ted cruz is an anchor baby. >> sounds like shakespeare, right? like everything is always shakespeare. even if he is making a simple statement. >> cruz and president trump have made their peace. >> beautiful day. >> i call him texas ted. >> and closely aligned on the president's agenda. >> the president is fighting to do whaca the ame people want, which is secure the border, build a wall and keep our country safe. >> in a weak mark -- >> i look at omar, ieathe way she talks about al qaeda. al qaeda has killed many americans. she said y could hold your chest send better back! >>hat does senator ted cruz say now. >>> additional funding is provided by -- corporate funding is provided by stephens, inc senator ted cruz, welcome to "firing line." >> great to you with you. >> in your second term as a senator from the great state of texas. you are a former presidential candidate. you also were a former solicitor general from the state of texass and youe to prominence initially amidst the tea party conservative uprising during the presidency of barack oba.

viewed as pivotal and was never reported until the book was that ted cruz made an outreach to marco rubio to join forces, to take down donald trump together. rubio was on the ropes, he was about to drop out of the race, and cruz threw him a lifeline saying look, the two of us together, we can beat trump. if we form a ticket, these two young, bright hispanic stars of the party, we operate in different worlds, we come from different spectrums, i'm a tea party on fire guy, you're friendly with the establishment, we could have a hell of a coalition, and beat trump together. they had a whole meeting, mike lee was set to broker this meeting, rented out this penthouse, very private in a hotel room in miami to have this sort of mafioso gathering, and rubio stood cruz up. and cruz told me when i lay awake thinking about 2016, that is the moment i cannot get over. i should have gone to his hotel. i should have banged on the door. >> why did he stand him up? >> rubio said he realized he just wasn't interested. rubio told me look, when you spend a year and a half of yo

nebraska republican senator ben sasse and texas senator ted cruz are stepping up calls for congress to use money and other assets seized from convicted mexican drug lord to pay for improved border security. the senator harris' comments cor a judge sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years. el chapo is now headed to a super max prison. if you have any social media presence at all, you have doubtless seen images predicting how your friends and family members might look when they get older. the people behind face app say their website is perfectly harmless, with some cyber experts worry the russian-based system could jeopardize your privacy and the nation's security. here's correspondent gillian turner. >> you may not have heard of face app, the latest viral app that uses ai to create highly realistic images of people might look like decades in the future but if you've used social media

. >> shannon: ted cruz slamming the major of portland shannon: ted cruz slamming the mayor of portland accusing ted wheeler purposely and repeatedly allowing violent attacks by alleged antifa members. >> these dueling demonstrations including hundreds of liberal protesters but only a few dozen conservatives. and the no went to the liberal side, a group of mass individuals kicked him, punched him and peppered him with milkshakes that police say contained quick drying cement and video. to show police failing to intervene. here is andy now on tucker carlson. >> i thought it was over, i put my arms up to shield my face, to signal that i was surrendering. i wasn't there to fight but they continue to be aggressive. >> reporter: to cruise call the attack, quote, sickening criminal assault, mainstream journalists, don't cover this up, don't ignore it, to law enforcement, find and prosecute these violent felons, let federal law enforcement investigate and bring legal action against the mayor who has for political reasons ordered his police officers to let citizens be attacked by domestic terror

they show cuts and bruises to his face, prompting ted cruz to say "ted wheeler purposely allowed the attack." "federal law enforcement to investigate and bring enforcement against the mayor who has ordered his police officers to let citizens be attacked by domestic terrorist." "this is a premeditated attack on someone because they don't like andy, who happens to be g gay, asian, and conservative. ted wheeler knew this was coming. people must speak out." >> where was the mayor? even in washington, d.c., you have left wing politicians like maxine waters actively encouraging violence against conservatives. >> so last year, asking the feds to investigate wheeler. during the violent protest, and for allowing antifa process to harass drivers. a charge that wheeler denies. >> i want to be clear. as police commissioner, we do not police based on the content of speech. we will continue to support first amendment rights. >> so, please eventually call this a civil disturbance and ordered the individuals protesting to disperse. eight injured, three arrested. we will see what happens. >> sandra:

