ted cruz brought up something very deep and very profound. that is in the history of this great republic, this has never happened to a former president. nor has it ever happen one time to a leading candidate to challenge the sitting president. and he's leading by a large margin in terms of percentage of votes. at this moment right now. seemingly when you look at the three prior indictments, arraignments. the expected one when we get this read at some point soon, that this is going to be number four and that these trials may actually take place during the time of caucuses and primaries. basically consuming the entire next half a year of 2024. your reaction to that? >> well, i think the focus should be on the reaction of the american public. every time there's one of these indictments against trump, his fund-raising goes up in his poll numbers rise. why's that? it's because i think the american public realizes the truth what's going on. that this is, as senator cruz pointed out, never by joe biden and those in his department of justice and loca

ted cruz.e always ask me, "kevin, what does being the ceo of cashbacking mean to you?" it means cashbacking every opportunity. did you cashback on this? like i wouldn't cashback? cashbacking by the basket, i see you. ugh. i dreamt you didn't cashback this flight. oh good. if you're buying it, flying it, or wining n' dining it, then you gotta be cashbacking it. come on now. cashback on everything you buy with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours. >> time for the presidential election we've been talking about it. the highest profile contest in 2024 it's not the only one will have a critical impact on the everyday lives of americans. 34 senate seats and maybe even control of the chamber will be decided next fall along with every seat in the house of representatives. not to mention voters in 11 states will also be choosing their governors. so here on simone we are unpacking some of these key things with our series on the ballot and today

if you have republicans, you mentioned, ted cruz, going out there, you know, talking about how he was trying to promote his podcast and talk about how this is a navigation of justice and lindsey graham, on the network and if all of them are out in the conservative media ecosystem, attacking the doj and the institutions and the fulton county d.a. you know, there's a limit to what everybody else can do. i think this is one area, where there is a disagreement with people in the pro-democracy side of things, i don't think we should be talking more about the things donald trump is th saying, i think he indicts himself more times than not. and the question of, should you platform what he's bleeding about on his social media feed. and i think if you look at the all caps that he sends out on his social media platform and they are the ravings of a madman, you would not hire thato person to manage an arby's. i think that more people need to see that and even on the margins, there will be certain folks that are influenced by, i don't think that is important to do, because what is pushing,c both

that's why ted cruz says he shouldn't be the special counsel. i'm not a fan of ted cruz, honestly. i think he's caustic. he's a guy who is difficult to like but you know what, on these issues, i 100% agree with ted cruz. maria: i mean, david weiss came up with this whole idea that if he agrees to say he's guilty for the gun charge and for the tax evasion, that he will be having immunity for anything in the future. it wasn't until the judge questioned, wait a second, are you actually, you know, investigating him right now? yes, we are, for being a foreign agent. so how do you actually come up with this? and the person who camp up -- came up with was david wi weiss, now he's special counsel. >> of all the people that gets chosen is david weiss. it's like having jack kevorkian teach the heimlich maneuver. you know what the end game will be. some time next year we'll get a report back saying hunter biden did this, x, y, z, another slap on the wrist but joe biden is cleared of everything despite the fact we have $20 million, bank records now, that went to 10 members of the biden family.

rick tyler's a former national spokesperson for ted cruz's white house bid in 2016.snbc political analyst, and longtime friend. all right, we've got breaking news about severe weather. right now, parts of the west coast, hunkering down in anticipation of hurricane hilary. it's a massive category four storm headed towards california, which the national weather service says could bring catastrophic and life-threatening flooding in the southwestern states. not just california. some of the states you associate as being traditionally quite dry. right, now the storm is churning off of mexico's pacific coast. neither a hurricane nor a tropical storm has made landfall in southern california since 1939. this comes as wildfires continue to wreak havoc in canada. all 20,000 residents of yellowknife, the capital of canada's northwest territories, have been forced to evacuate. 1500 miles south of that, in kelowna, a much larger city located just over the border from washington state, officials have issued a new state of emergency, because of quickly encroaching wildfires. canada

