senator ted cruz learned his lesson the hard way this week in the senate. you'll see how she handled him on voting rights and you'll see me talk to her live tonight. good evening. it is a little over a month until halloween but it already feels like we're living in a modern american horror movie as if living through a deadly pandemic wasn't bad enough we've seen voting rights being whittled away, unemployment benefits cut off, the expiration of the eviction moratorium, white nationalism taking over the gop, and right wing senate democrats dominating their party's agenda. if all that doesn't crush your spirits we have a potential government shutdown and debt crisis coming down the line. oh, and a political stalemate over a $3.5 trillion social and economic policy and climate change bill. the heart of biden agenda. if you are thinking the republican party is the freddy kruger of this nightmare you'd be wrong. it's the left. apparently the left is to blame. don't take my word for it. progressive democrats this week were crowned the villains by the master of ho

maria: senator ted cruz today in texas.biden and the democrats want to spend $7 trillion next year. the ranking member of the budget committee is here, congressman jason smith on how high your taxes are going to pay for it. d.♪ ♪ ♪ anybody want to split a turkey leg? maria: welcome back, joe biden's foreign policy mistakes have made the country less safe in the last eight months but he and the democrat party are laser focused on pushing through the economic agenda including spending $5 trillion on a green new economy. joining me right now to discuss how you will end up paying for this by your higher taxes the ranking member on the house budget committee congressman jason smith. congressman smith, good to see you, thank you for being here this morning. >> great to be here, thanks for having me, maria. maria: where are we at this point. we had 13 committees do their own mark-ups of nancy pelosi's reconciliation bill and what have we learned from the mark-ups an tell me where does the process stand today? congressman: maria, t

maria: senator ted cruz today in texas.n and the democrats want to spend $7 trillion next year. the ranking member of the budget committee is here, congressman jason smith, on how high your taxes are going to pay for it. ice cream is like whooping cough, it's not just for kids. whooping cough is highly contagious for people of any age. and it can cause violent uncontrollable coughing fits. ask your doctor or pharmacist about whooping cough vaccination because it's not just for kids. (vo) this is more than glass and steel... ask your doctor or pharmacist about whooping cough vaccination and stone. it's awe. beauty. the measure of progress. it's where people meet people. where cultures and bonds are made between us. where we create things together. open each other's minds. raise each other's ambitions. and do together, what we can't do apart. this is space for dreams. loopnet. the most popular place to find a space. maria: welcome back. well, joe biden's foreign policy mistakes have made this country less safe in the last eig

th senator ted cruz says, not so fast. m going to block things. you won't be able to use that avenue to reach the debt limit. this speaks to how republicans are tacessly ruthless in the way senate democrats are not. >> this is all about politics, right, not so much the policy or th debt limit. i think that is the biggest thing here, is that first and foremost it's not as if republicans have not been in power when the debt limit has needed to be increased, you know, the debt ceiling has needed to be raised. that has happened, they have voted for it. democrats have been on their side in doing this. mitch mcconnell has said over and over about how when he was majority leader, america cannot default on our debt, how detrimental it will be to the economy. but that doesn't mean even now him saying, if you can figure out a way to do it on your own, the rest of his party is not on board. so you have these people like ted cruz, i assume there are other 2020 hopefuls in there who arethinking about their base, right? their base is not interested in them goin

>> well, look at what ted cruz did today. it depends on how you ask the question.you are dishonest, then of course people are going to go that's horrible. but when you break it down for people and you begin to ask them other questions do you think it's fair for people to have to go for a certain distance to try to get this when they have other valid forms of i.d.? well, no. do you think it's important that people who have respect for the law and for government and have certain issued i.d.s but not others, that they should be somehow disqualified? then, the answer is no. so it depends on how the polls ask the questions. and let's admit at the end of the day, when martin luther king, jr., was fighting for civil rights in this country, the polls began to catch up to where the conscience of the nation was. polls don't always determine what we should do. they register our contemporary opinion that should be shaped and molded according to the principles and practices of democracy that we claim to embrace. >> how dangerous it is -- is it -- for the democrats if they do no

