Right on through. Republican senator ted cruz has taken his oneman show on the road with a soldout performance that killed friday night before an audience of 600 at the Republican Party of iowas fall Ronald Reagan commemorative dinner. It was cruzs first visit to the state since the 21hour talkathon that propelled him into infamy among his fellow republicans and into the stratosphere among his tea party base. Tea party crowds have since devoured cruzs message of the little guy resistance to Big Government tyranny. And at friday nights dinner, he served them up a hefty slice. Im convinced were facing a new paradigm in politics. It is a paradigm that is the rise of the grassroots. I have to tell you, it has official washington absolutely terrified. Now, while senator cruz has consistently avoided the 2016 will he or wont he question in the press, his appearance on friday was his third visit in as many months to the first in the nation caucus state of iowa. And although cruz may not yet w
match surveillance that they actually didn t have to bother telling the president on a sort of project-by-project basis. and i do think there s a change in the last 48 to 72 hours within the administration, that there s a sense that maybe the nsa has gone too far and maybe there does need to be some rethinking of it. so and i appreciate that point, that it doesn t necessarily mean sort of bad presidential behavior, but a set of institutional practices that have emerged, particularly post-patriot act. thanks to all of you for being here and being thoughtful with me. i get trolled for privacy all the time. so it s useful to me to have an engaging conversation as i try to think through these questions. thank you to barton gellman and kiner skinner and noah shackman. when we come back, we are going to talk about the very unusual decision made in newtown, connecticut, and what is happening there, right now.
0 one to bring god along for the ride. and although he spoke about his opposition to abortion, he never introduced a bill to oppose reproductive rights and he actually helped the cause by pointing supreme court justices, sandraday o connor and anthony kennedy, who joined in the majority opinion in the case upholding roe v. wade. let s be clear, none of this is to suggest that reagan was a champion of using the power of government to help the little guy. though exploding deficits and growing government receipts were caused by bolstering the pentagon and unleashing jaw-dropping defense spending, even as america s chief rival, the soviet union, was becoming less threatening. and reagan was largely indifferent to the problem of cities and the needs of the poor during the golden years that the current republican party yearns for, economic inequality widened, home ownership declined, and the justice department largely refused to prosecute racial discrimination is probably a very strong chief