maria: joining me now texas editor ted cruz who sits on the senate foreign relations and senate judiciaryttee. senator cruz is the author of a new book on woke, how to defeat cultural marxism in america. it is available this november and preorder is possible now, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning maria, good to be with you. your reaction to david weiss being named special counsel. >> disappointment is camouflage and cover-up. i think it's disgraceful. david weiss was a u.s. attorney hand-picked to lead this investigation who spent the last five years covering it up. david weiss who was personally selected by the two democrat senators tom carper and chris spoon has gone nowhere to another to protect hunter biden in joe biden, david weiss is the one that is subject to two whistleblower complaints from senior career irs officials that came forward, they said they'd never stated investigation like this in their entire time in law enforcement. they said the department of justice, lawyers working for david weiss protected the biden family and they gave heads up to hunter bi

as you know, i do a podcast every week verdict with ted cruz. today's podcast goes through y david weiss's appointment is illegal. it is directly contrary to doj guidelines that say that it has to be someone outside of the department of justice merrick garland doesn't matter doesn't care. he's ignoring the law. but more importantly, it's supposed to be someone with integrity to prosecute, and david weiss has shown that he's willing to block prosecution of hunter to allow the statute of limitations to go forward and to allow apparatchiks on his staff to protect joe biden to say no questions about the big guy. no questions about joe biden. it's why you've seen two senior i r s career whistleblowers come forward, and it's why i believe we're seeing an indictment likely tonight because the media wants to change the topic. i have a couple more questions. senator i just want to bring people up to speed at home, the fulton county district attorney's office is has now handed a grand jury indictment to judge robert mcburney. as we saw just moments ago, t

and enablers, including prominent members of the united states senate, texas republican senator ted cruzht to decertify and overturn the 2020 election results. credit to my colleague who pointed out how cruz's remarks on january the 6th, we'll, have a listen, quote, what does it take to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote, not even to consider the claims, conduct a ten-day emergency audit, consider the evidence? that was ted cruz echoing the exact language referenced in the indictment. that very today planned trump had in mind it according to prosecutors, we talk republicans senator mike lee was a big supporter of the fake electors scheme that promoted a key person behind it, john eastman, who reporting village is one of those six coconspirators in the indictment. text between lee and former white house chief of staff mark meadows in november of 2020 show lead saying he was at one point working, quote, 14 hours a day to help with the plan to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's win. last but not least, as republican senator from wisconsin

ted cruz. ted cruz has the most social media interactions. think that's because no one wants to interact with him in person. [ laughter ] this is the list. ted cruz at the top followed by aoc, marjorie taylor greene, rashida tlaib, ron desantis, nancy pelosi, then donald trump. good thing trump doesn't care about polls and ratings and publicity and stuff like that. [ laughter ] he's six spots behind ted cruz! six spots behind a snowman made of mayonnaise. [ laughter ] they seem to have run out of stuff to yell about at fox news. laura ingraham took a break from her usual venom last night to weigh in on comedy. specifically, laura wasn't too wild about kate mckinnon's impression of her on "saturday night live" over the weekend. so she turned to an expert in the field for his thoughts. >> but i don't talk like that, governor, do i? >> no, you don't. you know, the interesting thing about it, kate mckinnon is an incredibly talented and amazing comedian actress, i'll give her that. >> you bet. >> i don't care how good the singer is, you've got to

laughter ] "i didn't need you, wilson." [ light laughter ] i gotta say it never gets old watching ted cruzbsolutely humiliated the only person who loves it more than i do might be -- i don't know -- ted cruz it's clearly his calling in life, and he's so good at it donald trump spent his entire presidency trying to get congress to pay for his stupid wall they could have raised that money in one day if they just made ted cruz sit in a dunk tank, you know [ laughter ] how much they could have brought. there would have been enough money left over for a second smaller wall to make sure nobody [ bleep ] with the first wall. [ laughter ] anyway, while cruz was confidently predicting a red tsunami, his senate counterpart, florida senator rick scott - [ laughter ] -- who was in charge of taking back the senate for republicans, was getting even more specific, claiming republicans could end up with as many as 55 seats after all was said and done, and even named specific states where he thought republicans could upset democrats. >> there's every reason to believe that we're going to pick up, you know,

