p.s., ted cruz, go ( bleep ) yourself. >> stephen: now, it's been said everybody hates ted cruz, andaughter ) but what made you have so much contempt for the man? >> well, this guy didn't even serve in the house. he served in the united states senate. and he didn't do anything in the senate except make noise, and come over to the house side and stir up some of my more conservative members -- i don't know if i call them conservative, some of my knuckleheads into doing things that made no sense whatsoever. >> stephen: like what. uch as the government shutdown in 2013 would be the prime example. i told them for months this is the dumbest thing i've ever heard of. they shut down the government to get rid of obamacare. harry reid was the majority leader in the senate. they were never going to go there. ted cruz and the knuckleheads were setting us up to shut is government down. i kept telling members, this makes no sense. but in the book, there's a favorite boehner-ism in there and that is a leader without followers is just a man taking a walk. next thing i know, my troops are going to my

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. he enlisted the crazy caucus of the gop in what was truly a dumbass idea, not that anybody asked me. sitting down on cbs's sunday morning and the speaker was asked about that reference. >> you write in your book that you became mayor of crazy town. what does that mean? >> by 2010, talk radio had been around for a while. by 2010 we had the internet and we started to have apps, and people really didn't need the party as much as they used to need them. members, candidates could create themselves out of nothing. >> the new modes of indication gained those rebellious members a direct line to the party base, playing to the crowd rather than accomplish things in congress became the route to success. >> there is a lure to be a noisemaker, instead of a policymaker. >> making policy means finding common ground with the opposition. for noisemakers, that was assigned sign that boehner was a sellout. >> i thought if i could get half of a loaf and live to fight for the rest, that was a deal. no way

watch what happens when one of biden handler's try to stop ted cruz and 11 other senators from takingtures at a facility in donna, texas. >> you're right and this is a dangerous place and your policies are trying to hide them. >> respect the people. give them dignity and respect. >> i want to fix the situation. the administration is responsible for these conditions. maria: what is the biden administration hiding from the public? heartbreaking scenes like this one. 4,000 migrants crammed into unsanitary holding pens in bridge in u.s. and mexico in a facility meant to hold 250 people. texas governor greg abbott pointed the finger at biden when he joined us last month. >> the border patrol officers themselves told me they informed the biden administration that because of the policy changes, it was going to lead to this massive surge that we are just now beginning to see knowing there's going to be getting far worse in the coming months. they also said that the reason for the change, the reason for the increase in influx is because of the policy change by the biden administration. maria:

for ted cruz to use that example, as show he's standing with the asian american, pacific islanders isand in fact, just today we had another markup in the judiciary committee. i had a very simple bill, to just collect more information about who gets patents in our country. because women, minorities, we need to get the data. and he tried to change that, to put shall he says i don't know why you don't lake my amendment, he say are you saying it is burdensome, i am saying it is isn't necessary, he didn't say anything after that. but there is, let's just be clear on what it is that we want this bill to do. and his amendment was a distraction. he does that all the time. i'm glad that he at the end voted for the bill. 94-1. and there was one outliar republican which is saying a lot for the republicans who didn't vote for it and the less said about that guy the better. >> trevor: you have to work with these people. and the democrats have a slim majority to work with. do the democrats have an idea of how to actually get things done if it is really just always going to be split down the middle,

listen to ted cruz as he connects the dots between voting and the hr1 bill and the migrants. is. senator: i think hr1 is actually directed connected to this border crisis. many are calling hr1 the corrupt politicians act because it is their number one priority to keep democrats in power for the next 100 years and one of the most dangerous things that the corrupt politicians act does is it automatically registers everyone to vote, if you get welfare payment, if you go to a public college or university. they know that would register millions of illegal aliens. that's the purpose of the bill to have millions of illegal aliens and criminals, felons automatically register. maria: wow, that was stunning. ag paxton, what do you make of that and tell us about hr1, is it a threat to democracy and what what's can you do on the state level to stop it? ken: calling it the corrupt politicians act is proposed. it certainly would democrats. if you notice, a lot of people are being placed in red states, they are being placed in places like texas, montana. there's no doubt that the bill would