. >> what about ted cruz? ted cruz makes up a big part of your -- >> he makes up a chunk. well, what i say is that i probably liked ted cruz more than most of my colleagues liked ted cruz. and i hate ted cruz. >> former senator al franken, we appreciate you being with us right now. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> best of luck. >> you bet. >> brianna? >>> just into cnn, some georgia republicans are livid at former president trump after he took shots at republican governor brian kemp and said this at a weekend rally in the state. >> stacey abrams, who still has not conceded, and that's okay. stacey, would you like to take his place? okay with me. having her might be better than having your existing dpovgovern if you want to know the truth. might very well be better. >> well, the georgia republican party is concerned about the impact of trump's attacks on kemp in next year's midterm elections. let's talk about that now with cnn anchor and chief national affairs analyst kasie hunt, as well as cnn reporter michael warren, who has some excellent new reporting. you've

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here with me is senator ted cruz from texas. this is sheer lawlessness. reports tonight that the biden administration is even trying to get a contractor to run a facility in gitmo, to hold the overflow. what is happening here. >> what is happening in del rio illustrates the cause and effect of the biden border disaster. to really understand it you have to go back to september 8th. under that. there were on any given day between 700 and thousand illegal immigrants mostly from 80 and that had been the consistent flow for some time, 700,000 that they were crossing illegally. on september 8th there were roughly 900 haitians scheduled to be on airplanes to go back to haiti and the biden administration cancel those flights, we are not going to deport you, you can remain in america and what happened was simple. those 900 haitians pulled out their phones, they got their phones and called their families, their friends, you had 700 people on september 8th. i was in del rio eight days later on september 16th. the day i was there 700 people had become 10,503. with a

election law analyst went toe to toe with senator ted cruz in a judiciary committee hearing in a fieryr i.d. law. listen. >> in your judgment, our voter i.d. laws are racist, professor tolson. >> thank you for that question. so it depends. one thing we have to stop doing is treating all voter i.d. laws as the same. >> i want to move quickly, so it depends is your answer? >> yes, that is my answer. >> so what voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, senator cruz, yor state of texas. i'm not saying the entire state of texas. >> you said my state of texas. you tell me about the texas voter i.d. laws that are racist. >> the fact the law was put in place to diminish the political power of latinos with racist intent and have been found to have -- >> you're asserting that. what is the evidence of that? >> the federal district court that first resolved the constitutionality of texas' voter i.d. law. >> your view is voter i.d. laws are racist. how about you, mr. yang? >> i agree with professor tolson, voter i.d. laws can be racist. >> there are some voter i.d. laws that are racially discrimina

and how could ted cruz embrace himself at a hearing he did not even attend. we will explain when all i starts right now. >> good evening from n york i'm chris hayes, if you are watcng the show you are probably the kind of person who gets fund raising emails from politicians and political groups. you know th genre well most likely, we need your help to fight for methinyou care about, click here to donate now. and the poi of this fund raising, particularly the o thathappens over email and xt these days is to reach in and activate your emotions. ople who send out those emails and text, they are constantly pressing a whole bunch of different buttons to see at gets a reaction. they can measure d monitor it. and that explains lot owhat happens in politic on asleep, a trickle early i would say on the right. because conservative pioneered this for decades. a huge part of that movement, usually kind of breakthrough discovery, has essentially been a kind of beefed udirect mail marketing drug, in which the pump people full of age, and then take their money. i will never

