his crusade against obamacare also cost him? i ll talk to a member of his own party who is calling cruz a fraud. that s a quote. we ll tell you who that is. he joins me next. also, the chilling video showing the navy yard shooter in action stalking the hallways. the fbi says he believed his mind was under attack. new clues about the delusions he may have been battling. every piece is important. this part. makes my eyes blue. i might have an increased risk of heart disease. gallstones. hemochromatosis. i ll look into that. the more you know about your dna, the more you know about yourself. now i know. know more about your health. go to 23andme.com and order your dna kit for only 99 dollars today. learn hundreds of things about your health at 23andme.com i was having trouble getting out of bed in the i was having trouble morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i wake up in the morning with no back pain. i can adjust it if i need to.if my back s a little
hours. and i think in that sense, he represents as does mike lee, as does rand paul, a new generation of much more aggressive republicans. and i would just point out, peter king, i believe, voted for the very bill that he is now attacking, because he voted to send it from the house, taking obamacare out of the government in the continuing resolution. so let s be clear. the underlying pressure of conservatives has actually moved the base of the republican party on this issue a fair distance i would say in the last six weeks. david, do you agree with what newt is saying about cruz? i agree with him on one fund am point, that ted cruz through this effort has made himself more of a hero among tea party types. no doubt about. it that s what he wouldn ted. anderson, just a few days ago he said something which alienated house republican conservatives, because they thought he wasn t going to fight. i think he partly put this on to do that. but even though he got a lot of publicity, not
his talk-a-thon, were less than supportive. listen. what did the 21 hours on the floor accomplish? it set senator cruz s cause back. i don t happen to think filibustering a bill that defunds obamacare is the best route to defunding obamacare. they are anti we cannot only controlling one house of congress telling the president that we re not going to fund any portion of this because we can t do that. he can play slam down politics and those who were collaborators and enablers can stand with him, but we re going to stand with the american people. ted cruz is a fraud and no longer has influence of the republican party. blunt stuff there from representative peter king. he joins me tonight. you ve used some harsh words to describe this congressman. why do you say senator cruz is a fraud? because he s selling a strategy which he knows cannot work. he knows it s doomed to failure.
the cause of trying to dismantle obamacare, of trying to repeal it, and using it for his own purposes and in a way that s going to hurt us and it s only going to help the president. do you believe republicans will get the blame if the government shuts down? all the polling shows that. and quite frankly, i think we should if it s done under this basis. now, debt ceiling is a whole separate issue where we have legitimate issues there and the president should negotiate with us. if he can negotiate with putin and certainly able to sit down with john boehner. but as far as this particular issue on defunding obamacare, yes, we will be blamed. this is unusual for a member of congress to be so tough on a member of his own party. i mean, saying he s a fraud, saying what he s doing is about basically his own fundraising, his own mailing list. why are you speaking out like this? i don t think we owe any loyalty to ted cruz. he spent the last months of the summer trying to put republicans
most fiscally conservative on capitol hill. what are we going to do about it? i do absolutely agree with the speaker and david that what ted cruz has done has absolutely energized the conservative base and that no question that was what this was about, to get people pushing the dial and pushing people like peter king, who speaker is right, he did end up voting for this in order to do that. that really has caused a very deep rift within the republican party which is why leaders here wanted ted cruz to stop and didn t want him to do this because, yes, people are talking about obamacare, and some of the substance, but people are also talking about the very big differences within the republican party and that s not good for them they think. newt, piers morgan interviewed president clinton earlier today and asked about the government shutdowns in the mid 90s and his relationship with you during that period. i want to play for our viewers what he said. we worked it out when he was tryin