ted cruz, the great ted cruz, the conservative ted cruz, the brilliant ted cruz, argued with me to wantsbills, can't get it done in one bill and it's not important and we'll get to the taxes when we can get to them and i don't agree with all respect for ted cruz, a genuine conservative. i don't understand it, steve moore. >> well i want to tell your viewers a quick story about what happened in 2017. you hint at this on this earlier in the show, but do you remember december 2022, 2017, larry when you and i got an emergency call from mitch mcconnell saying we don't have enough votes for our tax bill and we had to go pounding on the doors of five or six republican senators trying to get and persuade them this was an important thing to do and so my point is, we came within an eye lash of not getting that historic tax bill done. i don't want to live through that again. i want to get this done. i think did jason say he thought we could do it by memorial day? i'll take it. memorial day, we're going to have this tax bill signed because one other quick thing. larry: the whole thing. the big bill.

in a moment we hear from senator ted cruz. then house ways and means chair jason smith but first one big beautiful bill, the subject of the riff. a big moment today, perhap two. first certainly, congress certified president-elect trump's eel open victory,ta. mr. trump create could a working class coalition, hispanic-americans could black americans, asian-americans, muslim mu-americans, young people, union members women. that could well change face of american politics for at least a generation, mr. trump turned the g.o.p. into the party of working folks, he will promote america first policies be they lower taxes, reciprocal fair trade tariffs, border closing, unleashing energy, minimizing red tape business regulations and he brought in the doge brothers, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. who will weaken the over extended power of the unelected federal bureaucracy. as well as chopping down the tom tomorrow -- federal budget, and america first overseas to restore american authority, respect with peace through strength, and a clear

here with reaction, texas senator ted cruz. the fact that california, they adopt all these environmental laws that prevent the basic science of forestry. it results in a disaster. they elect people like this idiot, a congenital liar conspiracy theorist and a pam bondi, you are the one that got censored by congress. for the very same thing that you were bringing up here. what's interesting to me, it seems that the very thing that they fear is what they did, what they did knowingly that they knew was wrong and that was weapon i the doj. now all of a sudden they are concerned about equal justice and equal application of our loss. it's laughable to me but pam bondi gave the correct answer. equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. >> pam bondi did a terrific job today. she's going to be confirmed as attorney general. i believe all of president trump's nominees are going to be confirmed and this week we've had multiple hearings for about half already and they have performed consistently very well. pete hegseth did

now, somebody who wants to do it all, we are going to bring back our great friend, texas senator ted cruztor cruz, welcome back. plenty to talk about after that gangbuster first day in office. i think you'll agree with all that. can i just ask you one thing? just kind of curred to to -- occurred to me, while he was writing executive orders and having that press conference in the oval office last night before he went to the galas, he mentioned that by february 1st you could see a 25 tariff on both -- 25% tariff on both mexico and canada. now, i thought he would have a little more time to negotiate with them over, you know, border control and their help and military and fentanyl and declaring, you know, we're going to declare the cartels to be terrorists. but were you surprised that in the just a couple weeks he might be slapping tariffs on? let's start with mexico. what a do you make of that, senator -- do you make of that, senator? >> well, look, i understand his threat of tariffs in the context of what he did in the first administration which is he threatened the same tariff, 25% on mexi

anyway, senator ted cruz, thank you.oming up, we will talk more about the threat that we may have a tariff war in two weeks. could kick in sooner than anybody thought. not necessarily about china, but it could include mexico and china. two people going into some of the details. wall street's number one washington washer. we will be right back. the way i approach work post fatherhood, has really trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for. here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families like my own. in the average household, there are dozens of connected devices. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. >> well, thinking in terms of 25 % on mexico and canada because they are allowing vast numbers of people, canada is a very bad abuser also, vast number of people to come in and fentanyl to comment. >> would and would you enact that? v-neck february 1. [inaudible] >> i may, but we are not ready

lindsey graham is a good friend as is ted cruz who has been a big advocate of the two bill strategy in the senate. they have very different factors to consider that be i do in the house. 150 more personalities to deal with, we have much more diverse caucus in the house than they do in the senate. for example, on the salt issue you know, my colleagues from new jersey and new york and california one of their biggest priorities, it's not even a thought, really, in the senate because republican senators come from red states and salt is just not a thing for them. so, i have a-- much more complex decision matrix than the senate has and sometimes i feel like that may be underappreciated by some of our colleagues in the other chamber, but the end of the day we intend for the house to be the leader on this and that's the way it's designed to work and we're working on a feverish, very aggressive calendar to get that done and in the senate and have us working together. all the palace intrigue about the so-called versus things, people are having discussions what's the best path forward. and lindse

