. - ted cruz and the like. ted cruz ran for president believing that conservatives were angry, and what he'd actually discover and what donald trump already knew was that everyone was angry. - yeah, i'm tempted to trot out the old adage that you can't beat somebody with nobody. trump showed up and the conservative movement in the main did not really field an adequate candidate or any candidate to carry the anti-trump banner, but you do point out cruz. the fact is, you can't get more movement-y than ted cruz. it's not that the conservative wing of the republican party or the movement conservatives didn't show up for the game. they just got beat, right? - ideas don't run for president, people do. people have flaws that can be exploited. - let's spend a little bit of time. i don't want you to go all al franken on me, but let's talk about cruz' flaws. - well, i think ted cruz is a brilliant individual. he's an extremely smart person. but i also think that he is someone who does not necessarily have the gift for the

little different politically, the scenario, because, in part, democrats were united until today when ted cruz went through this in 2013. i was here for every day of it. the republicans were unhappy with how he was acting. senator cruz was the last one standing against president trump in the 2016 election and he has done a lot of work to try to build back relationships with colleagues here on capitol hill if he is going to run for re-election to his senate seat, he's going to need their help and support. i, in my years covering him here, would argue he has made a shift in that direction but, you know, you saw what he had to say. judge for yourself. >> it was all on display. thank you so much, casey hunt, from the u.s. senate basement, i believe. to our white house correspondent, hallie jackson. the president's odd deference of standing back and watching the senate go through this very interesting bipartisan effort that looks like it's succeeding well without the president's help. why does he want to be seen as the absent party? >> reporter: i thought were you going to have me explain ted cruz'

didn't you say all this back when this happened snow ted cruz i recognize that -- happened snow ted cruzognize that -- mr. cruz: i recognize that's a story you like to tell. in 2013 i voted repeatedly to fund the government. in 2013 it was harry reid and the democrats who voted no. who voted to shut the government down, just like this week. republicans voted to fund the government and it was chuck schumer and the democrats who voted to shut the government down. reporter: bottom line, are shutdowns a good use of leverage or not? cruscrus look, we should not be -- mr. cruz: look, we should not be shutting the government down. i consistently oppose shutdowns. in 2013 i said we shouldn't shut the government down. i went to the senate floor repeatedly asking unanimous consent to reopen the government. reporter: you stood in the way of that. mr. cruz: that's factually incorrect. it's a wonderful media narrative. but only one thing actually causes a shutdown. when you have senators who vote to deny cloture on a funding bill. and when that bill comes up, you have a vote. a yes means fund the gov

>> if you bring this back to immigration, what we saw a couple of hours ago on sean hannity, ted cruze president trump's position on the dreamers is the farthest left you can become a farther than obama. democrats who came on other networks saying this immigration policy is as far as red as policy, and it sets up where we go next week, we have another showdown, another countdown clock for a government shutdown when immigration will be the reason why this government shutdown's again -- >> shannon: february 8th. >> and it's because this framework that the president has put out is both hostile to democrats and hostile to republicans. >> it is not a far right or far left immigration proposal. it just isn't. >> ted cruz said that giving a pathway to citizenship to 1.8 million dreamers as the far, far left and its amnesty. i don't agree with that but that is what he said. >> it is amnesty. the point is the fact that you've got ted cruz uncomfortable the surgeon elements in the democrats screaming white nationalism on the other, maybe there's a middle ground that trump is actually occupying

the msnbc political contributor from d.c., and former chief strategist for ted cruz who is joining usrom austin. so texas jason johnson, i'll start with you. ted cruz, it is so odd, it captured the attention of the country when he tried to deny that he was behind the shutdown. why do you suppose he is moving away from something that he really championed in 2013? >> so i haven't heard that entire clip. i heard what you played when you led in. i'm going to make a guess here that what he was talking about was the effort by himself and other republicans to offer up rifle shot continuing resolutions to basically fund everything except for obamacare in 2013. but i'm not sure what point he was making. the bigger issue of whether or not the party at least based upon perception gets blamed for a shutdown suffers in november, i don't think there is a whole lot of evidence that they do. >> i think that is a good point. jason johnson in d.c., in 2014, the republicans were blamed all the polls showed and a lot of republicans were mad at ted cruz for doing this because they felt he had pushed it, b

