The View's Whoopi flattens Tommy Tuberville: You’re from Alabama, you know what a white nationalist is

Monday night, CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on his claim that he didn't know what a white nationalist is. Chatting about the interview Tuesday, the co-hosts of "The View" didn't buy it.

"A white nationalist is racist, Senator," said Collins.

"Well, that's your opinion," said Tuberville.

If it seems like déjà vu it's because Tuberville ran into the same brick wall in May when he was defending white nationalists. He ultimately explained, "I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican." When asked about it for the following week, he started running away from reporters.

READ MORE: Trump has set up an 'embarrassing' trap for his own lawyers: national security attorney

"When you call somebody a white nationalist, why is the word 'white' in there if it doesn't have to do with race?" co-host Joy Behar asked.

"You're from Alabama. You know exactly what we're saying. You can't fool us. We know what it means," Whoopi Goldberg said.

Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin gave kudos to Kaitlin Collins for continuing to press Tuberville, but connected the dots of racism to his holding up of military promotions.

"He's also undermining the military in two different ways," she explained. "First by not saying we shouldn't have them in the military. We have the most diverse force in American history, you should, of course, not have white nationalists. You shouldn't expect somebody to serve next to a racist in our military. That would undermine us in unthinkable ways, but also, [he's] holding up nominations for Pentagon promotions. So for the first time in 164 years, the Marine Corps is without a commandant. They have an 'acting' in the role but that affects military readiness so you can't do the whole I'm the biggest military guy when you're actually hurting our readiness."

"So, in fact, he is — he doesn't care about the country," Goldberg said. "He's — he wants to make sure everybody knows where his personal stance is, because you're elected to join a large group of people from diverse backgrounds who think lots of different things but there's certain things you have to do. You can't mess with the military because you don't like some of their policies. But it's only the women's policies that you're not digging and that, to me, is doubly annoying."

Sunny Hostin walked through all of the problems that people in Alabama face from education to poverty, none of which are being addressed by their senator.

"You're basically saying I don't care," said Goldberg.

See the video below or at the link here.