>> well, look at what ted cruz did today.ntent and you're dishonest, people are going to go that's horrible. when you break it down for people and you begin to ask them other questions, do you think it's fair for people to have to go a certain distance when they have other valid forms of i.d. do you think it's important that people who have respect for the law and have certain issued i.d.s and not others that they should be somehow disqualified the answer is no. it depends on how the polls ask the questions. let's admit it, when martin luther king jr. was fighting for civil rights in this country, the polls began to catch up to where the conscience of the nation was. polls register our contemporary opinion that should be shaped and molded according to the principles and practices of democracy that we claim to embrace. >> how dangerous is it for the democrats if they do not pass the voting rights bill that is before them? >> it is awful darn dangerous. we got to stand up. don't be feckless or spineless. stand up and say this i

what ted cruz is pointing out his master class selective outrage 101.revious president conditions at the border were so bad it made a congresswoman put her hands on her face and cry while a photographer was right there with very vivid shots. she compared border facilities guys to concentration camps but anyone who lived or wrote about the holocaust. and it is all civil and no stake. todd: on one hand how many democrats will take to cruise up on his challenge? >> the same number when you multiply something by 0 when it comes to 0. except when you are a texas democrat because texas democrats and arizona democrats have been baking the president who has never been to the border to come down, the ones that live there see what is going on, they are the exception to that rule. carley: there is all the backlash over this fake narrative that they were whipping migrants, it never happened and the biden administration says no more horses control the situation, but totally false and fake story. >> those border patrol agents in those misleading photos placed on leav

playback senator ted cruz pressing the secretary in entirety. >> mr.e. >> senator. >> president biden have presided over the worst foreign policy catastrophe in a generation. americans are hor -- horrified. they are angry, dissolutioned and frustrated. our enemies are emboldened which makes the world more dangerous and our allies are disspiritted. ever since the disaster began unfolding in afghanistan, we've seen the biden administration making political excuses. we've seen democrats on this committee explaining at great length how everything that happened in afghanistan is trump's fault. it's all trump's fault. mr. secretary, joe biden is the president of the united states. kamala harris is the vice president of the united states. you are the united states secretary of state. just like jimmy carter owns the disaster of the iran hostage crisis, you own this. the biden administration caused this disaster. it was caused by two things. number one, ideological naivety and extremism. repeatedly, mr. secretary, in this hearing and multiple conference calls o

he was ourselfed by ted cruz in 2018. created buzz to run for governor. what do you think? profile, most visible and can raise money and i believe given all that's going on there the democratic party in washington, d.c. will help him raise money and be supportive of him. that being said, look, he almost beat ted cruz. >> yep. >> but right now it is interesting to see with a statistical figtive campaign against him and governor abbott behind only 5 points and something to consider. he is a good candidate and three things against him. one being the border. the crisis at the border. abortion which is huge legislation going on in tbexas and covid. if they're not any better come election time it is not good for a democrat. >> what do you think? >> that's fascinating to me. i think they work to him advantage. the governor is taking extreme positions out of the mainstream if you take the abortion law out of the mainstream for pro-life people and i think created an opening for beto come in here trying to fight over here and challengers on the right flank and just created an opportu

host: senator ted cruz with that web app -- ad on his twitter page.aking a listen at your phone calls. how would you grade president biden's job performance? that's our question for you. phone lines as usual. ray's first, a republican. ray, if you're using the letter grade, what grade would you give him? caller: a d minus. at the beginning the vaccine rollouts went fairly well. the american rescue plan helped when we were still in crisis mode was done well but the afghanistan thing was a complete failure. the border, a complete failure. he seems to be moving more and more to the left every day. and i think it's more this is what i would have expected out of president sanders, not president biden. he portrayed himself as a moderate. and i don't think we're getting a moderate and i'm very worried that -- and afghanistan is disheartening. host: ray is that grade set in your mind? what would it take to change your grade? caller: nothing's ever set in stone. if he could reaccomplishment -- reimplement the trump policies, building the wall, training the wor

senator ted cruz is here. >> but first to griff jenkins in mexico. hi, griff. >> hi, martha.river behind me. in the distance, you can see the international bridge that connects guatemala and mexico. that is the legal way that people go through a customs checkpoint. but the easier way is here along the river. these rafts are crossing all day long, thousands coming and going on these makeshift rafts. there's no customs, no immigration checkpoint to go through. that 15,000 strong caravan will likely come right across that. officials say 800 haitians alone are coming through here. as you mentioned, the director of the u.s.-based immigration groups that helped organize the 2019 caravans here, they're here now blaming the biden administration for this mess. listen. >> the migrants and the american public are getting mixed message from the biden administration. it's more cruel. at least you tell the migrants not to come. the biden administration doesn't have a clue what they're doing. >> have a look at the rafts crossing. no clear idea who is coming across, haitians, those from afri

