"He's About Had It!" — Tuberville Reveals Trump's Secret War with Senate RINOs

Hey, welcome back to everybody. I have a lot to talk about. There's a lot going on in Capitol Hill yesterday. The president thought we, well, I thought we were going to get a new DNI, and Bill Pulte was going to be pulled, and they were going to get a quick vote on the DNI and then get everything, Pfizer passed and updated with more precautions and more safeguards in it. But the president announced overseas, I'm not doing it unless I get the America First Act passed. Not the America. Yeah, the Save America Act. So he told everyone, don't vote on my guy, my nominee. So that kind of blew up everything and caught Republicans by surprise. Maybe my next guest, too. Senator Tommy Tuberville, Armed Services Committee, and the senator is running for governor. Got the Republican nomination, certainly to be the next governor of Alabama. Senator, welcome back. What happened yesterday? Well, basically, President Trump wasn't going to let Republicans or Democrats control his agenda. And that's what's happening right now. Brian, on the Republican side, you know, we've got about 90% of the Republicans that are on President Trump's side. We've got about 10% that they're going to side with the Democrats more than President Trump. And he's about had it. And he said, listen, you know, I'm running this show. I'm, you know. Picking out the nominees, these are my people, and you can't go around me without doing things that I've asked you to do. And, you know, he is bound and determined to get to Save America Act passed because it's probably the most... the most important legislation in the last 25, 30 years because of all the illegals in this country. So President Trump's fighting the back against, you know, the Republican Party because we're not getting anything done for him. Well, a couple of things. I don't know what you're going to do because Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, and probably Thom Tillis, I'm not sure with the other. They're not for it. So if you can't get Republicans, how are you going to get Democrats to get you to 60? Well, you're not going to do it. And again, John Thune is putting a rock in a hard place. If you want to be leader, now you've got to lead. Now you've got to make tough decisions. Do you bring those people into your office and say, listen, you want to be chairman of a committee? Fine. You vote for this. If you don't, we're going to move you back to end of the line. We can't worry about, you know, surviving. That's what we're doing up here right now. We're worried, Brian, we're worried about. surviving as a majority instead of going to win. Let's win right now and let the midterms take care of itself. But we're not winning at all. I mean, we're getting blocked by 10% of the people when 90% of us are with President Trump and we're not making any progress. So here's what the with the Save America Act says. All voters must show ID. 80% of the country or for that may be more. All voters must show proof of citizenship. No mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, travel. That might be a problem in a place like Oregon where they've always had mail-in ballots, and there's no real thought about corruption there. But no men and women's sports, no transgender mutualization surgery or our children. So four and five, I think, are necessary. But why are they in that act, Senator? Well.

