the only reason this is on your tv and on your tv is because of ted cruz and yet he is the one who claims he would defend you against conjuring the image of those cartoons going at it. that first fact check was exhausting. i'm being sarcastic. cruz and desantis, they're not in line with the majority of americans here. there are aspects of these issues especially when you get to children and schooling and how to deal with these issues that can be complex but on the big questions about eight out of ten americans support the laws that protect people against discrimination, be that discrimination based on gender identity, these related issues and the numbers are quite high as well as when you get into racial discrimination. the fact is there is broad support across america including among ind pep dents and self-identified conservatives, to let people be themselves and to not let them be sacksed or punished for who they are. now there is a political issue that has come up when you get into real world situations about how and when to deal with these topics with children and that's sort of the n

if there's a rotting, insidious idea somewhere anywhere, it's more likely than not that ted cruz hadin it. he was probably the one who told trump, "yeah, the hat looks great on you, sir. [ laughter ] and these two were apparently in constant communication throughout the months-long coup attempt that culminated in the january 6th riot according to "the post," two days after the 2020 election, trump tweeted the falsehood that "i won this election by a lot. around the time he sent that tweet, the president talked with cruz on the phone. cruz was also dining near the capitol on the evening of december 8, 2020, when he received an urgent call from trump. a lawsuit had just been filed at the supreme court designed to overturn the election. "would you be willing to argue the case?" trump asked cruz. "sure, i'd be happy to," cruz said he responded. first of all, i have a hard time believing their phone conversations were that brief. i don't think trump has ever made a short phone call in his entire life. remember when he used to call into the "fox & friends" while they just sat there without

jill, we have peter navarro on january 4th praising ted cruz and talking about this plan. i want to get your thoughts. >> the plan was this. we had over 100 congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement this and at 1:00 p.m., ted cruz, senator ted cruz and reptive starpted the green bay sweep beautifully challenging the results of arizona. >> between this and text messages, are we still not ready for orange jump suits? where does this fall now with the information? >> i'm on the more aggressive side of prosecution here. i believe that we do have enough evidence. one thing i learned in my appearance in organized crime, you could investigate forever to get the perfect case, to get every possible violation. at some point you have to say enough is sufficient and i'm going to go with the low hanging fruit. i have a case and i'm going to go with it. then you can build more cases. i think that's really important. we got great evidence in watergate after we returned indictments. it was a pre-trial subpoena. we didn't have that. we had enough to go to trial. we could

continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. >> todd: senator ted cruzemanding accountability. >> carley: left wing students and faculty try to silence viewpoints at yale. more on cruz's campus visit. good morning, brooke singman. >> brooke: senator ted cruz trying to give yale students a reality check during his live taping of his verdict podcast. listen to this. >> when you come out of school, most places are not safe spaces, most bosses are not overly worried about injuring your fragile feelings. and so, i think the point of education is to prepare you for life, thatten moos encountering things that make you uncomfortable, make you doubt and question. >> brooke: the texas senator got pushback from the students. >> on tuesday is baffled me you would ask racist questions. >> you use the term racist. racism is horrific evil in this country, it is also an insult that the left tosses around casually, we should examine people based on their record and whether and to what extent that record demonstrates they will defend the rights of all americans. >> brooke

ted cruz, he outslimed himself this week.uesday he singled out this children's book called "anti-racist baby" for promoting critical race theory, which it doesn't. he said the book teaches that babies are born racist, which it also doesn't. as a result of ted's tirade, that book is number one on amazon, the number one seller. [ cheers and applause ] the opposite of oprah's book club or something. not only is the book selling well, since cruz's little grandstand, amazon is also seeing a spike in sales of psoriasis medication, wart remover, nose hair trimmers, male spanx, slug repellent, and mullet combs. [ laughter and applause ] so congratulations to ted. this is good. if you're wondering what ted cruz was really focused on during the hearings, somebody got a shot of him on his phone searching for his own name on twitter. [ laughter ] how embarrassing. can you imagine being ted cruz and still wanting to know what people were saying about you online? [ laughter ] ted wasn't the only senator who did some playacting this week. t