i don't know that ted cruz and i don't know that marco rubio are echoes. um, i do think that they are -- there is a part of a partisan politics that they are a part of. um, and i don't know that i would call them an echo. i know that both of them have disagreed with the former president, before. and -- and i don't know why they are doing what they are doing now and i don't know which part of it i disagree with, exactly. >> they haven't disagreed with him, overtly on nearly with the volume that we see with them when it's not about him. but for point to you, mike. um, i agree. what harris did with biden in that primary i thought was way over the line. or actually, i guess, was way, you know, under the bar of where people should be in a primary. and you're right. that is politics. the question is, you know, do we accept it? or do we call it out and reject it? >> i agree. >> so, let's keep doing it, brother. and again, to remind people. that is not mike in the picture over his shoulder. it is his brother who gave his life to this country and the american flag.

here's what texas senator ted cruz said to the secretary. >> ever since the disaster began unfoldingafghanistan, we have seen the biden administration making political excuses. we have seen democrats on this committee explaining at great length how everything that happened in afghanistan is trump's fault. it's all trump's fault. mr. secretary, joe biden is the president of the united states. kamala harris is the vice-president of the united states. you are the u.s. secretary of state. just like jimmy carter owned the disaster of the iran hostage crisis, you own this. . >> sean: senator cruz joins us now. i am glad you called him out on that lie. never did i think we would abandon americans behind enemy lines when we had months and months observing and watching with our intelligence community. this is not an intelligence failure. i was told by many sources, telling them they are on the march. we could have safely extracted and withdrawn every american and every afghan ally and all of our military equipment. this is beyond incompetence. your thoughts? >> well, that's right. this is the

. >> things got really heated when senator ted cruz pressured whether the officials gave the taliban names of american citizens during the chaotic evacuation. >> did the state department give the taliban a list or multiple lists of americans and/or afgans that we wanted out? >> those reports and the idea that we would do anything to endanger our citizens or anyone else at a time when we're trying to save their lives is flat-out wrong. in limited instances where we were seeking to get a bus or a group of people through a check point, we gave a manifest to the people at the check point to demonstrate that those people were expected -- >> roughly how many names were on the list you gave? >> doesn't matter because they -- >> dozens? hundreds? thousands. give us a magnitude. >> this happened in -- >> it's your testimony it wasn't hundreds, did you give them thousands? >> no, absolutely not. >> dana: one of thehe things senator ron johnson said to blinken is there's frustration that it feels the administration is detached from the situation >> jesse: he did an okay job but the republicans

ted cruz's question, where are the dems? >> every democrat who stood up and lamented kids in cages, representative ocasio cortez has a photo of her grasping her head, go see the biden cages. with your own eyes. why does president biden refused to go to the rio grande valley? if he goes the tv cameras will come with him and would show the biden cages. and the democrats are counting on the corrupt corporate media. >> there's a definite difference and it is that aoc doesn't see this as a kids in cages thing or any negativity attached to this because she knows president biden will do everything in his power to get as many people into the united states and not keep co, the remain in mexico policy was something trump wanted to do, not biden, she doesn't see this as a negative, she sees this as a positive because democrats when they look at this issue don't see a crisis, they see it as a welcome thing that it could be potential democrat voters, that is the inference. >> if you lived at the border you would be yelling if al sharpton