ted cruz talked about this a little bit. listen. >> what are the policies that have exacerbated it?uld put them into three different categories. number one, the mo management of pubpublic lands and forest management. number two water policies and california's insane policies on handling water that sadly are making the crisis much, much worse. and number three, policies directly impacting firefighters and in particular the city of la's decision to slash the firefighter budget. rachel: so much, michael, to go over but i'm fascinated by all that ted cruz said but also by the fact that gavin newsom and karen bass get money from the environmental radical -- radical environmentalists who fund those groups, also fund their campaigns. >> that's absolutely the case. i think that's maybe the biggest factor. i'll tell you one big thing that should have occurred that they didn't do is you need a desalination plants, also water recycling plants, but desalination plants like israel has with separate lines to be able to pump the water into the reservoirs, refill the reservoirs so they would have n

trip to the african nation while her city burned to the ground which is the same woman who mocked ted cruz caught in cancÚn as texas-based in a blizzard and she tweeted at the time, ted cruz playing in the deadly crisis part of a larger pattern of the gop abandoning folks in crisis. we need to build a movement to kick them out. apparently she was filling her movement hotel swim up bar. [laughter] social media, a lot of time at which time she raised home to do her best impression of anchorm anchorman. watch this. >> if you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available. all of this can be found in that url. [laughter] should. >> that is the mayor of california. [laughter] reading url straight off the teleprompter. she went to go off and say leap off. [applause] [applause] obviously terrible luck for the mayor but nobody struggled with their luck more than david who is shown here wearing a) to make his firefighter jacket fit tighter. take a look. >> you can see behind me is completely wiped away. [laughter] now i don't know david personally but if i had to gue guess, he

and, and ted cruz told me, oh, that's just something the media is obsessed with, right? this was just a side issue. it just sort of dismissing me, moving on. and clearly this is not just a media issue. clearly this is something that donald trump took to heart. those, you know, he held those fundraisers at his estate in florida and his estate in new jersey for these january 6th defendants. one of the members of the board is actually of one of these groups that he held fundraisers for is actually going to be interim dc, u.s. attorney. and i think, you know, it was clearly in donald trump's ear here on a lot of these issues. he's someone who has been on the board of patriot freedom project, which is advocated for a lot of these defendants. but the thing that i and there's a lot of things i think about a lot, but one thing that really sticks out to me is that a lot of the january 6th supporters themselves, nicole reffitt, for example, who's the wife of a guy who was the first individual convicted at trial, has said that she didn't want these blanket pardons because there wer

senator ted cruz joins me now he will be confirmed right?yes, i believe pete hegseth we'll be confirmed i believe all of president trump's cabinet nominees are going to be confirmed. he going to see what you saw today a number of these hearings democrats put on a performance circus. they're going to yell and scream and stomp their feet been at the end of the day i think everyone of these nominees is going to be confirmed. and i want to commend the president i think the nominees he's put forward our extraordinary, they are committed. pete hegseth is a warrior he is served his nation he is a decorated combat veteran peer win he came back from active duty, he devoted his life to fighting for veterans and fighting for active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. pete hegseth is a change agent. what i thought was pitiful about the democrats performance this morning as they were eager to slander him personally and to drag them through the mud. very happy to go with anonymous accusations from people not willing to put their name to it or evid

>> the devil is in the details, and the democrats have a plan, and so has ted cruz and the way they have it is very different. >> john: and president trump written i it, it's restricted. >> and if it's restricted and doesn't allow millionaires and lawyers to allow them to get into it, which ted cruz's version does, and remember, he will put it in the giant tax bill, and benefit only the top percentage of the countries, and if he wants to expand that and work with democrats on a middle class tax cut, yes, they'd be happy to work with him on it. >> we'll see what unfolds in the days and weeks ahead. thank you, gentlemen. >> sandra: and what the birthright citizenship means for illegal migrants who give birth here and bret tollman gets into it. >> john: and relief for the california wildfires, with the good comes the bad, and also the threat of rock and mudslides. and the full report is coming up. >> i have never seen a movement around a story accused of murder like this. >> the story keeps get bigger and bigger. and it's not over yet. >> prosecutors believe she hit him with her suv and dro

