or eight months. >> and there was an audience out there ready to listen to him as an authority. tyler, eric, thank you for your time tonight. that is our show. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. tonight on "politics nation," nbc interview with donald trump. over 29 minutes of defiance. he was making no apologies. and he actually said he'll win the latino vote. plus the confederate flag controversy. we're live in south carolina for a debate that included talk of a, quote, war of northern aggression. and new york governor andrew cuomo just appointed the state attorney general as special prosecutor for police-involved killings. governor cuomo joins me live for a live interview.

welcome to "politics nation." we begin with one of the most interesting television interviews we'll ever see. donald trump sitting down today with nbc for 29 minutes. it was a contentious and at times odd interview. he was defiant, slamming all his critics, but the real he came in defense of his infamous mexican rapist comment. >> you wouldn't even be hearing about the word "immigration" if it wasn't for donald trump. immigration is a word illegal immigration. i brought the whole subject up. >> yes, he did. and his comment has created chaos for the republican party. just 29 days before their first debate. they have been forced to talk immigration, and he's refusing to back away from his

controversial comments. >> there's nothing to apologize for. there's nothing to apologize for. read my statement. my statement is referring to mexico and they're pushing a lot of bad people into our country. >> he said the people coming here from mexico are, quote, bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. but he thinks he can win the latino vote. >> i have great relationship with the mexican people. i have many people working for me. you can look at the job in washington. i have many legal immigrants working for me. many of them come from mexico. they love me i love them. and i'll tell you something, if i get the nomination, i'll win the latino vote. i will win it because i'm going to create jobs. >> joining me now are jonathan capehart and jimmy williams. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, rev. >> jonathan trump says he'll win the latino vote. really? i was going to say your reaction but you already

started. >> yes. i'm laughing. >> your non-laughing reaction. >> well i'm laughing because president obama won the latino vote against mitt romney he got 71% of the latino vote. an amazing number. mitt romney got below 20%. the idea that donald trump is going to win the latino vote after insulting mexicans coming over to this country, calling them, as you read the quote, you know, they're rapists, they're bad people and then to add on top of it and say and some of them are good people it's an insulting remark that he's been trying -- that he's been doubling down on because he's been attacked for it. he's losing business because of it. and the idea that he's going to win the latino vote despite it is insane. >> but jimmy, i think the gravity of this to me in terms of this statement, is it's

almost like it's not offensive to say to people that you're criminals and you're rapists, but you love me. at one level it's laughable, but at another level, it's even more deeply offensive, like you don't think they have any self-respect or self-regard at the kinds of things you've said. >> so i remember when i came out of the closet some of my friends said, oh i have lots of gay friends. i'm like that makes it better for you, doesn't it. i'm sure that you as an african-american, as a black male growing up in this country, people would say, oh i have black friends. right. so here's the deal. the deal is i don't need your sympathy, i don't need your empathy. i just need you to stop being offensive and racist. that is what this is. if donald trump doesn't see that. if paul la page, the governor of maine doesn't see this a long line of radical, maniacal politicians, and that's what this is, this is a mania per se reverend al. and what he is saying if he

doesn't understand that at some level, at any level what he's saying is offensive, then that should tell you everything you need to know about his candidacy, about his own self-awareness. no, he doesn't have a bigger problem, the ripepublican party has a bigger problem. he gets on that stage in 29 days and gets on the stage with those republicans and says crazy stuff like that what are they going to do? support him or oppose him? >> i think jimmy, you hit on the bigger problem is that if he doesn't see it as offensive -- >> right. >> -- and they took it on some of them very late. jeb bush to his credit was a little earlier. but they have not seemed outraged. and hillary clinton, she really tied the whole republican party to him, including jeb bush. trump said he forced the immigration conversation to the forefront. she agreed and then tied the whole party in. watch this. >> well he doesn't believe in a path to citizenship.

