>> ted cruz needs to stop. >> senator ted cruz all for nothing talk-a-thon. >> i guess it is all over but the shouting. >> green eggs and ham was my favorite book as a boy. >> deep spite the 21-plus hours. >> a losing battle. >> the senate voted in the past hour to move forward. >> the speech will do absolutely nothing. >> it will not defund the nation's health care law. >> this is just phony. >> a little like the world wrestling federation. >> this is just pretend. >> the world's longest presidential stump speech. >> i hope one day to be granted the letter. >> cruz has been getting backups. >> i can become a pirate as a longed to be as a child. >> you were the worst child i ever heard of. >> i hope one day to be a pirate on the high seas. >> you have heard of him. >> you are invited to join me. >> cruz's speech, referenced everything from nazis to star wars. >> nazi germany. duck dynasty. green eggs and ham. this is life and death. mike lee, i am your father. >> i don't think we learned anything. >> i think he thinks he is starring in a movie. >> has any one on capitol hill learned a

helping ted cruz rest his voice box for a little bit.an tell you -- not one of them, not mike lee or ted cruz has said one true thing, not one true thing, about what is actually in the bill as written and signed by the president. not one true thing. i do think they have a bit of an argument about the possibility of an impact on certain jobs, a 30-hour threshold. nothing in the bill, you know that is trying in any way to -- to, to force people out of work. but what every single thing they, every other single thing they say about what is in the bill. irs agents deciding if your mother lives or dies. the guys get on the senate floor and say that with a straight face. they do not know or cannot honestly describe what is in the law you helped write. >> it is no surprise. this whole debate has been filled with death panels. we go back to the summer of 2009. where created out of whole cloth, something which doesn't exist. and, you know they have made quite clear that reality is not something they're interested in. they often talk about the bill

coming out on the side of ted cruz. so here you have the rnc, which is the umbrella organization that's supporting all republicans, standing in solidarity with ted cruz while mitch mcconnell is opposing what he's doing on the senate floor. that, as one republican aide said to me, was more of the establishment ranks, looks deeply dysfunctional to our chief donors and shows the party from where we are right now. democrats sit back dumb founded. democrats know there's a lot of political liability with this bill but as long as ted cruz does this, the focus is on him, his ego, whatever he's doing here in washington, d.c. so they're more than happy to led ted cruz take center stage and go as long as he wants. thomas, this could be the first of a few of these types of long-winded speeches wlr, wheth they be fill busters or whatever you want to call them. we could see more. >> luke russert reporting for us. thanks, buddy, appreciate it. in total, eight republican senators were there to help cruz make it through the night, inclu

beyond providing confirmation ted cruz is a big fan of ted cruz, the speech will do absolutely nothing. it will not delay the vote this afternoon to fund the government. it will not defund the nation's health care law. it will not truly be considered a filibuster because ted cruz is not actually blocking any legislation. really, at this point, what's the point of asking what's the point? in the hall of mirrors that is ted cruz's psyche, the only image, the only answer, the only truth that exists is ted cruz, a senator so hell bent on self-promotion, so uncompletely unconcerned with good governance or governance of any kind, that it only took him 25 minutes to begin comparing the rollout of a national health care plan to the rise of nazi germany. >> you go to the 1940s, nazi germany. look, we saw in britain neville chamberlain, who told the british people, accept the nazis. yes, they'll dominate the continent of europe. let's appease them. i suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s, we would have listened to them and it would have gotten on televi

there are 19% with ted cruz on that, 59% against. among independents it's worse for ted cruz's hopes. no real surprise in that poll, i don't think. >> no real surprise but probably the numbers are higher among republican members of the house. the thing that will be happening in the house this weekend, this is really incredible to be watching. it isn't a shut down. they are going to pass a debt krooeling. and alongside raising the debt limit. and what boehner is trying to do is convince his members that no, no, no. don't do this shut down. this is, by the way, a more irresponsible fight than the one that ted cruise is threatening. defaulting on the dead even temporarily is much more catastrophic than shutting down the government for a period of time. and for boehner to be moving his people over to that fight and be climbing into a position that he can't climb back down from, no one in washington seems to have a good answer for how the debt ceiling fight resolves itself without any problem. eventually it will resolve itself, if they ge

