now a candidate for the united states senate in texas in 2024. thank you very much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. i have not seen that video of ted cruz on his way to cancun since those days when he got caught doing that. i have to ask you, what did you feel, what was your feeling when you saw that video of ted cruz literally fleeing to a vacation in cancun while his constituents and people in his neighborhood where suffering? thank you lawrence, first of. certainly i think we are all disgusted in taxes. no one expected ted cruz to get up on the electric city pole and fix things, but we certainly expected him to be like all of us and hunker down and tried to help your neighbor. when a nursing home called me in my office and said we re out of water, we found a walmart that was still open, we took a
caught doing that. i have to ask you, what did you feel, what was your feeling when you saw that video of ted cruz literally fleeing to a vacation in cancun while his constituents and people in his neighborhood where suffering? thank you lawrence, first of. certainly i think we are all disgusted in taxes. no one expected ted cruz to get up on the electricity pole and fix things, but we certainly expected him to be like all of us and hunker down and tried to help your neighbor. when a nursing home called me in my office and said we re out of water, we found a walmart that was still open, we took a palette of water so that the seniors would have drinking water for the next several days. everybody in texas tried to help one another, except for ted cruz. he took off and abandoned us all. in your announcement video you mentioned bribery and
power but he is trying to systematically undue. in the mold, by the way, office teacher and mentor, donald trump. fernand, staying with you, since we are on florida, the republican party asking all of the gop presidential candidates to sign a loyalty pledge to the eventual nominee in order to make the primary ballot next march. this is a month after the rnc announced a similar loyalty pledge four presidential hopefuls for the first primary debate. what is the downside to this if you are a candidate? first of, the downside is that donald trump is not going to sign this pledge. so you have the leading contender on the republican side saying, no, i am not selling the paper, the paper doesn t mean much. so i think he is gonna actually make it easier for all of the other candidates to do one of them wants to do, particularly those like asa hutchinson, chris christie, those that are gonna have real reservations ever saying they are gonna pledged their loyalty to trump. i don t think trum
pervert. by the way, isn t that incredible. i was just saying, we were talking about, it and here, he wanted to attack iran this was done by the military, given to me, i think we can probably we will have to see. trying to declassify. it as president i could have declassified, and now i can t. now we have a problem. isn t that interesting, it is so cool, and here you probably almost didn t believe, me but now you believe me. it is incredible. it brings some joining me now, cnn at the chief correspondent kaitlan, call it also senior paula reid. caitlin, first of, all what do you, make this is the first time we are hearing, this the transcript, as more in this audio we that we have seen in the transcript.
they made clear that the in or the russian system. new reporting as well, tonight on what american intelligence knew leading up to the event, and e eight senior british officials, and the broader nato level. to report source from cnn s matthew chance in moscow, and eastern ukraine s been wedeman, we ll go first to moscow and matthew chance. so, talk more about what vladimir putin said today. well, i, mean this is the first time, anderson, first of, all that vladimir putin has appeared since this crisis, this armed rebellion on mutiny came to an and. so it has been three days that he has been silent, and that was being noticed around the country, and around the world.