. >> this is a mirror image of what happened in 2013 when ted cruz, acting as a pied piper for conservative members of the house, was able to get them to shut down the government in order to undo obamacare. they failed quite spectacularly. leadership in the republican party was against it but it went forward anyway and it was a spectacular failure after which it was argued by people who were for the whole idea trying to do this, that if they hung in there, if the republicans that stuck to their guns, if ted cruz hadn't caved, it would've doubt very well. you're hearing the same thing exactly from the left about senator schumer. republicans, you may recall, were calling it a schumer shutdown. now some on the left, the remarks you read, suggest calling at this schumer celebrated >> bret: wall street approved of what happened today. all three markets hitting record highs. s&p 500 up 23. nasdaq skyrocketed 72. all record highs once again. up next, outraged tonight over missing text messages involving fbi officials republicans claim were biased against the president in the investigation. first h

wants to reduce illegal immigration, the hard line of the hard-line, this is something he says, ted cruzi don't know if he is future presidential aspirations, we haven't even heard from the people in the house, the super hardliners, there is still political advantage to be had in finding a space even to the right of tom cotton and donald trump. >> shannon: let's talk about tom cotton. he's been really tough on this issue. he talked about a scaling back legal immigration. today, this is what he said. the president's framework is generous and humane while also being responsible. if you got caught in on board, he was one of the ones that allegedly had the [bleep] comments, and the bipartisan agreement, felt that they were blindsided by the hawks. >> i will bet that cotton and purdue had more than a little bit to do with the writing of this plan. i wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that they did. the question for republicans is pretty simple. they have good momentum going, tax cuts, the won round one of the shutdown wars. if they cannot pass legislation, i will state it simply and plainl

he was looking and his supporters were looking at other candidates in the gop like ted cruz which is a reminder that this runs much deeper in the gop, and it is part of why you see ongoing loyalty. >> as i'm looking at you i've seen pictures of air force one touching down in nashville and he's just in to spook a little while and perhaps is surprising, joyner of the party, so to speak on air force one is the republican senator bob corker who was onboard with trump and then totally wasn't and then now appears to be. take a look at the evolution of bob corker. >> i don't know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard a standard and debases the country in the way that he does, but he does. he will not rise to the occasion as president. >> do you think he's a role model to children in the united states? >> no. >> you don't? >> no. absolutely not. >> is the president of the united states a liar? >> the president has great difficulty with the truth on many issues. >> do you regret supporting him in the election? >> let's just put it this way, i would not do that again. >> you wouldn

in a head-to-head, ted cruz's favorable are pretty bad. 38% favorable, 45% unfavorable.w 6%. a new public policy poll matches the two of you up. he's at 45, you're at 37. texas is a tough state. hispanic voters, latino voters are large in population but tend to vote in low numbers compared to their population share. how do you do in texas what was done in alabama and change what we're seeing on the screen right now and get latino vote toers turn out for you? >> on that poll when respondents know i don't take any help from corporations we're ahead on ted cruz. hispanic texans in our state -- spe [ speaking foreign language ] -- ending racial gerry mamander. we're going to every commune to make sure no one is taken for granted. everyone can participate in this critical election. our victory great for texas and critical for this country. >> if you got into the united states senate and the house were to return impeachment articles against donald trump, in your mind do you believe that donald trump has committed impeachable offenses? >> i believe there was the effort to collu

it is not like 2013 where ted cruz had his own view, but it was partisan and not popular. this is very popular. second, this is the first time we have had one-party control all three parts of the government. it american people know that is their responsibility to reach out and compromise, to get things done. there's a lot of feeling in the country that the white house is incapable of really leading the country and when something like this happens, it exacerbates that view. >> if negotiating with the president is like negotiating with jell-o, as he said, how are -- going to get it done senator schumer: i suggested last night on the floor and this morning on the floor that the president called the four of us back today and try to get something done. it is still very hard given the past history and what i have said, but you have always got to be willing to try, and i am. thank you. last one. cnn back there. >> can you talk a little bit about the endgame? do you think democrats have the stomach for a shut down that lasts a week, to the weeks, two months? two weeks, two do you

ted cruz has pretty much disappeared from public view. >> joining us now is nia tandem. hiary clinton came in second in the electoral college but she's a former senator, this is the kind of thing that when former senators become president they are usually pretty adept at steering their way out of, unless they're faced with an opposition party in both the house and the senate. here you have a president who has his own party in the house and senate and he has managed to get it to the brink of a shutdown. >> i think what's central here is there are reports now from the caucus meeting democrats had in the senate just over the last hour, i think what's central here is people think they have an agreement with donald trump and he's -- basically walks away from it. there are reports schumer thought he had a global agreement with trump and then talked to his most conservative aides or right wing of the party and then basically walked away. i think what's happening in the caucus. >> let me interrupt you for a second. do you mean in schumer's meeting today with the president. >>yes

