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Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes. See details. What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you're not. And if he wants to criticize me for getting an Ivy League education, I'm proud of the fact that my ma'am all supported me, that I was able to make something of myself. I'd be ashamed if I was him and I lied about my military service like he did.
Right. And when they say lied, say he was a command master sergeant and he wasn't. And that was actually how it was introduced by Kamala Harris, off the teleprompter, which means either the team was bad, you know, a bad coordination or bad communication or no one really did a thorough background check. I have a lot to talk to Senator Tom Cotton about. But of course, he served in the infantry and also went to an Ivy League education. He also got his law degree on top of that, became a congressman and now a senator. And he joins us now. He's on on services, intelligence. Senator, welcome back. What's your thought about about Tim Walz's service and not not being a command sergeant or being demoted? Because he didn't go didn't finish the academy to give command sergeant and didn't go to Iraq.
Well, Brian, thanks for having me on. First off, I want to say that I respect Tim Walz's service in two decades, our country in uniform, as I know you also respect the service of all our veterans. But Tim Walz and his campaign have made inconsistent statements now about the nature of that service.
And I think he deserves or the American people deserve some answer about it. You identified one when Tim Walz was in the service. He was a master sergeant. He was, as the term is used, procced to command sergeant major while he was serving in a position of a command sergeant major. But he didn't complete the educational requirements for that and then submitted paperwork to retire as a command sergeant major, which is later rescinded and went back to master sergeant. You know, his campaign has said that he he submitted his retirement papers before he knew his unit was deploying to Iraq.
That's now been proven not to be the case. I do think Tim Walz owes answers to the American people, but this is not the only thing he owes answers to. I mean, he has a very strange 35 year entanglement with the Chinese Communist Party, Brian. He's traveled there more than 30 times. They've underwritten those trips. He's taking kids there to expose them to communist propaganda.
Apparently, he even got married or honeymooned there as well. And he's been consistently soft on China as a politician. And he's imported Chinese economic views to Minnesota as well.
I mean, he said just the other day that one man's socialism is another man's neighborliness. So he owes the American people a lot of answers. But, you know, in the end, Brian, he is just the vice presidential nominee. Kamala Harris is the top of the ticket. And she's the one that really owes answers to the American people about her radical views and failed record. Yet more than two weeks on, she still has not answered a single question, Brian.
And when is the mainstream media going to demand that Kamala Harris act like a normal presidential candidate and face the press and answer questions about her record and her views and her plan for America? Senator, yeah, I want to get to that, too, because President Trump, not only is J.D. Vance taking questions over the last two days and been very good, by the way, he knows this stuff. And not only that, we have President Trump is going to do a press conference today at two at Mar-a-Lago just to finish up on this military background, because it's interesting, because I think we have a recruiting problem. And at 17 years old from a Nebraska town, he decides to join the National Guard, inspired by his dad, perhaps. And he wants to make his life better. So he's able to use that G.I. Bill to go to college. And guess what? J.D.
Vance did the same thing. He's from an impoverished background. He's trying to make a difference.
He's trying to buck the trend. He gets into the Marines, use the G.I. Bill to go to college. That's what we should be selling to get people to join the military.
That's a positive story. But just on this, being that he used his platform in front of 14,000 people to mock J.D. Vance, he kind of opened himself up. So when asked about why he got the wrong rank and he's maybe being disingenuous about his service, the campaign came out with this statement. Vance left the National Guard in 2005 after 24 years. His unit was not given deployment orders to Iraq until July. He had put the retirement papers in five to seven months prior to his retirement in May. Tom Behrens, who had to become the commanding sergeant of the unit, had lost three people in Iraq, said this, cut seven.
It is stolen valor. He's used the rank that he never achieved in order to advance his political career. He's done it for decades now, basically.
Maybe not decades, but damn close to it. I mean, he still says he's a retired command sergeant major to this day and he's not. He uses his rank of others to make it look like he's a better person than he is.
He still does it even, you know, just however long ago. And he went on to say he had to take the unit even though he didn't want to. He was he wanted to retire too, but he couldn't leave two commanders without it. So is this a worthy? Do you think that people should pursue this answer and at least ask them what the deal is? Well, it's one of many topics on which Kamala Harris and Tim Walks should sit down with the press and answer questions. Again, I respect him wants a service, but his and his campaigned inconsistent statements about his service, I think, calls for answers to the American people. He can sit down with you, Brian. You know the military.