for 21 hours ted cruz stood in a self-made spotlight.ake no mistake about it the marathon speaking session was theater, a one-man show casting himself in the hero's lead role. to that point he began his speech by likening his critics, those who oppose funding the affordable care act to nazi sympathizers, nazi appeasers before world war ii. let's listen to his story here. >> you go to the 1940s, nazi germany. look, we saw in britain, chamberlain who told the people except the nazis, yes, they'll dominate the continent of europe, but that's not our problem let's appease them. i suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we'd have been listening to them. >> those comments did not sit well with john mccain whose father and grandfather both served in world war ii. here's mccain speaking. >> i resoundingly reject that allegation. that allegation in my view does a great disservice. there were those who went to war because of the barbaric and great threat to civilization and everything we stand for. amongst

but that said, all of this villainizing is what ted cruz wants, because for ted cruz, being the most hated man in washington is a badge of honor. what is not a badge of honor is being viewed as a snobby, overcredentialed jerk, and that is the picture of ted cruz painted vividly in a new "gq" profile out today, which notes as a law student at harvard, cruz "refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at harvard, princeton or yale. says damon watson, one of cruz's law school roommates, he said he didn't want anybody from minor ivies like penn or brown." while working for george w. bush's campaign, he was also known for dispatching regular updates on his accomplishments that one recipient likened to "the cards people send about their families at christmas, except ted's were only about him and were more frequent." "gq" also retells the story of the oil painting ted cruz has hanging in his senate office. it's a story ted cruz had previously told abc news and one that stephen colbert knocked down handily. >> i have always liked the fact that i sit in my office and i look at a

so appealing is he has the instincts of sarah palin with all the credentials of mitt romney, only ted cruz could keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool. as the base and the establishment have clashed over everything from syria to immigration reform, cruz has deftly avoided offending either side, but yesterday he offended the establishment. >> just like in star wars movies, the empire will strike back. >> and then, senator palpiteen took the floor. >> to somehow allege that many of us are not or haven't fought hard enough, i think does not comport with the actual action that took place on the floor of the senate. >> now, if you were not sure that ted cruz was casting his political fortunes in with the base, all you need to do was follow the money. according to "the daily beast" today ted cruz' fake fight against obama care is making millions, noting that the campaign, the senate had its largest non-election fundraising to date at one and a half million dollars. the republican party's donors, on the other hand, were not impressed. buzzfeed said it could cost him millions, reporting the

now you have ted cruz doing it. where does it lead, knowing the rules of the senate where going to cut him off at 12 noon eastern time. >> it leaves the american people appreciating what he believes in. he ran on repealing obama-care, defunding obama care, doing whatever he can to st. paul obama-care. he's taking a stand and teaching the american people about obama-care. if you learn what's in that bill listen to the talk ted cruz has been giving about what's in it. you can't keep your doctors, and senator rubio talked about obama-care crushing the american dream, not allowing for more opportunity. he's saying it will go to the house after this because they will vote to send it back. but this shows that he's willing to stand up for his principles. bill: do you believe for republicans against him, some of them publicly, is this changing their mind, yes or no. >> no, i don't think it is. bill: it's not changing the argument, not changing the debate, not changing the issue? >> it's change the issue with the american pe

