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board. not only for the firmest members, but also for the families, as well. >> i would like you to take a very quick listen to senator tuberville himself being unapologetic despite the risk of national security and the domino effect it can have all the way down the line. he is unapologetic about the blockade. he said this at the interview last week. take a quick listen. >> i think we will build even more support as time goes. i'm not changing my mind. schumer said yesterday he was not changing his mind, the white house said they weren't changing their mind, the pentagon is not gonna change their mind. we are at a standstill. i don't care if they promote anybody to be honest with you. we have 40 44 star general right now, we only had seven during what were two. think we are little overloaded to begin with. >> we are, quote, overloaded with four star generals, at the same time he claims that no one is more military than me. let's take a fact check here. tommy tuberville has zero military service.
continuing hold. cnn's orren lieberman is following this from the pentagon. what other steps is the defense secretary outlining for you? >> reporter: lloyd austin called the holes unprecedented in a memo outlining how d.o.d. would handle this situation. another step they would have to take. three and four star generals and admirals would of to remain in their positions but may also be called upon to do the next job above them in line at the same time as the military figures out how to handle this. this is what austin said about the effect it is having on the senior officers but cascading down through the military. >> the failure to confirm our superbly qualified leaders undermines our military readiness. it undermines our retention of some of our very best officers, and it is upending the lives of far too many of their spouses, children, and loved ones.
when we send officials, military officials to meet with our foreign counterparts, you have one star general is taking the place of three star generals. that is embarrassing to us. many of these won stars are just not prepared to take on the roles. alex, remember in the early days of the ukraine war? one of the reasons the ukrainians were so successful is that we helped them take out some top russian commanders. we enable the ukrainians to target these top russian generals so they had to be replaced by other deputies. that left the russians in disarray. in other words, what we helped the ukrainians due to the russians is exactly what is happening to our force right now. it is not because of the russians, or the chinese, it is because of a united states senator from alabama. >> okay, that is sobering. there is an air force general who predicted that we could be at war with china within the next few years. that general now leading the largest writing this exercise
vilnius, lithuania, where he's been covering this week's all important nato summit. he also had an exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin. wolf, i'm so glad to see you, and this interview that you had with the secretary was so impactful in illuminating what else secretary austin said, say, about senator tuberville. >> he's very unhappy with what senator tuberville is trying to do, blocking these promotions of generals, to star generals becoming three star or four star generals, admirals. he says it's undermining u.s. national security, and it's hard for him to believe that a u.s. senator is actually doing this, potentially sending the wrong signals to u.s. adversaries around the world, whether russia or china or others. and, he's not very happy about what senator tuberville is doing. earlier today, we sat down for this exclusive interview here in vilnius. and we had this exchange, on what senator tuberville is doing. listen to this.
priorities and authorize pay raises for troops was amended on the house floor to include a host of cultural issues. that's because hard liners threaten to block the bill, forcing the speaker to allow votes on hot button amendments, including to eliminate the policy, providing reimbursement for military personnel, traveling to get an abortion, and to diversity programs at the pentagon, and health care for transgender veterans. conservatives said the bill goes after the woke military. >> what they think about our military is a little different than what some of these bureaucrats and three star generals think about it. >> reporter: just four democrats voted for it, and four republicans voted against the bill that passed on the narrowest of margins. the speaker attacking democrats. >> so what they're doing is they're turning their backs on the military. that's wrong. >> reporter: even some republicans who backed the bill expressed frustration.
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>> reporter: and they are calling him irresponsible, and threaten national security. >> we will have over time i think a significant degradation and readiness, capability and morale. >> reporter: arguing the unprecedented move pits three and 4 star generals in limbo in critical areas like the pacific, the middle east and the military representative to nato as the war rages in ukraine. >> we don't want to begin losing people because we can't promote them. >> brings the military into a political argument. >> reporter: questions rising about the fate of the relocation of the space command headquarters from colorado to turberville state of alabama. >> i want to challenge president joe biden, come to huntsville, see with your own eyes why this is the best place for space command. >> reporter: amid reports that the coveted headquarters may no