You're very fair in these questions. He can sit down with Brett Baier on special report. He could sit down with Jake Tapper, another reporter on CNN that understands the military. I think the American people deserves answers about these inconsistent statements, just like they deserve answers about what Kamala Harris would do for this country. No doubt about it. So President Trump, you can understand there's a little bit of frustration there because they're going against Biden. They totally changed. They got to reconfigure.
Evidently over the weekend, they re-navigated the ship and the communications teams getting together. But there's 90 days left to define what you would be. You can understand the frustration of President Trump. But the thing you guys seem to have on your side are the issues.
Better economy, safer world, better on immigration. How do you get that word out? Well, Kamala Harris can run, but she can't hide, Brian. They've kept her under wraps for more than two weeks, but we've got 13 weeks left in this campaign. At some point, she's going to have to answer questions, hold a press conference, sit down and do a televised interview. I know the media is in the tank for Kamala Harris, but they can't simply allow her to blow them off for 13 weeks.
And when she has to face the music, we know what's going to happen, Brian. Either she's going to serve up the kind of incomprehensible word salad, which she's become so rightly famous, or she's going to reveal herself once again to be a dangerous San Francisco liberal. Just look at the last time she ran for president. She promised to decriminalize illegal immigration, to give health insurance to illegals. While she's taking away your health insurance on the job, she wanted to ban fossil fuel production, ban gas powered cars.
She even wanted to ban plastic straws. And now she's chosen as a nominee, the governor of Minnesota, who's trying to make his state in the image of California. He's raised taxes. He's turned it into a sanctuary state.
He's given the illegals driver's license and health insurance. This is the most far left presidential ticket in American history. And the more people learn about Kamala Harris and Tim Walks, the less they're going to like about their plans for America. And just for the record, there is one person on another channel that also thinks it's a problem.
Here's Van Jones, Cut30. I'm not mad that she's not doing 15 interviews a day, but it can't last. It's very important and we can't make favors. Anybody running for the top office needs to be as available as possible. So he's even saying it.
So at one point they got to do it. The other question is, Senator, if her issues, if this is what she believes and this is what she said, why not run on it? My feeling is they're going to change and they're going to take your side on a lot of issues. They're going to talk about the need to crack down on the border. They're going to talk about the need to bring down inflation. They're going to talk about the need to maybe crack down on sanctuary cities.
Are people going to buy that? Well, this is why it's so critical that she sit down for interviews and Van Jones is right. I mean, she doesn't have to do 50 interviews a day, but just look at President Trump. He's holding the press conference today. He did an interview on your Fox show yesterday. He and J.D.
Vance sat down with the joint interview as is customary. Once the presidential nominee picks the vice presidential nominee. And they're very simple questions. Madam Vice President, when you last ran for president, you wanted to eliminate private health insurance on the job. You now say you don't. When did you change your views and why? And I think the American people will see that she doesn't have a serious explanation, that she's saying whatever she thinks is necessary to get elected. And that's why as they get to know more about her and her views, the more poorly she's going to do. This is Jimmy Fallon inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas.
Just kidding. It's only a three hour show. Listen live at noon Eastern or get the podcast at Fox Across America dot com. So we understand that President Biden is going to be sitting down doing an interview. I guess he one of the things he's saying is President Trump's never going to accept the election result. Let's see what happens.
But right now, we're in a dead heat. How do you feel as though the communication with the Trump team has been good? Obviously, you've played a key role. You're doing all the all the Sunday shows.
It's just a different one every week. Has the communication with the Trump team been good? Yes. The president and I and his senior leaders speak routinely, as he does with many other Republicans, are out there helping to get him elected and help elect the Republican majority in Congress. I do want to point out one thing you just said, Brian. Even even Joe Biden, who has been kept under wraps for more than four years, has gone out and done a sit down television interview since Kamala Harris was gifted this nomination. If Joe Biden, of all people, can do a television interview, why can't Kamala Harris?
It goes to show that the Democratic high command, which has launched a hostile takeover of the Biden-Harris campaign, installing old Obama advisers like David Plouffe, who's a very capable political operative, know that she is unprepared to be president. So a couple of things just on foreign affairs. The J.D.