ted cruz filibustered him. just know that behind the scenes, the russians were messing with him. at the end of a long hard day, he escaped into the sweaty and frayed embrace of the clintons. >> that is a bad day, who have to explain and defend the president's own health care plan for him at their global initiative conference, hillary 2016 pep rally. the choreography of diplomacy danced around the tantalizeing possibility of an historic handshake that could end three decades of poison, even a brief encounter wasn't brief enough. maureen, you have outdone yourself. that was a good one. >> the president having a tough day. >> one of many. we were in the press profile one of the networks had a split screen. you had obama with bill clinton. rouhani on the floor of the u.n. and ted cruz. who put this group together? unbelievable. who else is going to join that crowd? it was a tough day at the u.n. what i think is so fascinating about the missed opportunity with rouhani is all the speculation was the result of the whi

the first step in my view -- >> governor, the question that dick durbin just asked, does ted cruz wanted to shut down the government and does he have enough votes? now, governor, the answer is no. mitch mcconnell took a shot at cruz saying his strategy is to de-fund obama care, that ted cruz, accused of wanting to fund obama care and shut down the government. there is a parliamentary move here, if the republicans vote for cloture, it allows a simple majority to pass it. what ted cruz is saying, the only vote, the real vote that matters, if the republicans vote against cloture it will prevent reid's amendment to strip the de-funding. it gets complicated. but i understand what kcruz is doing, where are the other republicans and what are the tactical differences? >> well, they are expecting that americans are not going to keep up with the arcane senatorial rules, you know, they are hard to follow. you get kind of glassy eyed. cruz is right when he discuss tuesday cloture, and the debate, and allowing senator reid to take out the de-funding mechanism that is part of the cr now. a vote for th

ted cruz cares about one thick. as you keep saying, rev, the head of the republican party right now is essentially rush limbaugh. the entertainment wing of the republican party, the entertainment industrial complex owns the paefrmt somebody has to become the political titular leader. who's that going to be? right now ted cruz is wink the race. >> joy reed, abbey huntsman, thank you for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, a republican is calling cruz's sideshow governmental terrorism. but we're now five days away from a government shut down, and it might be a reality. we'll talk live to senator barbara boxer. how do republicans try to justify their attacks on health care and the poor? i'll talk live to a republican congress. >>> ant tape you need to see. florida's attorney general apologizes for canceling a planned execution to host a fund-raiser. what's on your mind tonight? e-mail me. friend or foe, i want to know. reply al is ahead. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that yo

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there's a blame game much of it targeting ted cruz. >> how stupid ted cruz believes not only the american people but members of his own republican caucus. >> how stupid is ted cruz? and he is so wildly out of control stupid, he is insistent that blocking the bill is the very best way to support the bill. as the press pick sides in this showdown and fail to highlight how obamacare will actually work. >>> hillary gives a magazine interview and guess what? she's not sure if she's running in 2016. but that has not affected the cable chatter. >>> and jeff daniels capturing the prize for the newsroom. >> protesters holding signs that say we are the 99%. >> yes. >> i am the 1%. >> some people would say i'm overpaid, but i'm not. i'm paid exactly what the market will bear, which means i'm paid what i'm worth. so which system would you replace capitalism with? >> why is this the hbo drama that so many journalists love to hate? the iphone not getting rave reviews. and in our digital download in this age of twitter and tumbler and google and bing, what about the millions of americans who don't use t

was that different than what we're seeing from ted cruz? >> well, kroou has gone on a lot longer than i did. and i appreciate very much his ability to stay away from the bathroom. that's not easy. >> what is your take, though, on him using this as a way to get out this conservative position? >> well, by definition, he is succeeding because you were talking about ted cruz and he's all over the media. but in reality if we get away from personalities, if we look at health care, in my view obama care is kind of a moderate republican piece of legislation which is working reasonably well in massachusetts. chris, we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. and what mr. cruz and his republican friends think in terms of health care is that we should voucherize medicare, make massive cuts in medicaid and ignore the fact that 48 million americans have no health insurance at all. i think the important point to be made is not just cruz's speech is really deep down, what do these guys b

