announcement on the south lawn. i think you have a surprise in the state department because just days ago i talked to senior officials who were planning a number of trips said rex tillerson didn t have plans on leaving and there was not a sense over there this was immeant. he had survived all the rumors many times. obviously, the rumors that the president was not pleased with rex tillerson had been serg circulating some time and mike pompeo was the next step and asked him in the reagan defense forum in december and of course he didn t really answer. bill: bill: i think we have that cued up. let me start with this, if you were secretary of state for the trump administration have
has a hard pass. so, fork x example, i could introduce you to the gallery and say this is craig melvin, he s going to be spending the day with us, and they would give you a little piece of paper and it s essentially a sticker. if i were to bet, that s likely what was going on here, but, again, i don t want to say that we don t know for sure exactly how that happened, but he certainly to get something that implies you re a member of the press, you would have to tell somebody at so many point you were a member of the press. in this case, for this gentleman, it s clearly not the case, craig. kacie hunt for us on capitol hill. as we continue to follow, again, an obvious breakdown in security with president trump there walking by with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. it should be noted that the senate majority leader and the president of the united states didn t even flinch. and there s the video, again, cued up. yeah, it s peter alexander standing by for us at the white house.
saying this is not a real issue for him. he is totally eligible to serve as president of the united states. even though it hasn t been fully litigated in the courts. i think we do have it cued up, so let s go back to iowa, ted cruz talking to reporter. he was asked about this issue, of course, and here s what he said. do you consider this settled law or just a gray area where you have a really good legal argument? look, as a legal matter, the request he is quite straightforward and settled law. that the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen. people will continue to make political noise about it, but as a legal matter, it s quite straightforward. i would fonote that it has occurred many times in history. john mccain was born in panama, but he was a natural-born citizen because his parents were u.s. citizens. george romney, mitt s dad, was born in mexico when his parents were missionaries but he was a natural born citizen because his parents were citizens. a
i spoke to five of them. they love him. they don t care what he says. some of them said frankly what he says doesn t matter to them because for them it s just about the fact that donald trump looks like someone who s not going to let them get screwed over by the system because he hasn t let himself be screwed over by the system. so they think he s just going to do things to benefit them. he s going to make huge fabulous deals that will protect them as americans. and they really believe him. they take him at his word for it. but again, ted cruz in terms of the politics of this i think is absolutely right. if he were to come out and condemn donald trump for any of his policies no matter how outrageous they are, how unconstitutional, how un-american, i don t think it would help him in terms of getting donald trump s supporters were he to ever leave this race. so in this test of conservative loyalty between cruz and trump which is now being essentially sort of cued up, today criticism ag
the politics of this i think is absolutely right. if he were to come out and condemn donald trump for any of his policies no matter how outrageous they are, how unconstitutional, how un-american, i don t think it would help him in terms of getting donald trump s supporters were he to ever finally leave this race. so in this test of conservative loyalty between cruz and trump which is now being essentially sort of cued up, today criticism against trump for his comments on cruz came from two very influential voices. marc levine, right-wing talk radio host, and rush limbaugh, who both went after trump for criticizing cruz. mckay, how important is right-wing talk radio in trump s support and if they turn on him? it s extremely important. but first of all, so my colleague rosie gray wrote a great story a few months ago about how talk radio more than cable news has been what s kind of powered trump s rise on the right. and i would go further.