ted cruz attacks him for putting a mask on his face.ocrisy is to ted cruz what scientology is to tom cruise. a way of life. [ laughter ] i think ted's just jealous because mr. t. has the haircut he's been trying to get. [ laughter ] maybe he's jealous because mr. t's beard doesn't look like he rubbed a jellyfish on the floor of a barbershop? i don't know. [ laughter ] today, in case you didn't know, in 1950 by the world health she- organization, the w.h.o. this year's theme is "our planet, our health," which is better than last year's theme, which was "who cares? " [ laughter ] some people took it the wrong way. nancy pelosi celebrated world p. which explains why tucker carlson has had an erection for 11 hours day. [ laughter ] pelosi tested positive two days after she made out with the president at the white house. [ laughter ] the white house isn't worried, they claim she's not considered a "close contact." if that's not a close contact, what are they waiting for? full penetration? that's a close contact. [ applause ] anyway. the good

somehow, for ted cruz, it became about mickey and pluto having sex. here it is. >> there are people who are misguided, trying to drive disney stepping in saying that in every episode now, they're gonna have mickey included going at it. like really? >> thank you for that image, senator. >> it's just like come on, guys. these are kids, and you know, you could always shifts in a max if you want that. >> so tim, look, you know there are republicans for whom this causes thanks, who are crazy about these culture wars. but big picture, is it effective? >> i don't know why you made me watch that, chris, just having to hear what he said about mickey was enough, i didn't have to see it as well. look, ted cruz was kind of a weird guy, i don't think he's the best at executing this message. i think that there is potential for republican overstep here. i think the governor of colorado jerry police when cruz and descendants today -- which is basically saying that this is authoritarian and sir socialist and kind of creepy. going after these big companies over cultura

. >> i don't want to do it but i'll play ted cruz.o dumb, if i read it to you, you would think i was embellishing. here is ted cruz about disney. >> there are people who were misguided trying to drive, you know, disney stepping in saying in every episode now they're going to have, you know, you know, micki -- mickey and pluto going at it. >> thank you for that image, senator. >> these are kids. you can always shift to cinemax if you want that. >> god. >> a mouse is like this big and a dog -- okay. first of all, curt, that is so dark and bananas that it makes me worry that maybe josh hawley should be investigaing ted cruz because where his mind goes is deeply, deeply creepy stuff. if he's imagiing a mouse and a -- okay, i'll go ahead and let you comment. in his mind that works. politically they decided they're at war against disney. their fighting cartoons. your thoughts? >> well, number one, joy, i think we just got a really disturbing look at what ted cruz fantasizes about. i don't want to go into that. that's out right disturbing. n

oz despite prominent republicans like ted cruz backing a different long time conservative if trump isot able to catapult the candidates to victory it would suggest his influence has cooled and other potential 2024 candidates like mike pence and ted cruz are already on the campaign trail, as well lester >> all right vaughn, thank you. >>> in 60 seconds, growing concern about the mysterious hepatitis cases in children what parents should be looking for. why a pitching star got a two-year suspension >>> major league baseball has suspended los angeles dodger pitcher trevor bauer for two full seasons after a woman accused him of sexual assault. it is the longest suspension ever in the league's domestic violence and sexual assault policy the d.a.'s office has declined to press charges against bauer saying there was insufficient evidence. bauer denies any wrongdoing and vows to appeal >> let's turn to the unexplaine outbreak of hepatitis causing severe liver damage in some children the cdc out with a report today showing the potential link between cases. emilie ikeda explains. >> reporter: t

means there's about to be a shrinking number of russian officials. [ light laughter ] texas senator ted cruzticized disney, yesterday, for opposing florida's so-called "don't say gay bill" and questioned what kind of content the company will now produce, adding, "in every episode now, they're going to have mickey and pluto going at it. what are you talking about [ light laughter ] in every episode you have to build up to something like that. [ laughter ] that's season finale stuff [ laughter ] the fbi recently arrested a man for participating in the capitol attack after he was turned in by the driver of the uber he took after the insurrection well, that'll teach him to give a three-star rating. [ laughter ] politico, this week, published its first election forecast of the 2022 midterm cycle not to be outdone, fox news already called it. [ laughter ] the fast food chain, popeyes, announced plans, yesterday, to launch a flagship in times square man, i miss the gritty days of this city when the only place to eat in times square was the olive garden [ laughter ] an unnamed worker has filed a lab

