Extra: Sen. Thom Tillis One-on-One with Jonathan Karl
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:29.7 | ABC News Live presents Senator Tom Tillis, one-on-one with Jonathan Carl. |
| 0:36.7 | North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis has been-on-one with Jonathan Carl. |
| 0:45.3 | North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis has been one of the few Republicans in Congress who has been willing to stand up to the Trump administration. |
| 0:55.8 | When Tillis came out against the so-called one big, beautiful bill, President Trump's signature tax and spending bill, Trump blasted him as a talker and a complainer, |
| 1:03.0 | not a doer. Less than 24 hours later, Tillis announced his plan to retire. Trump called that great news. Tillis is also a no on the Save America Act, now Trump's top legislative priority. |
| 1:09.5 | He stands firmly with NATO, and he has criticized what he calls the sycophants, toadies, |
| 1:14.6 | and bootlickers in the Trump White House. |
| 1:17.6 | But despite all of that, Tillis says he and the president are on good terms, |
| 1:22.6 | and that he only wants Trump to be a successful president. |
| 1:26.6 | Here is my exclusive interview with Senator Tom |
| 1:29.7 | Tillis. So the Senate is tied up now debating the Save America Act, something that Donald Trump |
| 1:36.7 | has called a fight for the soul of our nation. And he has said that anybody who votes against |
| 1:43.1 | it is sick, demented, or deranged. |
| 1:47.6 | So I'm tempted to ask whether or not you are sick, demented, or deranged, because you oppose this bill. |
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