, and then those politicians will be standing there 120 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: with crocodile tears, headbowd watching the American flags folded up 121 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: over the caskets, and then they'll make a platitude. It 122 00:09:50,160 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: is appalling, disgraceful, disgusting. What Tommy Turberville is doing isn't 123 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: just idiocy. It's not just scandalous, though it is. It 124 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: is an assault on an idea. What Tommy Tarbarville is 125 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: saying is that racial pride is okay, that to believe 126 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: that white is better, that it signifies something about your character, 127 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: your intelligence, a superiority. It's not an opinion. It's a sickness. 128 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: It's a cancer, and that cancer killed over one hundred 129 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: million people by the middle of the last century. Alabama 130 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 1: has a long history, and within that history are scores 131 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: of people who stood up and fought for justice, who 132 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: would not stand by as black people were terrorized. They 133 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: fought hard and for a long time to create a 134 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: more just society. Tommy Tarberville would not have been with 135 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: those people. He would have been with Bull Connor. He 136 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: would have been standing on the side of the Edmond 137 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: Pettus Bridge with a club in his hands. He would 138 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: have gleefully detonated the bridge to isolate the quilters of 139 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: Jee's bed. Tommy Tarberville serving in the United States Senate 140 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 1: is a sign of a national rock, a national decay. 141 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: What it says is that the people of Alabama are 142 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: apathetic and they're indifferent to intelligence, to rigor, to intellect, 143 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: heredy in honor. Why why would they want Tommy Turberville, 144 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: white supremacist, white nationalists, excuse her of, to be their 145 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: United States Senator. This country is in trouble because we 146 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: are led across the media, many of our businesses, and 147 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: our politics by some of the worst and lowest people 148 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: in this country. And until we figure out how to 149 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 1: fix that, our security will be threatened. Every American should 150 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: be our age that Tommy Tarberville, a millionaire football coach 151 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: who celebrates white nationalism, is holding up the promotions of 152 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: two hundred sixty nine military officers who are need in 153 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: the chain of command to lead American forces and prepare 154 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: them to go into harm's way. It is the most 155 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: deadly and the most serious business in this country, the 156 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: profession of arms. What a disgrace Tommy Tuberville is. Give 157 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: his office a call and let him know what you 158 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: think of them, what you think of him denying the 159 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: Marine Corps their commandant, what you think of him denying 160 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty nine men and women. They're earned promotions, 161 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 1: and what you think of him praising the Way Nationalists 162 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: as just another group celebrating some ethnic pride. Appalling doesn't 163 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: begin to describe it.