if he did at one time he no longer does. so pretty much as i said they're on a spectrum of hostility, which i think is really regrettable in a nation of immigrants like ours all the way to kind of grudging acceptance but refusal to go with a pathway to citizenship. >> so jonathan they have got to deal in a very firm way that they're severing away from trump or they don't have a shot at really the latino vote and a lot of fair-mindinged american voters that are not latino. >> here's what's so brilliant about what's happening here. hillary clinton boxes the republicans in t, because clearly most of them have criticized him for what he said. the base of the republican party, or the ones who go out and vote in their primaries, they like what trump is saying that's why he's leading in the polls. so in the primaries, those guys

are going to be -- and maybe if carly fiorina makes it onto the debate stage, they are going to be standing there with somebody they have to criticize because he's the front runner. but if they criticize what he says on immigration, they could hurt their chances of getting the nomination and hurt their standing if they become the nominee because then they're going to have to depend on the very people they have insulted to help them win the general election against hillary clinton. so every time she does an interview like that where she lumps all of the republicans together and makes it sound like they're all speaking with one voice, it makes it better for her as a contrast with whoever the republican nominee is going to be. >> she check mates them. if she's playing chess, they're playing checkers. it doesn't work on the same board. but you know jimmy, jeb bush did respond to hillary clinton saying hillary clinton has once again changed her position on an issue of politically expedient purposes. she is now running further to

the left on immigration policy than even president obama's white house believes is legally feasible. hillary clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it. i don't think republicans wanted this debate so early, though. am i right, jimmy? >> they don't want this debate and the reason why is because they are out of the mainstream of american society. listen americans have a lot of common sense. if you're sitting around a dinner table and you're a mom and a dad and a couple of kids and you hear the sort of stuff coming from the republicans, they're anti-immigrant, they're anti-marriage equality they're anti-choice, they're anti-voting rights act, at some point that's going to catch on so i appreciate where jeb bush is coming from when it comes to his immigration position. i appreciate where he's coming from when it comes to common core. but the problem with that is that he's out -- those two issues, he's there, i get it. i will give it to him, although he is hedged. but to say that hillary clinton has changed her positions, she has evolved. she has evolved for people with

marriage equality she has evolved for immigration. why is that a bad thing? find me a republican that has done that. none. not one of the 328 republicans is for any of those issues. they're all against those issues. that's the problem. yes for people or no for people and the answer on the republican debate stage is no. on the democratic stage, the answer is yes. >> jonathan senator lindsey graham was very critical of the party on immigration today. listen to this. >> the immigration issue has hurt us. i've said this for a long time. the way the republican party, some elements have dealt with immigration, the way we've talked about immigrants has hurt us. and i just believe that we've gone from 44% to 27% among hispanics because of rhetoric like this. >> i mean this is lindsey graham. >> right. lindsey graham has been making really reasonable and rational

statements for someone running in a republican party that is way far to the right policywise and rhetorically than what he's saying right now. and i think maybe what he's trying to do is cast himself as a reasonable alternative to -- look, we're talking about how many people in the race now? 16, 17 people. lindsey graham is speaking in a way that i think if he can hang on beyond south carolina he could do very well. but this is the kind of language, this is the kind of rhetoric that should be taking hold in the republican party if they ever hope to make any kind of inroads with the latino community, because as people forget, 50,000 latinos turn 18 every day and will do so for the next 10 15 years. >> i have to ask you, i'm out of time, but i have to ask you, jonathan, you wrote a piece critical of trump recently and he wrote back. tell us what he said. >> well as his way, he said his assistant printout the piece

that i wrote, taking him to task for a tweet he retweeted that was really offensive to governor bush and his wife about illegal immigrants and jeb bush's wife who is of mexican descent. >> right. we did it on the show. >> yeah. and so he wrote on the piece, jonathan, you are the racist and you are the one who has real hate and he put "hate" in quotes and then best wishes donald trump. i don't have the exact quote there. >> he's criticized me for 25 years but he's never wished me best wishes. i'm offended. jonathan capehart and jimmy williams, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you rev. >> thank you very much. coming up a big move by new york governor andrew cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor for police-involved shootings. i'll talk to the governor live next. also more on the gop's nightmare on trump street.