this all started with a tweet from jeff row, he ran ted cruz's presidential campaign, please callingrepublicans to go to www.williamson.com to keep vibrant democrat on debate stage, one debate performance is not enough. popular idea, one twitter user says i would like to see trump versus williamson debate. nancy says she can have my primary vote and a dollar and lastly twitter uses i splurge and give $5 to the best part of the debate, they was very comfortable in her own skin which is kind of refreshing to see. heather: all about love. >> all about love. >> so people not loving this, though, on the subway playing ping-pong as if the subway wasn't crazy enough. >> yeah. you should file this one as only in new york, some people are loving the idea saying it's impressive, the fact they were keeping the ball in the table, it's amazing says one twitter user and other people are totally annoyed, look at this tweet, people are coming from work, they are tired and want to get home drama free. [laughter] heather: i was the woman sitting behind the fellow, ill not feel too good about it. carle

republicans like ted cruz calling for a federal investigation accusing ted wheeler bordering his officeayor wheeler is the police commissioner, responding in a sweet saying dear ted cruz at least get your facts straight, i ordered no such thing, the mayor says he will do everything he can to make sure the attackers are held accountable. jillian: thank you very much. rob: decorated navy seal eddie gallagher lies in the hands of a military jury. they must decide if you guilty of war crimes including murdering and isis prisoner. closing arguments, the defense seems as he was subject of fixation by military prosecutors and the case has huge gaping holes. gallagher could send life in prison. jillian: the estranged husband of a missing mother of 5 trying to stop them, attorneys claim the absence of his wife, jennifer, deprives him of due process. he and his girlfriend are free on bond after being charged with tampering with evidence. the couple tried getting rid of items that had jennifer's blood. her body has not been found. rob: one big city allowing homeless people to camp on sidewalks now

you ran against ted cruz in a senate campaign.w easy it was to be different from ted cruz? [ laughter and applause >> where is ted cruz when you need him >> seth: yeah, exactly [ laughter ] >> you know what - [ cheers and applause >> true. you know, what was so great about that campaign in texas, beyond getting a chance to run against ted cruz, was running in a state that had been taken for granted. really written off ranked 50th in voter turnout and in addition to getting to debate him, we went to every single one of the 254 counties in that state. so no matter how big or blue, we showed up because we didn't want to take it for granted no matter how small or red or rural, we showed up there, too, because we didn't want to write you off. some places had voted for donald trump 96% in the 2016 election. one place, archer county, that we went to, no candidate from senate from either party had shown up in 70 years when lbj dropped out of the sky in a the courthouse grounds and walked over to the american legion hall it had been that l

ted cruz said something, nike only once to sell sneakers to people who hate the american flag.e are making a joke about it saying betsy ross is a woman services anti-woman. how offended can you be? >> holocaust survivor in his 90s calling for aoc to be removed from office. >> is 93 years old and said this to the new york post, she should be removed from congress, spreading anti-semitism, hatred and stupidity, the people on the border go there on their own will. if someone doesn't know the difference, either they are playing stupid or they just don't care. ocasio cortez part series backlash after comparing migrant detention facilities to concentration camps. i have to side with the man who survived the holocaust. her endless rhetoric is harmful. is that a situation is at the border it still isn't auschwitz. she's more fired up than ever before having visited detention facilities and now she's saying people are being forced to drink out of toilets and border patrol has come back on that. >> we will talk more about that. i think she should meet with him. >> i think she should too.

the republican senators who ran for president against donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz, lindsey grahamthey all called donald trump a con man repeatedly on the campaign. they called him a liar during the presidential campaign. and now they are all public worshippers of donald trump. how did that happen? the first best answers to that question will be found by future historians in tim alberta's new book, "american carnage." this is the perfect night to have tim alberta join us, as he will later in this hour. after a day in which republicans once again fell in line with donald trump and defended the indefensible. but this time there were four defenses. that means president trump has four new members of the house of representatives to attack. the four republicans who voted to condemn donald trump's racist attack on four democratic members of the house of representatives, all of whom are women of color. the four republicans who stood on the right side of history in tonight's vote are fred upton of michigan, will hurd of texas, brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania and susan brooks of indiana. t

