people bullying him which doesn t put him in a good position going forward. wow. [ laughter ] what? this is always something about ted cruz. i remember, you know, cancun and i remember him like donald trump but ted cruz his wife for these people watching that want to go into politics. me and alice may disagree where we land on ted cruz. we can agree on the fact you have to be principled in politics because if you don t have principles, then you can get beat and bullied into positions and look somewhat like a fence sitter and you don t stand for anything. no one knows what ted cruz stands for when it comes to january 6th now because he s not consistently on message and goes where the wind goes. go ahead. he has been consistent with regard to attacks on police officers being terrorists and certainly acts of domestic terrorism. i think it really important while there is a lot of
capitol be ransacked. your thoughts? well, first, i ve always wanted to have this opportunity to thanks mr. nance to our service to the country we re a lot safer with the work he s done over these decades and we need that sort of service and expertise for what s happening to america is just extraordinary. you know, what struck me about the president s speech today was really most of what he was saying about donald trump is true of the republican party. i mean, there was a brief moment there, you can almost hold your breath for it, while the republican party rallied around and called this out, and then they went back. this ultimately isn t about donald trump. if for every elected official, most of the elected officials in congress or republicans stood up and called donald trump out and said he was a liar, that he had attempted to over this wouldn t be happening. so what we ve ended up with now is a major part of the united states doesn t believe we live in a democracy, and where tha
of taking over the congress this fall. joe biden, for all the forceful speech that he gave yesterday, and he is going to continue to go after donald trump on issues of democracy, he went very hard at republicans on economic issues today when he was talking about job numbers, talking about republican obstruction and how their solution to inflation is to make people poorer rather than do things to reduce the cost of things that burden them like child care, for example, that he wants to deal with in build back better. but his rankings are low. he is in a fairly weak political position at the moment. so as weak as republicans are in terms of what they re saying, the honesty of what they re saying and their conduct, they ve got a very good chance to win the election, and that s what makes the stakes of 2022 and 2024 so high. let s talk about his tone a little bit more, john, because he is set to deliver a speech on
the full context of who ted cruz has become. we cannot forget, we have to remember how donald trump talked about this man s wife like a dog. and his dad. and what did he do? well, and his dad with these mythical fantasies. what did he do? he ran back to donald trump. he said, please, please, take me in. donald trump laughed and took him in. we remember this whole watching him backtrack, the only thing i think is appropriate for us to say is we see ted cruz. he does not necessarily have the testicular fortitude it takes to stand up for people who are bullying him, which is not going to put him in a good position going forward. wow. what? there s always something about ted cruz. i remember cancun and i remember ted cruz for those people
still who think you can save this republican party. it doesn t want to be saved. it s like someone drowning who if you go out to swim, they re just going to try to attack you. the republican party is what it wants to be, and we keep trying to think it s going to revert to something. no, it s not. this is what they want to be, and that is no desire to change. you said something to me that i think was very important. you said, this isn t about donald trump. what donald trump did this is more about the republican party. donald trump gave them cover to be what they wanted to be, right? to make this pivot. they wanted this. it wasn t explain what you meant by that and how you said it. i think the republican party was revealed by donald trump, not changed. just as i think fox didn t create the republican party. the republican party created fox. if there wasn t a market for fox with these republicans out