donde asistieron 2000 lÍderes latinos entre ellos tambiÉn javier milei el presidente argentino, ted cruz comitÉ fue un tremendo Éxito. superÓ todas las expectativas por el nivel de lÍderes. no sÓlo mundiales, sino tambiÉn empresarios e inversionistas que asistieron para apoyar este evento. fÉlix: quÉ fue lo mÁs importante de la jornada? gabriela: yo pienso que la conexiÓn que tuvimos con lÍderes. no sÓlo latinos, sino tambiÉn estadounidenses. representa como la unificaciÓn que ahora se estÁ creando en este nuevo capÍtulo. por ejemplo, fue parte que ahora va liderar el departamento de eficiencia, fue parte de la presentaciÓn conmigo el premio a milei y tambiÉn kennedy que representa algo importante para la comunidad latino. Él dio sus palabras en espaÑol a los latinos. fue muy bonito. creo que esa unificaciÓnque vinieron tambiÉn lÍderes de nueva administraciÓn para apoyarnos antes de compartir con nosotros. tambiÉn el hijo de donald trump. maria: cuÉntanos del hijo, de la familia. gabriela: eso fue espectacular cuando Él llegÓ y empezÓ a compartir escenario acerca de cÓmo se identificaba

senator ted cruz joins me now. he will be confirmed, right? >> yes.elieve pete hegseth will be confirmed. i believe all of president trump's cabinet nominees are going to be confirmed. you're going to see what you saw today. you're going to see in a number of these hearings, democrats put on a performance circus. they're going to they're going to yell and scream and stomp their feet. but at the end of the day, i think every single one of these nominees is going to be confirmed. and i got to say, i want to commend the president. i think that the nominees he has put forward are extraordinary. they're committed. look, pete hegseth is a warrior. he served his nation. he's a decorated combat veteran. and then when he came back from active duty, he devoted his life to fighting for veterans and fighting for active duty soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. and pete hegseth is a change agent. you know what i thought was pitiful about the democrats performance this morning is they were eager to slander him personally to drag him through the mud. very ha

tech billionaire elon musk with his son on his shoulders, and seen on the red carpet texas senator ted cruz, donald trump jr., and eric trump. donald trump also confirmed he will attend the funeral of former president jimmy carter. preparations are being made for the nation's farewell to carter who died on sunday at the age of 100. the events began on saturday in carter's hometown with a national funeral service set for the following week in washington, d.c. cbs' mark strassmann reports from plains, georgia. >> reporter: on new year's eve plains prepares to say good-bye to an old friend and neighbor, the 39th president of the united states. this is the death of a global figure. >> yes. >> reporter: but is there also death in a small town feel to this? >> i would say yes because just like i knew him on a personal level. i would say 50, 60% of the town knew him that same way. >> reporter: andi walker spent more than two decades as a friend, neighbor, and cook to the carters. she'll be among the mourners here when public remembrances begin on saturday. what is it you'll miss most about him? >>

stuart: texas senator ted cruz joins me now. mr., as i see it, the biden team did get "the talks" to the table, but it was trump who pushed netanyahu to get the deal done. so who do you think deserves the credit here? >> well, let's be clear. the credit that is unequivocal is the credit for the disaster that is october 7 and the extended war that followed and that credit is unquestionably at the feet of joe biden. joe biden spent four years undermining the state of israel, undermining the israeli government, when october 7 happened, joe biden, entire biden administration began daily pressing the government of israel, stop killing the terrorists, stop killing hamas, at every stage, the biden administration opposed israel's carrying out its stated objective of eliminating hamas. i don't know if a deal is going to happen or not. i do know that the reason hamas came to the table is because of donald trump, that he said there be hell to pay, if the hostages were not released and so my prayers are certainly that the hostages are released

he saw ted cruz walking down the ramp to get on the boat. heed said i don't -- he said i don't think we can do this. i said, give it a shot. ted got on the vote and before you know it, they were talking, i don't know what they were talking about, it probably wasn't politics, but the next day they started working on some amendments together and doing legislation. and that's just the power of sitting down and listening and getting to know each other and we don't do that much here. it's hard for us to get together. we know that. we need more of that in washington. i hope you all make an effort to visit with each other, spend a little bit of time. i'm not going anywhere, gang. the boat's still going to be there, call me whenever you want to come down, we'll get together, whatever you want. many of our differences pale in comparisons to the founding fathers, but they understood what was at stake and put their differences aside to put together something extraordinary. with we need to capture that spirit today. to my colleagues, ask yourself, what h