You know, when you're in a situation that we're in up here right now can't get anything past, you try to maneuver your bill around where you can get just something through. But again, it doesn't make any difference. You know, we could put in there, you know, we're going to leave December 25th this Christmas. And these people that, the rhinos and the Democrats, they wouldn't vote for it because President Trump's for it. And it's not really about anything other than the hate for President Trump and his agenda. And it's just unfortunate. because he's the best president we've had in my lifetime. Well, I mean, the other thing is, so this guy, I've never met him, but I think he was bipartisan support for Jay Clayton to be the next D&I. And Tom Codden, the Republican chairman of the committee announced at first he was going to go ahead with it. You guys are a separate branch of government. And then when the president came out and said, don't do it, he decided not to do it. So where's that nomination stand? Well, President Trump was seeing what was going on. Now, first of all, Bill Pulte's a good guy. He's hard-nosed. And I think that probably you're leaving him in there a few weeks, you might get a few surprises about what he knows and things that, you know, he can get across the go line. And I've never seen a nomination like this go through so quickly. And for some reason, Tom Cotton was just adamant going against the president. But he found out real quick the President of the United States runs the show. And so they didn't do it. And Bill Pulte, you'll be there for a while. And Jay Clayton's a great guy. He'll do good. But President Trump put it on hold. And then again, if you saw what he said yesterday, we're not doing anything else since you pass the Save America Act. And I'll tell you, even some of these people that don't like President Trump better really be careful because, as you said earlier, 89% of people in this country, especially Republicans that are going to vote in November, won't the Save America Act passed. So what are you going to do about the FISA renewal? Well, that's going to have to be adjusted. And, you know, we can do without it for a while, but we're going to need it down the line. And again, that's not the number one thing on the list right now. We have got to get something passed here that's going to help the American people feel like that they're part of the country. Right now, they're just getting shut out the American people. They have no say-so. When I go back to Alabama, they say, coach, why should I vote? I don't feel like my vote's going to count because there's four or five illegals going to vote over top of me. We've got to give them some security that they are part of this country. And that's the reason they clung to President Trump because he ran for America First agenda. And we're not really on track with it. He is. But the entire Republican Party, 90% of us are. But we've got 10% that's just going the other way. So I'm looking at the economists. They have this you gov poll and shows that you guys, Republicans, are closing the gap on the generic ballot, getting up to the midterms. It was in double figures in 2018 when you lost the, when you got trouts, picked up a seat in the Senate, but lost the house. And now you have, it's basically a two point difference between the two parties. So this would totally go against, I guess. American tradition, usually the party in power gets punished in the midterms, especially in the president's last term. Why do you think you guys are gaining? I think we're gaining, number one, in the House, this cause of redistricting, you know, the gerrymandering that the Democrats have done for years in the Northeast. It's just unbelievable how we've let them get by over that. And so now we're correcting a lot of those mistakes. But again, in the House,

Well, 20 person congressional committee that makes decisions in college sports. They make decisions on scheduling. They make decisions on who's in the conference. conference realignment, TV contracts. We can't get the federal government involved in college sports. It's the same thing as Obamacare. You want to end up with a disaster? You put the federal government in charge. We can't do anything right up here. Let's just do the blocking and tackling the eligibility and the transfer and let the NCAA. What about salaries? What about salaries for the players? What about limitations? NIL screening? How do we make sure the other sports besides basketball and football continue to survive? Yeah, that's what this bill does not do. It does not do anything for women's sports. And so you're going, it does not do anything for, for revenue sharing of giving money to women's sports. Right now, there's $20 million in the big, big leagues that have to give out revenue sharing every year. Well, it just goes to football. It should be dispersed evenly of every athlete, every athlete out there. So listen, the money's out of the bag. You know, they can go sell their name, image, and likeness. I'm fine. If they want to make $100 million a year and people are stupid enough to give it to them, let's go with it. But don't let them transfer every year. That will stop 80% of the problems and don't allow 30-year-olds of eight years of eligibility to play against an 18-year-old. That's wrong. This is going to be an extremely busy month. I have to watch 104 soccer games. Follow the pregame, the post game, yell useless opinions at the TV. It's a lot. So I knew that when it comes to screening for colon cancer, the choice was clear. The Colagard Plus test. It can be used at home and can only take 15 minutes, so I can do it during halftime and not miss any action. If you are 45 or older and at average risk, ask your healthcare provider about screening for colon cancer with the Coligard test. You can also request a prescription at colagard.com. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FNRadio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. So what would you do about NIL contracts? Would you set up a structure? And if you believe there should be a structure, who should be in charge of it? It doesn't seem like the NCAA can win a court case. Should there be a separate body? Because somebody's got to be in charge. The NFL's got a commissioner. The baseball's got a commissioner. NBA's got a commissioner. Who should be in charge at college sports? NCAA. And as you said, they won't make a decision because they get sued every time.

