‘It’s gonna be OK’: Tommy Tuberville adds to confusion on IVF in latest muddled interview

‘It’s gonna be OK’: Tommy Tuberville adds to confusion on IVF in latest muddled interview
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Tuesday that he opposes the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that embryos are children — after initially supporting it.

ABC's Rachel Scott caught up with Tuberville outside the Capitol.

"You've been back and forth on this issue," Scott noted. "Do you support the Supreme Court's decision?"

"I support that people that want to have IVF, I'll support them 100 percent," Tuberville insisted.

"Okay, but that's not what the Supreme Court's decision is allowing at this point," the ABC reporter observed.

"I know, but the state's getting ready to pass a law in Alabama that it's gonna be okay," the senator replied. "When we're going to pass it, that it's going to be positive."

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Scott pointed out that some women were still not able to receive their IVF treatments.

"I just came back from Alabama," Scott explained. "I talked to one woman. She's on her last embryo transfer. It was scheduled for tomorrow. And now she has to start all over. Is that acceptable to you?"

"Well, not really," Tuberville admitted. "Now, I want everybody, if they want kids, if they can't have it, and that's the only way they can have it, I won't be able to use that."

"So, to be clear, you believe it's the wrong move?" Scott asked.

"Wrong move by the Supreme Court, yes," the senator agreed.

But just days earlier, Tuberville approved of the IVF decision.

"Yeah, I was all for it," Tuberville said to reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Watch the video below.

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An active SWAT operation is unfolding in Pima County, Arizona, near the neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie disappeared nearly two weeks ago, according to NewsNation.

The operation is centered roughly two miles from Guthrie’s home, according to multiple news reports late Friday. Guthrie, 84, is the mother of Savannah Guthrie and has been missing for 13 days in a case that has drawn national attention.

According to the report, SWAT officers surrounded a home, ordered two people outside, and both individuals complied. Law enforcement is now searching the residence. Police have blocked off the surrounding area, which NewsNation and CNN reported is approximately 2 miles from Guthrie’s home.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has previously said evidence suggests Guthrie did not leave “on her own.” On Friday, a sheriff’s department aircraft was observed in the air around the same time a mobile command center was seen leaving the department, according to NewsNation.

The development comes as TMZ reported receiving a new email from a man claiming to know the identity of Guthrie’s kidnapper, though authorities have not confirmed the claims. Officials have not yet said whether the SWAT activity is directly linked to Guthrie’s disappearance.

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) publicly defended Rep. Thomas Massie after the Kentucky Republican sparked alarm Friday with a social media post declaring, “I am not suicidal.”

Khanna’s social media response added a rare bipartisan element, as the two lawmakers have worked together to pressure the Department of Justice to release and unredact files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

“I am not worried for my physical safety, honestly,” Khanna wrote in a reply to Massie. “The truth is more nuanced. Big money tries to destroy a person's career & reputation.”

Khanna argued that the real threat facing lawmakers who challenge power is professional, not physical. “In Washington, you rise by keeping your head down and not making enemies. Massie & I are unafraid to challenge power.”

The California Democrat also referenced former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), noting that she, too, has spoken publicly about facing retaliation after breaking with party leadership, despite her staunch alignment with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

Massie’s Friday post drew stunned reactions across social media, with supporters and critics alike questioning the statement by a sitting member of Congress.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is promoting his bid for Minnesota governor by handing out copies of his autobiography – and paying for them with thousands of dollars in campaign funds.

According to The Daily Beast, Lindell has spent roughly $187,000 of the $356,000 he raised during the first two weeks of his campaign on bulk purchases of his book, “What are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO.” Lindell announced his gubernatorial run in December after being encouraged by President Donald Trump, who refers to him as “the pillow guy.”

“When we’re going around to all the places in Minnesota, other people are giving a flyer,” Lindell told the Minnesota Reformer. “I’m giving them the whole book so they know who I am.”

Lindell, a prominent 2020 election denier who has accused Satan of interfering in the vote, has spent millions promoting conspiracy theories about election fraud, according to the Daily Beast report. In June, he was ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages for defaming a former Dominion Voting Systems employee and has said he is millions of dollars in debt, the outlet added.

“I can’t self-fund. I don’t have any money left,” Lindell previously acknowledged.

Instead, his campaign has relied on donor contributions to purchase copies of his $19.97 book, which recounts his recovery from crack addiction to embrace evangelical Christianity. He has framed the autobiography as “a raw, authentic account by a man many thought would never rise above his serial, addiction-fueled failures.”

But Lindell still faces long odds in a race that would ultimately pit him against likely Democratic nominee Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a state where Republicans have not won statewide in two decades.

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