and ted cruz doesn't talk about that. ted cruz never talks about i've got a better plan.urance. he never talks about how we're going to make sure that we do something for those out there who are sick and being denied. this is the fallacy and this is the false presentation of a guy who is trying to hoodwink this country. i tell you what. this is today one of the most important days that president obama will have since signing the law into law. and it's a law. >> yeah. >> there's a tremendous amount of conversation about, well, is the white house selling it? well, what do you want him to do? have 42 votes in the senate to pass it 42 times, to counter what these idiots are doing over on the house side? the fact is, in one week from now, we are going to have uninsured americans who are going to have freedom. they're going to have freedom to go to a website and freedom to see exchanges in every state, every state in this union will have exchanges. they're either going to be set up by the state or they're going to be set up by the federal government. and this is going to happen

shine and ted cruz is shining. it's not just him personally, individually what it is he as a person represents, it's his beliefs and ideals his love of country, and again, not want wanting to ease see us destroyed under something like obama care the irs is going to continue to cram down our throats. >> sean: governor, great to hear from you again, we've missed you, thank you for being here. >> thank you, keep up the great work. >> sean: there is a poll out today americans believe government is too powerful at a record level. tick a listen what is going on on the senator floor let's take a quick look at what's happening and what is coming up. >> best way for judy or anyone to have health insurance is to have an econo people can get jobs and have opportunities. let me respond with two things, number one, before the senator from illinois came to the floor of the senate i read a number of letters coming from people around the country. the next one happens to actually be counter part to your story about judy. this is a

meaning than ted cruz is among republicans.ond his own side, calling his bluff, and laughing at him openly and essentially dumping their chamber pots out their windows on to his head as he does this, his own side is very unsubtly leaking negative stories about him to the press. chris wallace on fox news sunday admitting this weekend when it became known he had had booked ted cruz, he was flooded with unsolicited opo, unsolicited opposition research from other republicans who wanted him to use those negative stories about ted cruz against ted cruz during the interview on fox. today with senator cruz pretending to filibuster while having no practical effect, except drawing attention to himself, another republican -- well, republican sourced but theoretically anonymous tip to the washington newspaper roll call explained how at the senate campaign committee for the republican party ted cruz technically has a job to do there, but he's not bothering to do that job. quote, senator ted cruz has not been engaged in his role as vice chai

that's what senator ted cruz is doing. do you think he, standing up there in his quasi-filibuster, he is going to see as a result of this all of the big-named contributions coming -- pouring into his coffers and the big political architects who screwed so many things up lately, like karl rove and rick morrison, these guys who have tried to change the republican party into one that would just go along to get along, as a bunch of sheep in order to appease president obama and some of these who want to transform america. senator cruz is not going to see that, but what he will see, whether he dies politically speaking upon this mountaintop or not of his is -- the heart and soul of americans who care about this country and the future of our economic liberty, we will be standing there, having his back, doing all we can to support him and thanking him for being willing to fulfill his campaign promises. >> neil: are you surprised, governor, the resistance he is encountering within his own port. reports november much mcconnell was t

cruz cycle. the all-night ted talk, the cruz missile that compelled, if not a nation, then at least fans of dr.ss, star wars, and the office of parliamentary stunlts. it wasn't strictly a filibuster, because cruz was not blocking legislation. but, the big fat phony buster of a protest speech did begin with ted cruz vowing to talk until he dropped. at 2:41 eastern time tuesday. and finally, yielding the floor today at noon, after 21 hours and 19 minutes of oral assault on the president's health care law, with a few detours added in. >> you know, it's a little bit like the world wrestling federation. obamacare is a far less intimidating foe than those that i have discussed, with the possible exception of the moon. i will credit my father. he invented -- this wasn't for the restaurant, but he did it anyway. he invented green eggs and ham. i'm a big fan of eating white castle burgers. i do so like green eggs and ham. thank you, thank you, sam i am. words of wisdom from duck dynasty. you put five red next necks on a mower, it's going to be epic. thanks to the men and women who have endured this deat