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it's not like 2013, where ted cruz had his own view that it was partisan and not popular. this is the first time we've had one-party control all three parts of the government and the american people know that it's their responsibility to reach out in compromise, to get things done. as a lot of feeling in the country that the white house is incapable of really leaving the country. and when something like this happens, it exacerbates that view. >> is negotiating with the president is negotiating with jell-o, how are you going to get it done, and are you willing to go back to the white house? senator schumer: i suggested last night on the floor and this morning on the floor that the president called the four of us back today and try to get something done. it is still very, very hard given the past history and what i said, but you always have to be willing to try, and i am. last one. cnn back there. yelling isn't going to get called on. >> can you talk about the endgame? do you think democrats have the stomach for it shut down the week, two weeks, months, and if republicans ca

only people in that room that don't care whether or not donald trump apologizes are people like ted cruz themselves for this guy who called his wife ugly and said his dad killed j.f.k., and he's like, "oh, this guy, he's the master." so give me a break. ( cheers and applause ) >> we're still on the fence. >> stephen: still on the fence. >> we're still on the fence. >> stephen: well, ted cruz is our first inverterate senator. that's diversity right there. there anything about his communication style, as professional communicators, anything about his communication style, "okay, yeah, he's good at that?" >> not the way he spoke tonight. tonight he did the "i'm reading a hostage statement" kind of delivery. >> stephen: he was blinking out. >> he wasn't allowed to use his twitter voice, you know. so he just looked like he was reading a speech for the first time. >> trump's genius is he drives a news cycle for weeks at a time. but a very smart reporter wrote a piece today saying nothing in the speech will be rememberable because of a trump tweet. >> and very few references to his opponents' me

the biggest thing is everybody and in some ways rightly attacked ted cruz for being part of governmentin 2013, now the senators who represent the military, federal contractors, the senators here from virginia, tim cain who ran for vice president, mike warner are the ones causing the shutdown. it's hurting constituents directly. yet, they are not doing anything to try to lead on the issue. they aren't creating any sort of extension. they aren't trying to get out there and say, listen, we need to make sure our constituents are taken care of. they are out there to undermine president trump, that's not really leading. i not everybody is a fan of the president in northern virginia or dc area, guess what, he's the one trying to keep the government open and that's what they want. heather: you take a look at the hadlines son -- headlines of liberal or mainstream media, they are blaming the democrats, they are saying that they are not the ones working with republicans and causing shutdown. you know when it gets to that point, we have a problem here. we will see what happens today, what do you t

this is president trump who has said ted cruz's father was behind the jfk assassination, and that he information that that birth certificate of the president was not really from hawaii. remember those days? >> i do. i remember jeff flake saying he has a flag rabbrant disregard f truth. >> that libel law assault came 12 or 18 hours after "the washington post" recorded the 2,000th lie of the trump administration. >>> to california where the death toll from flooding and muss slides keeps growing. at least 17 people have been killed in santa barbara county alone. more than a dozen others still unaccounted for. the 101 freeway, california's main north/south coastal route was buried under mud and debris and will remain closed until monday. >> 500 search and rescuers have been destroyed. we spoke to hayden gouer, who was searching for his mother after her home was wiped out by the mud flow. >> she was in the voluntary evacuation, calling out her name all night long. didn't get any response. >> there were hundreds of rescues from the mud yesterday. there are 1,500 homes still being threatene

