people, and i believe we can stand up and restore our promise. it s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make america great again. and i m ready to stand with you to lead the fight. last night the associated press shot these photos of ted cruz and his family. wife heidi and daughters catherine and caroline trying out the liberty university stage where he s going to speak today, becoming the first major candidate to announce a run for 2016. cruz decided to jump the rest of the field. he has some work to do. latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows as many republicans couldn t see themselves supporting him as those that could. we ll end it there and open it up to the panel. how does he change the race? go ahead. i would like to ask sam stein that. go ahead. sam, who does he hurt more potentially, scott walker or jeb bush? you know i don t think
steak out his claim, it s clear where it is he does not believe in climate change and other intelligent things like that pd but he will play to a certain base and make noise in iowa. don t hold back please. i agree. t. real race will start with that and maybe also play in south carolina and nevada. let s be clear about that. donny the question is what lingering impact does he have in iowa? what does he do for instance to a jeb bush to make him sdis disavow some of the immigration positions and what candidate in this race decides they have a good stake to say i m the antited cruz? there is a platform or a republican to run as the anti-ted cruz in this primary because it s such a crowded primary. so, sam. yes. that leads to the dilemma, the quandary the question he is incredibly eloquent. yes. he is an incredibly powerful speaker. he s going to be a very powerful candidate in these republican primaries. because of his eloquence and stance on some issues that are far
that s the i don t know if that s the right way to view it. i think his affect on the race won t be on one specific candidate but on the conversation as whole. yes. he will set benchmarks for the party that it won t want to hit and he will move the conversation to a con we tive place that it probably doesn t want to go. we were talking earlier about whether he was this cycle s herman kaine or sarah palin or whatever. i don t think he s comparable to any of these people. i think he s incredibly eloquent. i think he s incredibly smart. i think he will have a lot of legs in iowa where he can relate to a lot of the socially conservative caucus goers there. i don t think he s a viable candidate in the end but i think his impact is felt throughout the entire conversation of the republican primary is going to have. sam to your point. i think that is exactly we ve got to distinguish somebody who creates conversation, who makes noise in iowa versus a true presidential candidate. we ve
many morning s big political stories. senior editor of texas monthly weighs in on ted cruz and a top editor of the boston globe explains that paper s push to draft elizabeth warren in the race. later, the runner-up, former american idol star clay aiken stops by with a new fascinating documentary on his failed bid for congress. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast and it is horrible. have you ever considered how hard it is to be me? yeah i have. i have. you have right? many times. i know when i m going to make you up set before you re even upset. well, usually you insult me and you have some sort of weird like obsession with me that i can t explain, but this is just bad weather. we ll keep trying to figure that one out. let s take a look and show you what everybody is going to be upset about, not just mika. areas on the wet are way too hot and areas in the east way too cold. this is the forecast as we go through friday saturday into sunday of next week.
american collaboration with israel and intelligence on military matters was going to continue no matter what. to richard s point, disagreements over whatever rhetoric was said to the lead-up to the campaign wouldn t stop that from going forward. i would say that it s very clear to the administration at least this isn t just tabloid stuff, when the prime minister of israel came to congress to specifically lobby against an iranian nuclear deal the president it appears took that very personally. it wasn t something that he took lightly. we talked about it a bit in the interview. also, i would say one thing i was struck by when we talked that what angered him almost more than the prime minister s comments about a two-state solution are the lack thereof in his time as leader of israel was the prime minister s comments about arab voters. i think the president took it very someone who obviously we obviously have our own issues with race in this country and