'Very Debilitating': Air Force Sec. Blasts Tuberville's Blockade

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall talked to CNN's Jim Acosta about Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and his blockade on hundreds of military promotions over the Pentagon's policies on abortion and heaven forbid allowing women access to reproductive health care. Kendall was one of three service secretaries to rip Tuberville in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post.

Acosta had some follow up for Kendall during his show this Saturday.

ACOSTA: What are the most troubling effects of this? If this continues on, the stalemate keeps going?

KENDALL: Basically it puts us in a situation where a great many of our organizations are being led by temporary leadership. People are holding down, you know, the position until the person who's intended to come in, can come in.

So basically the organizations will defend the country. There's not a grave risk there. But the organizations can't move forward. They can't do the things they need to do to improve their posture relative to the threat. They can't do things to increase efficiency. They can't put a strategy in place.

And it's very debilitating to the morale of our people as you can imagine that these holds are in place.

ACOSTA: Yeah. And has this ever happened before, something like this?

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