Vance. I'm very impressed with the way he can answer these questions. But on foreign policy, I don't think he personally sees the worthiness of backing Ukraine. Do you worry about that at all? Well, I think what J.D. has explained is that he's very worried about our ability to support both Ukraine and Israel while we defend ourselves and our other friends in places like Taiwan and the Western Pacific. And he's right about that.
This is part of a broader theme. He's advocated for many years, which is rebuilding America's manufacturing base to include foremost our defense industry. Now, I think the way to do that is to accelerate even more the money we're investing in our defense industry and building the skilled workforce that we need in places like the Highland Industrial Park in South Arkansas or our shipbuilding sites in places like Maine and Mississippi.
But J.D. 's right that we for too long, especially under Democratic administrations like the Biden-Harris administration, have allowed our defense industry to atrophy. And we've got to reverse that immediately. President Trump will do that if he wins. Now, you've seen the Mark Levin list.
He was able to get in all the weapons. We are slow walking to Israel. That's what you have greenlighted from Congress to give them the arms they need to be successful. Are your hands tied if the administration can actually do this, circumvent the will of Congress? Well, they're playing all kind of bureaucratic games, Brian, to say they're not doing that. There's this, that and the other procedural step that has to start before the administration is on the clock to deliver these weapons.
That's why they say they're not laying anything. But as our investigation has proved, they're delaying not just big bombs, which, by the way, Israel does need because of the deep buried tunnels in Gaza, but everything from tank rounds to mortar shells to vehicles to aircraft. And you saw last night what would happen if Kamala Harris became president. She was confronted by pro Hamas radicals in a rally and she met with them. And she hinted that she would be open to a total arms embargo on Israel to force them to back down and surrender to Iran. And it's terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah around the region. If you care about our national security and our allies like Israel and you think Joe Biden has been bad, the worst is yet to come if Kamala Harris becomes president.
There's no question. And now I just want to get you to the actual what's happening over there. Sinwar now ascends, he takes over Hamas, the military and political wing. And one of the things, the reason he got it is because he has provided, has promised allegiance to Iran. And, you know, the Hamas is Sunni. There's always been a little bit of tension with Iran, their Shia, but he's going to bridge that gap. This is something in our interest to let Israel wipe them out if they remain intact at all.
We're going to be right back down this road in eight months. Why are they having a hard time explaining that? Well, Joe Biden, especially Kamala Harris, have put more pressure on Israel than on Iran and Hamas from the very beginning. I mean, if you needed any more evidence, Hamas just gave you more evidence by elevating Jair Sinwar, the military commander inside of Gaza, also believed to be its political leader, a man who rebuilt Hamas's ties to Iran when they restrained a few years back. And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden seem to think it's just a-okay to have this bloodthirsty terrorist who is the mastermind, the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, in charge of territory on Israel's border where they can launch another attack from it. Just like they think it's okay for Hezbollah, another Iranian backed terrorist group in Lebanon, to fire missiles into Israel and blow kids to pieces when they're playing ball on playgrounds. What we should have done, what we did when President Trump was president, was back Israel to the hilt, defeat its enemies quickly, and restore peace and stability in the region.
Understood. Lastly, it looks like our guy, we've got seven guys wounded, two have been jettisoned out of Iraq for additional care, I believe, in Germany. We have not hit back after getting hit in Iraq. Don't you think that's a disturbing message, our lack of action? Well, it's a message that we've sent to Iran now for four years under Joe Biden. There's something like more than 80 or maybe even more than 100 attacks on American troops in Iraq, and we've only hit back maybe a dozen times or so. That's not a very good ratio, and what it tells Iran and its terrorist proxies in places like Iraq that you can shoot at Americans, you can harm Americans, maybe even kill Americans, and all we'll do is the smallest pinprick retaliation because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are scared of their own shadow.
They don't have the strength and confidence to lead this nation in a dangerous world. Yeah, you do. Senator Tom Cotton, thanks so much. Do you know what Sunday show booked you this week? I think I'm going to be on with Shannon on Fox News Sunday. Oh, she's a terror. She's going to tear you up.
Bring your A-game, don't go partying Saturday. Well, she's an outstanding journalist, and again, I'm sure she'd be very happy to host Kamala Harris if she wanted to sit down. And she will at some point. Let's hope she's great. Senator Tom Cotton, thank you.
