Posted on 03/17/2015 7:53:57 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Joe Scarborough introduces Cruz and makes note of recent stories of little girl, Julia, in New Hampshire about the world being on fire. (clip)
Cruz speaks about how he spoke to the mother of Julia yesterday.
Discussion about New Hampshire press and national press .The local press was not focused on the “world on fire”.
Asked by Joe, and Cruz answered: The tough question is: How can we trust you?
Joe brings up other issues such as crony capitalism. Do you talk about these things?
Cruz responds that working men and women are hurting and the way to resolve it is economic growth.
Joe asks what type of action? Cruz responds that tax reform and regulatory reform will improve the economy. What would your tax reform look like? Perfect, ideal, acceptable Perfect is flat tax and abolish IRS – I don’t have the rate yet.
My attitude on compromise is the same as Reagan’s.
Mika – art of a deal – Letter to Iran – was the intention to get in the way of negotiations?
Cruz: The letter was intended to stop a bad deal. I was involved in negotiating a treaty…
Cruz – if we didn’t have a president like Obama, we wouldn’t need to make it clear our constitution gives congress a vital role.
Cruz – is it your position to reign in the president? Mika - ……down the road to war.
Joe – no Mika! Joe calls Mika to task …
Cruz points out that administration to the media instead of giving congress information.
Cruz talks about Nicaragua and Woodrow Wilson examples as times when congress weighed in.
We don’t have a supreme leader like Iran. …..This is a unilateral president.
Joe refers to reaction in the press as letter being unconstitutional, precedence, etc. and reiterates Cruz’s history lesson and adds that democrats wrote a letter to president of Nicaragua.
Mika says this history lesson is deflecting from the discussion.
Willie Geist asks Cruz about his run for president. What’s the argument against running?
Cruz talks about support on the trail (response to text request). In New Hampshire, first story that broke was from CNN, buried in the 20th paragraph there were substantially larger groups that came out for me than for Bush or Walker and there was more enthusiasm. That used to be called “news”. It is called burying the lead.
What was the headline? ”Cruz startles little girl and snubbed a goat”.
Geist gets back to the question – why not run- what’s the argument against it? Cruz said they are measuring support.
Mika: Little girl thing was cute I think you are very nice. Cruz says you’re going to get grief from your listeners.
McCain says he is sorry for signing that letter. Cruz said, “I would sign it and I would sign it in large print”.
Video was great, thanks for posting. Cruz is a past master at answering a question his way instead of falling into the trap of the MSM’s gotcha “questions.”
Thanks for posting. This was a most excellent vid to watch. My Sen Cruz completely schooled Mika the Airhead on our Constitutional history, in a very diplomatic and polite way.
Is that supposed to a sentence?
Maybe every time you read the name 'Ted Cruz' here the local sun comes out in your head and the birds start chirping in there too so the words don't matter.......
but it doesn't work that way for me. I actually try to read the posts here that I open.
What does Cruz have to be afraid of? You heard Cruz get a bit of applause on Seth Meyers, so among the drones who watch such shows, a percentage are swayed. Just as Reagan did, I think that by Cruz making himself available live in hostile territory, the leftist meme against him is pulverized. Bob
Because if the candidates don’t go on those shows, the people on the show will just snipe at the conservatives, and tell their few viewers that conservatives are afraid to come on their shows.
Sadly, it’s part of the dance.
Nobody here works for you, Ace. Just a bunch of like-minded people helping each other out.
What have you done for anyone other than yourself of late?
I gave you a obviously well needed lecture on 3rd grade level English writing, something that may come in handy for you if you ever decide to look for a job,
I watched it live and Cruz was awesome. He probably won’t get invited back as he is too good of a debater for them to handle....
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