which is projected to make $110 million in the north american box office during its premier this weekend, none of them are paying attention to geo politics. i have not seen the movie. i have just seen the stupid map. is the communist party china puts out official maps with those nine dashes and they are asserting sovereignty over the entire south china sea. this is really designed for the eyes of the chinese sen sen sen. they want to make money selling the movie in china. philippines disagree with the map as well. vietnam says the movie was banned there because of the 9 # dash line. cruz isn t the only republican to criticize barbie. senator matt gaetz s wife attended the premier with him and she said there was a lack of testosterone played by ken. todd: i m going to leave it there i don t want to jump into the debate between matt gaetz and ryan gosling. we will leave that for another day.
you all on the hill are scaring the living daylights out of was the health care nonsense that you ear going. when you have that insurance companies can opt out of paying for health care, mental health care, then who s going to pay us to do that? that was senator ted cruz getting some tough questioning at a town hall held by concerned veterans for america, and cruz isn t the only republican senator facing opposition on health care back home. six people were arrested while protesting outside of pennsylvania senator pat toomey s town hall in harrisburg, and protesters are expected at hometown offices of five republican senators later today. despite the protests, though, the president currently oversees, the white house is ramping up its push to get a viable health care plan passed. msnbc s garrett haake is live in washington, d.c. nbc s kristen welker is at the white house. garrett, tell us more about what these senators have been facing as they re home nor the recess. reporter: chris
there are two implications. nobody is going to retire from the supreme court. we re going to have 90-year-old supreme court justices. nobody is going to leave if they know their vacacy is not going to be filled. hillary clinton will appoint the first asian american and the republicans are going to be the ones not allowing an asian american, when a large number of americans are voting for the asian-americans. and the republicans will lose if she does this. so douglas, cruz isn t the only threatening a scotus blockade. here s clinton last week. i promise you that we will be united against any supreme court nominee that hillary clinton, if she were president would put up. i promise you. he later walked that back. is there any historical precedent for this? no, this would be a again,
republicans will lose if they do this. if hillary clinton wins. douglas, cruz isn t the only senator threatening a scotus block aid. here is john mccain last week. i promise you that we will, we will be united against any supreme court nominee that that hillary clinton, if she were president, will put up. okay. i promise you. so he later walked that back. is there any historical precedent for this? no, this would be again, you know, we re looking at a shut down of the supreme court in essence. i mean to not be able to have nine supreme court justices to operate with eight, and those are war words. basically that s the same as donald trump calling the election rigid. republicans are saying, we don t want a full supreme court. we will stop it. we don t care who it is. i m glad john mccain walked that back. he should have. but some of these threats are designed to make sure if hillary clinton wins she doesn t go with
believes ted cruz is a natural born citizen. all he s doing is stirring the pot, raising questions, getting people talking about it? sure, that s what he s doing. he is behind ted cruz in iowa. folks in iowa like cruz a lot and he s starting to raise questions about him and the subtext of this, anderson, is very much that he s starting to raise the question of whether ted cruz is different, whether he s different because he was born somewhere else and, you know, i think that if you re peeling to a certain slice of the electret, particularly when you re out there on immigration, the way donald trump is and you know he points out that maybe cruz isn t as evangelical as he says because they have to roll, you know, his parents are krcub and on and on. i think he s starting to use this as a wedge against cruz.