with us now to lock at more of the wild weekend in plekz, we've got kristen tate, a contributor for "ll" and also democratic strategist emily tish-susman. thank you for joining me. kristen, i want to start with you first, and a bit of the pushback from president obama's own spokesperson who released a statement saying in part that "president obama nor my white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen and that any suggestion otherwise is false. what do you make of the -- >> we don't know what went on, but we need to be careful because the spokesman didn't say wiretapping didn't occur. what he said was that obama himself or the white house didn't directly order it. we don't have all the information, but i have been seeing a lot of reports that are kind of misconstruing that statement there. a senior u.s. official in a position to know says he and others have no idea what president trump is talking about. why do you believe the president is making these allegations? -- i cannot pretend to do that. look, we do know that a rumor like this was publish the on breitbart, a

kristen tate, a contributor for the hill joining us now. ted cruz cled the speech bo and positive. had his best speech at. >> it was a huge night for tribe. i give them an a+ on this. use bold, strong and presidential. but then he really said in the speech was controversial. it should not been controversial. he spoke about different topics, but the main common theme is america first. there shouldn't be anything controversial about putting a native american citizens before before the need of foreigners. that's what propelled him to the campaign and i think he delivered that message last night in a way that is palatable to people outside his base. nicole: i was thinking that pay the people who love trump will love him regardless they like his policy ideas. some of the moderates or people are more cautious whether they change their ideas and you can answer that. i think he also an addition to staying on point state of the teleprompter hit the heart. he tries so hard to make himself real with everything from navy seals to immigration talking about those who give positive and productive