right, ted cruz, a u.s. senator, was standing outside the courtroom as though he was a reporter talking about joe biden vilinizing the justice system for his own political gain. how much of that will make it difficult to push this misinformation or deflect if this thing ends up on tv? >> well, it's a great question actually. what we've seen so far is expectations that an indictment or two or three, eventually four would somehow change the public view. and that hasn't been the case up until now. if anything, of course, donald trump has done better among his republican supporters than after the indictments. especially if it's televised, especially if americans are watching and making a difference. traditionally i would think a televised trial would be important for the public. people have in fact made up their minds, and whether it's open to rethinking that is big question. people will misinterpret evidence and information and everything else so far it seems through the lens of preconceived decision where he's

senate in the lone star state hoping to replace republican senator ted cruz.essman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you brad, meet rev. let's start with possibly the luminous indictment of former president trump in georgia the state's former lieutenant governor says he's received a 48-hour notice to appear before the fulton county grand jury and signed the eight vandals could be proves that pressuring to present her case early this week. what is the significance of this case in georgia in your judgment? >> well, georgia really became the epicenter of the former presidents efforts to overturn the last election we all heard the audio of him asking for them to find 11,000 votes that he needed to overturn the election he was very honest within that conversation about what he was trying to do. he was very straightforward there has to be in our system accountability for things like that. before i came to congress i was a voting rights lawyer and one of the claims that we had often heard about trying to restrict the right to vote was that it was being done to prot

been shifting towards the republican party, texans like monica de la cruz and tony gonzalez and ted cruz and myra flores have been front and center leading that charge. in 2022 we opened several hispanic community centers across and it has been hard hit by the biden presidency. they are on the front lines of the biden border crisis. so when the balloons fall in houston more than four years from now, i firmly believe that this country will be in a better place due to a republican president that we are going to elect in 2024 republicans will have delivered win after win for the american people and the biden presidency will just be a bad memory. the 2028 convention will showcase the very best of houston, the very best of texas and the very best of the republican party. we look so forward to working with houston, everyone that's been part of this process. thank you. thank you. thank you. i would now like to introduce ira mitzner, the chair of the houston bid committee. thank you all. thank you, chairwoman mcdaniel for your leadership and the great decision to choose houston texas to host the

the ted cruz proposed by the communist, the north vietnamese, seemed to promise the people of safe holidays free from the ever present. anxiety of war leaves the new year. families praised the there and i prayed that he might be restored to their home. this year. however, this additional fire thinkers of the ship celebrations became the play over the me all day guy. all the guy you did the oh yeah, that's a good thing. it's nice on the, on black with the completely the way more dollars. my god got them. yeah, look, flow function way like 8. i can come probably a good time really a young be does all that y'all get hold on the site at night. oh, cool. yeah, no, no. come on the the way to let you know right now. so i do this stuff in the past, no matter what they've been cutting some phone number here. yeah. certainly not the number they have now. crazy and then to he took the class come up the wrong way. don't snuggles the goals that come from florida. now the involved that you might look you might, you know, how the the i met with, you know, you might wanna go back and go back to you. but wh

ted cruz won iowa in 2016 and donald trump was polling in the single digits.way left for the republican field to figure it out but i agree with hogan. at this point donald trump is the presumptive nominee on the republican side, clearly with the enthusiasm that you're seeing among base republicans. and we're likely headed to that 2020 rematch. cheryl: i'm not going to use the word fun. i'm not going to let you off the hooks with the democrats, kevin. a new report finds that president biden's team thinks the abortion issue puts a new state in play for his re-election. he writes the aides are moving to expand the map. they believe north carolina is a pick-up opportunity and no longer democratic fool's gold. how do you respond to this report? >> it's an interesting take. abortion is clearly an animating issue after the end of roe versus wade. we saw it in play heavily in the midterms and the wisconsin election for the judicial nominee on the supreme court, most recently in ohio as you mentioned earlier, cheryl. so i think you have to win 270. i like focusing on t