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big news tonight from new york. governor andrew cuomo has signed an executive order to appoint a special prosecutor for cases involving civilians killed by police. new york state attorney general eric schneiderman will serve in this role. the mothers of victims of police violence appeared alongside governor cuomo as he signed the measure. an important step toward holding police accountable. joining me now is new york governor andrew cuomo. first of all, governor thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me rev. >> and i want to say i would have been there, i'm in washington, d.c., i would have been at the press conference. you and i have talked back and forth on the phone and i've worked on this issue. i think as a national model, i'm

in washington, d.c. hosting national action network's national conference but i think this is the first that i've seen that begins to take the politics out of local counties and the perceived conflict of interest many have. it doesn't mean police are guilty or innocent but it means it raises the level of taking away any appearances of a conflict. i think this can be a national model, governor. explain exactly what you did today. >> yeah. i'm with you 100% reverend. you know we've spoken about this probably over 20 years now. and when you look at a lot of the unrest and a lot of the lack of trust, it's in new york other states missouri baltimore, et cetera it's a feeling that there's been a double standard and a conflict of interest where the police are

being monitored by district attorneys, county attorneys, and that the relationship is so intimate between the two that the d.a.s can't really be fair judges of the police action. and that's nothing new. that's been going on for 20 years. you used the exact right word i think. the perception of a conflict. you don't have to have an actual conflict, just the perception. and the perception in and of itself is a problem. and the perception is real. the answer and i tried to get a law passed and we couldn't get a law passed yet, but i did it by executive order. if you have a police officer who shoots an unarmed civilian or there is a cityquestion as to whether or not the person is armed and dangerous, that case should be removed from the local d.a. because of the apparent conflict of interest and give that case to an independent

prosecutor, by our design the attorney general of the state of new york eric schneiderman. but that will go a long way towards restoring the trust and the objectivity of the system and it has here in new york. i'm very excited about its potential. >> now, one of the things that i think is important here is that when we perceive it as a conflict of interest because you're dealing with local d.a.s that are elected, who have to use the same police force to do their cases, this takes that out of the scenario and it takes it out of the cases. and i think that next we're going to see the first year since eric garner was the victim of a chokehold case in staten island and we'll be rallying around that. but if you go from eric garner into missouri ferguson following, into cleveland, tamir rice into baltimore, on and on i think this is a national model to at least begin to say let us

take all of the distrust out because in fact there is reasonable thinking to say the police cannot work with prosecutors they may work with every day. and i think that without you saying anything that in my opinion is anti-police or antithe community, you answered is why even have the question there. i think that governors around the country should follow this. >> well i'm very excited about it reverend because i think you're right. look normally in the past when we brought this up right away everyone got tight because the district attorneys took it as an insult that we were saying they couldn't be independent, they couldn't be objective because they were, quote unquote, in bed with the police. i spent a lot of time talking to the d.a.s in this state, 62 of

them. i'm a former assistant district attorney to bob morganthal, manhattan district attorney. i'm the former attorney general. i said look they know as lawyers that you don't have to have an actual conflict of interest, just the perception of a conflict of interest is a problem. and that's what this is. i think we have great d.a.s. bob johnson in the bronx did 200 cases against police officers. but the apparent conflict is a problem. and that has to be addressed. and this is the simple solution remove those cases to another prosecutor. the attorney general, have an office of special prosecutor. i don't think it really matters. and i think if you talk it through with the district attorneys, they realize that we have a critical problem here. it's all across the state, it's all across the country.

they understand the apparent conflict, and i think if it's done the right way, you can come to a mutual understanding, which is essentially what we did here reverend. now, i'm sure the d.a.s don't love it i'm sure the police don't love it. but i don't know if anyone will say it is unreasonable. >> the police union says it's unnecessary. >> yeah fine. fine. i'll take that criticism. but it helps restore trust in the system. if you could have seen the mothers of eric garner of shawn bell who were here with me today, you know, these are people who have fought for months, years, wanting some justice, some peace for their lost loved one. and this is the first time they said they were part of the