while tucker embarrassed cruz with a chyron that said "cruzin' for a bruisin' what on earth was ted cruzg?" first of all, you couldn't think of something better than that, "cruzin' for a bruisin'" i mean, that's been done, my man. you got to do something like "you cruz, you lose" or "carnival cruz" or, i don't know, "clear eyes, full hearts, can't cruz." [ laughter ] these are just pitches it's brainstorming there are no bad ideas well, i guess going to cancun when your home state suffered a weather emergency, that's a bad idea that right there is a bad idea i guess if you really wanted to embarrass ted cruz, you could also just cut off the electricity to his house during a snowstorm and see which exotic tourist destination he flies to next "and now senator ted cruz joins us from the cinnabon in terminal 4 at jfk, where he's waiting for his connection to monte carlo. "i stand with the people of texas. oh, wait, hold on. they just called my group. i got to board." [ laughter ] aspiring republican politicians clearly think this is what they have to do to succeed -- please trump, embrace hi

catanji brown jackson republican senator, ted cruz of texas question. judge jackson about the children's book anti-racist, baby. senator cruz had used this as an example of critical race theory. the book was written by national book award-winning author abram kennedy and its subsequently topped amazon's best-seller list for children's books and was second for all books on the site. mr. kennedy tweeted in response to the mention of his book quote. you know judge catanji brown jackson has impeccable credentials and you know, you're doing the work when ted cruz questions her about your books since he can't touch her record end quote. also in the news in a recent national poll conducted by the american library association 71% of americans are against efforts to remove books from public libraries. 75% of democrats and 70% of republicans agree the poll also found that 79% believed that libraries do a quote good job offering books with a variety of viewpoints. in other news the j anthony lucas prizes given to the quote best in american nonfiction writing were

judge ketanji brown jackson has impeccable credentials, and you know you're doing the work when ted cruzstions her about your book since he can't touch her record. also in the news, in a recent national poll conducted by the american library association, 7 is % of americans -- 71% of americans are against efforts to remove books from public libraries, 75% of democrats and 70% of republicans agree. the poll also found that 79% believe that libraries do a, quote, good job offering books with a variety of viewpoints. in other news, the. >> anthony lucas prizes -- the j. anthony lucas prizes were announced recently. this year's winners include andrea elliot's invisible child and surviving -- by jane -- [inaudible] the annual prize is presented by the columbia journalism school and the nieman if foundation for journalism at harvard university. and according to npd book scan, print book sales fell close to 13% for the week ending march 20thth. >>> andd joining us now on "abot books" is michael coffey. he spent several years working for publishers weekly. mr. coffey, you retired but they brough

i am often offended by ted cruz and some of his thoughts and i think what he was trying to say was whatng. didn't say quite the right way. i do think and you said this, when you were a porter you wouldn't -- reporter, you wouldn't follow someone to the bathroom. kyrsten sinema was followed into the bathroom and we said it was absurd. we said we would never do that. why have we gone to this? i don't think any one person is to blame but how do we get from the space? >> jesse: i did follow someone into the bathroom and i realized i'd done that and i turned around. i did step foot in the bathroom. i remember back when all, deenae iranian leader was there, not a single protest. i would've gone there columbia would've accepted me. i wanted to listen. i think liberals should also want to listen. if a black man is coming to your school and saying of the united states is not a racist country, wouldn't you be curious as a liberal to hear what he had to say? you get to line up and you get to the mic and you ask questions. you can say anything you want. you can even debate the guy. this is a guy wh

there are republicans like kay ivey, like ted cruz who know the truth, mo brooks.ow joe biden won the election. they saw the numbers. they've made private phone calls. they know what these secretaries of states, republicans and democrats have said. they're just liars. they're doing whatever is convenient, blame big tech, big pun, whatever. that's just for performance sake. what frightens me is a lot of the people who you see running now for the midterms, ari, they believe this stuff. they're not just doing this for performance sake. they really do believe the election was stolen. that is infin natly more dangerous. i can tolerate the people who are infed rat liars like ted cruz, the weasels who say i'm going to do whatever it is i need, but people who are true believers, people at the stop the steal rally who now want to be secretaries of state, that a dangerous to our democracy. >> to pair phase big pun in the taxonomy you're drawing, the people who are pretending and know it's falls, like a ted cruz, i'm not really maga, i just lie a lot, and that's sort of -- he