one is senator ted cruz. i want to play for you what he had to say. >> i wouldn't send these particular tweets. but i'll tell you, the substance of their record is indefensible. the substance of their record is extreme, it's radical. and i think we ought to be talking about the substance of their record. the substance about why they send tweets minimizing 9/11, minimizing al qaeda when they attacked america on 9/11. that's troubling. >> let me is ask your view on this. matt, this seems to be where republicans have coalesced, at least the majority of them, distancing themselves from the tweet itself, stopping short of calling the tweet racist with the exception of, for example, will hurd, yet going after the policies of some of these democratic women? >> yeah. i think it's a balance of them. mitt romney, susan collins to the president's closer allies like dan crenshaw and lindsey graham speaking out on this. a lot of democrats are frustrated. up until this weekend, all washington was talking about were the div

ted wheeler responded to cruz on tweeter. he said i ordered no such thing. you divert the investigation dollars to something that would benefit american cities? infrastructure, affordable housing, mental health services come to independent many. cruz is not the first federal official to clash with the mayor. he's accused of allowing antifa to harass ice employees. the president of the portland police union calling his policies failed saying this. there's no place for personal political bias when it comes to providing public safety services to our communities. and some believe the federal investigation into the attack on ngo might be warranted. >> you have a public official wielding his power to violate the civil rights of a reporter to report the news. there could be system sort of civil rights violation there. >> portland police say the protests are hard to handle because of the size. shannon? >> shannon: thanks. democratic mayor ted wheeler pushing back about his critics and promising to bring violent attackers to justice. critics saying they're not buying

>> ted cruz taking a picture with a supporter as demonstrators chant. group tweeting and part politicians like ted cruz that allow our people to be locked in cages don't get to be comfortable in public. being happy will soon be back based on -- david ortiz, some good news, breaking his silence after leaving the hospital, the red sox star thanking staff at massachusetts general where he recover from a near deadly shooting in the dominican republic. ortiz posting on social media as he celebrates with family thanking fans for their prayers. police believe ortiz was shot in a case of mistaken identity. looking forward to him being back. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. he is accused of plotting the september 11th terror attacks killing thousands of americans and now he wants to make a deal. his offer to the us government and what he wants in exchange, donald trump changed the political landscape with the 2015 victory in there is a big shift among voters in swing states. what do these trends mean for 2020? could a state like texas turn blue? our next gu

not that fond of him and they don't want to be seen doing ted cruz's bidding. that is why that statement came out so fast. host: how open was mcconnell's staff to you? guest: senator mcconnell was the first person i interviewed for this book because i knew i needed to have his story before i could go far. other people were fairly cooperative. senator mcconnell, and we have had several discussions over the years about the merrick garland situation. we had one extended interview of him laying out his activities that day. the senator himself is very open. host: he was in kentucky, asked if there was another vacancy in 2020. said, we his water and are going to fill it. he has been inching towards that. at the time he made the emphasis of we have to wait for the presidential election, let the people decide. he had been inching to this. they change their story little where they are saying the difference then was it was a democrat in the white house and a republican senate. they have to go back to the 1800s to find where you would fill a seat like that. at the time no

senator ted cruz calling for a federal investigation into how the liberal mayor of oregon handled all of it. and a look at how some commentators covered it as well. we will have a live report. >> all of this leads to a culture where conservatives look at the video and say nobody is going to protect my rights. it sends a message that if you don't shut up, you might be nex next. cosentyx treats more than just the joint pain of active psoriatic arthritis. it even helps stop further joint damage. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur. get real relief, with cosentyx. we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. snail mail! we were invited to a y2k party... uh, didn't that happen, like, 20 years ago? oh, look, kar

because i'm not friends with ted cruz! you hear me! i am not friends with ted cruz.seven hours of testimony, the truth is we didn't learn anything new. and to be fair, robert mueller warned us about this a couple of months ago. he said if you call me to testify, i won't tell you anything new. so he spent most of the hearing today telling the rest of us to do our homework. >> when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct, that would include the 10 possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, correct? >> i direct you to the report for how that is characterized. >> did mccgahn do what the president asked? >> i refer you to the report. again, i send you the report where that is stated. i refer you to the-- the report. i direct you again to the report. i refer to the report on that episode. i refer you to the report if i could. i will send you back to the report. ( laughter ) >> trevor: "i refer you to the report!" ( laughter ) poor robert mueller, man. the guy spent two years writing up an incredibly thorough document, and now people are badgering him wit