solution and they believed this is fair and right. if the police say it's unnecessary, i'll take that. from their point of view maybe it's unnecessary. from the minority communities and the communities who have lost trust, it's not unnecessary. >> well and you're right. as you know i've worked with all of those mothers and marched with them and all, and all they wanted was to be part of a solution. and i think that began today. we're not at the end, but it's the beginning. i need to ask you while i have you, donald trump. he's under a lot of fire for his statements and a lot of people have taken issue with him. he's a resident and a businessman in your state. do you have any reaction to him and what he said about constituents. there's a large latino constituency in new york many of whom supported you. >> well if i believed in deportation, he'd have a problem if he's a resident of new york

state. but look donald trump is -- i think he's got a very strong instinct for entertainment. it's part of his business. and i think, yeah we can talk about donald trump but i think it's also rel evacuate how donald trump is reading his audience and he's in a republican primary. he thinks this works, otherwise he wouldn't do it right? donald trump, if he knows anything, he knows marketing. so i think it says more about the audience than the entertainer, that he is detecting that this is what they want to hear and that this will sell. >> is the state of new york doing any business with trump? would you sever ties if they are? >> i don't believe we're doing anything. >> all right. new york governor andrew cuomo, thank you for your time tonight. i think a very big move on this when we agree.

as you said we've been talking 20 years, since i was in kindergarten, i think. thank you, governor. >> yeah almost almost. thank you, reverend. >> all right. coming up south carolina lawmakers are trying to rewrite history as they defend the confederate flag. that's next. in baltimo where most people probably know that geico could save them money on car insurance, right? you see the thing is geico well, could help them save on boat insurance too. hey! okay...i'm ready to come in now. hello? i'm trying my best. seriously, i'm...i'm serious. request to come ashore. geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. ♪ ♪

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raise amendment after amendment to slow down a vote. some defended the flag using some very revealing rhetoric. >> some call it the war between the states. some call it a civil war. growing up my family it was called the war of northern aggression. >> the war of northern aggression. >>. the war of northern aggression. >> the civil war was the war of northern aggression? that kind of language shows why we need to come to grips with our history. joining me now is south carolina state senator marlon kempson. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> the debate in your chamber, the senate was pretty quick. did you think it would drag on like this in the house, senator? >> well reverend what you have is a body dominated by

republicans. many of those republicans making all the arguments, much of which, particularly in the latter part of the afternoon, were frivolous arguments, a waste of taxpayers' money. but they're hanging on to the last vestages of an old south. the senate sent a message that we want a clean bill no amendments, and we are prepared to fully fight to hold our position. on yesterday we passed a unanimous consent resolution that if that bill comes back amended, that we will non-concur automatically and that triggers a conference committee. so we are prepared to continue to fight. this is the 21st century, and we must rid ourselves of these divisive assembles, but more importantly we must move on to a

substantive agenda for the people of the state. >> senator, you said this is the 21st century. i mean can you believe that you and i have worked on issues together. can you believe in the 21st century that people will stand up in the chambers in in your state, and say the civil war was about northern aggression? i mean we are still dealing with the mentality of that in the 21st century? we can have different opinions but we can't have different facts. >> well reverend sadly to say many arguments have been made including in the senate, that i was particularly disturbed by. several days ago i read from the actual soldiers' speeches in 1865. there was a resolution and general wade hampton and general

robert e. lee clearly stated that it was time to furl the flag forever. now, if the generals that commanded and conducted the confederate soldiers and were at war understood the importance of bringing a country together then these 2015 soldiers in the republican party today ought to understand that because they shed no blood. and so the fact is is that the statements of the war generals the people who led the confederacy, were very clear in the 1800s. and we're living in 2015 now. the history is well documented. we need to move on. that doesn't mean we forget history, but we put history in a museum museum. >> state senator marlon kimpson, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me reverend. coming up more from nbc's