. >> republican senators lindsey graham and ted cruz and tom cotton are making the argument that donald trump should not be held accountable for his actions in a court of law. instead, donald trump's future should be decided by the will of the voters. the thing is, though, we already tried that. and the last time trump and his allies were given the chance to obey the will of the voters in 2020, they decided they did not like what the voters had to say. they did not like the will of the voters and so then they tried to overthrow the results of the election, and that is the essence of at least two of these indictments here. and so perhaps as a back stop to that strategy there is another contingent of republicans in congress just trying to shut the whole thing down. cbs news reported this week there are not one, not two, but three republican-backed proposals in congress to defund jack smith's investigation as a way to stop his charges from ever reaching the courtroom. joining me now is former united states senator claire mccaskill. claire, thank you for being here. we put that josh holley

is also running to unseat the texas senator ted cruz in the 2024 senate election. to see you again representative colin allred, let's talk about this. this is a law that was passed not naming a harris county, saying any a texas county of this size can't run its elections. what is the basis for that? >> thanks, ali, i'm coming to you. i just want to say this is a violation of the texas constitution and the texas constitution prohibits the legislature from passing any law that can only apply to one county. here they just set a population limit and it only applies to one county. so to me it is clearly a violation, and it's going to require the county to shift the elections administration function to the county clerk and to the texas folks who have not done this and don't know how to do this. what it is really about is causing chaos and difficulty in our biggest and most diverse county in our state, also a democratic county and one that has had a major impact on reaching statewide elections. >> >> what is the ostensible excuse for it? as these republicans go out to the

the grocery store, his office -- [ laughter ] and at his house all in all, pretty average week for ted cruzsident biden and former president barack obama posted a video on twitter this week reminding people to vote you know, it's nice to see they're still friends. the only way we're getting video of trump and pence together is if maury springs it on them. [ laughter ] maryland yesterday became the 20th state to legalize marijuana, which means that for the first time ever, there's something to do in maryland. [ laughter and applause former president trump voted in yesterday's midterm elections in florida, and then, because he can't help himself took a bunch of ballots back to mar-a-lago. [ laughter ] and finally, a brooklyn man who was on the run from fraud charges was arrested recently in florida after the federal agent who signed his arrest warrant spotted him at a disney theme park huh. it's a small world [ laughter ] always end with a dad joke [ laughter ] and that was the monologue, everybody! wow! [ cheers and applause we got a great show for you tonight. she is an oscar-nominated acto

over there on the left is podcaster and republican senator ted cruz of texas. harlan crow. crow of course is the guy that pay the private boarding school tuition for clarence's nephew. also the guy who bought the house for thomas's mother who lives rent free. he's a guy who's taken thomas on all kinds of luxurious trips. his library was used for the occasion to swear in this guy, somebody probably don't know. his name is james ho, and is sworn into the federal judiciary by justice clarence thomas in 2018 after being nominated by donald trump. whoa is a right-wing lawyer, federal society made man who got a lifetime judicial appointments to the court of appeals circuit. he is in the news now because of ex skripal opinion he wrote about the abortion pill. it started yesterday, that's where the court of appeals, which is the most right wing pill in the country. -- opinion by another right-wing judge in texas, the guy in our murillo, who tried to single-handedly take the abortion pill of all shelves nationwide everywhere, through judicial feel. this case that has be

this was to be the 1st spring of the 2nd republic of vietnam, the ted cruz proposed by the communist. the north vietnamese seemed to promise the people of safe holiday for you from the ever present anxiety of war leaves the new year. families are there and i pray that he might be restored to their home this year, however, this additional fire thinkers of this happened demonstrations became the play over the, the, the, me all day, guys, all the right. you did the pretty good thing. it nice on the black. good. the complete the, the way. more dollars. my god. yeah. the way, like 8, like i'm probably a good time. really a young the does all that all. all get hold on the right to a nice nice yeah . no no. come on the waiting to let you know that right now. so i do that stuff in my you or 30 the someone who is not a big bully, kind of some phone guy. certainly feel like they have to really crazy. and then to say he took the class, come up, the don't wait on that. that's come from florida. now the call that corner, no, no, no, no you wait. you go. how high the, what do you know? you might go