and one of great legal minds of this country, ted cruz, he was a clerk for chief justice rehnquist. d cases before the supreme court. he. senator cruz, welcome, you are on the senate judiciary committee, you questioned this nominee, were you impressed with her? >>, i have known judge jackson for 30 years, we were in law school together, on the law review at harvard. personally speaking very bright. but her subtantive record is to the left if confirmed she will be the most liberal justice of all 9, the most liberal to have ever served on the u.s. supreme court. and that will have enormous consequences across the an entire range for free speech and religious liberty and second amendment. her record show a consistent left wing radical approach. but i think there was no area where her record of more troubles than crime. and her record on crime in particular, she came out of law school, and clerked for justice breyer on the supreme court. he became a federal public defender. you and i have both known public defenders, there are public defenders people do that. because their heart is with

ted cruz understands where the lines are.reate racist babies or whatever he was accusing her of. but he didn't understand that the line was clear. you attack the other side. not your own side, unless your last name is trump. >> yeah. as you say, in the history of american political rhetoric, we will all remember where we were when ted cruz said are babies racist? i happened to be in the committee room and even though i have some understanding of how this stuff works, i still was like, are you serious? and you may remember where you were or people look on their phones and go, hey, ted cruz said that. that's how they spent their time. but of course, that baby and emphasis on minors, is all in the same rhetorical pool as josh holly and they both went after pedophilia. the polling qanon theories when you look at believers, it's a quarter of them. when you look at "new york times" says qanon adherence cheered republican attacks on that, they see the jackson attacks as a signal and a sign to their conspiracy theories and again, i n

well, it was ted cruz, so i bet the book was called "good night cancun."to lead the next phase of your attack against ukraine. yet russia's done it, offering tea leaves of what could come next in the war of putin's choice. >>> also tonight, an update to that arrest in texas. outrage after a woman was charged with murder for carrying out what texas authorities call a self-induced abortion. we are now learning where that case will likely go by morning. >>> and we take you to france for breaking news on today's presidential elections. macron yet to shore up another term. the stage now set for a second showdown between he and his far-right rival, and the outcome comes with global consequences. >>> plus some new reporting to share about the former president and the multiple investigations he is facing from new york state to the 1/6 committee. is the hammer about to drop? >>> but i want to begin this hour with that breaking news from texas and the woman now caught in the middle of the gop's war on

and one of the great legal minds here, who serves in senate is ted cruz, he was a clerk for chief justicerehnquist and argued cases before the supreme court. senator cruz welcome, you are on the senate judiciary committee, you questioned this nominee remember were you impressed with her. >> i have known judge jackson for 30 years, we were in law school together. on law review at harvard, personally, she is bright, and charming, but her substantive record, use that word radical, i think that is right, it is to the left. if she is confirmed, she will be the most liberal justice of l all 9 to have ever served on the u.s. supreme court. that will have enormous consequences across the range. for free speech, and consequences for religious liberty, for the second amendment. her records shows a consistent left wing radical approach. but i think there was no area where her record was more troubling than crime. and her record on crime in particular, she came out of law school, she clerked for justice breyer on supreme court, and shy can became a federal public defender. we know public defenders, t

this whole group of pro-trump toadies is just so weird and loathsome, like texas senator ted cruz, for, who, i'm gonna go out on a limb here, wasn't invited to the orgy [ laughter ] "well, it's just frustrating, because we're always getting our dates mixed up." [ laughter ] cruz claimed the other day that a mysterious cabal is somehow controlling the biden administration, because he personally has not spoken to biden during his presidency. >> i actually get asked that almost every day somebody says, "who's really running things?" and let me tell you the scary thing, i have no idea. so biden's been president, what, 15 months? in that entire time, i have not spoken with him once >> seth: well, i guess that means he's at the orgies that you're not [ laughter ] but i do wonder why a person wouldn't want to speak to ted cruz it truly is a mystery. it's one of those age-old questions. why don't people like talking to ted cruz or why don't people like getting hit the nuts with a football [ laughter ] this is the modern republican party, a collection of fringe weirdoes who, by the way, will ve

