call me ted came out, was a huge success. we learned a lot about ted. tell us what different story you wanted to tackle? >> there have been several books that have come out. ted road is now more. it dealt primarily with this business career. did mention some aspects, but it did not dive deep into it. when i started this and wanted to not only interviewed said and get at his motivation i interviewed a number of people that he has collaborated with over the years. gorbachev, richard holbrooke, all passed the people. it really is a story that had not been told in any depth. that sarah started. >> tell us about the environmentalist that influenced you as mentors, friends, people you work with, people you looked up to. to you, the environmentalist, it meant something to you in your life, like jacques cousteau or others. >> shark is stow, jane goodall, the chimpanzee lady, those are two that -- obviously captain cousteau's son, very, very -- the position in this area. >> they're is a story that you tell me. it was about you when the going down the amazon. and

it was just ted kennedy because of the kennedy name. this is where roger mudd, got the exclusive interview with ted kennedy and asked him a simple question, why do you want to be president? he could not answer the question. his campaign was derailed before it even started. when this thing was announced, the republicans were screaming and the carter white house was screaming this was preferential treatment for the kennedys. the clintons may not be happy with it. it may just be a terrible movie. >> how much will they emphasize the fact that she spent $62 million to blow the democratic nomination -- >> you've got to relive the late '90s and white water and all that. how boom and bust media coverage cemented a fake irs scandal into place. that's up next. ♪ summer's best event from cadillac. let summer try and pass you by. lease this cadillac srx for around $369 per month or purchase for 0% apr for 60 months. come in now for the best offers of the model year. still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can.

i'm sure this is not ted's writing.nd finding myself with a lump in my chest. >> reporter: for david, it was a horrible realization. >> if you looked past the ideas of the manifesto, you see a person as troubled as my brother. >> reporter: he now had to decide what to do. >> if we do nothing and ted is the unabomber, we may wake up some morning and realize he struck again. an innocent person died because we had failed to act, we would have blood on our hands. >> reporter: it took linda two months but finally convinced david to contact the fbi. >> there was no turning back, but i can't tell you how painful it was to put my finger down and say yes, he lives here, realizing i could be sending my own brother to his death. when ted was arrested, under the bed where he slept was another bomb wrapped in a package, apparently ready to be mailed to someone. >> reporter: ted kaczynski rejected his attorney's insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder. he was sentenced to life in prison with no opportunity for parole. but to th

well, ted cruz has a full name, ted rafael cruz and no one points to him that he come partially from descent. that's the difference. there was a legal question about his birth. that question has been answered and people ought to move on. the fact is, people like stockwood and others still haven't moved on from the question that has been asked and settled about president obama. >> and we are not flirting with birther i. we are talking about hypocrisy. they should not get confused. and we're talking about a man who has made a career pandering to the far right. listen to what he said when he was asked last night about impeaching president obama. >> the only reason not to impeach the president is because it wouldn't get through the senate can cruz really be surprised when he says things like that? >> i'm really not surprised. what we're seeing with senator cruz in setting up his path for the presidency is a lot like what he did with his senate path. which is curtailing his comments to that select fringe of the republican party. he knows that group can be riled up by such conservatism. an

i want to know that ted cruz is not from the yukon territory.ot satisfied he's renouncing his canadian citizenship. i want him to refouns his loyalty to the queen because canada is part of the commonwealth. of course, you're not seeing an equivalent response on the left now because they -- at least there's some consistency there. they thought the original obama birther thing was silly. this is silly, too. if ted cruz by some miracle gets elected president, well, a court can decide what a natural born citizen is. now, on the right, you can expect a few diehards to raise questions, particularly those fueled by rivals such as rand mule are looking for some advantage in the 20816 primaries but i think by and large they'll say look, this guy is one of our own. they'll fall in line behind him and move along. >> professor dyson, dana makes a really good point. because you already have some people in the ted cruz camp accusing allies of rand paul of being the ones fomenting the neobirth irism because the two of them potentially could be jackying for pre

tonight on "all in," it's ted cruz's coming out party.you why in a minute he's not just another whackadoo. live to dallas, texas, where ted cruz is about to speak in just a moment. see the big defund obama care banner which lets you know what the event is going to be like. also tonight the terrifying