ted cruz, republican senator ted cruz blasted the administration this week on arms sales to saudi arabiathout the approval of congress. listen to this. >> i voted with the administration on the substance because of the threat of iran, but i'll tell you from my end if the administration does it again and there is not a live emergency you will not have my vote and i predict you will not have the vote of a number of other republicans as well. i the simpler process is follow the damn law is respect it. >> senator, are you one of those fellow republicans who agrees with ted cruz? >> i support the sale of arms to saudi arabia. there are no perfect actors in that part of the world. >> hold on, senator. it's not -- >> so i am going to support the sale of arms to saudi arabia. >> but it's not a question -- and i hear that, but it's not a question of supporting the sale. it's a question of doing it without the approval laid out in the law that is needed by congress. that's the question. >> there's been an effort to block the sale, and the president's going to veto that and i'm going to vote to ove

ted cruz stressed -- adjust the gathering. taking place at noon eastern today. [applause] good afternoon. what i beautiful crowds. i love you. you are awesome. today i have the pleasure of introducing one of my senators from the state of georgia. senator david purdue is a worker. up working on his family farm. he worked his way through georgia tech. how many students working away through college? yeah. and he is working in washington for all of us but that would not be strong enough because we are the fire and he is fighting for us in washington. he is going to -- history has proven it. sex is the cause of that is the cause of suction is him. our senator from georgia, david purdue. senator purdue: thank you. i bring you tidings from the president. i understand he was here for 1.5 hours. he sent me after a talk longer than 1.5 hours. we are going to have fun this afternoon. it is an honor and all seriousness for me to be here today. i want to thank the whole team for all the good work that faith and freedom does not al gore stated georgia. we have jordan is at th

as far as beto o'rourke, i happen to know an instance where he misled ted cruz when they were running opposite each other for governor. cruz was in washington but he couldn't leave because that was during the time that they the government shut down. havehey were supposed to a1 sick called, where they ask each other questions and stuff. anyway, beto o'rourke made other to have a rally in a town not far from me and they called me by phone to invite me to this rally. well, it was not that important of a rally and when cruz was able to come back and keep the prior apartment, beto o'rourke wouldn't. i don't trust o'rourke. what issues he was standing on or what he believed inother than let everybody and tell him and ted cruz had their debate. will get a response. >> that was a criticism of his campaign, that it wasn't deep into the issues. he did kind of create movement. he created a campaign that people wanted to be a part of. to support anted democrat for quite some time but didn't have that vehicle. he lost by about three points which is the best a democrat has done in texas in a long t

new video this hour showing ted cruz at a california airport.he political issue that sparked this response from the crowd. >>> and the most powerful person in the senate furious, accusations that his actions helped vladimir putin. >>> the new york stock exchange and the big board, dow is down 108 points. i think we are agetting to see a pause today as we wait for a fed decision tomorrow. you're watching "today in the ba bay". >>> good tuesday morning. the time now is 6:43. let's get a live view out our window looking at walnut creek. it's a clear, hazy start to the day, and it's going to also be cool as you step out the door with some upper 50s. a nice warmup this afternoon, reaching the mid-70s. by 1:00, that's a live look outside in san jose, 101 is really starting to jam up, as we approach 7:00, and getting out on the roads, we've had a couple of issues, trying to get to the bay bridge toll plaza. heavy delays, so get ready to head out the door, but i'll have another look at that traffic and weather coming up in less than five minutes. >> it

senator ted cruz calling out democrat ted wheeler accusing him of ordering police to allow demonstratorsattack conservative journalists. noe claims police were nowhere to be found during attack, he was hospitalized but will be okay. gofundme page started by conservative vlogger raised more than $100,000 for security and health costs in just one day. the community in salt lake city will gather to honor mckenzie lewis today, college student's remains found friday nearly 2 weeks after she went missing, friends expressing pure heartbreak in exclusive interview to fox news. >> the shock is unimaginable, the grief, it comes and goes. to me it doesn't feel real. kind of in a state of shock, my body feels numb. jillian: vigil for mckenzie is being held at the university of utah tonight, police are investigating whether or not the suspect who you see on the screen acted alone, he's behind bars on murder and kidnapping charges. rob: democratic national committee chairman weighing in on key issue during primary season, tom pÉrez says he fully supporting providing health care to illegal immigrants.