but maya, sophia invoked the name of ted cruz, let me play for you something that ted cruz had to say now they're going to have, you know, mickey and pluto going at it. like, really? >> thank you for that image, senator. >> it's just like, come on, guys. these are kids, you know. you can always shift to sinema acts if you want that. >> his recommendations on what to watch, the station to watch, i found rather interesting. maya, but? >> jonathan, there is no floor. there is no bottom. that's all i can tell you. let's actually point out what's really interesting about why tend crews said. because, when you talk about the don't say gay legislation in florida, part of when we really examine what it is, we shouldn't be allowed to talk about heterosexuality. because everyone has a sexuality. that means that actually mickey and many, who have been for at least all that i can tell a cis knows couple. that they have essentially been banned by being taught in the schools. so, what's actually can florida schools teach? i would really be interested in what ted cruz would say to that. but it does

i think part of what you were just discussing there with ted, with senator cruz about the lack of -- look, there's two things happening right now. americans are losing confidence in joe biden and his ability to manage the job and to get results and changes for our country, but it's not like foreign leaders and foreign adversaries don't watch the same video and they watch the same thing. that's the part that concerns me the most with all of these gaps. it's not just the part it's having here domestically on americans. americans understand our system is a lot more than about joe biden, although his administration is doing a lot of damage, but our adversaries and our allies start to lose confidence in our country. our adversaries start to wonder if they can get away with certain things. that's what concerns me about putin. i think he invaded because he didn't think biden will do anything about it. i think he's willing to do other things potentially now because of the same. >> sean: so we've been showing these videos and we've got entire cities leveled and we've got innocent men, women a

senator ted cruz trying to give yale students a reality check during the verdict podcasts.to this. >> i have to tell you when you come out of school, most places you work or not faith businesses. most bosses will not be overly worried about injuring your fragile feelings. and so come i think the point of education is to prepare you for life and that means encountering things that make you uncomfortable, that make you doubt, that make you question. >> carley: but it wasn't long before that texas senator got pushed back from the students. >> on tuesday, it baffled me you would for a flagrantly questions. >> you use the term racist. racist is a horrific evil in this country. it is also an insult that the left tosses around casually. we should examine people based on their actual record and whether and to what extent that record demonstrates they will defend the constitutional rights of all americans. >> the event comes one month more than 100 yale students to shut down bipartisan free-speech panel which two-thirds of the university student body signed on to support days later.

like hello this is ted cruz for hello fresh. sweaty teddy went on the road to do a live episode at yale, at which one of the students -- and you know, most people don't have anything nice to say about the "kids nowadays." they say they're lazy and entitled and too sensitive. but then a young man like this comes around and gives you real hope for the future of this country. >> hello. my name is evan. assuming it would help global hunger would you another man? >> dare i ask him? >> i do have an answer to this. i think it is better that you answer this. >> jimmy: only if that man was donald trump! it's a good question. you know, ted can unhinge his jaw like a rat snake. here in l.a., it has been a disappointing year for basketball fans. the lakers were eliminated from playoff contention last week. and the clippers are now one loss away from summer vacation, too. the clippers blew a play-in game last night against the minnesota timberwolves. they had a big lead and then went "oh wait, we're the clippers!" and then they lost. but tha

>> good for ted cruz and of course ted cruz is completely right here. you have a right to protest.lse. you can't lock doors. you can't pull fire alarms. the litany of other things that we have seen students do over the last, you know, five to 10 years or so. and it's sort of like at this point enough is enough. we have let the inmates run the asylum at virtually every college in america. >> and until the administrators, the professors, the donors, until they all decide this can't happen anymore, it's going to continue to happen. i suspect at this point the institutions are probably too infected and we need to build new things because it doesn't seem, no matter how many times you guys talk about it. >> brian: nothing changes. >> i talk about it or ben shapiro talks about it they keep marching. maybe we need new things. >> steve: that's a great point. the irony of that event we were looking at where the speakers were shouted down is it was a free speech event. they didn't want to hear one side of it. and i think it was about a week after that then a federal judge suggested on appeals