so where do we go from here to make joining us now is ted cruz. senator, thank you.s] [applause] and it's great to have you, senator. >> it is great to be here. >> alan dershowitz said that you are one of the best students that he ever had in the history of harvard law. put your law hat on and tell us what you see here. >> legally i see the evidence is going and growing. we are also seeing jake tapper, elizabeth warren, neither the corporate media or any congressional democrat cares at all whether the president of the united states received millions of dollars of bribes from foreign nationals and you know, it was sort of influenced and is not bothersome and it's like no, those are not the allegations, you are a journalist, or you are supposed to be. the allegations are bribery. and it wasn't just him selling access, it was him selling official favors from his father, joe biden. let's go to what that specifically says, confidential human source that had been reliable to the fbi coming forward and saying hey, the oligarch paid $5 million to hunter biden and 5 million t

ted cruz. look back to 2015. he wasn't doing great. what did he do? he won iowa.d trump. so you never know. you got to have the resources and you have to get on the stage of the debates. that's what ted cruz did. >> neil: let me ask you about following the legal drama around donald trump. one thing you hear, everyone is aware of the 90 odd counts of criminal indictments. the big differentiator will be if he's convicted. a conviction changes all. i'm not so sure about that. >> it will change the dynamic between being indicted and being convicted. because of just we're in an unprecedented times. that would be unprecedented. i'm with you, neil. the longer we get into this and the stronger trump becomes, he slipped a little bit in skipping the first debate, but he is still on top, still doing well. i think, yes, it would be a different environment, but would it mean the end of trump? no. i mean, listen. when cruz beat trump, that is one of the first times people counted out donald trump. he comes back and does well. >> neil: that's been the history. thanks, bob. >> th

these people or the circles of power there meshed in, james ho clarence thomas, harlan crow what ted cruz, none of them will stop until every abortion is banned everywhere in this country in every form, surgical, or medical. they are not going to stop unless they are completely and totally politically defeated, not once, not twice, but over and over again. that is the only way to stop them. we're going to talk about that, next. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ >> just this week alone we have two polls that have president joe biden and donald trump neck and neck in a hypothetical matchup. yesterday -- university released this poll showing the to nearly tied 47 to 46. today we have another poll from -- showing close numbers, 43 for biden, 42 for trump. times had a similar thing last week. on one level, i do not think we should overthink things. as i said yesterday, it's still very early, trump is popular he's facing multiple political trials. the other side of my brain can't meltdown because apparently donald trump is a coin flip from being back in the oval office. -- who worked on

donald trump with 255, ted cruz 218. rubio with 96. kasich with 21. this becomes an issue of who can catch steam and who won't catch steam and drop out. it was over. ted cruz tried but it was over. >> bill: "the new york times" what they did about three weeks ago. among those who are strong maga, the favorability rating for donald trump is 99%. i don't care how many courtrooms you line up or how many indictments, you can give him another 191 indictments, that 99% is not going to change. >> that branch of the party is named after the man. of course he will have 99% approval there. it makes sense. indictments are not hurting him in the primary at large. but to what you were talking about with the persuadeables. i take the 25% out of that category. they aren't considering him. a quarter of the base there not going for donald trump again which is how joe biden was able to win in 2020. you are looking at the middle there. the people who still like trump but looking to be persuaded. what we're focusing on on the democratic side how ron desonolith failed to