but ted cruz is a perfect example. who donald trump attacked, said his father assassinated jfk and called his wife ugly by tweet. now, for most americans if someone did that to you you'd go after that person for the rest of your life politically. i mean, i would not sleep until that person's political career was destroyed. ted cruz now defends donald trump. >> yeah. and the amazing thing is i have this wonderful scene in the book in which ted cruz's crafting his convention speech. he's under pressure from a lot of the advisers to go ahead and endorse donald trump, look you have a long career in front of you. you're the runner-up for the nomination, let's not do anything rash here. say we have had our differences but i want the party to unite around donald trump in november, et cetera. et cetera. cruz refuses and he looks at the advisers the day before that convention speech in cleveland when they're giving the last ditch appeal and he says, guys, history is not kind to the man who holds mussolini's jacket. and it was t

republican senator ted cruz of texas wrote, "it's a good thing nike only wants to sell sneakers to people who hate the american flag." arizona's republican governor doug ducey withdrew all financial incentive the state promised nike to vest in a $185 million factory in arizona. and former republican presidential candidate herman cain tweeted "nothing can happen in america anymore if colin kaepernick doesn't like it." >> believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. >> reporter: former nfl star colin kaepernick is the face of nike's just do it campaign. he reportedly complained to nike the flag is an offensive symbol of slavery. >> this is a great teaching moment, and it brings us in contact with a history that most of us, most americans do not want to deal with. >> in a statement, nike doesn't mention kaepernick, but says they made the decision to halt distribution based on concerns that it could unintentionally defend and detract from the nation's patriotic holiday. >> thank you for bringing us both sides. appreciate it. >>> this is not what you want to see, great white

[laughter] it turns out that it was just a trial run when he went after ted cruz. beto o'rourke decided to take on the most dishonest, immoral, and incompetent president in the history of america, donald trump. beto is like another strong bipartisan leader. and, another robert. there are a lot of people here that may remember bob ray. i worked with him on a diversity day at my daughter's middle school, and we worked pretty hard and checked to see how many kids were from foreign countries or their parents were from foreign countries. we had 54. we were shocked. we ended up buying flags, and we flew flags, and they still fly in the cafeteria there. we got flags from all the countries. i might add, except for one, tajikistan. there are -- their two boys made their own flag and carried it into diversity day. it was fantastic. ray.man is like bob that's why i support him. it's like i knew him when he was younger. beto o'rourke not only cares about himself, he not only respects every american's constitutional rights and is loyal to his country, he also cares about the vu

cruz. you know that guy they call ted. his name is rafael cruz. rafael cruz's father came here penny less from cuba and speaks with an accent like i do, and i'm sure gets told every day to go back to his country. how about mitch mcconnell, who is married to a chinese woman, who i am sure has been told over and over and over again to go back to her country. where is their voice on this? where is their outrage? where are they showing their faces and demonstrating to america that he does not speak for the republican party? practically every single person in this country has come from somewhere else, unless you are a native american, including trump's -- two of his three wives so far. >> doug, i mean, that left me speechless in part because she is so right. lindsey graham very much qualifying his aim higher statement this morning on fox. we were able to find one other republican lawmaker, chip roy of texas, who thought the president was wrong to say the congresswoman has any home other than the united states. where is everyone else and why? >> it come

committee is planning a hearing that is called censorship through search engines headed by senator ted cruz. he is the biggest, most vocal senator saying there is discrimination against conservative viewpoints via the search engine. the company denied that yesterday. and facebook is on capitol hill answering questions about the new currency called libra. the treasury national secretary is very concerned about the prospect of this. he is not alone. tech experts also feel this way. >> when i think about the whole thing, it's the wrong company. that's the main theme for it. if it was another company other than facebook, we would have different questions. facebook misusing data. so it's bad from the beginning for them. they'rero negative. >> reporter: and amazon and apple weighing in as well. this is an on going situation that continues to develop amid calls for regulation of big tech. that is a bipartisan issue. count on channel 5 to continue with the story. back to you. >>> and we'll have more on the story coming up on the news at 5:00. and of course online at kpix.com. >>> still ahead, a cal