take a listen. >> let me ask you this, ted cruz born in canada.e president of the united states? >> i'm not sure where he was born. >> he was definitely born in canada. >> so you'll have to ask him that question but perhaps not. >> ted cruz's mother was an american citizen, he's an american. >> that will be ironed out. i don't know the circumstances. i heard somebody tell me he was born in canada. that's really his thing. >> that's really his thing. that is what you do when you don't know what to say. it's the first time i've seen him befuddled. what do you say? you got me. kids growing up playing tag, you got me. he doesn't say you got me. >> no, he doesn't. because he's caught. part of that conversation was also a -- a conversation about his birther accusations against the president. >> yes. >> and we might all think that's, you know, done with and we're not talking about it anymore, but it's still happening. people going to town hall meetings around the country saying -- >> let's get to where -- i want to get this from texas. it seems to me the

and i think ted cruz, it's all about the politics.f he's out there appealing to a talk radio base, this is what they want to hear, they don't want to be told that obama care is here to stay, they don't want to be told that in fact there's nothing that can be done, the president controls the executive branch and he's never going to repeal obama care. they just don't want to hear it. so he exists in that world. he's gaining currency in that world. we'll see if it's durable as a coalition in a republican primary process where electability has always driven the ballot in a republican presidential primary. >> steve schmidt, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> you bet. my pleasure. >>> coming up, lewis black is here, as you now know. and as you know, lewis black has problems. many problems. and none of his biggest problems is with rick perry and rick perry's texas. that's coming up. >>> two russian women kissed when they won a relay race this weekend in moscow. and thanks to russia's anti-gay laws that kiss is now a worldwide phe

casey, so that is why ted cruz brought the crusade tonight.nd i assume it was friendly territory there? >> friendlier than canada probably would be these days. no, there were thousands of people who turned out here at this heritage action town hall. the ball rooms that you see behind me was packed. and everyone i talked to basically came to see ted cruz, or his father, rafael cruz, was here, and was a real hit with the crowd. this is the crowd ted cruz is playing to when he makes the stands in washington, that are so angering some of the colleagues he has, that say you know what? going through with this and potentially shutting down the government to de-fund this law could have enormous consequences for the republican party in the long run. >> and casey, what about the senior senator, who said that ted cruz is just plain hopelessly wrong about this? >> well, you know, cornyn was on that letter, initially, that senator mike lee circulated that actually had been the root of all of this. and he actually pulled his name off. to the point he was an

they're huge fans of ted cruz. most of the people that, you know, i spoke to who are trickling their way in are here particularly to see him. the heritage foundation is claiming that this is an oversold crowd. we'll see. they're still trickling into the ballroom behind me. there were pretty long lines to get in as i was walking over here. this event was supposed to have started a few minutes ago. we're running a little bit late. we'll see if they fill up the room and fill up the standing room as they promised. >> nbc news reporter kasie hunt. thank you so much. >> reporter: thanks, chris. >> joining me, evan smith, ceo and editor in chief of the "texas tribune." there's polling i found interesting. this is texans saying they favor ted cruz over rick perry for president in a gop primary by quite a good margin. 18 months ago. i don't know how much name recognition ted cruz has. it speaks to how successful he's been in cultivating name recognition and kind of star aura around himself in just his very young senate care

i don't think ted cruz is wrong about that. think he understands as well as anybody that a democratically controlled senate with a democrat in the white house whose names is on this piece of legislation, this law, is not going to, you know, roll it back. sorry. president obama is not going to veto -- sorry. he is not going to -- you know my point. obama care is going to go forward because we have a senate -- democrat-controlled senate and democrat in the white house and ted cruz is saying we need to put republicans in there if we want to roll it back. >> why does ted cruz who has been a senator for eight months here wield so much influence you think in the republican party right now? >> ted cruz is the it of the republican party right now. for a long time, the establishment republicans could count on the conservative voters to back them up. we saw that with george w. bush and saw that with john mccain and saw that with mitt romney when the republican primary voters wanted to win more than they wanted to be right in their own mi

>> i don't think ted cruz did it. i think the tea party did it itself when they add tremendously successful 2010 election. and since then learned that it is not so easy in american politics. you have to do successive elections. and they've kept to it. they kept organized. and they elect smed significant people like ted cruz. >> but it does feel like because he is? the senate, there is this division of the house. they are whacky and the senate is this more thoughtful body and to have a senator i do think changes dynamic a little bit with the tea party. >> one would hope so. whether you're coming from the left or right in this country, there is a tremendous yearning as my examiner colleague baron york said in his column this morning, there is a tremendous warning for politicians who speak their con vicks. rather than mealy mouthing and taking boj sides and hiding behind rhetoric. politics who have the courage of their convictions. >> you know, michelle, i think that's part of my question about ted cruz. is he really spe