anyway, ted cruz was the mastermind behind this plan.stephen: why do you think that you were going for a walk? why do you think your own party jumped so far in a crazy direction? i'm not saying it's necessarily your responsibility, but it was certainly while you were a member-- a member of the leadership of your own party. do you see a-- an inflection point within the party where they started to go so crazy right? >> well, listen, we were just at the beginning of-- we had the internet, but all the social media stuff was just starting to come on to the scene, but we had talk radio, mostly conservative, all these cable news channels, all they did were politics all night, and what happened around 2009, 2010, '11, is that the right-wing media just went really-- they wanted noise and they wanted more noise, and these people were only too happy to give them noise and they got a lot of air time. so i saw the beginnings of this. it's gotten a lot worse since, and the problem is not just on the far right. it's on the far left as well. people get

when bidens handlers tries to stop ted cruz and 18 other senators from taking pictures at a facilitynna texas. >> you are right and this is a dangerous place. >> your policies are trying to hide them. >> i asked you to give them dignity and respect. >> i want to fix the situation. >> the administration you're working for is responsible for these conditions. maria: what is abide in the administration hiding from the public, a heartbreaking scene like this 14000 migrants crammed into unsanitary holding pens under a bridge between the u.s. and mexico in a holding facility meant to hold 250 people, texas governor greg abbott with blaming vitamin e during the last month. >> award for two officers tell me they informed divided demonstration because of the policy changes it was going to w lead to a massive surge that wen are just beginning to see knowing it will get far worse ia the coming months. they also said the reason for the change, the reason for the increase in influx is because of the policy change by the administration. maria: coming of john barroso and also the health crisis bide

meanwhile, ted cruz's neighbors all have lawn signs that say, "ask me about ted's trip to mexico."nder, just because you personally get vaccinated doesn't mean the pandemic is magically over the virus is still circulating there's still variants out there. and until case numbers are much lower and vaccination rates are much higher, other people around you are still at risk. and by the way, cruz was also wrong about the official cdc guidance, as cnn's dr. sanjay gupta explained >> the cdc guidance, i just pulled it up again, because the guidance does change, admittedly but it says even if you've been fully vaccinated you need to keep taking precautions in public places, wearing a mask, staying six feet apart, avoiding crowds for him, he's pretty well protected admittedly against getting severely ill, requiring hospitalization. he may not be as well protected against moderate illness, mild illness, and the possibility that he could still transmit the virus to somebody else so when he's not wearing a mask, he's potentially putting other people in that room at risk. >> seth: and that's

except for ted cruz who was sound asleep. during a lot of this, look at him, dreaming of cancun, no doubt. [ laughter ] lyin' ted just turned into snoozin' cruz. but you know who wasn't sleeping last night? the second gentleman, doug emhoff. he was wide awake and very alone. [ laughter ] no dandelions for doug. well, i think, watch this, because i think he just signalled for kamala to steal second base. after the speech an amazing thing happened, every black republican senator got together to let the american people know the republican party isn't racist. >> by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. you know this stuff is wrong. hear me clearly, america is not a racist country. >> jimmy: and then tim promptly returned to the sensory deprivation egg he calls home. [ laughter ] senator scott accused democrats

aoc and ted cruz went back and forth on twitter over immigration. ted cruz ascending, @aoc explains the real democratic position, abolish eyes. last year, we had the lowest illegal immigration in 45 years. she responded, this is rich coming from someone who flooded their own home and responsibilities during an environmental crisis to cross the board and seek refuge in mexico. you funded cages, expanded cages, and yet you are complaining about cages. you have no policy, just puff. senator ted cruz was in donna, texas, recently. this is what he had to say. [video clip] >> as we stand by the banks of the rio grande, we have an army of tv cameras. it is striking that not a single one of these cameras is allowed in the donna facility. we requested that media company us in the facility. the biden administration said no. the trump administration allowed mediate inside facilities like that. the obama administration allowed media inside facilities like that. the biden administration wants to hide what is going on. a number of >> remarks on the march jobs rep

thank you ted cruz. having said all of this it was a wonderful experience serving in the congress and a wonderful experience serving as speaker of the house. when you are speaker you have a lot of responsibilities, ceremonial responsibilities, institutional responsibilities but the number one job as speaker of the house is to protect the integrity of the institution itself. a lot of members talk and protect the institution but today it's a speaker's job to protect the institution itself. in the institution has been around for 240 years and around another 240 years. that means protecting the rights of the minority. it means having an institution where all members are taking care of and all members feel like they're being heard, you cannot allow the majority to triple over the rights of the minority. i feel good about the five years that i spent as a steward of the institution. i never believed that i would serving congress for a long, long time. in the early '90s i looked around and i would see a dozen me