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democratic strategist who is chief speech writer for loretta lynch and jason johnson who worked on ted cruz's 2016 campaign. jason, how much do you see this as being politics? how much is policy? >> i'd say 100% politics. for people like me who do not support amnesty for daca recipients, we know the following, president trump has said that he would sign a daca bill. we know that the leadership in the senate, republican leadership and the republican leadership in the house will support amnesty for daca recipients. at the end of the day, if those are the facts and democrats have been told that why are they not supporting this continuing resolution to go forward? there is only one reason. their base is demanding it of them. >> you have republicans, they have been pretty anxious to label this the schumer shutdown. are they right? >> no. republicans control the entirety of u.s. congress and the white house right now. it's a little ridiculous to say that this is somehow the democrats shutting down the government when democrats have less power. what democrats can do is stand up for vulnerable commun

ted cruz says i do not believe we should be granting a path to citizenship to anybody here illegally.licans muted. a sign conservatives are not in love with the proposal and democrats are unhappy too despite the offer of pathway to citizenship. one calling a plan to get every item on stephen miller's white supremacist wish list. dick durbin says this puts the agenda on the backs of the young people. >>> anytime you infuriate both sides of the aisle? president trump addressing the widely criticized retweets of the anti-muslim videos last year. >> i am in the united states. i don't read as much about it. perhaps it was a big story in britain. perhaps it was a big story in the uk. in the united states, it wasn't a big story. >> maybe not on trump tv, but it was a huge story in the united states. how is it going over before the speech at the world economic forum? we are live in davos. >>> siblings competing tat the olympic games is rare. >> it is an unusual one. to have two daughters playing for two different countries. >> you can't script something like this. >> nothing we could have dre

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has no credibility if we don't point out that right now democrats are asking for even more than ted cruz dared for in 2013. so the left of it there asking for a daca deal here, even though republicans made clear they're willing to deal with the issue in march. right now we need to see where the blame is going toned up. >> it has been a weekend of blame. in fact when you call the public comment line at the white house, this is what you hear. listen. >> thank you for calling the white house. unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. due to this obstruction, the government is shut down. >> i guess the jury is out on who will ultimately get the blame, right? in 2013 -- >> that's unusual. that is very unusual that is more like the rnc, though, isn't it, philip? >> like a superpac ad or something. >> that's not something you expect when you call your elected representatives, much less the white house. >> the pe

should know who got the blame last night in 2013, and that is ted cruz, the republican from texas. is going to get the blame in a midterm election year when republicans control both chambers of congress, but don't have a supermajority in the senate, remains to be seen. the back-and-forth going already. issue of feel on the daca -- the democrats feel that they have the support of the public on daca. vonnie: is there going to be a huddle at some point? when did they get together and strategize? have: all morning, aides been going back-and-forth. we heard from the white house -- they aretartling not sure what democrats want, what concessions they want to make. the white house going so far as to say that democrats think a government shutdown would help them politically. regardless of the drama, there likely will be a meeting if not at the last minute, early next week. we should know that president trump is still scheduled to go , then hisext week second state of the union address. -- itnger this goes on doesn't have much of an effect on the market, but it could start to hurt various fa

let's let that serve to your case why you should replace ted cruz as senator of texas. ack to make the case, as is senator cruz. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. good morning. >> thanks to our international viewers for joining us this morning. for you cnn "newsroom" is next. for u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. let's get after it. >> when they have no collusion, it seems unlikely you would even of have an interview. >> if the special counsel wants to interview him, they would be able to. >> he's asking the party to give him political cover for this investigation. >> bipartisan uproar after florida gets the sole exemption from expanded offshore drilling. >> would this be okay? >> if this is not a sign of politics as usual, i don't know what is. >> republicans have to be careful. they can't afford someone like joe arpaio. >> controversial sheriff making waves in the arizona senate race. >> you believe that president obama's birth certificate is a phony? >> no doubt about

and holy blank ted cruz just dropped out of the racist going to be a clinton trump race unbelievable and strzok responds what? you heard it right my friend said page. i saw trump won figured it would be a bit and now the pressure really starts to finish that mid year examination of hillary clinton. meaning that clinton e-mail probe. it sure does, lisa page respond ed and earlier in february 2016 page texted strzok that candidate trump simply cannot be president. your reaction there? >> yeah, i mean, the idea again, this shows the misconduct and the bad decision-making obviously of the special council 's team in bringing these individuals on. lisa page was there temporarily with bob mueller but it took months. i mean we have to remember we haven't even gotten to the missing portion of these e-mails but it took months for bob mueller to remove peter strzok from his team. that was after he interviewed people. he was reportedly as the news was reported was the head agent on the manafort investigation that led to criminal charges and with michael flynn. interviewed flynn because he was ob