tonight on "all in," it's ted cruz's coming out party.nute he's not just another whackadoo. live to dallas, texas, where ted cruz is about to speak in just a moment. see the big defund obama care banner which lets you know what the event is going to be like. also tonight the terrifying prospect that one result of the bankruptcy of the city of detroit could be the thousands of potential personal bankruptcies caused by the slashing of retirees' pensions. a full discussion on that is coming up. all that plus i am absolutely geeking out a little bit over what i think is the coolest car ever. the tesla. i will tell you why it's so cool

the one distinction between president obama and ted cruz is that ted cruz really was not born here. >ow, you look at the elephant in the room, i guess pun intended with the gop, but you know, dana, sarah palin endorsed trump's birtherism, but she just about the biggest supporter you could fine of ted cruz. listen to this. >> i appreciate that the donald wants to spend his resources in getting to the bottom of something that so interests him and many americans. you know, more power to him. >> you know what i wish congress would do? just for a week perhaps, just put themselves on cruise control, ted cruz control. >> it's almost like she's being hypocritical, dana. i mean -- >> no! >> do you think that palin will weigh in on senator cruz's eligibility? >> well, governor palin can see canada from alaska, so she has some things she might be able to say about this. of course everybody is going to be hypocritical. in their defense, they can say, well, they weren't really -- what they were talking about with president obama is they were accusing him or basically his parents of a fraudulent bi

on the senate side is, ted cruz, tom coburn has been talking about it recently.do know the names. do we have any idea what is it they plan on impeaching the president for? >> that is what is absolutely compelling and absurd about these callouts for impeachment across these folks. i'm not sure all these folks are relevant in american politics. coburn is. >> mr. bent volio, you don't know his. >> sorry, i'm not sure if those lawmakers have made a name for themselves. i'm not sure if they've made a name for themselves outside of the ways they try to pander to their base around absurd accusations. if you think there's grounds for impeaching this president, that is an extremely serious accusation. we want the evidence and the proof to back that up. if they were more substantive, we might be able to pay for attention to them. i haven't seen substance in any claims up to this point. >> there's the feeling it is the black president aspect of it. 50 years after the march on washington, we have this african-american man in the white house. you just heard pat robertson say

it is pretty clear that right now the republican party is not benefiting from ted cruz, but ted cruz is clearly benefiting from ted cruz. >> one thing and i know that eric michael dyson will have something to say about this, and there is a difference of the we are the change message espoused by president obama which was a forward thinking collaborate message about investing in the government and believing in a project which is the project of democracy. >> right. >> and the ted cruz version is that you guys decide this thing is broken and you tell us what to do. it is not a participatory version or collaborate version. >> it is ronald reagan but without any of the charisma or the authority that came from the grandfatherly being and bearing. ronald reagan could make a great speech and also have a sense of timeliness about tear down these walls and knew when to insert himself even though i disagreed with him, and the ideologues around him. there is a difference between campaigning and the popularity that he is able to evoke and governing which means that you have to compromise and talk

. >> reporter: ted cruz. >> obamacare. he really is fighting on trying stop this absolute disaster for the united states called obamacare. >> reporter: donald trump. >> smart. >> reporter: you said a lot of things over the years that people say make you not serious. one of the big things is on the birth certificates. >> why does that make me not serious? i think that resonated with a lot of people. >> reporter: but you don't question he was born in the united states, do you? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: even at this point? >> was there a birth certificate? you tell me. you know some people say that was not his birth certificate. nobody knows. you don't know either. you're a smart guy. >> reporter: i'm pretty convinced. >> you said pretty. >> reporter: totally convinced. >> you said you're pretty convinced. let's see what happens over time, but it's not my issue, jonathan. my issue right now is much different. wait a minute -- my issue is economic. our country is being ripped apart by china and many other countries. that

the birthers have been all but silent when it comes to ted cruz. i'm waiting for some confident stamingts from these people. cruz has already visited the important presidential primary states of iowa and south carolina. he's headed to new hampshire this month. he's giving every indication he may be thinking of running for president and is eligible to do so. he's a natural born citizen because he did not have to be naturalized. that's how simple it is. he was an american at the second of his birth. joining me are texas political expert and political writer wayne slater and washington post editorial writing jonathan capehart. wayne, i couldn't be more clear in my complete and utter agreement with senator cruz. he's an american by birth. his mother was american. i don't care if you're flying in an airplane over to lead doe or somewhere in spain, if you're born to an american mother, you're an american, damn it. because you don't have to get naturalized. that's what a natural born american means. you are a citizenship natural born. don't the crazy birt