what do you think should be the consequences for people like ted cruz, people like josh hawley being named as we learn more about those who were actually putting together the plan to over throw our election? >> i think that what is very much at stake, i'm going to make the connection first to the previous discussion and this one. you are absolutely spot on from my perspective that this is about our democracy and attempt to weaken. the strength of it but also the legitimacy of it. and there are foreign actors that try and do it and then we have domestic threats and that's part of what we witnessed on january 6th. and there needs to be, of course, consequence for that. that is occurring in terms of the process that's about seeking the evidence about what actually happened and who are the bad actors because of course, yes, they should pay a consequence and there should be accountability. in terms of elected leaders to the extent they were come police -- complacent in a crime, there should be a continuing discussion about the fact what happened on january 6th was a concerted attempt to u

eastman outlining scenario vice president mike pence could deny certifying biden's election and ted cruz a complementary plan, eastman asked in an inquiry by the lawyer for the january 6th committee whether he had communication with ted cruz to change the outcome of the 2020 election, declined to answer and invoked the fifth. i'll let you talk while i put up the chart the wonderful producer for this segment put together. there are so many people joyce, who all seem to have the same plan. somehow delay the certification on january 6th and somehow convince members of congress to not certify somehow convince the vice president to overturn the election. can it be a coincidence that all these people had the same idea, some of whom acted violently? >> i had a wonderful mentor that said there is no such thing as coincidence in law enforcement and by in large that tends to be true. joy, you've done a great job laying out the problem doj faces and i'll be wonky here for a second. >> we love that. >> there is a concept in the law about conspiracies where sometimes you have one big conspiracy. ever

here is the january 3rd text from mike lee to mark meadows and this is about ted cruz. he says i have grave concerns with the way my friend ted is going about this effort. lee objected to avenues cruise and josh hawley implying they were self-serving. it seems his objections to what is being done, he didn't like the look of going against the constitution and substituting congress' will. he didn't like the fact josh hawley and lee are trying to serve their own political interest. i don't see in these text messages any real concern for our democracy. >> no, none. next question. of course not. they don't care. look. what's remarkable. mark meadows got 100 text messages here. we learned he got text messages from him and donald trump juior sent to mark meadows. any idea you have for a coup, send it to mark meadows and the lucky winner gets to pick the coup. i'm not going to see this happen. this is exhibit 1 million. to me, the most stunning part is chip roy actually asking twice for evidence, twice, including not getting evidence and mike lee turns on this before january 6t

. >>> you're looking at live pictures right now, that is ted cruz of the judiciary committee speakingjudiciary committee set to hold it vote on whether to advance judge ketanji brown jackson's supreme court nomination to the full senate. with the committee evenly split, the vote is likely to end in a tie. no republicans on the committee have said that they would support that nomination. and joining me now is leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and barbara mclay a law professor and legal analyst, and ck hoffler, a veteran trial lawyer. welcome all. senator schumer likely if it is a tie vote will have to move to get it to the floor by a discharge petition cha has never happened in my memory. i guess not since clarence thomas.has never happened in my memory. i guess not since clarence thomas. so what is happening right now? we saw also while senator schumer is on the floor, that senator cruz who is one of the shall we say most difficult examiners during the confirmation hearings two weeks ago is speaking and he has been one of those leading the charge against her. >> that was a very polit

i asked that yesterday to, and ted cruz, he said there's a lot of unity in the gop.e is what i heard from representative matt gates when we asked him about this earlier today. >> if j.d. vance is not successful annexed request does that say about the cloud of donald trump? >> we don't want a circumstance where the establishment can claim they defeated trump. so trump's brand is on the line, the mug up brand is on the line, and we could not be prouder that j.d. vance is the standard for our movement. >> so that is how this is being framed by those who are standing by j.d. vance. and we have multiple candidates, still trying to pose as the trump candidate. voters are having to decide, we have people undecided at this point, at least one woman who says she's a trump supporter, who said it's not about fealty to the former president, she wants to hear about what the candidates are saying on the issues. and we've heard that from both vance and mandel. >> that's great, thank you for the report. new report about a text message that is casting doubt on marjorie taylor greene.