people very consistent on this, from the beginning, like ted cruz and like heritage that would not to they feel like it is a regression, giving more than president obama or somebody else. that's why they're finding it to be -- >> you think it's an opening bid? >> yeah, i think it's an opening bid. he has to do that. what happened before didn't work, right? well they weren't able to come to positive resolution. he's going to have to give something. he's also going to have to listen and heed the warnings and criticisms of his constituents and his core conservative base that came out strongly to support him in the election. he's in a bit of a tough position i don't think he minds it. he's not, you know, i guess uncomfortable or unfamiliar with being in a position like this. but you have got to be able to sit at a table and show you have an open mind, willing to hear all sides of it. it's not nailed down in stone yet. they should be expressing their viewpoint, so should the other side. hopefulliness a way to get the consensus building. >> if the president has said he's willing to take hea

they said this is ted cruz trying defund obamacare. so there are some weird similarities here.o surprise if he goes back to the white house, if there is a dramatic several series of meetings and they work out some crazy deal between them but they have to go back to the senate. >> and mitch mcconnell looking bad and coming out fine. >> this is my question. do we have consequences for any of these actions? it is under clear. >> isn't this what donald trump loves to do. start a week in chaos, work through and it then there is the dramatic final act. >> of course, the 11:58 p.m. he comes out arm in arm with chuck schumer. >> when you look at the congressional approval now at under 20%. 18%. that is a horrible number. especially if you're mitch mcconnell or paul ryan because people tend to take it out on the incumbent party. so even though there might be this idea of ultimately, people, you know, just as many people will blame the democrats as the republicans. it is a mixed bag. and maybe people won't hold anyone responsible at the end of the day. it does feed into the narrative of

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senator ted cruz said that this would amount to no less than amnesty for these folks, as darlene mentioned. you have the house freedom caucus, who we are not really sure where they come down on this because on one hand they are very solidly red trump districts were trump did very well, but on the other hand, it is the amnesty issue and where they come down on that is going to be something interesting. from my sources, they want to meet and they get back in town. side am the white house a what kind of reaching out to these groups that al talked about? guest 1: you will remember a week or so ago when the president had the bipartisan immigration meeting that was televised and went on for an hour or so, there was a point in that meeting where he said, i will take the heat, whatever kind of deal this group gets and brings to me, i will sign it, you pass it, i will take the heat. i think also it will be interesting to see how much of a sales job the president does, if he is really serious about wanting to offer these young people at pathway to citizenship, we will see how invested he is in tryin

born in this can'ty and he had a "extremely incredible source saying it was a fraud" and suggested ted cruz dad had smog to do with it. get involved. >> all right let's move on and talk about immigration reform. federal judge wrenching trump administration to plan vodka. he's set to put the the break on it in march. despite the ruling the president reaekted to the nusz this morning on twitter saying this it just shows how broken and unfair the court system is when opposing side runs theth circuit and almost always wins before being he reversed. >> a lot of people call it ninth circus at least on the conservative end of things an a lot of people get reversed. recordless with daca in legal limbo they won't want to push solution to dreamers that congress with agree upon. >> we must have a wall that says unequivocally that they are americans. because they are. the president who assured us in the bipartisan group of lawmakers in attendance that he was also committed to that goal. >> and now the president also seems to still find a solution in congress for daca part of broader sxunsty meeting and

. >> harris: government shutdown averted, senator ted cruz from texas, let's watch. >> to turn and attack house republicans and fellow republicans and turn republicans on each other. that was a mistake. i wish it had not happened. this time republicans -- the media loved to write the story, love to broadcast the story that any shutdown is republicans fault. i think chuck schumer and the democrats believed they could shut the government down and reporters would dutifully blame it on republicans. >> do you support what mcconnell has promised here? >> my understand understandingh mcconnell has said we will have votes on immigration. i think we need to improve border security, past kate's law which is legislation i introduced, providing for mandatory minimum sentences for aggravated felons who repeatedly enter this country. i think it would be a serious mistake for us to pass an amnesty bill providing amnesty and a path to citizenship for millions of people here illegally along with chain migration. i think that will be enormous mistake. congress might do that, i hope it doesn't and i think d