that's what we're talking about this morning with the constitutionalist's ted cruz, the senator fromanswer the question who has the upper hand now with this new special council that merrick garland just named in the hunter biden probe, is it the special counsel or is it congressional investigators. we wouldn't know anything about all of the money taken in by the biden family if it weren't for the republicans having the majority. this is the point of the subcommittee to get to the bottom of what is the fbi doing right now and does it need a complete overhaul. in fact, instead of talking abrighting the wrongs, they're talking about wanting $3.5 billion for a new fbi headquarters. will the republicans hold the line and be the power of the purse as they talk about and hold back money to the fbi in their upcoming appropriations bills? they've got to finish 11 appropriation bills when they come back in september. they've got to deal with the fbi in one of those and that is funding for what the fbi wants. is there going to be any accountability here for any of it? we're talking about the mo

ted cruz at 27%, donald trump 24.nd when the iowa caucuses concluded. where are we today? 2023 in august, donald trump a commanding lead at 44%, trailing him by 24 points is ron desantis. does he make a move in the caucus come january 15th? or does the move come perhaps from one of the others right now that are listed in single digits? look at history and see how it turns out. we won't know until we get there. >> dana: it's so interesting. marc thiessen is a fox news contributor and joins us. put up on the board for everybody call for number one, iowa state headlines are trump dominant. desantis in the -- clashing with desantis. in a way, desantis wanted to make it look like a two-man race. the headlines look like that, mark, out of iowa. >> if you look at all those people on the board that bill just had, none of them won the nomination, none of them became president. so the people who ended up winning the iowa caucuses. that part of history as well. if they were held today trump would win. if they were held today, th

senator ted cruz who i like a lot doesn't agree. >> i share massive frustration over that.me be clear. i understand the sentiment of if these [ bleep ] we'll weaponize the justice system and tried to lock up republicans were running against them, we ought to weaponize the justice system and lockup democrats were being democrats. i understand that. that is a very human reaction. i don't agree with it. i don't agree with abusing law enforcement, whether it is for my team or the other team. >> sean davis is the founder and ceo of "the federalist" and he joins me now. sean, ted cruz is a smart guy. he's a constitutional scholar, but is he missing the moment? does he not get that day, the democrats, want to destroy the republican party, that they want to consolidate total political power? >> i love ted. he is a great smart guy. i think he has wrong on this. i think that he and others should look at the cold war. how did the u.s. when the cold war against naval empire? they had nukes. we had nukes. we used a policy called mutually assured destruction that said if you so much as e

ted cruz won iowa last time amongst republicans. do you keep that in mind? >> yeah.ecially at this point until we have the debates. that will make a big difference in a lot of people's minds we need hear the debates. >> brian: kevin, do you feel the same way? do you want to see donald trump show up on the 23rd? >> absolutely. yeah. i want to hear all the candidates speak. and, you know, i will vote my conscience when the time comes. but i will vote for the candidate that the party puts up. >> and if we could take a look at you real quick, gail. biggest crowds by far seem to be trump. the people heblegd looked like pence was heblegd and desantis was heblegdz heavily. i think how they handled being heckled is important. but, and they need to be able to address controversies. >> brian: real quick, angel on this and then real quick to kevin. donald trump showed up with all the delegation in florida that is supporting him, not the sitting governor. what about that? did that resonate with you? >> that's very important to me. because our governor is fantastic. and she got e

he lost to ted cruz. at least the numbers said he lost to ted cruz. i think he thought it was rigged. it is the smart thing to do when you are sitting on a lead not to e-file yourself by exposing yourself to your competitors, but it does make him look like a coward, as chris christie said -- not to befoul yourself. it does give room for others to potentially emerge and become serious challenges to him. >> meantime, on the democratic side, you have congressman dean phillips who is on a media tour of late. he was begging for a prominent fellow democrat to mount a primary challenge to joe biden. he says that democrats are saying not a coronation but a competition. is that a widely held view, or is phillips here on a solo mission? >> i don't know if it is a solo mission, but it is -- i'm not going to say, causing mission, but it's not a mission that will end with what he wants. the are problems with joe biden's candidacy. there are many democrats behind the scenes and a few publicly who talk about his age and other problems with his candidacy, but let's b

