Speech that may follow him forever. Refusing to endorse donald trump at the Republican National convention. Stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. Reporter cruz mentioning trumps name just once during his primetime address. The crowd angrily interrupting the speech. Then trump suddenly appears in the stands, upstaging the gop runnerup yet again. Trump later tweeting, wow, ted cruz got booed off the stage. Didnt honor the pledge. I saw his speech two hours early, but let him speak anyway. No big deal. Donald trump offered him to speak without any conditions. He thought senator cs might have been a little more politically smart. I think it was awful and quite frankly i think it was selfish. He signed a pledge. Its his job to keep his word. Reporter cruz later not backing down. I laid out a very simple standard. We need a president who will be faithful to the constitut
Clinton saying shes against the move, calling it unproductive and unamerican. Sanders saying its inhumane. There are 11 million undocumented people in this country and today and every day many of them are being exploited by their employers because they have no legal rights. Thats why i believe we need comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path toward citizenship. Our Political Team has it all covered for you this morning. But first some new overnight developments on the republican side of this race. The Washington Post has exclusively obtained a 25yearold audio recording where trump apparently pretends to be his own publicist. We have that and his response on the today show this morning. Hes living with marla and hes got three other girlfriends. In 1991, a familiar sounding voice called into People Magazine claiming to be Donald Trumps publicist. Whats your name again . John miller. What is your position . Im sort of handling pr. In the 25yearold audio recording obtained overnight by
priority. a $30 million check made out to gop aligned super pac with one hilarious caveat. as a federally elected official, ryan not permitted to solicit seven-figure political donations. when ryan left the room, norm coleman made the ask and secured the $30 million contribution. want to bring in firmer u.s. assistant attorney myra wiley. lonnie, i m going to start with you on donald trump s view on how shoelden adelson s giving works for the candidate you worked for, marco rubio. i like sheldon a lot. he has been a person i ve known over the years. we have a very good relationship. i m self funding. i don t want anybody s money.
if sheldon donates to him, he will have total control over rubio. that s the way the system works. seems accurate. he didn t sell funds. let s get that out of the way. that part isn t accurate, agreed. but with respect to how this works, in politics i hate to say it, chris. but the role of money in politics is far too great. i think we see what happens on both sides not just a republican problem. democrats have this problem as well. and so i would like to see less of a role for money in politics. obviously it does raise serious questions on both sides. there s a concentration here, too. partly because the big this chart is a favorite chart of mine, estate tax part of the tax cut. it hits a tiny percentage of people. these are big donors who literally got billions of dollars to their estate value on a small provision that doesn t impact a lot of people in the republican tax cut and there s a
sheldon adelson is the perfect example. write a billion dollar check. right now we have no limits on this sort of spending. it seems like we re paving the path toward endless corruption. yeah. it s problematic for a number of different reasons. first of all, obviously, you ve got massive individual donors on each side who are giving to these outside groups. by the way, campaigns technically should not be coordinating with these groups. so they don t have control over what these groups do. campaigns shouldn t be. wink, wink, nod, nod, yeah. there have been situations where you re like, that s an interesting coincidence. if you put that aside for a minute, obviously, the big issue here is the separation of the campaign itself and the message of the campaign from these massive outside groups that spend all of this money, these trends are, indeed, very, very troubling and they do end up shining a spotlight on massive