ted cruz came back with the -- i warned you if you look at porn all day your face will get stuck like but he doesn't listen. today we honor martin luther king by judging people not by the color of their skin but by which painting they kind of look like. this is president trump's first mlk day in office. and we wanted to do something special to commemorate that. so we went out in the streets this afternoon and asked people whose side are you on in the donald trump-dr. king twitter war. [ laughter ] of course dr. martin luther chan king has been gone for 50 years but did that stop people from weighing in on this impossible feud? no, it did not. in tonight's dr. king edition of "lie witness news." [ applause ] >> we're talking to people today about the big twitter war that's going on between donald trump and dr. martin luther king. why do those two not get along? >> well, it seems like donald trump isn't really into african-americans we'll say. and obviously -- >> was it wrong of martin luther king to call president trump a fisheye fool jive turkey? >> no, not if it's true. >> what are p

not that bad, and maybe the democrats are thinking that in this case. >> it didn't do any good for ted cruzbut i -- i think all of these things are survivable. as you point out, you got to make sure you stick to your messages and you have discipline and your rank-and-file don't freak out. who can last longest in this game of chicken would be very interesting to see. >> dana: let me think it's one of the worst possible things that members of congress could do. heard mike emanuel just say there are many members who are supposed to go on big foreign trips, congressional delegation trips because they are out of session next week. i think if any members get on those plans today without this being resolved, they will very much live to regret it. >> just as the president couldn't go to mar-a-lago to celebrate his first year in office, nor can anyone else take a junket someplace to make sure the coffee fields of rwanda are properly cultivated, yes, ma'am. >> dana: i will say that's a given, as they say. all right, chris stirewalt, thank you so much for being with us today. i appreciate it. so, don'

john kasich, the governor of ohio, senator ted cruz of texas and all of the many, many women who haveused him of sexual harassment and assault. that's just a small sampling and those are just lawsuits for criticism or accusations saying nothing about his business deals but the president almost never follows through with the lawsuits. and it would be difficult for him to win a liable suit, especially to block this book prior to publication. and lastly let's take a step back here. it's on its face remarkable that the president of the united states of america is in any way trying to stop publication of a book breaching the right of free speech and freedom of the press because said speech, let's be honest, hurts his feelings. it's not for a national security reason. in fact, from what we know about the president's furious response to this book, it seems the quotes from steve bannon, the mean, mean things he said about him and his family, are what upset him the most, the quotes. although white house press secretary sarah sanders also said this about the book today. >> in terms of the merit

. >> you can ask ted cruz about how surprising it is.n you think back to the primaries when ted cruz had the map laid out and donald trump took the nomination away from him, essentially, in his view. >> the other quick thing i would say is that the last republican president who was very, very staunchly anti-abortion, that was george w. bush, and i don't remember during the march for life him having an event that was that robust. he would beam himself in but not in a way that was full of a rally in the rose gardennd having people to come and to give real-life stories. nothing like that. and i think that really does speak to what you were saying, which is more than any other republican we've seen in recent history how reliant he is on the base and base management. >> that is the base of the base. he has to keep them in line and keep them -- if he were to lose the evangelicals -- you see certain things and you go, is this going to be the moment that's going to cost him the evangelical support? he hasn't found that. but they are very determi

johnston, tony schwartz, governor john kasich, senator ted cruz, oh, and all of the women who accused him of sexual harassment and assault. and that's just a small sampling and those are just lawsuits because of criticisms, to say nothing of his business deals. the president almost never actually follows through with these lawsuits and it would be very difficult to win a liable suit, especially to block this book prior to publish kags which would be tomorrow morning. lastly, let's all take a step back here. it's remarkable that the president of the united states is in any way trying to stop publication of a book, breaching the right of free speech and freedom of the press that we have in this country just because said speech to be candid, hurts his feelings. not for a national security reason, in fact, from what we know about the president's furious response to this book, it seems that the quotes from steve bannon are what has upset him the most. the quotes. although, just a few minutes ago, white house press secretary sarah sanders said this about the book. >> in terms of the merit,

back in 2013 when there was a shutdown, david, senator ted cruz, he led the charge on that. he wanted obamacare gutted. it was in the bill that he was voted on, the funding for it, although it was also the law of the land. this time, democrats want to add this daca extension to protect young undocumented immigrants who don't know a home besides the u.s., brought here as kids. is this different? does this make the politics different? >> not necessarily. i think what's interesting is nervous as republicans have been that this shutdown could go sideways on them because they have never won one that we have seen in the last 25 years, this is the first time that we have seen a republican in the white house, and usually not withstanding his low approval ratings and the issues he has in terms of trying to negotiate because he's moving around so much, usually the president has the bully pulpit, and is in a better position to come out as more reasonable. that's what we saw in 2013 when the public sided with president obama even though they didn't like obamacare. they did not like the

