to beat back an unexpectedly tough challenge from congressman beto o rourke. the relationship between donald trump and ted cruz has been one of mutual contempt and mutual convenience. you may recall that when the two were both candidates for president in spring, 2016, and cruz was showing traction, trump retweeted a picture of heidi cruz and melania trump with the caption the images are worth a thousand words. and cruz responded with this. i don t get angry often but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. donald you re a sniveling coward. leave heidi the hell alone. reporter: will you support him as the nominee. i m going to beat him. spoiler alert. he didn t. just a couple months later trump suggested that ted cruz s father might have been involved in the assassination of jfk, a bit of reporting he picked up from the national enquirer. his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being, you know, shot.
o rourke. just kind of fascinating because the relationship between donald trump and ted cruz has been one of both mutual contempt and mutual convenience. you may recall that when the two were both candidates in 2016 and cruz was showing a little traction. trump retweeted a picture of heidi cruz and melania trump with the caption the images are worth a thousand words and cruz responded with this. i don t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. donald, you re a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. so will you support him as the nominee? i m going to beat him. spoiler alert, he didn t. just a couple months later trump suggested ted cruz s father might have been involved in the assassination of jfk, a bit of reporting he picked up from the national enquirer. his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being shot. the whole thing is ridiculous. what is this, right prior to his
being, you know, shot. the whole thing is ridiculous. what is this? right prior to his being shot and nobody brings it up. they don t talk about that. that was reported and nobody talks about it. but i think it s horrible. it s true. no one talks about that. here s how ted cruz responded to that. donald trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating jfk. let s be clear. this is nuts. donald s source for this is the national enquirer. the national enquirer is tabloid trash, but it s run by his good friend david pecker, the ceo, who s endorsed donald trump and is so the national enquirer has become his hit piece. i ll tell you what i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. even at the republican national convention, cruz couldn t bring himself to openly
tomorrow jeff sessions heads to new york and makes a speech at john f. kennedy airport, it comes one day after president trump declared opioids a public health emergency. meanwhile, steve paddock will be in court today, he was arrested wednesday on charges stemming from an investigation that pre-dates the las vegas shooting golfer tiger woods will be in a florida courtroom answering a dui charge from earlier this year. woods is expected to plead guilty to driving under the influence, officers found him unconscious in his parked car in may. that does it for us, morning joe, everyone, starts right now. his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being shot. what was he doing with lee
behalf of the soviet union s kgb? it s been reported that it could contain inside oswald s trip to mexico city seven weeks before the assassination where he visited the soviet and cuba embassies, cia personality test of oswald, letters from hoover, widowed first lady jackie kennedy and transcripts that argued that oswald was not hired by the soviets. his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being, you know, shot. i mean the whole thing is ridiculous. what is this prior to his being shot? so that was then candidate who cited unsubstantiated report that cruz s father was