Whatever else you might think about
the situation at the border,
I think we can all agree that it is
a serious situation that requires
serious people with serious ideas,
discussing and I believe that
we finally have that with Ted Cruz.
Take a look.
>> So, it's past midnight.
I'm standing on the shore of
the Rio Grande the water
is right behind me.
I'm down the Texas border.
Long with eighteen senator,
we made the trip to see the crisis
that is playing out.
They've already gone to detention
facilities that are overrun.
Many of them with families, small
children, we saw multiple mothers
who were nursing infant babies who
just crossed over and we're being
housed in outdoor holding pens.
Where they were sleeping on
the floor and nursing their babies.
>> Ted Cruz's normal stick where he
pretends to have empathy and
a bit of Gravitas that seems out of
place in the Senate chamber,
when he's dragged some reluctant
cameraman down to a random bush.
Near the water,
it just seems even more ridiculous
dude get out of the underbrush.
What are you doing?
What do you both think about this?
>> Yeah.
So first of all, I think you're
being unfair to Ted Cruz's audition
tape for survivor cutting Cancun.
[CROSSTALK] >> Well,
he is not naked.
Thankfully he's always afraid.
He's so afraid.
>> Yeah.
I mean, it's so
many things here and there.
It also was that the one where they
are always whispering and
then people are yelling in
the background.
That horror movie that was.
>> The Blair Witch Project.
>> Yeah. Blair Witch Project.
>> Where are you?
>> I saw immigrant women I'm so
scared ,so i mean i like to twist
it to an or he's concerned about
detainee conditions.
Word is that what we're concerned
about now because Ted, it didn't
seem like you were concerned about
that for four years under Trump.
What's the big deal about cages,
I mean cages are fine, they're for
animals but
they're also for humans.
Now he's like,
I'm out here in the bush!
I'm scared and alone and
partially naked, but [INAUDIBLE]
what's happening to them.
I can't believe it.
Come on, man.
Other people are allowed to say
that, you're
not allowed to say that.
I mean, I thought mainly he was
there because he's like,
this is where the Rio Grande is,
but we can't see it by the way.
Rio Grande also behind this screen.
[LAUGH] >> He might have done
that in his backyard.
I don't know.
But if somebody whispers Ted,
Mexico is on the other side
of the river,
he's like making a break for it.
>> [LAUGH] He's
gotta get the canned goods somehow.
>> Well, given how much this fellow
Republicans and by the way that
are on this trip he's lucky that he
wasn't pushed in because i mean his
fellow republicans hate this guy
but a couple of things i think we
should be happy that there's
finally a Mexico expert.
Who is there along the border, and
because Ted Cruz with the time
that he spent in Cancun a couple of
weeks ago, [LAUGH] when he just
decided to abandon Texas in the
middle of a deadly winter storm.
Who better for the republicans to
put along the border and
be the face of their efforts there
than Texas Cancun Ted Cruz?
The other part about it is later in
the tape he goes on in points and
says, the cartel
We've heard the cartel right there.
[LAUGH] Yeah, he hears voices and
says, that's the cartel.
How does he know that?
Does he have the special
Ted Cruz Cancun eye goggles and
help them see that the cartel.
I mean it's insane and in all
seriousness, if the Republicans
did not tell Ted Cruz in advance,
maybe this is not such a good idea.
Maybe you should lay low and
all things Mexico for
at least a little while.
If no Republican spoke
up about this,
the Republican Party is in even
worse shape than any of us think.
This was pathetic.
>> Yeah. >> Can I,
to be fair, David,
the cartel might right It knows and
they're like, dude,
that's Ted Cruz.
Remember he was at
the resort the other week?
>> Yeah, they were
mocking the Border Patrol.
I think they were just mocking him
specifically and
it's not just Mexicans.
We do it here too.
I think that video by ted Cruz was
pretty perfect actually as a as a
bit of borders in a phobia hysteria
propaganda by the right in that it
notably did not include any.
The Mexicans there was no people,
now look part of this is Biden's
fault he doesn't want cameras in
the places where people are being
held they should totally change
that sort of policy was wrong under
Trump, it's wrong now, but if you
couldn't get cameras in there,
I don't know that Ted Cruz would
have wanted to do a video there.
