Smerconish: Cruz’s response shows the stranglehold Trump has on the GOP

After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told NBC's "Meet the Press" he does believe Ukraine was involved in 2016 election meddling, CNN's Michael Smerconish discusses the debunked Republican talking point. #CNN #News

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    1. @Qudrat Ullah OK, Qudrat. You must first learn these words; bigly, covfefe, bovious. When you learn what they mean, please enlighten the rest of us who speak English. Cheers from Australia.

  1. Trump: “Cruz, your dad killed JFK and your wife’s a ho”
    Cruz: “Sure boss, how high do I jump?”

    1. Liberals always saying the right are a bunch of conspiracy nuts LOL!

      Liberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

    1. defcon six Fox News is accurate? Their screaming heads are so full of BS that even flushing it 100 to 150 times will not remove S**T

    2. @Your Friendly Neighborhood Lawbringer no I’m just concerned that you may be off your meds good help please

    3. Totally! No big mystery. There is still an estimated 35million unaccounted for allotted for Ukrainian aid!

  2. Almost like something biblical is happening right before our eyes. It does say the antichrist will be praised into power.

    1. Happy days for fundamentalist Christian evangelicals then. One step closer to the soon coming (2000yr old prophecy) apocalypse of the end times.

    2. @Xaomi Oppo Jesus Christ shares alot of characteristics with the left when it comes to political views and treating fellow human beings with decency and equality. If he was around today rightwingers would call him a libtard and he’d be shot by some ultra religious trumptard gun-nut

    1. You can call me whatever you want as long as you dont call me a trumptard… ugh that must suck to be classified as a trumptard…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    2. @M Bulu Not perfect, by any means, but… substantially more honest and honorable. We used to be Republicans until we couldn’t tolerate any more of their terrible behavior and cowardice.

    1. William H …do you see that ‘Q’ in LBGTQ? That stands for ‘QAnon’. Trump, JFK Jr., and Q are hatching a plan to change the name of the United State of America to the Multicultural Association of Gay Americans, also known as ‘MAGA’.
      By the way, you know what they say about homophobes, right?

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8772014/

  3. Ted needs too Hide his Face in Embarrassment, To Defend a man who lnsulted Him and His Wife, Publicity and totally Disrespected them ! 🤢

    1. Trump deserves everything he gets and that white he married the same, you know they say about mail order brides they will turn tricks for anything lololololllol

    2. @RedroomStudios Because they’re SHOUTING at you. What I can’t figure out, though, is, why do some ppl use a mix of lower and upper-case in their words AND ( not shouting, just emphasising) sentences. Anyone?

    1. No chance. Support for Trump is stronger than ever, and will only get stronger if the Democrats are dumb enough to go through with impeachment.

    1. @Rod Allen It’s interesting that people watched CNN until Trump came along and made irrational thinking people who believed in a possibility of something happened (i.e. Conspiracy Theories) rather than what you see and hear, and treating the possibility as fact, as a normal thought pattern, it isn’t normal to be irrational thinking!How journalism works is, you have a source and they provide corroborating information by way of documents or several other resources who also have documents to support. Like let’s say when you need proof you have a job and your job provides evidence. Then they release the story and ask devils advocate type of questions to challenge the part of the story that seems problematic. For instance, once we found out that the Trump foundation didn’t provide proof of a check to veterans he promised to give money to, the media began asking him questions. The response wasn’t a denial, rather a distraction to something else and later a lawsuit where it was shown that they didn’t pay and he was forced to pay it. Facts! Or when we found another campaign violation where he paid Stormy Daniels and the other woman who had an interview with Anderson Cooper, where there were pictures with Trump with them as he slept with other women while Melania was pregnant with Baron, he claimed it was fake news, then told everyone to talk to Michael Cohen before the audio and the check signed by Trump was released. Is that all the fake news you are claiming about CNN? Because those stories were also on Fox and Friends and other Fox News “News” not “Opinion” segments. Get the eff out of here with your Tom Foolery!