it's mike huckabee, right, in 2008, 2012 was rick santorum and in 2016 it was ted cruz.u see t it's remarkable. >> yeah, so none of them ultimately won more than a dozen states, john, in the republican contest. you have to go back to 2000 and 19196 when george w. bush and bob dole won to find an iowa winner that actually won the nomination. a big part of that is because you can win iowa in a way that sets you on a path that makes it hard to win the nomination. it is possible to win iowa by consolidating and dominating among one group, evangelical christians, home schoolers, culturally conservative christian voters are the dominant block in an iowa republican caucus. if that's all that you can pull together, it becomes very hard to win the nomination. and, again, iowa also historically at least has rewarded that kind of shoe leather, sweat equity, you know, putting in the time in every state -- in every county. we'll see. trump might have won iowa even in 2016 if he had not in a fit of peak skipped the iowa fox debate at the very end there which is why i personally think

hear what senator ted cruz told maria. all of this on the heels of a possible fourth indictment of former president trump, this time in georgia, which could come as soon as this week. joining the conversation all morning long, speech first executive director charise trump and strategic wealth partners ceo, mark tepper. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ cheryl: a nice warm morning here in new york city. well, it is time for the hot topic of the hour, house oversight chair james comer blasting the hunter biden special council appointment writing in a statement, he says, quote, this move by attorney general car l garland is part oe justice department's efforts to attempt a biden family coverup in light of the committee's mounting evidence. maria asked texas senator ted cruz about this yesterday on sunday morning futures. maria: who has the upper hand from your standpoint in terms of the constitution, is it the special council, dave weiss who may be able to freeze all information flow to congress or is it congressiona

i think you remember he lost iowa to ted cruz in 2016. desantis, tim scott, ramaswami, who probably all could put together a ted cruz style coalition. even if that is a red flag, donald trump then moves on to a bunch of states that are much more favorable to him. what we have seen from the national republican party is people rallying to his defense. even if iowa does go in another direction, he has a ton of other options. he's right now winning in a landslide nationally, and i expected horrible behavior from the national republicans coming to his defense and giving him air cover on this, but they have been even worse than i anticipated. people that were saying the right things after january 6th about how we need to move on from trump are now over on fox defending him. even the quasi-supposedly more old guard republicans like lindsey graham, macko rubio, tom cotton are all defending him and advancing this message that the doj is somehow targeting republicans, which is absurd. i think the iowa thing is a bit of a red flag, but he has a lot

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well, senator ted cruz, who i l like a lot, doesn't agreae and i share massive frustration over that. now, now, let me be clear. i understand the sentiment of it, if these are going to weaponize the justice system and try to lock up republicans d for running against them, we ought to weaponize the justice system and lock up democratsin for being democrats. i understand that that's a very human reaction. i don't agree with it. i don't agree with abusing law enforcement, whether it is for my team or the other team. >> sean davis is the founder and ceo of the federalist and he joins me now. >> sean, ted cruz, he's a smart guy. l sc he's a constitutional scholar. but is he missing the moment ? does he not get that they thet t democrats want d to destroy the republican party, that they want to consolidate totalay political power? >> yeah, i love ted. he's great.as smart guy. i think he's wrong on this. and i think that thing that he and others should look at is the cold war. the cold how did the u.s. win a war against an evil empire? they had nukes. we hadpire? nukes. we were worried about

exclusive interviews with ted cruz, 2024 presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy in tennessee senator marsha blackburn. see you sunday on fox news at ten lives. that will do it on fox thank you for joining us. have a great rest of the weekend and i will see you again next time. >> "barron's roundtable" sponsored by global ask etf ♪ ♪ >> welcome to "barron's roundtable" where we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i am jack hal in for jack otter. summer blockbusters breaking box office records. we see a movie theater revival, all ask imax ceo richard golf on to get his take on what's driving the industry in a glimpse at some upcoming releases. then new obesity drugs are showing health benefits beyond weight loss. will look at how the positive trial results are putting pressure on insurers for coverage. later, a spinoff loophole that could make ordinary investors a quick $1000, yes please. we began with three things investors out of think about right now. the market ended mixed as tech stocks taint. july inflation rose slightly 3.2 percent but up from the month