Because he can't show all of those
people in horrid situations
without making some of the people
watching the video think hey,
shouldn't we treat them better?
That's the thing while Ted Cruz
wants to make this a big deal
because he thinks that might hurt
Biden, and he in some hypothetical
world under Biden he would want to
change the border policy.
It's not because he cares about
the human suffering,
that kids are being held that in
theory they might be separated from
their families.
This is xenophobia about people
absent any humanity whatsoever.
We don't acknowledge their humanity
Ted Cruz expresses no humanity.
It's like a perfect sort of
vague of Republican politics is so
disconnected from the actual
intersection of government policy
on people's lives and
how that might be shifted.
Did to create a more more equitable
world with less human
suffering in it.
>> But it's also buffoonish.
Right. I mean, it's like
somebody said to Ted Cruz, hey,
because you're doing a documentary
style film.
Make sure to point back there at
the darkness because he was really
like that.
I mean, it was silly.
This was like a terrible
Saturday Night Live sketch or
somebody posted on social media.
This is absolute worst series
imaginable on Netflix bear grills
he is not, by the way that vest i
think the only thing missing,
am surprised that he wasn't wearing
a bulletproof vest if he wanted to
make the point about xenophobia and
how dangerous
it is along the border.
But i mean it was just laughable
and again, the guy has no self
awareness and i think that's why
Democrats need to be afraid of
somebody like Ted Cruz who was
as much of a buffoon and lack of
self awareness as Donald Trump.
I think they need to be worried
about other Republicans who
are a little bit more serious.
>> Yeah. So to build on the points
you guys are making.
First of all, I love when and
local newscasters are like.
Earlier today, there was something
interesting happening behind me but
it's not there anymore.
I don't know why I'm in this shot,
maybe he was saying excuse from
there.
And and look to John's point, If he
showed detainees suffering under
Biden, it might increase Biden's
popularity and the right wing.
So, that's another reason why you
wouldn't want to show it,
in fact he moved past that mom come
in real quick and
then scary Latinos the Mexicans
immigrants, I'm scaring people that
you hate that you get it right.
So, that's why it gets confused
with his talking points, because
he's like, wait, do I say Biden's
a terrible guy, but if I do,
Republicans might like him more.
But the number one problem is how
fake he is.
>> Yeah.
>> John said it earlier.
I mean, how do you watch that
smarmy guy and
not know he's faking it.
I mean,
It's but i look to be fair that on
the democratic side too, democrats
love fake politicians give them
a good Kamala Harris laugh and and
if you point out that laugh doesn't
sound that organic.
But loving Bollington Shed
the voltages are so real if you say
so brother and then last thing is,
I can never stomach the irony of
Cuban Americans Republicans
like Ted Cruz telling us
we shouldn't let immigrants in.
Cubans have complete amnesty,
they get to America any illegal
way they like and instantly they
get literal amnesty and
they're allowed to stay here.
I don't mind that.
But if you say that's the rule for
Cubans, but the rest of
the Latinos, we're going to kick in
the face when they get here.
And the rest of the planet we're
going to throw dirt on and
then we're going to send a Cuban
guy whose family generally speaking
and they came through Canada, but
same concept.
Left Cuba got here somehow and and
then says yeah, it was but
i want different rules for you i
want you to suffer and not have any
of the advantages that i had so
it's kind of rubbing in everybody's
face like were the bad guys.
But again for republican voters
that's what they're here for
they like bad guys so they're
going to vote for that he'll.
>> Only because it's a Friday show
i felt a bit of nostalgia watching
this because almost nobody watching
this is going to remember
the period of TYT
that I'm going to refer to but
Jank probably will maybe Brett.
There was a period of brief period
where we used to send Dave Kohler
via green screen to do location
reporting Jank.
Do you remember that?
Yeah. >> He did live
hurricane reports he reported from
the surface of Mars.
I would have loved to send him to
some random bush grant to do this.
Maybe someday when we can all be in
a studio again,
we can make that happen.