we have to play it for people to understand. let s look at the reason why he is giving this very long speech. madam president. reporter: ted cruz seized the senate floor and vowed not to let go. i intend to speak in support of defunding obama care until i am no longer able to stap. reporter: this is theater, whether he speaks for hours the vote timing and outcome will be the same. cruz aides fully admit he s using the senate floor stage to speak directly to his audience, conservative grassroots activists who fueled his tea party upset last year. where is the outrage? where are the senates standing here saying what a straf gee that young people are being denied a fair shot in the american dream because of what we have wrought, because of obama care? reporter: his talk fest is exactly what his republican leadership who oppose his tactics were triying to avoid. as he started gop leaders were
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u.s. and others closer to their border. we have to work hard with the chinese to make clear those are not the things they need to be concerned about. they need to be concerned about their neighbor, essentially a neighbor they try to protect but one also they have fairly significant influence when it comes to the crunch and hopefully maybe we are seeing more of that positive influence. we may be seeing the neighbor moving from its 2-year-old kicking the feet on the floor stage to a more serious effort to see whether, in fact, some kind of progress can be made in negotiations. that remains before us. that is in the nature more of a pious hope now but let s see, in fact, whether this is a swing back in that direction and whether we can make something of it. ambassador thomas pickering, thank you very much. making a list, checking it twice. there were a lot of picks for
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