somebody who has the understanding of the constitution. so that helps in his argument. maggie, do you see, when trump went after ted cruz in the past, rush limbaugh, mark leaven, powerful radio hosts basically said back off, do you see that happening here or because we re, you know, we re less than a month away until iowa, do you see this escalating? i think we ll know more in the coming days. it is an interesting fact in the last couple of weeks, especially, months especially, the super pacts backing ted cruz made advertising investments on a lot of lot of radio shows. they know these are cruz backers and given cruz antibodies when issues have come up but there are a lot of people that also like trump within this audience. i m not so sure you ll see trump criticized the same way. some of it will matter on the
venetian hotel in las vegas. let s bring in our political panel, republican strategist and jeb bush supporter, ana navarro, katrina pierson, spokesman for the trump campaign, amanda carpenter for senator ted cruz and cnn political commentator s.e. cupp. katrina, you heard sarah palin, a huge fan of donald trump. but she agrees with rush limbaugh and mark leaven that the criticism that trump levied against ted cruz, he s a little bit of a maniac for the way he goes after the republican establishment, she doesn t care for that, thinks that wrong, as levine, limbaugh. is he going to continue that line of attack? we have to see. senator cruz criticized mr. trump behind closed doors which isn t courageous and mr. trump responded accordingly. he obviously felt like you know he had a decent relationship with mr. cruisz krit size him
so when they talk about the environment, i say you hate birds. you hate birds because your win moneys are kill windmills are killing birds. what kind of monster are you that you would hate birds. when you talk about gun control, that s a gun ceiling. and it is sexist because you re preventing law-abiding women from purchasing guns now know that was a very in my nerdy way i like what you said about government spending. it s your spending, which kind of frames the debate differently. but it doesn t happen that way and they re not good at articulating that. gets back to the humor thing. what makes you effective is that you use humor and use it effectively. there s a point in your book you say you like commentators like mark leaven, russell brand and his in your face, humorous
up and everybody gets a voice. how you make the case that you, who has been part of the republican leadership for years, and been the number two for a year and a half, how do you make the case you represent a change other than generational? we don t get elected as a ticket, it s individual. if you come back here and watched where i came from, right, i came in 06, paul ryan and i and eric cantor created young gun, i recruited candidates different to what washington looked like to elect people and get a majority. look at my background. i m not an attorney. i m not a poly side degree. i started my first business when i was 19. you re the first one to work, last one to leave, last one to be paid. you know what? i want somebody in washington looking out for me and that s the person i look out for. conservative radio host mark leaven said the following about you, quote, kevin mcarthur is
do count how many times he s talking about himself again? this is really a problem we have with this president. this isn t about him. you know, putin is watching this, the red chinese communist are watching this, enemies all over the world, allies, of course, what are they taking away? they are taking away this is not a leader. he s not a commander in chief. he s disarming the united states. he goes to west point and he tells these worriers, men trained to be worriers don t worry, i m not sending you overseas. i m not into reckless intervention. these democracy projects and so forth but i m into the strongest national security defense any nation can have and the next president of the united states is going to have a hell of a job not just rebuilding the economy but the united states military. it really stood out to me, mark, because there is a difference between ending a war and winning a war. i don t think this president has