ted cruz said michael luttig was, quote, like a father to me. this is like merrick garland writing an article saying that the democrats, in fact, put microchips in vaccines. with an important distinction, that would just let it is actually true, that's how seismic something like this is. to have a really ribbed conservative say this. and what he said is really quite astounding. he said, basically, that the republican claims in 2020, we're just a blueprint for 2024. it started in 2020 with this bogus independent state legislature idea that they tried to pedal to the supreme court, they couldn't get the supreme court to bite. and then judge luittig explains how they then pivoted to this alternate slate of electors idea, which is of course, not a thing. there's no alternate slate of electors. it's like having alternate facts or something like that. i think judge luttig is drawing a lot of attention to this is coming from an in conservative quarter. i think all americans should understand that there's nothing more precious than our right to vote, an

chip roy was the chief of staff to ted cruz.n of afford kabul care act. mike lee is the member of the senate judiciary, who talks a lot about constitutional issues and defending rule of law and the traditional approach to governance. that school of thought, that basket of rhetoric was essentially tossed totally out the window when the republican party became the party of trump. it's not the way you hear trump talk about politics. it's not the way you hear him talk about lawmaking. there was a huge shift, no longer the party of lee, roy and cruz, but the party of trump now. >>> betsy woodruff swann, thank you. enjoy your saturday. >> thanks so much. >>> thank you for share your saturday with me. i'll be back tomorrow filling in for the one and only ali velshi, but the news isn't done just yet. "the cross connection with tiffany cross" starts right now. thanks for joining me. >> good saturday morning. welcome to the cross connection. i'm coming to you from los angeles this morning. as usual we have a lot to covering, including the

i would note at the end of march, we asked senator ted cruz if he talked to the january 6 committee,f he would talk to the january 6 committee. he said that he had nothing to say to them and hadn't heard from them. that could change tomorrow if the time line that thompson laid out -- we know cruz that took on a role in the former president's orbit in ways to potentially overturn the election. >> i think it's important to call it out here, re-ask these lawmakers. because so far, the committee has not put the legal muscle behind, for example, a subpoena to the lawmakers which would be an explosive step if it were to happen. emphasis on if. >> reporter: yeah. i said to chairman thompson, what happens when they say no again? for those lawmakers who have been asked to appear in front of the committee and said they're not going to? he said we will cross that bridge when we come to it. it would be a significant step to subpoena them. we think that they are still just asking. they are not, as you said, putting the legal muscle behind this and making it a subpoena. that's going to be somethin

ted cruz asked that question in the written questions he submitted to her to respond to prior to thestion. you have to first notice that he asked 100 questions prior to that one, and then his question was, the white house made it clear their nominees would be african-american women, are you aware of what criteria they used to determine whether the nominees would be women. that's what he chose to focus on, which marks the difference between progress and entering the promised land, which he is yet to do on these subjects. >> which is the echo from dr. king's speech, so garrett, the prur, there's so many things that could happen along the way with the evenly divided senate, look at what happened when one senator gets covid, and can't come to the floor. >> that's exactly right. we saw that when ben ray lujan suffered a stroke. he's back in the senate and can vote. this is when those bipartisan votes do matter. the susan collins vote, for example, she came out late last week and said she would support judge jackson on the floor. that's not just important for the fact that it means that sh

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you have senator josh hawley ted cruz is gonna run again and the ones that will everybody i mentioned mentioned is not running if trump's in so if trump will if trump comes in that'll be it. so i think that he's maneuvering that way. i think that i just think when you talk about next generation to answer your question, sir, that's like seven or eight guys do stuff the top of my head. i think there's a lot of people that came out of the trump administration to have so much promise and i think mike pence did a great job. he's a fine. i'm person one of finest people. i will ever meet. and i think that he would get our country right direction. and you know, he does is very hard to hate mike pence. yeah, no, he's great person. so i'm just saying you have a lot of talent in there 40s and 50s and josh holly's cases 30s. we're on the left. i think the reason why jill biden is even president right now is because bernie sanders could not get elected one is 80 and one's about to turn 78 so their next generation's got to show themselves, but their next generations represented by 93 people in the

