. >> reporter: yet cruz quietly elicited phil gramm to do some damage control. gramm says ted called me and asked me to help him build a working relationship with the leadership of the house and senate. freshman dan sullivan of alaska may soon endorse him. but senator lindsey graham, a longtime critic and now cruz supporter suggests the texas freshman needs to do more. >> ted would be well served to reach out to his colleagues. the more support he gets from across the spectrum of the republican party, the more viable alternative he becomes to trump. >> reporter: and will marco rubio support him? >> i haven't even thought about the presidential race at all. >> not sure i believe that. >> manu raju joins us. any converts from the senate expected? >> we know that he and phil gramm have both started to make some calls to senate republicans, including to montana senator steve danes. the state votes in june. they traded voice mails. he and cruz did. senate republicans don't want to get into the middle of this nasty fight and anger donald trump supporters back home. bu

it was her husband in alliance with phil gramm for the republicans, who reversed glass-steagall and openhe door to the too big to fail. it was her husband, by the way, who signed the bill into law that she accuses bernie sanders of having somehow engineered. and that was the commodity futures modernization act which bill clinton and lawrence summers a secretary-treasurer and phil gramm pushed through congress, did it as a lame-duck president. it is that legislation tucked into an omnibus bill -- only four peoe in theouse ved agait it. n paul w one of em on the libertarian side. yes, bernie sanders went along with this threat that if you don't vote for the omnibus bill, people don't get paid of support and so on. it was bill clinton's bill. she estimates repeatedly, blaming bernie sanders for the failure to regulate credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations -- all of this junk which was made legal by a bill pushed by bill clinton, signed into law by bill clinton, and i believe done to enhance her coming race for the senate of new york where she got an enormous amount of mon

enlisting former texas senator phil gramm, a longtime washington insider to help build relationshipssenate leadership. yet, even some of his allies think he should do more. >> i think ted would be well served to reach out to his complegs. i know he is to some at the end of the day the more support he gets from across the spectrum of the republican party the more viable alternative he becomes to trump. >> reporter: unpopularity has been something cruz has struggled with. even before his washington days. in his book "a time for truth" cruz writes that as a kid he had enough of being the unpopular nerd. many republicans now say, cruz's tactics are the reason for his unpopularity. >> we were called capitulators, surrenderers and told we were n unpure, didn't measure up. that's not a way to make friends. >> reporter: manu raju, cnn. >> there's so much to talk about it. we are joined about hire ram college political professor jason johnson and the director of the center for politic, larry sabato. larry, let me start with you. cruz continues to say that he is, you know, an outsider, a polit

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with politics and campaign and had the geographic advantage of being in iowa and went to work for phil gramm after that when he was getting his presidential campaign started. i worked for lots of texans. my favorite campaign is the first bush campaign. there is nothing to compare, your first winning presidential campaign. >> no question about it. i will ask you to tell me your funniest campaign anecdote or toughest challenge like charlie wilson, a lot of people know charlie wilson, the great colorful congressman always in trouble because of drugs, drinking, or women, some combination of that. always number one on the congressional hit list but a great character and colorful and fun to write campaigns with so went for his last campaign, all the same troubles, was down 20 points, the first campaign, there were new rumors, don't worry, it is going to be fine, just want to tell you i met a young baptist girl, she saying to the church and she doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, has been really good for me and i think we are going to settle down and get married just as soon as she gets out of high schoo

my predecessor in the senate, senator phil gramm has a ph.d. in economics at texas a&m university, and he's made the point historically, what you see after a recession like we saw following the fiscal crisis in 2008 is a v-shape recovery. in other words, you hit the bottom and you bounce up, and you grow quickly because basically you've worked the problems out of the system. but what we've seen since 2008 is a u-shaped recovery, if you could even call it that. pretty close to flat, where the economy is growing at less than 2% -- not fast enough to keep people fully employed. and we still have, although the unemployment rate has dropped down, you still have the smallest percentage of people participating in the workforce than we've had in the last 30 years. so many people have simply given up, retired early or made other arrangements. so, this is a serious, serious matter. the court is going to, heard the arguments today. we know there are eight members of the supreme court currently. i heard the distinguished democratic whip complain about the