You know, somebody breathed. That's one other thing in this bill, by the way, this Cruz Cantwell bill is players can sue at any time. And it looks like the trial lawyers wrote this bill. Brown, you got to get away from the money part. The money's out there. People are going to do it. Let's the universities handle their money. If they're going to pay players. But if you stop the transfer every year, you're not going to have that spurge of money that goes in. They're going to get it up front. Coach, I think in every professional sport, there's a salary cap or a luxury tax. I think that if you have the infinite amount of dollars, the next Arch Manning is a senior in high school. The same schools are the LSUs are going to be the one getting them. No one will ever have a shot at... the star players coming out of high school or the one-time transfer. Don't you agree? I agree. But, Brian, here's the deal. Federal court system said they can make money. And if you go after that and try to limit the money, anybody makes, anybody makes. You can't do that in this country. It's a free country. It's capitalism. But you can go out and make the money. Right. But you can't, you can't limit it. But there's a salary cap. There's a limit in the NBA. There's a limit in the NFL. Okay, if you start doing that, Brian, here's what happens. You're going to have to make the players employees. And you do that, boy, that's what the Democrats are looking for. Please allow us to make them employees. What do they do next? They unionize. And it will be a total absolute disaster. This is about education. This is about education. Have you talked to Randy Levine? No. So, you know, he's the Yankee president. He's not a Democrat, as far as I know. And, you know, he's good friends with the president. So he helped lead this up as a lawyer. And he agrees with you. They should not be unionized. And that's the one thing I could say about this bill. There's no players union in it. Well, this bill does not block it out. It goes, this bill says verbatim. We do not. say whether the players can be employees or not employees. That will be basically decided later. That's where it's headed. So you do this bill that's going to be, you're going to have employees in college playing for money, no education, and you're going to eliminate. the high school players. I mean, they're going to have to just fight their way in, walk on, try to make a name for themselves and hope they can prove that they're pretty good. Nobody on this issue has more credibility than you. If you went up to, if you pull these two aside and said, I need these changes. Have you tried that and said, can you make these changes to this bill? Because we agree somebody's got to address this. Nobody is. They actually ask for help. So if you pulled Cruz aside, he would not listen to you? Oh, we've talked about it. I said, Ted, let's just do my bill for one year, five years eligibility, one-time transfer, do that. And then if you feel like that you can put the federal government in a little bit more of it, then pass that. But if you pass this at one time, it's like Obamacare. It is law. You're not changing it. I give a speech on the floor the other day. It is set in stone, and the Democrats are licking their chops.

if this passes because they will control all of our, basically our amateur sports, which is college. And it just makes me sick at my stomach that we would even get involved in this. But I've talked to the president, you know, he executive ordered my bill about two months ago, five years to play five, no red shirt, no excuses, no waivers. And at one time, he executive ordered that. And if people would read this bill, it's 111 pages. And it says, hey, coach, we got your ears in there. It's five for five. Yeah, but you can't put waivers in there. You can't have a committee of people just giving waivers like giving out candy. And that's what will happen because they'll be afraid to get sued. Make the dang federal law stick. And then everything else will take care of itself. Is there anything you could do federally not being a lawyer? This may sound like a naive question. Is there anything you do to empower the NCAA? It's hard because right now, if you talk to the president, NCAA, there's probably got probably 100 lawsuits out there. People are going to sue for anything nowadays. And it's just, it's unfortunate. A lot of things that they caused themselves, we told them years ago, Brian, hey, you got to give players part of this money. There's too much money out there. Give them revenue sharing. You know, give every player $25,000 a year of the TV. If they'd have done that, we'd have been off and sailing. They wouldn't do it. It made some bad decisions. And when you make bad decisions, in the long run, you're going to pay for it. That's the same thing with this bill. If you put it in there, Obamacare 2.0, federal government running college sports, my God, I'd hate to see. I'm hating to see what's going to happen. Because right now, I think they got the votes in the Senate to pass this. I don't know about the House. I know. They have their own bill. Senator Tommy Tuberville, always great, and I can't wait for your take over as governor. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you, Brian.