and all the issues out probably but like ted cruz.ut what ted cruz is in and i am as a disruptor to the system from going there not only to vote for democrats accountable but those bad republicans who let us down time and again. if you want a conservative with a backbone there's only one choice in the senate race and that is sean gale, thank you very much. george bochetto, 30 seconds regrets i believe rather than disrupting things that we tried to do or should try to do is find solutions. i have been finding solutions for difficult problems my entire professional career. i have fought the woke mob when they tried to tear down the columbus statue spray fought the das when they tried to release cop killers from jail part i defended donald trump when they tried to impeach him a second time. i fight for what i believe in, i find solutions i'm not going to washington to disrupt, i'm going to washington to represent you in advance our common interest on to make this commonwealth a better place to live. >> 30 seconds for. >> i am a kid from

senator ted cruz, texas, thank you as always. y now joining us with more ,, florida senator marco rubio. senator rubio, thank you for f joining us . senator , youor believein and you've not been wrong on any of this you wereer the first to tell us that this invasion by putin began. thank you for informing us . but you think the possibility of putin using chemical weapons. is very real. explain. yeah, i think ifn? putin thinks he's going to lose and he's t running out of options, there's all kinds of dangerous thingshi. he's prepared to do. and i think part of what you were just discussing there with our 10%0%ut cruz about, yor know, the lack ofig it.g look, there's c two thingsge happening right now. americans are losing confidence in joe biden and his ability to manage the job and tot' get results and changes for our country. but likik it's not like foreign leaders and foreign adversaries don't watch the same video and they watch the same things. and that's the part that concerns me the mostth with all these gaffes. it's not jus

minority leader mitch mcconnell, ted cruz. so to me is political theatrics versus her record. court. so one vote for her when they have already voted for her before? i think they just turn the entire process into a circus. a number of people do not benefit from the politics of this. >> there has been some potential fixes, danny, according to this nbc news piece. someone with the solutions for the democratic congress to add seats. liberal justices in retaliation for republican tactics. is that the solution? or without just make things worse? >> the word retaliation suggests that it is probably not the best solution. since retaliation is not really a problem. >> not a word i liked either. >> right. so i think justices, at least from a workload perspective, might actually be a good thing. if it is only done for political purposes, or in order to add only liberal justices, the same folks making that argument would blanch of the idea of adding a republican or conservative justices. well then, that doesn't seem like a solution to a specific problem, even if i like the workload of re

he said the biden administration let the radical left run the show here and ted cruz was outspoken as well. want to play a sound bite from him and then get your reaction on the other side to that. >> i am concerned that she will vote over and over and over again to release violent criminals from jail. she will vote over and over and over again to overturn capital murder convictions to strike down death penalty sentences. she will vote over and over and over again to strike down serious punishments for offenders. all of that is extreme. all of that is dangerous. and i believe her record indicates that she will be ideologically substantially to the left of any justice to ever serve on the court. so, >> congresswoman, it was a rather close 53 to does the republican mainstream have a case here that they're concerned about how she will vote? >> let's that i sat through today's of the hearings in the judiciary committee rep and believe you me, she has a very clear understanding of the constitution of the lot. she's very i get active and she said over and over and over again, she is not a po

>> reporter: senator ted cruz sitting by a stack of children's books, holding up passages of books likegree that babies are racist? >> senator -- i do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued or though they are less than, that they are victims that they are oppressors. >> reporter: many believe senator lindsey graham might vote for her after he had voted for the 51-year-old to become a d.c. circuit court of appeals judge. that didn't seem likely after his questioning. >> on a scale of 1 to 10, how faithful would you say you are? in terms of religion? >> senator, i am reluctant to talk about my faith in this way. >> i wouldn't hold this confirmation process up as a model of civility. there were a number of members of the committee whose attacks on judge jackson were pretty baseless and quite aggressive and repetitive. >> reporter: new jersey democratic senator cory booker defending judge jackson. >> you have earned this spot. you are worthy. yo of today's yes votes coming from republicans. senator susan collins, lisa murkow