that moment. >> i mean, i personally will go to my grave reminding people that donald trump mocked ted cruz'sd father and cruz still campaigned for him in both elections. another one of trump's loyalists under the bas matt gaetz from your great state of florida. the house ethics committee opened an investigation. gaetz denies the allegations and refused to step down. talked about a deep state plot against him but bill barr signed off and trump himself didn't issue a statement of support. >> not at all. the reason why is because there's a child victim in the case. these are grave accusations that have been made and joel greenberg his colleague from central florida is indicted for a crime that involves a child engaging in a commercial sex act. matt gaetz has few friends in politics even before the charges and tonight mehdi florida flynns are looking pass matt gaetz assuming that this ends in a resignation or an indictment and though not making national news in tallahassee you see fellow lobbyists and donors to the republican party and other legislators getting scrutinized and some terminated. t

this is how ted cruz chose to respond in a tweet.ocrats actively encouraging riots and violence, they want to tear us apart. that's ted cruz of the not accepting the election results before or after the insurrection which might be a case, one wonders, the pot kellinlling -- calling the kettle pot. >> we'll not take it anymore. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. >> mel brooks pot. >> today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. >> rudy giuliani, pot. >> if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail, so let's have trial by combat. >> so i don't recall the republicans encouraging violence tweet from ted cruz after that or there wasn't one. and with heard on january 2nd from this pot. >> just like the patriots gathered at bunk kerr hill, just like the patriots gathered at valley forge. just like the patriots who forged this nation, the men and women gathered here and across the state of georgia are fighting for the united states of america because we defend our constitution as we defend ou

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz.t you've been able to discern as you've been covering his political career? is there anyone -- and i do include his daughters in that. does anyone at this point like this guy? >> joy, please allow me to confirm these vicious rumors. ted cruz has yet to identify a friend, an ally, an associate, anybody who has anything remotely polite to say about him. he is the boil on democracy. he is the thorn in everybody's side. he is the embarrassment to the state of texas, and like you said, even his own family doesn't like him, which we can tell because he threw them under the bus when he went -- >> he blamed his daughters. >> yeah, he blamed his kids. he's terrible, but the big question is, texas, what are you all going to do about it? we don't want to deal with your problems. >> come on, texas, come on texas. >> come through and give us somebody else. i think the castro brothers might be free for something. >> tiffany cross -- if there's ever a scandal about people paying for people to be pair

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ted cruz and aoc, there is no love lost between them; aoc can walk on water and ted cruz would say "thee with one thing tucker said. this is a big problem, immigration is a problem. we have migrants coming to our border, drug cartels coming through, for 17 years. whether you are democrat or republican, this has been difficult to get under control. you need a comprehensive immigration package and legislation that needs bipartisan support. whether it's a democrat or republican in office, it gets kicked down the road. it can't continue to get kicked down the road. i want to point something out with regard to race. 91% increase last year of illegal immigrants coming over the canadian border! did anybody know that? i didn't until i looked it up. we have to question why. who is coming in canada versus who is coming in mexico, our southern border? one big difference is their skin color. >> i can tell you one thing, there isn't one narrow area on this border crisis were republicans and democrats are converging rapidly. if talked to -- i think i interviewed two border state governors this week,

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. classic boehner in his era.he deserve some of the responsibility? some of the blame from your perspective for what has happened to the republican party? >> does john boehner or ted cruz? i think they both have had some blame. i think though, what boehner's book presents is almost a time stamp in one of the last evolutions of the republican party. which was maybe from the boehner class over to ted cruz in the tea party and why that time stamp is important is because of this. john boehner, despite his fierce resistance to barack obama's agenda and he it and he was dogged about it and he used to tools of the house to stop president obama. ted cruz represents a different type of on governing. almost against governing. he was the had shut down leader. he was the one that said we will have an absolutist ideology, and if you're not with us, you're against us. you can't govern that way. at least john boehner understood you have to governor and ted cruz and his class don't care about that. >> he calls out michelle bachma

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string of states are following and suing the administration and then you saw it here first, senator ted cruz'secting biden's media blackout at the border. watch what happens when one of