this is something that ted cruz has never had to do.out himself here. and ultimately, hurting the party alongs with the way. >> joe, you know the president says that he really slammed the gop, saying they care more about what rush limbaugh thinks than about the american people. listen to this. >> republicans, after having taken 40 votes to try to get rid of obama care see this as their last gasp. nobody thinks that's good for the middle class. i've made this argument to my republican friends privately. and by the way, sometimes they say to me privately i agree with you. but i'm worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the tea party back in my district. or i'm worried about what rush limbaugh is going to say about me on the radio. so you've got to understand it's really difficult. >> well, they better understand rush limbaugh has good health insurance, and he can afford it. and the consistents are the ones who don't care whether rush limbaugh has health insurance or not. they're going to be one where grandma doesn't have healt

ted: oh, so, i made a decision. i'm going to go through all my old stuff, and i'm getting rid of anything i have no use for anymore. hmm. barney, you want my xbox? (gasping) ted, she has a name! and just what are you accusing me of? liking video games? i'm gonna get a drink. hmm. i'll come with you. okay. god, this is awkward. what is? being around ted. why? because of our thing. what thing? you're really gonna pretend this never happened? what never happened? hey. (whimpers) hey. what are you guys talking about? nothing. guys, you can cut the act. i know. i know about the surprise party you guys are throwing me. marshall let it slip earlier today. (mumbling) marshall. hey, i'll totally act surprised and everything. just be sure to invite stella. stella!

senator ted cruz on why he hopes the wave that carried him into the senate is still strong enough to wash away obamacare. and jim demint and former governor howard dean. >> i think we're going to have another constitutional crisis in terms of the presidency. >>> plus the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. we start with breaking news out of syria this morning. the syrian government has reached an agreement with the united nations to allow inspectors full access to any site of any purported chemical weapons attack. syria's deputy foreign minister says -- the pentagon has prepositioned four warships with armed cruise missiles pore the region. chris, this is big news, this is why obviously inspectors got there, they want to get to the bottom of what really happened. think they can now? >> it is possible, we know that secretary of state john kerry was speaking with his counterpart the foreign minister over the weekend. those two did not speak very often, so that was significant. if they are able to find actual evidence, this could certainly change the calculation for the obama a

i want to thank ted for that.ot going to be the last that i was going to see of ted cruz. low and behold, he has come to washington. he has come and take in on with a storm. he has passion. he has principles. and he is very smart. i am honored to introduce my colleague and friend, ted cruz. [applause] >> thank you very, very much. ayotte is a rock star. [applause] is me tell you, your senator tough as granite. advocate ofstronger the men and women in our military in the u.s. senate then kelly ayotte -- than kelly ayotte. and there is no one tougher going to get the truth about what happened in benghazi then kelly ayotte. -- than kelly ayotte. is part of a new generation of leaders that are stepping forward. let me say on behalf of texas, and on behalf of americans across our great nation, thank you to the state of new hampshire for your tremendous senator, kelly ayotte. i also want to thank the ambassador and augusta for your tremendous hospitality, for opening up this incredible home, for bringing a texan from th

ted cruz is very much an up and comer. people here in washington in the senate side not pleased with his sort of bull in a china shop to his job as senator. certainly folks in iowa love him. the folks who win iowa rarely go onto win the actual contests. huckabee the year in 2008. so the you know, those are real ejan g evangelic evangelicals. they can light up a crowd there. >> professor shrum, speaking of bloviaters, we miss donald trump. he's not sure about ted cruz since he was born in canada. are we to assume he'll dispatch an expensive team of investigators in order to find mr. cruz's birth certificate? >> i don't think he'll do that. he just runs his mouth. most of the time he doesn't make a lot of sense. he makes a fool of himself and a joke of himself. what was really going on in iowa this weekend and nia is right. the fact is that republicans who win iowa generally don't go onto the nomination not since george w. bush. democrats generally do. but the reason this is starting so early is because you have a competitio

the women versus the ted. >> the dread that is ted. the g.o.p.'s nasty newcomer.e editorial on one senator. we're back with the panel. what is it about ted cruz that everybody is just focused on? >> well, he really enjoys upsetting the furniture in american politics. he started, of course, beingit in texas by beating the anointed establishment to win this senate seat in the first place. he has come into the senate, you know, doing things like, you know, cross-examining dianne feinstein about gun control. and making her mad. and now he is on this thing about defunding obama care, which i don't think, you know, the leadership of his own party in the senate is terribly happy about. because ultimately, if you create a situation where there is no continuing resolution and you have a government shutdown, i think a lot of republicans are nervous about where that would lead. he is laying down this very unequivocal marker that by god we will not vote for one penny of obama care. and i think he is viewed as not necessarily a team player. by his fellow republicans but down t