ted cruz, obviously. that the audience might enjoy. ( laughter ) and so i-- i want to help you prep, if you don't mind, take a moment here for debate prep right now. >> thank you. >> stephen: i'm a pro. i'm a pro. i was a high school debater. and here's what we go. number one, these are hard- button issues. you've got to shoot from the hip. the audience doesn't want to see you waffle on any of these. do they? >> audience: no! >> stephen: congressman, on the issue of ryans, gosling or reynolds? >> i'm going to go with gosling. >> stephen: gosling. ( applause ) bold, bold. >> people's choice. >> stephen: safe, they're both canadians. they cannot vote for you. all right. congressman, do you believe that it's okay to share streaming passwords? >> yes. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: that is not theft? here today, so it want to becana no so. dfathered in. >> yes, yes. >> stephen: you're sister-in- law'd in. >> yes. >> stephen: regarding our special relationship with the u.k.-- obviously they're-- our most

my head was bleeding. >> reporter: senator ted cruz blaming portland's mayor ted wheeler of with holdingeting, federal law enforcement, investigate and bring legal action against a mayor who has, for political reasons, ordered his police officers to let citizens be at tacked by domestic terrorists. this is not the fired time critics accused the portland mayor of bias. last year ice said mayor wheeler purposely allowed protesters and right wing radical groups to harass employees. the charge the mayor has denied. >> i want to be clear that as police commissioner, we do not police based on content of speech. we will continue to support the safe expression of first amendment rights. >> reporter: so portland police say the demonstrations are events and they are looking for suspects, dana, in addition to the three they've already arrested. >> dana: thank you. for more on this, i have dave ruben. pleasure to have you on the show and in studio in particular. do you know andy null? >> i do. >> dana: i don't know if you talked to him. i did see sam harris tweeted this. making light of the attack o

senator ted cruz is holding a hearing on that very issue today of perceived bias. >> forget democrat,et conservative, weren't they going to label falsehoods, and this tweet is rife with inaccuracies. these women are u.s. citizens. the three of them were born here, so it's wrong, so were they going to also label things that were this much in the public interest that were inaccurate. >> that is again another massive challenge for them. that is something twitter has been far behind facebook on. facebook has been labeling false information, twitter not so much, but again, another challenge and particularly as we see in the lead up to 2020. >> unwilling or unable to curate in any way. >>> author e. jean carol is now considering legal action against president trump for an alleged sexual assault in the 1990s. but are her options limited? we're going to ask e. jean carroll and a top lawyer straight ahead. johnson & johnson is a baby company. but we're also a cancer fighting, hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care

in the meantime senator ted cruz out in lax.ley: with family. >> traveling and somebody came up to him, ted cruz can i get a picture, then somebody realized, wait a minute that's ted cruz and they started chanting about save the children. listen to this. [inaudible conversations] >> i don't know how you can live with yourself. kids are dying and babies are being ripped out of mothers -- you have the power. you have the power -- [inaudible] >> i give them back to their moms and dads. >> they're arriving alone. [inaudible] >> free the children. free the children, free the children! >> you could take them apart, really if you take them apart leave strange men with children, 65,000 children have come across since november, unaccompanied minors into the facilities that were equipped to handle 360, democrats aren't even providing financing. i think something like that is democrats are going to be going out of the border i think today or tomorrow -- >> 20. >> 20 of them and come back and build off that -- that lax thing. what they will

the congressman don boouyer is e perfect person of that. >> ted cruz was born in canada as well and he didn't want to engage on this topic. lindsay graham tried to make the point that -- he said to me that well, if trump were racist, he would want all people who came from somalia to go back to somalia. he's not saying that. he's only talking about a critic of his policies. that's the distinction he's making. but of course last night those chants of send her back did not have that kind of distinction. when i tried to ask him about that directly, he sidestepped that and said, look, i wouldn't be saying that. but he also didn't call it ra racist. >> manu. thank you so much. joining me now national political reporter for the washington journal, and a historian and professor at princeton university. should there be any doubt in anyone's mind now that division, including racism, is going to tb a pillar of president trump's 2020 campaign? and again, i want to say to the audience and our viewers, i don't say that flippantly. that's not something we should ever be throwing around. we take it ve