>> john: sandra let's bring in ted cruz for more on this. senator cruz you heard ed lawrenson's report there. last night, tim scott made a point of saying america is not a racist country, yet almost to prove him wrong, progressives took to twitter and started this trend with this racial slur that was on the platform for 11 hours before it was finally taken down, your thoughts. >> well, look might think it is disgusting. tim gave a fantastic speech. he is a good friend and he understands the miracle of opportunity that is america appear that there is no nation in the history of the world enabled so many people to start with nothing and achieve the american peer that is why tim is a conservative and why i am a conservative. i think it was particularly important that tim made the point, which is right from america's not a racist country. in fact, we have a legacy of fighting for equal rights of all. it hasn't been a perfect journey but no journey is. we are moving towards a more

and by him, i mean, former presidential candidate and fidel gastro, ted cruz. cruz went viral last night, when during the speech, he fell asleep. i can relate to ted cruz. now that joe biden's president, i find it much easier to sleep. cruz was roundly mocked online, and bernie sanders drew a penis on his forehead. so, to explain his behavior, cruz tweeted the video of him falling asleep with the hashtag boring but radical. so he admits he's witnessing radical historic change, but that makes him sleepy? "gotta stop joe biden! the next thing you know, he's going to nationalize the petroleum indust... zzzzzzzzz." another republican critical of the speech was former white house advisor and man who makes jewelry out of baby teeth, stephen miller. miller said the speech, "had no warmth, a lifeless and dry address." miller likes his speeches the same way he likes his food-- warm and wriggling. perhaps the harshest review came from former new jersey governor, and man attempting the one-cheei ristaso n of how much biden's plans were going to cost. >> the words of this s

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. end quote.onounced moment is actually in the audio version of the book. listen to this. >> take it from me. you'll never know where you'll end up. that's freedom. i'll raise a glass to that any day. p.s., ted cruz, go [ bleep ] yourself. >> joining me now, errin haines, msnbc contributor and editor at large for the 19th and editor of the "washington post." i know what more to say. start with you erin. john boehner had a sense of humor but taken a dark turn talking about his own. not talking about democrats. he's talking about republicans. >> yeah. i mean, i think on both sides it's really easy to be spicy when you're not up for re-election. right? whether that is, because you're permanently off the ballot or you have a few years before you have to run for office again. so i think in this kind of ongoing feud between boehner and cruz, you're seeing some of that. i think it does, though, speak to kind of the larger point that either exiting or former republicans seem to be the only republicans in

texas senator ted cruz tried that last week at the conservative political action conference, and thenin this week on fox news >> the democratic party has abandoned the working-class men and women, the millions of people who are out of jobs, who are seeing their wages pulled down, who are competing to provide for their families with people coming illegally. that's not who the democratic party represents anymore they don't represent unions anymore. they don't represent construction workers or truck drivers or working men and women anymore. the republican party is not the party just of the country clubs. the republican party is the party of steel workers and construction workers and pipeline workers and taxi cab drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who are working for this country that is our party. >> seth: oh please, ted cruz, your hands are so delicate, you need an epidural to get through a manicure the only calluses ted cruz has on his hands are from checking kayak on his phone also, i'm willing to bet the onl

so, how does ted cruz get away with it?n, i take the point, and i also, you know, luke broadwater at the "new york times" wrote a story shortly after the insurrection and it remains the definitive tracking of associations and joint appearances between current house republicans and the exact militia groups who, at the time, were under scrutiny and many of them hadn't been charged yet. they've now racked up many, many charges in this group. they include the proud boys, the oath keepers, the three percenters. how do we sort of not get chilled or intimidated from covering those associations as potentially worthy of a little extra scrutiny while those groups are being considered and investigated and charged, their members, with an attack on the capitol? >> we call them the terrorists that they are, nicole, and we call out the journalists that support terrorism, call out the politicians that support terrorism and then put pressure on businesses and then we put pressure on local organizations. look, it is now -- i've been keeping

media and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz'sehner's book. they referred us to a tweet from senator cruz implying boehner is obsessed with cruz. cruz did joke about boehner's criticism of him at a conservative conference in february, asking an audience, who's john boehner? brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> and this quick programming note, former senate majority leader harry reid joins cnn's jim acosta later on today for a one-on-one interview. you can watch that right here on cnn at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> hello again, everyone, thank you fo