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have partnered with brian shot senator chris murphy on this and myself and tom cotton myself and ted cruz. those are not for people you typically see pushing on one issue but we've all come to the table not as democrats or republicans, that is people on the left or right but people we are parents, parents of teenagers. we are seeing the effects that only within her home but with our friends and their parenting experience of what we're seeing our children's friends as well. we have to put up guardrails. you know this but the data speaks for itself. yet one in three young women saying she considered taking her own life last year. you have 9% of our high school population saying they attempted death by suicide. doing nothing is not an option some going to keep pushing this and party with people across the. >> jamaican tiktok. the court appears about a way to banning tiktok if you don't divest from the chinese ownership. where you come down on that? your supportive of the van isom? >> if you look at the ccp and the data they're collecting on everyday americans and use of algorithms particular

>> ted cruz obviously was the first senator to object, and obvious lay, just looking back on this, whatice president maintained at the time, as marc knows well, is he did not have the power to block the certification on this day four years ago. >> and he didn't. >> what we have seen is the electoral count act that was passed reaffirming that interpretation of the law so people like john eastman who pence later referred to as a crackpot of attorneys, that trump was listening to at the time, could not make that argument. but also it changed the threshold for how many people have to object to lead to that moment. even if we were in the exact same situation as four years ago, had this law been passed, the threshold would have had to have been much higher than what it was four years ago for that to happen. >> marc short, are you able to look at ted cruz without thinking about january 6th? >> sure. jake, because honestly, i think what ted cruz is doing was advocating, i may not agree there was evident of any sort of theft in that election, but it is their right to raise an objection. that's d

level as well that partners the brainchild chris murphy on this, myself and tom cotten myself and ted cruz, is not the people that you typically see pushing on one issue but we have all come to the table as democrats or republicans covenant people in e left or thehe right, but people who are under parents a mere appearance the teenagers and we are sing device not only within our homes with our friends in the parenting experience of what see per children's friends as well pretty so we have to put up some guardrails i knowwe you knw this and you have one and three high school young women saying that she actually consider taking her life last year that you have 9 percent of her high school population like night they say that they actually attempted death by suicide, do nothing isng not an option so kp pushing cousin partnering with people across l. >> he was in tiktok and less you profess, they appear to be in the way, the entire talk with a dude i passed the chinese ownership in your support. >> yes will look, if you look at keep the data the collection on everyday americans, and the use of

it was that construction that caught the attention of committee chairman ted cruz of texas, who speculates the chinese are building slowly so they have a reason to be there, and implied panama may be violating the treaty it signed with the us. president trump is making a serious and substantive argument that that treaty is being violated. right now. this committee has jurisdiction under the senate rules over the panama canal. and today we will examine evidence of potential violations. the u.s. largely built the canal, then handed it back to panama because it's in panama back in 1999, with the understanding the canal would be open to all. donald trump has said it's operated by the chinese. it's not. but there are legitimate concerns over costs and fees and the presence of the chinese enough to cause america to resort to violence. well, one of the republican guest experts said it would be within the treaty's language. it was clear that the treaty was understood as giving both sides separately, the right to resort to use armed force to enforce the provisions ofhe treaty. and it's not so surpr

last wednesday, during which senator thune and other senate republicans including lindsey graham, ted cruz, all these more traditional trump allies were making the case directly to him, to the president for the two-step process. president trump is still siding with speaker johnson in terms of one bill, not necessarily because he thinks his ideas are better, but because he think the house is too dysfunctional right be able to pass two separate pieces of legislation on this front ma don't want either of those to go by the wayside. post: this may be very much in the weeds of how these things work, but how do you get two bites at the reconciliation apple, how can you do this in two vs. one? guest: you have a chance to do this under the procedures and rules of the senate, and if you can do it twice, you have two chances to get this done. and it depends sort of whether those budget resolutions, those vehicles were used in the previous year or not. there are a lot of different rules. they decided to let them up into one year and the next. host: larry in the keystone state, democrat, good morning.