so when california had rolling blackouts and ted cruz is on twitter talking about california as a failed when texas was having its blackout in the worst winter storm in ten years the governor of california said best wishes to texas we will help however we can. that doesn't mean democrats are more virtuous but it is because when you are reliant on your coalition you will try to win people over. >> we can look at that through history when the democratic party was behaving with those rituals to create hard lines between their community and the one they wanted to exploit and now we see the republican party is in a similar position and is behaving with that content to human beings are outside of the coalition. this is an essential part of human nature and the only way is to have a system that diminishes the rewards for engaging in it. >> i thought cackling was an example where men forge community. >> like they are talking to each other. >> has the power over her and then showing that they are the kind of person that can do this. >> why do you think it is that trump did not recently become rac

you sit back and watch and analyze why a candidate did well and someone says it's because ted cruz was particularly cruel tonight. it is not a way to think about ourselves but i wonder whether you yourself have thought much about what this actually is and not just among americans but groups of people, if you look at cruelty, you can see cruelty certainly in this. to some extent you can see the cruelty but i wonder if you could talk about the target group, the target of the message out about. >> i think it makes them feel powerful and it makes them feel love for the people who are being acted upon. this deep politicized version of this, ifit you have repent a child. [laughter] you seen cool kids trying to make front of the nerdy kids and maybe huge ointment because you want to be part of the cool kids group or if you are one of the rare few who stick up for the kids getting picked on or maybe you simply staying silent because you don't want to be the next target. the kids teasing the nerdy kids, they have formed a kind of community t through that act of transgression, doing something th

ted cruz is as cruel as they come and has constantly debased himself in this area of public service.s of his constituents in the cold literally, and so he has no interest in helping the american people. if he did, he would be fighting alongside people like myself to pass a $15 minimum wage so that people are not forced to make starvation wages when they re-enter the workforce. that is a market failure that we are trying as house democrats to fix in the form of things like unemployment insurance, but of course more importantly passing a $15 minimum wage. >> thank you for saying that because i don't understand how affluent people who won't -- they won't walk out their door for less than a certain amount of money, think that working class people should go schlep into a job that pays them $8 an hour and risk dying of covid for poverty wages. it is rational for people to say i don't want to take that risk. i don't have child care, i can barely afford the transportation to get back and forth, but you're asking me to go in and barely make ends meet rather than -- it's a rational choice to s

you own less. >> senator ted cruz, the great state of texas, speaking there.one strike and ultimately the state department will formulate a report for congressional readers to review, likely happen in a classified setting with approved information released after reduction. in the meantime, for the afghans living in the kabul neighborhood hit by the strike and unknown number of americans in the war-torn country, a way for just as any pathway home continues. we continue to hope from the very best for many who are still there. >> shannon: we know there are a lot of folks who are out of the formal chain of command and fighting to get those folks free. kevin, thank you very much, we will see you on a much lighter note and an enjoyable holiday note. >> you bet. see you soon. >> shannon: reports out of afghanistan tonight that the taliban is carrying out revenge killings, including the execution of an afghan sniper who had worked with british special forces. in front of his family. correspondent trey yingst reports from kabul that the disarray appears to be allowing

within my home state, senator ted cruz supported it.nd they asked if there was a senator who would support it. >> is the objection in writing and signed by a senator? >> yes it is. [applause] rep. allred: at this point, i still am not really aware of much of what's going on outside of the building. i knew that there was a rally, i knew trump had called for a rally. he told his supporters to be there in that it was going to be wild. but, still at that point i was expecting it to be just another public relations theme around the election and how it wasn't legitimate, things that -- thanks he had been doing at this point for weeks and months. it was quite dangerous, but still did not know how dangerous it would get. and when the senate left the chamber, for us to debate, we started and i think jamie raskin may have begun for us in the arizona delegation was going to get up, and we were all ready to make our arguments about why the election was not fraudulent. why we as a congress did not have the power to overturn the election results, and

