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Cared about those here illegally. >> i got that. they didnt claim it was citizenship. look, this was a fight to defeat. not about citizenship. take it off the table. >> it is calling their bluff because what it did is revealed hypocrisy. i used the language of the democrats who were pushing it. they claimed. >> got it. >> it reveal ts what it was about was partisan politics. the politically correct terms, its undocumented democrats. >> heres what yes or no on this. you supported this amendment. ...

They would still be eligible for legal status. >> so that was ted cruz in 2013 pushing legalization for undocumented immigrants. but in 2015 in the throes of a hot presidential race senator cruz is saying something very different. >> does ted cruz rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country illegally now? >> senator cruz? >> i have never supported legalization -- >> do you rule it out? >> i have never supported legalization and i do not intend to support legalization. >> cruz and hi...

Grant legal status, but he claims that it was designed to be a poison pill to kill the legislation. >> by calling their bluff, we won. we defeated amnesty. we beat it. >> reporter: but that quite different than the senators own stated intention in an interview in 2013. >> -- it was to amend the gang of eight bill so it actually solves the problem rather than making the problem worse. >> reporter: the cruz-rubio duel allowing the front-runner, donald trump, to coast along largely unchallenged, ap...

Citizenship or we wont support it. so if cruzs amendment got in and there was no path to citizenship -- >> let me interrupt you, one quick second. there is a rebuttal of an answer coming from cruz in las vegas. >> -- and so that amendment, i introduced an amendment that made anyone here illegally permanently ineligible for citizenship. that amendment called their bluff. because it revealed that the proponents of the gang of eight were being hypocrites. they were not telling the truth that what t...

>> listening to ted cruz talk in las vegas and drawing a distinction about what happened in 2013. also calling back to president reagan using his words, a time of choosing. i think people remember from the mid 80s that reagan did give amnesty i think to over three million illegal immigrants that were in this country. steve, let me bring you back in. you were talking about the poison pill aspect of all this from 2013. we hear cruz saying it was to call their bluff. >> yeah. hes making the poison ...

And the lies behind the proponents of the rubio-schumer amnesty plan. there is a reason why every other strong opponent of amnesty supported me in that amendment. jeff sessions and i were side by side. its one of the more ludicrous aspects where the rubio campaign is trying to claim well, cruz and sessions oppose citizenship in the gang of eight bill, so therefore, they must have supported every other aspect of the gang of eight bill. that is utter nonsense. and by exposing the hypocrisy, by cal...

Be predominantly democratic. so ted cruz is basically making reference to that. they are saying look, they wanted a path to citizenship, people like marco rubio were ready to go along with that. that would have eventually added millions of more democrats to the rolls. i stood up and called their bluff by offering an amendment that would have said no, theres no path to citizenship here for those who are here illegally. there is a path to eventually having legal status if they fulfill certain obli...

Theorocratic ideology. im joined by kirsten gillibrand. well, where do we start. what is your defense of both the president and hillary clinton on this subject? >> well, i think my take from the debate last night is they are all pretty angry and all surfing off fear to get votes instead of laying out a credible strategy with a complicated subject matter. and i think, frankly, the bluff and bluster is so hollow compared to what senator clinton has laid out. secretary clinton has laid out in terms...

Fund raisers and campaign stops. >> so, so what is you have thats so worth living for? >> what you got here thats worth living for? >> oh, la -- >> oh, la --. >> what he said was -- >> as we all know to blaze means to bluff. >> liar! >> liar! >> liar! >> get back witch. >> his confidence is shattered. >> i told you not to say that name. i cant hear you! >> one of the fichls biggest stars is not impress, mandy patton kin who played the master swordsman in the film he told "the new york times" the...

You feel youre upset, its not your fault, im going to give you somebody else to blame. theres always been -- theres not -- weve had sort of candidates who have demagoged on issues like this above, played to fear. >> globally. >> here in the united states as with el, there well, there is a level of support. but it is usually not majority support. this republican party no "this is a disaster in the making." >> what do you think? >> i dont know. nothing else has worked before. >> do they call his b...