these new leaders who emerge just from the tea party movements entered congress and 2011 ran paul ted cruz and marco rubio were among those who accelerated the republicans transformation into a populist parties. while riggins g o b was still open to immigration, free trade and government intervention, the new republicans were increasingly isolationist and anti immigration. the hardliners among them found a mighty mouthpiece to spread their ideas. conservative cable tv channel fox news fox news is very important to this change that we see in the republican party and ultimately to donald trump. i mean, the platform is the platform. this is a way to communicate outside the channels of the new york times, and the washington post and cnn and all of that and take their arguments directly to republican voters. you know, there's, there's, there's little question in my mind. but for fox news, we would not have had trump because you couldn't if elected somebody who live that often. fox news really created the idea of faith news by saying we're fair and balanced. and the other networks are, are givin

ted cruz went to cancun. >> dana: to protect the border which was a federal government. >> jessica: $400 judge jeanine: okay, let's get greg into the conversation. >> greg: so far they are dropping retardants, gavin newsom. they attach strings to everything. it's called dei. every single act that requires competence has strings attached. it raises one key question, where is the heroic gesture >> you have someone that steps up. 9/11 is a perfect example. there's no action because the focus was on words, feelings and public virtue. you have seen this in every facet of life, crime, natural disasters, they come up empty because all they have is social justice and sanctuary cities in platitudes. they don't know how to help you in terms of massive problems. they don't clear brush, don't fill reservoirs, do not save lives. instead it's an empty cost because it costs billions that goes to issues that drain resources. that is an opportunity cost. you mention about fighting trump's integration proposals. even when your home burns down, an illegal with a blow torch is released simply because he's a

that went to acapulco during the storms saying ted cruz going in the middle of a deadly crisis is partning people and crises we need to build a movement to kick them all out says the woman who just got back from ghana. >> let's just delete the top part build a movement to kick them all out. that's what we need right now in california. a movement to kick them all out. honestly. just as you're saying earlier here just go home take a rest go back to ghana do whatever you want but just don't insult our intelligence by pretending to do anything useful in this crisis which remember gavin newsom has been in office six years as governor eight years as lieutenant years before that as mayor of san francisco. karen bass knocking around she's been in congress and the local politics. these people are responsible for the state of california. >> we have karen bass who is not going to go to the trump inauguration january 20th she went to the inauguration in ghana and l.a. paid for. >> we had two days of warning for this firestorm she was there for multiple days getting communications from her teem she

reasons that is doing so is because of the long standing courage of my friend from texas, senator ted cruz. senator, thank you for everything that you do. and in addition to the 300 plus other great i have, one of the best is dr. our vice president, the davis institute for national and foreign policy, victoria, here to celebrate your book and celebrate your career, which is a of saying you're still young and still have a lot to do but please join me in welcoming them both up to the station. so senator cruz and victor, i were joking a little while ago. we were talking about how we were going to go about this conversation, which which, by the way, is designed be informal. and he said so, kevin, i'm not giving a 30 minute speech. i said, only if that's how long you're first answer is. so we'll we'll see. but senator, busy time, as it always is or sometimes is in the u.s. senate. you're always busy. thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to celebrate this really important book, which isn't just about and american national, but it really is the battle plan. and even if victory, you

stop leasing and drilling in either atlantic or pacific basins, he will never let it stand, i had ted cruzal law, he said trump will make a executive order and revoke it and we'll fight it out in court, by that time we'll be p3 presidents hence. >> if you want to do climate change, last people on earth did not know how to fix it, they are politicians, they have done they are cheap symbolic gestures. wiwindmills run on oil. electric cars, electricity comes from coal, that is fossil fuel. they are 5 times heavy as regular car, you would have on replace every bridge in america in you go electric. everyone that is done anything with windmills in the world, now in process of taking them up to, they don't work. larry: they do unbelievable harm wherever they go. by the way, to construct these windmill farms, massive aims of carbon dioxide in the sky. another one this tougher, last v in -- in this is jack smith dropped lawsuit, he was told to, by doj, they are not allowed to issue the report, he was thrown off the case, in it in disgrace, we have a judge in new york a very crooked judge, i am unde