and how could ted cruz embarrass himself in hearing he didn't even attend? we'll explain, "all in" starts now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. if you're watching this show, probably the kind of person who gets fundraising emails from politicians and groups. we need your help to fight for something you care about, click here to donate now. email and text donation messages are to reach and and touch your emotions. pressing buttons to see what gets reaction to measure it. explains a lot of what happens in politics, particularly on the right. conservatives pioneered this. for decades a huge part of the movement, a breakthrough discovery, is beefed up direct mail marketing grift in which they pump people full of rage, then take their money. i will never forget visiting my beloved grandfather, a staunch republican, rock conservative whole life, and on the kitchen counter a stack of mail how bill intonas turning the country into a marxist hell and you had to write a check to stop it. reason i bring this up, show you fundraising emails from the republic

senator ted cruz. senator, first of all, the faa, weo know the doj has been weaponized and have the doj's going to be weaponized? >> it really is ridiculous. i've never seen anything like that.>> the drone footage started this morning and people all across the country were horrified and i guess the political operatives at the biden white house saw that and the side of they want is fox news actually reporting on what is happening down here, so now the faa is saying please, no journalists allowed. as you know, they did the same thing in the rio grande valley where they wouldn't allowe fox news to come and when i brought 19 senators to the rio grande valley, i had to go in with my cell phone and photograph and take videos. i tell you, i'm right there. that bridge is behind me and i just finished going myself, not taking videos of what happened there. it is the most horrific thing i've ever seen. right now as we are speaking -- >> sean: go ahead, sir. >> right now as we are speaking there are 10,503 people

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then the pundits say well was because ted cruz was particularly cruel today. so it's not a way that we like to think about ourselves but i wonder whether you yourself have thought much about what the appeal actually is and not just among -- but if you look at you can see cruelty and to some extent you can see the cruelty appeal to people and i wonder if you could talk about the target of the message. >> i think it makes them feel as though they belonged and it makes them feel powerful and it makes them feel above people who are being acted upon. it's a depoliticized version of this. if he ever been a child you have seen the cool kids try to make fun of the nerdy kids and maybe you join in because you want to be part of the cool kids group or maybe you are one of the rare few who stick up for the kid who's getting picked on or maybe you stay silent because you don't want to be the next target. and the kids -- the cool kids are teasing the nerdy kids have formed a community through that act of they are doing something that they are not supposed to be doing and t

kennedy: ted cruz did because people hate him. guest: people do. total agreement about that and i think that is you point out with the polling numbers with greg abbott to stand out 15 points in the last two years in the wake of covid-19 and some of the policies that need or he's put forward and focusing on the guns and abortion and electric grid and other issues that are really texans are grappling with. i think he sees a real opening here maybe compelling case against the governing and of course the governor also has attacks from his bright as well, unless another's that are challenging him from the right and is the republican enough. kennedy: will have like 30 seconds and so just wrap it up. guest: countertops across texas and races fear is this man seeks to stand on all of us. they a greater thing here is the fact that he did well because he was running against the zodiac killer and i don't think he has a chance against abbott. kennedy: you are absolutely right if i were a texan, an enema between matthew mcconaughey oh, i don't know maybe that o

he lost the senate race the to ted cruz in 2018 and launched a bid for the white house in 2020.trailing governor abbott by five points but he despite o'rourke's national profile the poll shows other possible candidates including matthew mcconaughey are more popular with texans. todd: imagine what that would do to our world of covering politics. jillian: tom brady threw five touchdown as the bucs won their tenth straight win. the buffalo bills defense dominated the dolphins with the first shutout win in five years with a score of 35-0. todd: must be nice to come to work happy after your football team does something. watch this. cardinals escaping with a 34-33 win over minnesota, the vikings kicker missed a field goal. check this out. >> untouched, into the end zone. todd: baltimore stunning the kansas city chiefs with lamar jackson flipping his way into the end zone. the ravens getting the 36-35 win on a late fourth quarter drive. jillian: my team lost. we lost one of our best defensive ends. he's out for the season. it's going to be a rough go. todd: my whole team is out for the