senator ted cruz he's criticizing this long shot effort going nowhere by some democratic lawmakers tourt from nine to 13 justices. listen to what he's saying here. >> you didn't see republicans when we had control of the senate try to rig the game. you didn't see us try to pack the court. there was nothing that would have prevented republicans from doing what they're doing other than respect for the rule of law. >> you didn't see them try to rig the game, david. you saw them rig the game. actually, like literally block a nomination for months and months, and not only that, ted cruz is on the record praising comments at the time about how a court can work efficiently without nine members without confirming at that point merrick garland. >> there are certainly long historical precedent for a supreme court with fewer justices. i would note recently justice brieer observed the vacancy is is not hampering the court from doing its job. >> clearly this is just hypocritical, beyond hypoc hypocritical. on its face hypocritical. >> if you're looking in consistency in political rhetoric from ted

you come in ted cruz, others.cameras that were with you were not allowed in because of the media blackout. kids on top of kids on top of kids, high positivity rate. i would think dr. fauci would be concerned about that. >> and that's my point. i'm not here to beat up dr. fauci. he is the medical advisor to the president of united states joe biden. joe biden has confidence in dr. fauci. joe biden was concerned about people attending the texasxa ranger's opening day baseball game because it might be a super spreading event. here is what i would tell president biden. you need to send your medical advisor to the border because it is a complete chaotic situations. you've got 600 people in a room built for 80. you have 172,000 illegal immigrants show up to our border in march alone with a 10% positive rate. n i'm not asking dr. fauci to change our integration laws. i'm asking him to visit the border and gave his analysis of what's going on there regarding the pandemic. i can't believe the vice president has not gone to

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator ted cruz was this dramatic but about scoring points in the media and that's what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out for a response to boehner's book. they referred to us a tweet from senator cruz implying that he is obsessed with cruz. cruz did joke about boehner's criticism. saying who is john boehner? >>> an expert testifying that derek chauvin kept his knee on george floyd's neck more than three minutes after he stopped breathing. that and what else you need to know from today's testimony. that's next. (vo) the subaru outback. dog tested. dog approved. aliens are real, alright. there's just too much evidence. kill weeds not the lawn with roundup for lawns products.

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look at ted cruz's twitter feed. look what every time ted cruz does things. he's not arguing about tax rates. he's not arguing about what should we do on education. he's not arguing about those. he's doing these kind of things over and over and over again because the republican party today does not stand for anything. basically their platform in 2020 was donald trump is great. that was their platform in 2020. and i don't think they have anywhere to go right now. they have no argument to the american public. and i think what their biggest argument with the people that are dominated by joe biden was that joe biden's cabinet for the first time in american history looks like america, looks like america for the first time in history. they don't think his cabinet looks like the republican party. that's their fundamental problem. >> juanita, i waited to come to you so you could have the final word. what did you think as you watched these confirmation hearings? >> alicia, matt hit the nail on the head. they're not working to legislate. in fact, they're only trying to

media and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz'sse to boehner's book. they referred us to a tweet from senator cruz implying that boehner is obsessed with cruz. cruz did joke about boehner's criticisms of him at a conservative conference in february, asking an audience, who is john boehner. >> thank you so much. >>> an expert testifying derek chauvin kept his knee on george floyd's neck for more than three minutes after george floyd stopped breathing. that and what else you need to know from today's testimony. that's next. and especially car dealers all charge excessive, last-minute fees. when you want something badly enough, it feels like your only choice is to pay up. but what if you had a choice to take a stand instead? at carvana, we believe in treating you better. with zero hidden fees, you can drive off without feeling ripped off. that's what it means to live feelessly. now, simparica trio simplifies protection. ticks and fleas? see ya! heartworm disease? no way! simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this prot

brutal twitter war between alexandria ocasio-cortez and ted cruz. what is all about this time?s this. >> this is nothing about infrastructure because if it really was, republicans would be right there to work with them to put an infrastructure bill that would build america. this is about raising taxes. >> julie: the sticker shock and backlash over president biden's massive spending bill and it's not coming from just republicans. david has meant on deck on who ultimately gets stuck with the bill next. uncertain times, money in the bank can bring you and your family real piece of mind. refiplus from newday usa can make it happen. refiplus lets you refinance at near record lows plus get an average of $50,000 cash for the financial security you and your family deserve. refiplus, only from newday usa. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. >> only 5% of the spending and the package goes towards roads and bridg