good to be with you. >> you agree with ted cruz? just heard his position. >> i agree we need to move forward on the issue of immigration, which i think leader mcconnell was willing to do before the shutdown. in fact, was willing to do way back last fall. i think he announced that this was an issue the senate was going to deal with sometime early this year. i don't think there was anything gained by all this, but i do think that we ought to ban the use of shutdowns as a weapon of choice for either side to use because nobody's interests get served, and what we've just seen in the last couple of days is the uncertainty and chaos that comes when that happens. >> do you disagree with the president? he over the weekend suggested that you guys in the senate eliminate the filibuster, the 60-vote requirement, just go back to a simple 51-vote majority. that would change the historical precedence of the united states senate. do you think you should do that? >> avoiding a government shut down shouldn't require us to have to change the rules in

. >> what did you think of ted cruz fighting with kate? you think about cruz, oh, my god. not that things could be worse, but things could be almost as bad with this guy. >> ted cruz is good at keeping a straight face and saying something never happened when we all watched it happened. casey hunt. sarah sanders has just taken the podium. >> -- schumer shutdown is leading media coverage today. i'll get into that shortly. i want to start with a couple national security issues first. on northwest syria we call on all parties to remain focused on the goal of defeating isis de-escalating and resolving the syrian conflict and protecting innocent civilians. we take turkey's security concerns seriously. increased violence in afrin disrupts what a relatively stable area of syria and distracts from international efforts to ensure the lasting defeat of isis. it could be exploited by isis and al qaeda for resupply and safe haven and risks exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. we urge turkey to exercise restraint in its operations, ensure humanitarian aid continues and avoid civilian c

you remember when ted cruz did this back in the 2013. it was very much ted cruz and the bulk of the party didn't want to go along with him. that is not the case here. this is a pretty broad and deep the fact that jon tester is out there saying we have to take a stand here. the obama guys that run pod save america has some chart going around with the fight club versus the waffle house. this is how democrats across the board are feeling about this. and that is a real squeeze for chuck schumer. between the progressive bhoz are already running for president and the guys he needs to keep and fight for a majority. >> my be is chuck schumer is willing to take bullets for claire mccaskill and donnelly. but we'll see. to the other side of pennsylvania avenue. thank you, kasie. calle, the ocean air of mar-a-largo, jet fumes of air force one. >> saying donald trump. >> is it going to lure him into cutting -- giving schumer something to sort of split the difference here. >> reporter: so here is the thing. and i think you are right. donald trump want

ted cruz has political aspirations. he's up for re-election in 2018.ocrats would love to take him out. i think it's an uphill climb. i think he's going to be running for president and this came up when he ran for president that certainly the polls showed that republicans lost that shutdown battle. host: for those listening on c-span radio, we're talking with bob cusack, editor in chief of "the hill" newspaper. trying to sort through the day's events. this statement from the white house, i'm pleased democrats in congress have come to their senses. once the government is funded my administration will work toward solving the problem of very unfair illegal immigration. we'll make a long-term deal on immigration if and only if it is good for the country. guest: that's both senator mcconditional and senator schumer have been critical of the president, schumer said over the weekend negotiating with trump is like negotiating with jell he. mitch mcconnell said we need to figure out what the president stands for on this we've heard different things from the admi

all christian right leaders and they are not half as powerful as it used to be but came out for ted cruz and if you for rubio but there was not long -- was a not trump faction with pastors leading this. but it turns out the congregation or the laypeople in general they are the ones who voted for trump. so a poll done from one firm from southern baptist. it was done before the last election. so if you ask people what issues are most important to them they notice evangelical pastors would answer personality of the candidate, religious freedom or the supreme court justices, abortion, exactly what you would imagine from right wing religious evangelicals. but now on the other hand others would say economics and national security. so the two would never meet so to have that loss of control but also it is pragmatism that isn't what they would have done trying to keep strictly to their commitment but they voted for all kinds of people and because of what they thought and mostly have been disappointed and probably they won't be disappointed by donald trump either who else? betsy divorce -- then c