you actually had the canadian born senator ted cruz last night tweeting a criticism of beto o'rourke for betraying american values pointing to his parents' heritage as being immigrants who worked hard to make it in america. but there was no criticism to be seen of the president from senator ted cruz, and that goes for really the rest of the party. i mean, there was one texas representative who, you know, levelled sort of a half apology, a half criticism at president trump and said that, you know, his rhetoric towards immigrants was unfair, but then followed up with but i still believe that the democrats who are in favor of keeping undocumented immigrants in the united states should be voted out in 2020. and that was really the lone voice. everyone else who has previously criticized the president in 2016, at least when he -- when his rhetoric was also similarly racially charged, they're either out of office, they have resigned. >> as we march closer and closer to 2020, more and more of this type of thing is going to happen. they're going to be worried about their own reelection bid sd

. >> reporter: back at the border republican senator ted cruz was supportive of agents and officials and say there is only one way out of this. >> enforce the laws. that means ending catch and release. not encouraging illegal immigration. >> reporter: customs and border protection is launching investigation of the facebook group we mentioned. the chief called the controversial any agents involved responsible. >>> el salvador remembers the lives of a father and his daughter who drowned along a river bank trying to cross in to the u.s. from mexico. the discover of their bodies sent shock waves around the united states. they were buried in a private service one day after the el salvador president accepted blame for their deaths. >>> a book by e jean carol is called what do we need men for, a modest proposal. in it she claims president trump assaulted her in as a new york city dressing room in the 1990s , the president denied the accusations saying he has no idea who she is. >>> democratic presidential candidates try to momentum from the front are up ser dealing with bumps on e campaign

ted cruz thing it is all about politics.rats now looking to hold paul's barr and wilbur ross in contempt. that is where we stand at the moment. let's bring in "america's newsroom"'s a-team. jessica tarlov is here. hugo gurdon "washington examiner" editor in chief. and ed rollins, fox news contributor. good to see everybody. so, the census battle. still taking this on. barr says that he sees a legal way forward. do you think it continues? >> yes, i think it continues through until the hard deadline. it always seems to me, the fact that the justice department was going to be printing these things without the question was an overreaction to that -- the administration throwing in the towel. i don't think that there was ever the error, very likely. president trump doesn't throw in the towel. wait a minute, i thought that that was what the census was for. to count americans -- i think it is extraordinary that we are not allowed to count americans. >> bill: what if they want to know how many cards you want? >> there is also this id

ted cruz is a former supreme court clerk, a lot of the judicial area committee, a lot of experience and if this becomes cruz's idea to block the nominee, the republicans aren't going to want to do it because nobody wants to do ted crews' bidding for him so that's why mcconnell acted so quickly. he needed to get out in front of this. so everybody is looking at scalia's death, knowing it's going to be a big thing at this debate and trying to strategize around it, and so another person who is strategizing around this debate is donald trump. so, don mcgahn, who is a major character in the book, very interesting guy, don mcgahn was trump's campaign attorney, used to be on the fec. he was appointedded by george w. bush and put on there with mitchell mitchell's help because don mcgahn, i've anyone him a long time and call him a radical libertarian. an anti-burkeic -- antiburcratic person and when he got on the fec, he shut down the federal election commission and stopped them from doing some of the regulation to liberals here that sounds bad. to don mcgahn that was exactly what he wanted to do

first i want to ask you about what ted cruz said. i thought that was interesting, about it being on the long form. i did some research on that and i was talking to judge andrew napolitano. it was on the long form on selected long forms. i thought this was really interesting, not on the short form. in 2000. the census bureau would target certain inner cities and ask some people the citizenship question. i never heard people screaming about it at that point in time. were people dealing about it back then? you only have some people in some cities being asked that question? >> lawrence: we are in a different climate right now. the question should be asked for everyone. i think of a country has a right to ask who the people are living in this country, all kinds of different questions. this is for research purposes. people should not be targeted as a result. we have a right to know. nancy pelosi's response to this, somehow calling this racist, as part of the problem. the demonizing of people, the moment they start asking the question, i th