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real campaign. the national journal reports today, quote, the seven full-time staff trump's campaign says it has hired in new hampshire, and nine in iowa gives trump possibly the biggest operation in the republican field. and then late today yet another surprising poll. donald trump leading the gop field in north carolina, four points ahead of both jeb bush and scott walker. we don't know how long this will last or how big trump will get. but we do know it's the last thing republicans wanted and they're only getting more of it. joining me now is jamal simmons. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me rev. >> jamal, trump is going hard at jeb bush. how does this play out? >> well trump is causing the entire gop field fits because what he's doing is highlighting

all the things that they don't want people to talk about. it's sort of like a crazy uncle came downstairs from the bedroom and now he's not just at the dinner table, he's outside on the front lawn and people are gathering to take a look at the spectacle. what he's doing is telling the people about all the little dirty secrets that republicans have been able to whisper behind the scenes. he is now saying those things out loud and bringing out the rawest, most xenophobic element of the republican party and causing everybody damage in their party for doing it. >> let's get back to that poll showing trump leading in the gop field in north carolina. now what's your take on this? >> i think voters will flirt and sort of dance with donald trump for a long time. he may even scare some people in a couple of these early states. i don't see donald trump becoming the nominee. i mean that would be fantastic. even his numbers now are still down in the teens. but when everybody else is in the teens or single digits it looks donald trump look like a

big force. but you're going to want to see some of these folks like lindsey graham and others people join lindsey graham and speak out a little more forcefully about what donald trump is doing. frankly, i watched your interview earlier with governor cuomo and watched the interview with secretary of state clinton from earlier. i want the democrats to speak out a little more forcefully too, not just be disappointed with donald trump, why not be angry at donald trump, why not be mad at donald trump for playing these race cards that are really damaging not just the republican party but what's happening to latinos in this country and how they're viewed. we've come out of a really tough period. i think now is the time not to hold our tongues about somebody who's playing this kind of a game. >> no, i said earlier to jimmy and jonathan that the outrage has not been there that i think is deserving here when you're talking about the kinds of statements he said against a nationality and against a race of people. but let me say this. you say you don't see him getting the nomination and you don't know how long he lasts.

he's got a lot of money, jamal. he can hang in there. >> he can absolutely hang in there and cause people trouble. remember what happened in 2012 when rick santorum had foster freeze as a billionaire, he had foster freeze paying all of this money for him while he stayed in the race. a couple of others had billionaires paying this money to keep them in the race with these super pacs and keep them alive. donald trump doesn't need a super pac, he just writes the check himself. so he will call the eventual republican nominee a lot of headaches before they can get him out of the race. >> now, what happens at the debate? i mean he has nothing to lose getting on that stage. not only saying outrageous things, as he has said about mexican, and illegal immigrants or immigrants that he wants to question as illegal. he can go direct at jeb bush. he's going to be fighting. he's not a guy that takes

criticism well. this could really be a problem. >> no that's exactly right. he doesn't just go after constituency groups he goes after these candidates name by name every single one of them. this is the worst person than that the horrible person in that and he's going to cause them a lot of trouble. the one candidate who is clearly planning to be donald trump's second fiddle is ted cruz. ted cruz on sunday when he was on the morning shows refused to say anything negative about donald trump himself because i think ted cruz is positioning himself to be the go-to person when donald trump gets out. he wants that trump endorsement and to get those same sort of xenophobic voters. he wants to get all those people into his side of the republican party to try to really force the case in the later primaries. >> jamal simmons, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. ahead, the president's historic plan for free community colleges. now lawmakers are pushing to make it happen. plus i'll talk to a hero in

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for saturday. and this week parents and activists led a march through the streets, calling for peace. in the wake of this crisis, nbcnews.com has launched a special series called "chicago's cruel summer," highlighting how the violence affects families. >> the scariest part of my day is when they leave to go to school, because i'll be afraid that they're going to get shot on my way home. >> she tells me not to leave my windows because a man might have a gun in his hand he can look through the window and see me and shoot. >> how does that make you feel? >> that makes me feel like scared because i don't want to get killed. >> if i keep them out of this neighborhood, we go away from everything. no parks. we don't socialize, we leave the community and go to other communities that don't have to worry about shooting gangs and

the violence. >> but all across chicago people are trying to make it better. the series also features a woman who founded a group to help keep young people off the streets. >> in the summer it means a lot to keep kids literally off the block. and if they are on the block, they must have an activity or activities to do -- to keep their minds occupied. we've seen kids go to college for the first time out of their families. we've seen young people who took on the roles of mentors for entire blocks. we've seen young people who have shared their own resources with other young people who normally wouldn't because they felt like they didn't have anything. we literally have talked young people out of guns that they carry with them. we've done that. >> joining me now is the woman you just saw, diane latiker, who runs kids off the block and

