yeah a much more subdued president trump then we ve seen. stuck for the most part, 95% to the teleprompter and words written for him, with him by his speech writers. it was a speech in which he clearly was trying to reset in a lot of ways, both tonally, started with a strong condemnation of hate crimes against an indian man in kansas last week as well as threats we ve seen at jewish community centers and day schools. called those acts hate and evil. said she were policies on which we disagree but we all unite against that hate and evil. and he talked about the time for small thinking is over, the time for trivial fights is behind us. that was the wrapping in which he presented the policy. now, when it comes to this call for unity, there are going to be
tried and true conservative as far as the base is concerned as a nom fi for a long time. it will determine where the party wants to go. donald trump well known to a lot of people out there after all of the years on television. ted cruz not so much. but if you speak to people who know him well, alan dershowitz, retired harvard law school professor says in 50 years teaching brilliant law students at harvard, ted cruz was one of most brilliant. very smart. he s very nice. he s a very nice person. he s cultivated a reputation on the hill for being stubborn, and i think if he does win the number nation veep choices will be limited. however, you know, there s a stark difference, tonally, between ted cruz and donald trump. but he seems to be taking on a lot of trump s policies which doesn t make it a good choice for republicans. stand by. more coming up on the race for the white house. also political fallout over the
permanently. it passed the house 316-113. and easily passed in the senate, 65-33. president obama has already signed into law this afternoon. the panel is back to discuss some of the political angles on me here. sarah, i want to start with you, rush limbaugh, mark levin, laura ingraham, a lot of conservatives just railed against paul ryan on this. railed against this omnibus, but he got over 150 republicans to support him on this. why? had john boehner done this same deal, they d have been burning the place down. that s true. there s a couple things working in the speaker s favor. one, i think tonally, generationally, his past is carrying him a long way in this honeymoon period he s experiencing. the second thing is, the facts matter. and there was a spending cap set
ted cruz. trump will have his hands full with this. cruz is now going to watch in the debates, if trump repeats this attack, you can t make deals and get it done, he s going to embrace that. i consider it a badge of honor the corrupt senate leadership on both parties doesn t like me. he will jujitsu donald very effectively. and tonally you can tell ted cruz is trying to make light of this. the back and forth. he doesn t want reporter: i hope you re not calling flash dance a joke. i don t have rights but it s playing in my head right now. he s going to have to get tough. donald trump just name checked ted cruz out of nowhere as an evangelical from cuba where apparently evangelicals don t exist. meanwhile, there s over a million evangelicals in cuba. it s tripled since the 1980s. it doesn t matter. facts don t matter. he s trying now to take on ted cruz in iowa where he is doing
them are outside. there are some protesters on this campus today. and tone does matter. chuck todd was talking about that. this was not a strident rallying cry from hillary clinton. very different tonally from the speech she gave an hour earlier at urban league. this was, i acknowledge your pain, i hear your stories. my eyes teared up when she was introduced by dr. frank mora whose mother had suffered and the loss of life and she said you know i acknowledge how difficult this is and how emotional this is. this is an emotional debate not an intellectual debate. it was interesting. intensely emotional debate and emotional issue and her speech was not very emotional. and i think on purpose. she was trying to make sort of a reasoned very state department like argument for why lifting the embargo makes sense. she also ticked off a whole lot of things that many others in the audience were going to want to hear. i will not forget the legacy of human rights.