senator ted cruz tweeted, i stand with kyrie irving, andrew wiggins, bradley beale, jonathan isis. cinated, by the way, cruz. the senator's comments come in the wake of lebron james confirming he received the covid vaccine despite being initially skeptical. important comments from a key player while nba and other leagues grapple with vaccine hesitancy among athletes and what to do about it. espn says about 90% of nba players are vaccinated. what could the 10% of holdouts mean for the upcoming season. let's bring in the best, bob costas. good to see you, brother. >> when senator cruz says, hats off, i stand with -- that's further proof that when the crowd that says stick to sports makes that statement, but if you are saying something i agree with, the microphone is yours. the platform is yours. you can be a regular on fox news. if you are saying what we want to hear. >> exactly. so, lebron james. big voice. big presence. says i was skeptical. >> yep. >> but i did the research. i asked the right people. it's the right choice for me, and for my family, so i did it. but i'm not going to

reggie: the texas senator ted cruz weighing in.e said he stands with andrew wiggins and the league's unvaccinated players. senator cruz is vaccinated. in the same twitter threat, he called out lebron james to boycott any games late in arenas that ban unvaccinated players, which would come of course, include san francisco's chase center. one of the most anticipated shows on broadway has already been shut down. just a day after reopening. last nights's performance of aladdin was canceled after they were positive covid tests within the cast and crew. officials say all tickets will be refunded. this was the first broadway covid-19 cancellation since shows resumed. the pandemic forced broadway theaters to close on march 12, 2020. we are waiting to see if they're going to be back today or what is going to happen next. the star of hollywood's longest-running film franchise that is taking on a role much older, daniel craig is saying goodbye as agent double 07 -- agent 007 and making a return to broadway in shakespeare's mcbeth. it will be

let me play ted cruz today doing that performance. >> what this is really about is demonizing questiony senate democrats want to do so. in illinois in the year 2020 of what states people are moving out of. the number one state is new jersey. the number two state is new york. the number three state is illinois. >> and of course, talking about fleeing states would probably not be his best move but when you spoke with these three congresswomen, are they emotionally prepared to be potentially lectured, maybe even bullied by the likes of people like ted cruz? >> we broach this from the perspective of people on this committee having spoken graphically about abortion and women that choose to have them but spoke about this from the security angle because these women in some cases have shared their stories before. they've faced both the on slot of people online and in other forums attacking them from making this choice but at the same time, all of them told me that for as many of those comments and threats that they got, they also heard from people who may live in republican districts who had s

he started to answer that question before ted cruz started to pinpoint down.ted to say basically the names they gave them they put on planes and so that's why it didn't matter. if he gave them 100 names and all 100 bodies went on planes, that's 100 families. that's 100 parents, 100 brothers, 100 sisters, 100, perhaps, kids still in afghanistan the taliban knows who their family is and they could go after them for retribution and revenge. the idea that this did not endanger lives is pretty laughable because i have got buddies in afghanistan right now trying to get a lot of those families out because the interpreter may be here in the states but the mom and dad are running for their lives. brother and sister are running for their lives and unfortunately those people haven't earned the rights to cop come to this country staying in afghanistan they will die. veterans there now trying to get them to third party hosts because they are in danger. this government of the taliban, yeah, they may not be friends with isis-k but they are sure as heck not friends with us. t

myself count myself emphatically in the "free britney" camp. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: since when is ted cruzn favor of women making their own decisions? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] that's a new one. he is so desperate to get one celebrity to like him. [ laughter ] forget it, ted. even kirstie alley thinks you're a dick. [ laughter ] ted cruz wants to free britney. and bill cosby, wants to free r. kelly. [ moans ] oh, it's not a joke. cosby's spokesman told the "new york post" that bill cosby thinks r. kelly got a raw deal and his constitutional rights were "grossly abused." and if anyone knows about grossly abusing. [ moans ] it's a shame cosby cancelled his comedy tour because he's clearly still got it. [ laughter ] and now we turn our attention to the sunshine state for a tale of courage and perseverance. yes. you should be proud because it's time for "this week in florida." [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow. well. very impressive. i tell you what. his garbage man is in for a big surprise on monday. [ laughter ] okay, it's time to play a game. every now and then, we pit senior