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representative ted the first speaker this morning joined with setter ted cruz who will also be making remarks present allege the house and senate appropriation committee on march 10 i'm sorry march 12, 2021 sent by ten senators and representatives objecting to the restoration of earmarks. setter steve baines introduced s501 with his colleagues to go with personally bad earmarks. congressman kevin of oklahoma our second speaker proposed congressional reform package in january that included earmarks. and represented chipper i got 26 of his republican colleagues to sign a letter to speaker pelosi saying they would not have earmarks for the euphemism of the day project funding. the 29th installment of citizens against government spending includes $1.7 billion for 17 unrequested joint strike fighters which has been plagued with crossover run delays record $25 million for save america's treasures grants which is 56% later than the $16 million requested and physically or 2020. in the past these projects have included local operated theaters and museums as a record $19.7 million for the east

p.s., ted cruz, go [ bleep ] yourself. >> go find yourself? >> so literary. he is going to get a pulitzer, definitely. you know what i'm tired of? after all this time they are upholding foolishness. part of the reason we are today, john boehner was there before mitch mcconnell. so it's the redemption tour. it's ridiculous. as if we don't remember that john boehner said that he was supporting donald trump, as if we don't remember that he said hillary clinton had no platform outside of being a woman, which was asinine. the experts read like an angry 13-year-old boy who didn't get what he wanted and now he is raging out at everybody. i'm sure it will sell well. it's very don draper and doesn't surprise me. this election cycle has been profitable for republicans who suddenly got religion. >> one of the things, he said that his caucus really hated, hated obama, but at no point at least from the clips that i have seen he laid out why. >> we all know why. i think he made a reference, if you call him a kenyan traitor, whatever the case may be. what's

. >> texas senator ted cruz spoke against the president's nominee to be the defense secretary for policy was later confirmed. here is what he said. >> mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to speak up to seven months prior to the vote onrd the nomination. >> without objection, so ordered. >> authorized to speak about , theto president under secretaryf defense for policy. most basic responsibility of our government and military is to protect the national security helping allies and straining our enemies the pentagon policy chief is responsible for those evaluations. unfortunately, i've come to believe his judgment is irreparably marred by obsessive animosity towards israel. i can think of no other way to explain the years of consistent wrong abuse regarding the middle east and not just that but impulsive and reckless. he's repeatedly spelled out his conspiracy theories and attacks on twitter and other public venues. he views the world through a clock cracked lens and i challenge my democratic imcolleagues to explain one sime thing, what otherna explanation other than animosity to the wor

in fact, ted cruz relies on the voters who are the most uneasy about racial change. 80% of republicanse, now say in polling that the police killings of unarmed black men are isolated incidents, not part of a pattern. the denial that systemic racism exists is one of the absolute glues that holds together the modern republican coalition. >> ted cruz, that was then, but this is now. take a look in the mirror. thank you very much. i appreciate it, ron. i'll see you soon. >>> tributes coming in for former vice president walter mondale, who died at 93. the life and legacy of the civil rights advocate, next. >>> some breaking news tonight. former vice president walter mondale has died at the age of 93. president biden paying tribute to his life at this hour, calling hum a dear friend and mentor. mondale served as v.p. under president jimmy carter in the late 1970s. more on walter mondale's life from cnn's wolf blitzer. ♪ >> reporter: walter mondale was a politician who always managed to remain minnesota-nice. known all his life as fritz, walter frederick mondale was born in southern minnesota

look, i tip my hat to texas senator ted cruz. he is exactly right.against woke corporations. the status quo can't hold. they need to be taught a lesson. they need to look at the facts, they need to respect republican values. brian: ford, we talk about boycotts. boycotts are attempted regularly. we see them all the time. they're often not successful. when you look what senator cruz is talking about here, not taking corporate money, do you think that sticks? do you think more politicians follow? do you think they're making up with it with smaller donations that still allow them to be competitive? >> great question, brian. here is the bottom line, i think republicans on capitol hill need to follow ted cruz' lead as republicans in state capitals across this country because here is the deal when it comes to corporations. actually right now basically corporations need to stop hating republican values. they need to not enter into these debates. they need to understand the michael jordan axiom that republicans buy sneakers too. republicans will do better at