and so there are some parallels between trump -- ted cruz and aoc in a lot of ways.pular with the -- an edge of the base and, you know, very aggressive as a new member. >> yeah. and you also have as a member of the tea party. go on. i know you want to jump in. what did you want to say. >> yeah, do i want to jump in. here's the thing, we're trying to denigrate these women, which i completely disagree with. >> who -- >> i'm not denigrating her at all. >> generally. the leadership, the conversation is, oh, it's only 20% of the democrats might be progressives. >> but that's facts, though. hold on. >> here's the facts. >> hold on and then i'll let you finish. i didn't mean it that way. but if you look at the actual demographics of the democratic party, it is more moderate than it is progressive. the people who actually turn out to vote are more moderates in the democratic party. the majority of the party are -- is moderates, centrists, and so i don't think he's denigrating, you know, he's just spewing a fact. and i understand -- i agree with you about the energy. you want

. >> taking heat, portland's democratic mayor, and senator ted cruz wants a federal investigation becauseer "ordered his police officers to let the citizens be attacked by domestic terrorists." wheeler fired back saying "at least get your facts straight, i ordered no such thing. could you divert some of those investigative dollars to something that would actually benefit american cities? infrastructures, housing, mental health services come to mind." >> the mayor has been very clear and very explicit that he expects -- that he authorizes his police to take the actions that are necessary to protect the community and to affect arrests when and where they can. >> three arrests. the man in the middle accused of beating two men with a metal pipe. the others accused of harassment. the defendants pled not guilty but the head of the police union says portland cops are afraid to act, says darrell turner, "remove the handcuffs from our officers and let them stop the violence through strong and swift enforcement action." andy ngo's lawyer vows to sue the city and those who beat her client. >> this c

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where does ted cruz stand?reme, it is radical. i think we ought to talk about the substance of their record. the substance why they send tweets minimizing 9/11 and minimizing al qaeda when they attacked america on 9/11. that is troubling when you're saying things like that. ainsley: those are things you wouldn't say either. >> that is exactly right. ainsley: let's talk about the senate hearing about free speech today. you're holding this. you invited dennis prager to come to capitol hill to talk about this because it really affects him personally. >> yep. ainsley: listen what he said earlier on our show. >> if there is anything you would think that liberals and conservatives would agree on, admittedly there isn't much, you would think it is about protecting free speech. and now today we have a prageru, we have billion views a year. we're very effective and of our 320, five-minute videos, 60 are on the restricted list. if you blocked pornography you cannot see a discussion of lincoln's address at gettysburg. its

there is a reason ted cruz ended up the runner-up.unpopular as he was in washington, he was immensely popular out of the provinces because people said at least this guy has the guts to go to war with the left. to the extent that trump had advocated for universal health care, defendant planned parenthood, that he used to be a self-described very pro-choice, those things did not matter nearly as much to those voters as the simple fact that they saw in him a brawler, someone who is willing to go to war with the left in a way that none of these other republicans were willing to. host: the title, "american title or is that your a publisher's? guest: that is my title oddly enough. host: you write quote, president obama brought out the worst in the republican base, the seeds of anger and resentment and victimization were sown by forces outside his control long before his ascent but he harvested them in a way no other democrat could. obama was a perfect villain for the forgotten masses of flyover country. donna is joining us in st. louis, mis

a bit more impressively beto o'rourke lost texas by only three points to ted cruz.e and wound up in texas, you'd think it looked like a purple state. latino voters made up 30% of texas voters in 2018. you also have a big asian population, a big african-american population. houston, dallas, austin and san antonio, are all big vibrant, increasingly diverse cities. some things give me pause. one concern for democrats, texas, if you poll registered voters, you see some purple numbers. who actually turns out to vote in texas? traditionally, it's older, white more republican voters. so, could democrats win texas in 2020? sure, there's a chance. but do i buy that texas is already a swing state? no, i'm not ready to buy it. z me again in four years. >> our thanks to nate. our our roundtable standing by to dive in including the latest from our abc news/washington post poll. we're back in just 30 seconds. >>> let's bring in our roundtable, abc news political analyst matthew dowd, abc news correspondent karen travers who covers the white house for us. steve innskeep and fi fiv