ted cruz is not a guy who is red accident to jump in front of the camera. you notice that?he absolute silence we heard from john cornyn. two guys that will leap at any microphone to talk about critical race theory and basically mum. get this, fox and friends devoted 27 seconds of their broadcast to the court's demolition of abortion rights. it's almost like they know how unpopular the decision is. mitch mcconnell tried to brush it off as minor technical ruling. and i think republicans do understand the math on abortion. they know the politics on this issue. people don't want roe overturned and that's what republicans want and so it's best to just pretend like it never happened. congresswoman presley is the democrat from massachusetts. she serves in the oversight and reform committee, chair of the pro choice caucuses abortion rights and action task force and congresswoman, in that role, what do democrats and what do people who believe in a woman's right to choose do in the wake of this? >> well, chris, i'm not at all surprised by the draconian acts under the cloak of night b

i can tell you that watching chuck grassley and ted cruz -- i've been traumatized by chuck grassley twice, once with the hearings of anita hill and another with the hearing of brett kavanaugh. watching a committee talk about how they are going to do something when there have been critical accusers before, and there's been no sort of recourse . we know for fact that many other people wanted to come forward for both anita hill and dr. christine ford and i would really love for them to walk a mile in some of these women's shoes to know what it is like to sit in those rooms and have people doubt what you have gone through. i appreciate it. host: mary, thanks for sharing your story. brandy, pennsylvania, republican. caller: thanks for taking my call. a question here in regards to masking mandates in schools -- i'm trying to find out, maybe you can better guide me -- our governor implemented a masking mandate. we are having school meetings -- school board meetings and choices not to mask our children where there is no data proving the transmission is higher amongst the school-aged children, and

sunday morning on the fox news channel was "sunday morning features" have exclusive interviews with ted cruzecretary of state mike pao and jason smith who is on the budget committee we will talk about what gets through and the new spending package start smart every weekday on fox business and with "mornings with maria" 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern "mornings with maria" is live on fox business join us every weekday. that will do it for us this weekend thank you for watching we hope you have a great rest of next time.d and i'll see y ♪ >> this week on the wall street journal large democrats into the final stretch of their plan to create an american welfare state will opposition within their own ranks doom the tax and spend finance, the biden administration chaotic retreat from afghanistan reverberates as

call today. >>> ted cruz is mixing basketball and politics again, and getting mocked for doing so againndiana of owl places, cruz called the basketball rim the ring, yeah, he called the rim the ring. this time it's a much more serious issue. the texas senator yesterday tweeting support for nba players who refuse to get the covid vaccine. you can see them right here. i stand with kyrie irving. i stand with andrew wiggins and bradley beal. i stabbed with jonathan isaac and then adding the hashtag your bold, your choice. cruz hasn't hauls been so quick to stand with nba players. he was hardly critical of nba players who supported nfl players who still take a knee protesting police brutality or other causes. to all the athletes who have made millions in american freedom, stop insulting our heroes. never buy another shirt, shoes or jersey from rich athletes whose mission is to disparage the flag. nba athletes who voice support for the nfl athletes. there are conservatives like senator cruz who say government mandates for vaccines are wrong. it's a position that you can make in today's politi

make ted cruz or rand paul can do our bidding. and ted are the go-two options for doing their overthrow. this is the section about those two gentlemen. someone, ted cruz, rand paul should demand normal laws that creates a filibuster that creates a stalemate that would give the state legislatures more time to weigh in to formally get pay board of electors if they had not already done so. i wonder if this had any influence among deliberations among democratic senators? and two, the memo outlines a very broad conspiracy, and i wonder if the committee should hear from ted cruz and rand paul? >> oh, i certainly do. i have long thought that anybody that had any interest or anything to do with what happened on january 6th, any communication with the president, with the president's legal teams should absolutely be before the committee to let us know their role. to let us know what they know. this reporting will go a long way to offer a summons, but the committee has power of subpoena and gathering more. i want to say all the more reason w