version of tiktok, but at least china is honest about why they do it and our country lies to us saying ted cruz's not true. the american government can't control tiktok in the way it does american social media companies. american social media companies are full of former u.s. intelligence officials, mark zuckerberg admit that had meta actually had a private portal for the biden administration and left wing ngos to come in and sensor and direct the censorship of american citizens. we know that it is not about our safety or privacy. in fact, meta actually was selling american user data to china and doing what tick tock was doing and the government was doing and the government cared about the privacy and security, the government would put restrictions on selling american user data. they would do something about the military aid to chinese males that are coming over the open boarder and chinese that are buying american farmlands and american cell towers and not doing any of that. instead they're banging up for social control and gen z knows and giving a middle finger to governor with a bed in the c

so ted cruz -- can you tell me what ultimate process or what ted cruz and the republicans wanted out jection? that never got debated, right? that never went back to their chambers because of the riot. guest: mr. cruz and mr. hawley and a number of individuals in the republican party did raise objections. all you needed in the old rules was one representative and one senator to separate chambers and they did go to separate chambers. what mr. cruz wanted was to set up a special commission to look at the allegations of state-level mischief around the vote and would ultimately have a short timeline to look into the matter and report back to congress and congress alternately decide what to do. something similar happened in 1876 with a contested election, but ultimately congress said we are going to follow the existing rules under the electoral count act and we are not going to go and try to create a commission. host: the house is set to gavel in at noon eastern today and the joint session set to take place at 1:00 p.m.. we will have coverage of the certification process on c-span. we hope

join us now with more on tonight's top story, texas senator ted cruz. so republicans now have the house, there was an 80% prediction that republicans would lose the house. they have a slim majority. mike johnson will be speaker, john thune as majority leader. are you confident that this agenda will get done, i know you got into it a little bit with my colleague over one bill or multiple bills, where does it stand now? >> i am confident. we have to deliver results. he was exactly right, there's a clear and unequivocal mandate from the voters and we have to deliver on it. we've been given republican-controlled. we can't wasted. if you look at the elements of the trump agenda. i'm confident we will secure the border beginning on january 20th. joe biden broke the border and on january 20th, catch and release is going to end. we will see in january and february of this year the illegal immigration numbers plummet. we are going to see congress, we're going to pass major legislation supporting security -- securing the border, hiring more border patrol agents,

we are going to be joined, kid rock will be here, ted cruz will be here. many special guests. the men of the hour, president donald j. trump, the 45th and 47th president of our country. you will arrive at any moment as well as melania trump and we will bring that to you live. they are expected to be right here at some point. we expect that to happen this hour. also nearing the end of what was a monumental day. we just witnessed the single greatest political comeback thanks to all of you. you may tonight happen. according to president trump, a new golden era of american exceptionalism is now donning in our country. take a look. >> in recent years our nation has suffered greatly. we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before. we will be a nation like no other of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent and totally unpredictable. america will be respected again and admired again. including by people of religion, faith and goodwill. we will be prosp

senator ted cruz out of texas is chairing this giving an opening statement just moments ago. here is how that went. >> we're here today to examine a monument to american ingenuity, the panama canal. senator moreno suggested we open the hearing by playing van halen and panama, we may not do that, but between the american construction of the panama canal, the french effort to built a canal and america's triumphant completion of that canal, the major infrastructure projects across panama cost more than 35,000 lives. for the final decade of work on the panama canal the united states spent nearly $4 hundred million, equivalent to more than $15 billion today. the panama canal proved a truly invaluable asset. sparing both cargo ships and warships the long journey around south america. when president carter gave it away to panama, americans were puzzled, confused and many outraged. with the passage of time, many have lost sight of the canal's importance both to national security and to the u.s. economy. not president trump. when he demanded fair treatment for american ships and goods

but in the case of green land, it is worth noting that senator ted cruz on his podcast in the aftermaths conference yesterday, let's read the quote directly from him. the united states acquiring greenland is a very, very good idea. acquiring greenland has enormous advantages to the united states. number one, greenland's location on the arctic is incredibly important from a national security and defense perspective. undoubtedly, there will be serious questions for members up on capitol hill as to the viability of this. denmark and leadership in greenland have been resistant to this question but this will be a big one. >> it is just all extraordinary. and when we talk about canada and the trade deficit, it should be noted it was the trump negotiation that renegotiated nafta. with both canada and mexico. so this is a trade deal they negotiated themselves. vaughn hillyard, susan page, congratulations susan on the great exclusive and andrew weismann as always. a busy time on the legal front. >>> up next, we will go back to southern california for an update on the fire. you are watching andre