    2. @Rod Allen The article details prior Ukraine administration those who were fighting against Russia and trying to find an ally with Hillary Clinton’s camp knowing she was tough on Russia while Trump had known suspected criminals working with Russia which is against our foreign policy. What y’all don’t understand in all this gaslighting Trump and his supporters are doing is that Russia is interfering with Americans wether they know it or not to advance Russia’s agenda while hurting our allies. But that’s not the topic right now, the topic is that Trump is continuing his playbook of asking foreign leaders to create propaganda against his opponents. The difference between the Clinton campaign and Trumps are facts. All of the information that came out about Trump were unethical and if we are really using our laws, criminal! What Trump found was internal communication from the DNC through Russian interference and Wikileaks, which by the way Clinton was opposed to, too, which explains that collusion (i.e Roger Stone arrest and a bunch of others) then used the communication to show the chaos of party politics. What Trump has done is taken years of skepticism in our institutions and used them against us. If he really cared about corruption he would have made sure Jeffrey Epstein was treated like a terrorist and left alive to find all the sickos in the government who are creating laws and ignoring laws that contribute to sex trafficking. There are so many things this president should have been doing.

    3. @Rod Allen was just stopping by..im a PBS newshour guy, but i still do my own research and base my opinions on that. Doesnt matter the source, people with real values, morals and integrity have absolutely no respect for the birther, liar, adulterer and draft dodger in chief. Hes a con man only concerned with ratings and a fake image he presents to his believers. Nothing more. Modern day Jim Jones.

    4. @Blanca Palo thats very true. But this trump guy and his administration takes it to a whole different level though. Are we at over 14k verified by now in 3 years. That many lies means everything u say is fake or scripted.

  4. Can’t wait until TrumPutin’s blackmail scheme of ‘top’ republicans is exposed. Thinking of you Nunes, McConnell, Jordan, Cruz, McCarthy, and the rest.

    1. Don’t forget about MOSCOW MITCH!!! Who wouldn’t bring to the Senate floor a bill to prevent outside influence on elections, to a vote! Remember, also Moscow Mitch’s wife works for Trump and she get’s all those contracts signed off by Trump to send Moscow Mitch’s way in their home town Kentucky!

  5. Cruz is a weak and willing to sell his soul to the devil. I do no think that I will listen to today’s hearing as I can not stand to listen to McCarthy, Nunes or jacketless Jordon yelling.

    1. cnn the fakest commie news you can get ! its the soy boys place to be ! commie/liberal goals for usa :Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
      18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

      19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

      20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

      21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

      Read more at https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html#XJMQ1ej4CLdlbo9J.99 it has worked on the dim witted brilliantly! snow flakes .

  6. Cruz, you’re the worst of a a bad bunch, does your family’s honour count for nothing. If you lie with the dogs you rise with the fleas!

    1. Trump is our great defender of Liberty against the attacks from the progressive left. These idiots are even asking for healthcare for illegals!! Crazy i know. Not a lot of things dumber than a democrat

    2. @evdawgbeat illegals are your problem?? Mean while you are a defender of Russia and their scum bag sympathizer trump. Better to throw you out and let an immigrant stay.

  7. The man that virtually all Republican office holders once claimed was unfit for office now has them all showing that they too are unfit for office!

    1. mistery-ed – Yes, you’ve hit on the the thing that has been lost in all of this. Mulvaney, Cruz, Miss Lindsey, all of them said it would be a total mistake to nominate Trump. Now, all of them are helping the wanna be mob boss destroy the GOP and the country. They’ve apparently all decided that there won’t be life after Trump. Cause if there is…they’ve all got lots of explaining to do. They’ve pushed ALL their chips all in on Trump.

    1. Eric Rossoni Making that statement is supposed to give you instant credibility(I’m a Christian) but it’s quite the contrary

    2. @Tired of the lies Paula white, same person who says cancer therapy is actually just doctor’s giving patients poison (and it’s better to have faith that praying to God can cure your cancer, give your money to the church). That lady is an S class Demon.

    3. A person who HAS to make his or her religious beliefs known to others, is a person who always leaves a little doubt to me.

  8. This just shows how crazy Republican voters are. Considering they almost elected a pedophile to the Senate in Alabama it’s not surprising

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