sen-q dunn a student in the program. thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> diane, what prompted you to start this program? >> well it prompted me because i have eight kids of my own. i had a 13-year-old at home. i wanted to follow her and her friends to keep her safe and my mom saw that and said diane, why don't you do something with those kids. they like you and respect you and that's how it started, 12 years ago. >> what has been the biggest challenge for you, diane? >> hope. and i mean that literally, hope. those young people desire hope and the only way they're going to get it is through our community and our neighborhoods. >> sen-q, why did you join kids off the block? >> i joined kid off the block because i like to play basketball a lot and met diane.

she talked to me about some stuff and helped me out. >> now, how old are you? >> 13. >> now, you're 13. what has kids off the block done for you personally at 13 years old? what do you think it has done to you as your life and your character? >> i think it has done a lot for me because it kept me off the streets and stuff and keep me busy a lot. so a lot of stuff don't happen. it keep me like having stuff to do, keep me busy. >> what do you hope to achieve in the future with kids off the block, diane? >> i hope to really affect generations, impact their lives, so that they will have the hope and the passion and the dedication along with resources and the tools they need to be successful and live the american dream. and what they think it is. and by the way achbdreverend al,

when i first met cinque you know what he asked me miss diane, will you please let me stay with you as much as i can so i can stay out of trouble, and i took that literally. >> you know, cinque i had an apartment for a few months dealing with violence out in chicago a couple of years ago and stayed a couple of months once a week. a lot of kids said to me they just wanted somewhere to go and something to do. i don't think a lot of people watching around the country understand how important that is. >> that's important. >> to young folk like you. they just need somewhere to go and something to do. >> that's right. >> what does -- is that what kids mean to you, this program means to you and some of your friends in the program? >> yes. >> diane, what do you have them doing at kids off the block? >> most of all, they -- okay to me i have to listen and find out what their passion is.

he loves basketball so i -- i get him in the basketball so i can find out what he needs in school. if he's failing, if he needs help in any type of education. make sure that he has the resources, if he needs to go to be mentored. make sure that he has a mentor. that's how i find out. the basketball is just the hook just like music. kids love music. we have them doing whatever their passion is and make sure they stay active in it because if they're doing what they love then they'll make sure to invite you into their lives. >> well, i thank you for being on tonight, diane latiker and cinque dunn. cinque, when i come back to chicago, we're going to play some hoops. >> all right. >> thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up president obama is pushing a plan for free college -- free community college. today lawmakers are taking action. and that presidential call

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where too many bright striving americans are priced out of the education they need. that's why i'm sending this congress a bold new plan to lower the cost of community college to zero. [ applause ] president obama earlier this year calling for college to become more affordable. today two democratic lawmakers introduced a bill to make his plan for free community college a reality. it would help states waive tuition fees at community, technical and tribal colleges. there are 5.4 million job openings in the country. companies can't fill these jobs because they can't find people with the right training or education. this bill would help fix that and it's part of a larger progressive agenda that is picking up steam here in washington. it's part of what we talked about today at the legislative conference of my civil rights

group, the national action network. members of congress talked about the need for concrete progress on everything from voting to criminal justice. >> voter expansion has got to be what we are doing. >> voting shouldn't be an obstacle for anybody who is eligible to vote in this country. >> police should be trained to see minority as people not as threats. >> we've got to look at everything from the top to the bottom when it comes to criminal justice. >> we must really use the marching and the raising of issues to translate into permanent change with legislation and policy. we cannot just dramatize the need without coming with the solutions. and whether it is community colleges or special prosecutors in new york we must keep going forward, raising the issues but

making concrete change a reality. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. trump towers. let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. for the moment perhaps the week, maybe the month, maybe the election year donald trump is making the noise. the master of monopoly the man in the gold tower has got gotham and the rest of the country talking. tonight we've got a lot of trump, but also all of the men who may replace him as the republican party's number one challenger to the political establishment. texas senator ted cruz he's author of a new book "a time for truth" reigniting the promise of america. there he is and we have him with us tonight. thank you so much. you know you have a fascinating background. the son of immigrants.