. >> texas senator ted cruz spoke against the president's nominee to be the defense secretary for policy was later confirmed. here is what he said. >> mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to speak up to seven months prior to the vote onrd the nomination. >> without objection, so ordered. >> authorized to speak about , theto

ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator cruz was this dramatic style that wasn't about legislating but scoring points in the media, and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz's office to a response. they referred us to a tweet implying that boehner is obsessed with cruz. cruz did joke about boehner's criticism, asking an audience, who's john boehner. wolf? >> thank you very much. to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." follow me on twitter and instagram. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> at least one person dead and several others injured, including a trooper after a mass shooting in texas tonight. the shooting coming hours after joe biden announced executive actions to address gun violence in the u.s. and gripping testimony about the final moments of george floyd's life. a breathing expert detailing the second that life left floyd's body. refuting what had been one of the defense's main arguments. and the story you will see

was senator ted cruz sleeping during president biden's speech?#5inchseamsleepyted was trending all night. here's why. biden was discussing immigration reform when cameras cut to the texas senator who appeared to be very sleepy. >> another moment getting attention is second gentleman doug emhoff enthusiastically waving and bowing, blowing kisses to his wife vice president kamala harris. >> the second gentleman is really loving his job. >> just a proud husband. >>> next a shocking discovery for a couple who just bought a new home in las vegas. >> okay, get this, workers installing a pool found a set of old bones buried in the backyard. very, very old bones. the bones turned out to be 14,000 years old dating back to the ice age. scientists think they belong to a prehistoric horse. >> no need to call law and order, maybe just bill nye, the science guy. >>> well, next, a scene straight out of an alfred hitchcock movie. >> thousands of birds invaded this quiet suburban neighborhood in australia. the cockatoos swooped down on homes and lawns. >> fortuna

there's a lot of work to do here. >> the "washington post" is writing about ted cruz and says cruz wantedce the group even as its nativist, rhetoric and divisive tactics have drawn many away. the use of the expression turned a blind eye, does ted cruz have greater responsibility in terms of the average citizen in taking in this information that these conspiracy theory groups or militia groups or sometimes anti-government groups talk about? >> the devil is always in the details here. if -- let's just speculate for a minute. this is obviously not the sort of facts that we know. if cruz had been involved in a meeting where there were conversations about physically storming the capitol to interrupt congress, well, that would be a set of facts that investigators might look at in a criminal context. from what we know now, participation in groups with ideologies that you and i think are reprehensible, you know, this is something we tolerate in our civil society and the remedy for that sort of behavior is at the ballot box for texas voters. >> that's a good point. joyce, thanks as always for join

i would ask ted cruz this, granting all things stated about there's no guarantee on the vaccine beingt behavior. it's not just about him or his staff or a friend of his, it's about him as a u.s. senator showing leadership to the country and encouraging people to do right behavior so we get out of this pandemic. >> look, this is a guy when he was cold an didn't have water in the texas crisis he went to cancun. we can see what he thinks of first. i want to ask you one thing about republican congressman matt gaetz, mccarthy punted on what should happen to him, no charges have been filed yet, which is true. what do you make of republicans twisting themselves into a pretzel to defend him regardless -- what's happened through these text is unacceptable behavior. >> they had four years to twist themselves into pretzel in everything related to donald trump. barack obama had done one-tenth of what donald trump did they'd have been all over it and donald trump has 20 plus odd women who accused him of sexual assault they twisted themselves into a pretzel and for matt gaetz it doesn't surprise me

and you have to work hard to try to be more loath than ted cruz.ination. i was struck, though, by the bipartisan cooperation and by susan collins, what she did on the other side of the aisle with senator hirono. and the 19th has great reporting on how those two women worked together to bring together this bipartisan group and consensus that it's completely unacceptable, that there have been over 3,800 reported hate crimes against asian-americans over the last year. and so that -- the overwhelming 94 votes for this bill shows the seriousness with which lawmakers are taking this and it was a strong statement and it's an important one and i'm glad we could come together on this issue. >> and moving beyond josh holly, mr. insurrection, what does this outcome bode for police reform and infrastructure and other bills? is there hope that there will be more bipartisan outcomes? >> well, we can certainly hope for that. infrastructure, honestly, a lot of that is in the hands of joe biden in terms of infrastructure. you think you could get republican support,