rights. every time you do that you get a warrant from a judge. i m talking about searches without warrants. indiscriminately of all americans records. that s what i fought to end. i don t trust president obama with our records. i know you gave him a big hug. if you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead. that was chris christie and senator rand paul in a heated moment in the debate. i had a chance to speak to governor christie about this very issue. how are you? doing great. thank you. feel good about the debate? do i. it is nice to get out there and talk about the issues. i think it is really instructive for the public. i was really happy to be here. you had two present fiery exchanges with rand paul. let s talk about the one about the nsa. i felt like maybe you were coming from the same place but had different perspectives. i talk to jim, the author of the
the mysogyny to start. with after your question initially to donald trump and the objection mysogyny that he engaged in in his response not a single one of the other republican candidates criticized him, commented, talk about the importance of making sure that women have access to health care or equal pay for equal work. after the 2012 election the chairman of the rnc said we need to appeal to a broader base of constituency groups. and tonight on that stage, not a single one of them did that. in fact they alienated hispanics, women, it is unbelievable. that the republicans refused to focus on the thing that s the most important to americans. treefg middle class and focusing on creating jobs. they talked about that a bit. not in terms of how people would reach the middle class. was there anybody up there
76? establishment versus reagan the more conservative? i think it is exactly that dynamic. but also 1980. 76 set the stage for 80. the reagan revolution came from the people. from millions of grassroots americans. not washington. one of the great illustrations, we re saying the same thing. our campaign in just over four months has had over 225,000 contributions at ted cruz.org. ted cruz.org. the average contribution is $68. that s the power of the grassroots. it is why in 1980 we saw the reagan revolution. you mentioned a number of time that you feel politicians are unwilling to speak the truth. a lot has been made over the speech that you made on the senate floor. about mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell in a room. you said there is no deal no deal and you said he lied to you. did he lie to you? he told a lie. and i stood on the senate floor.
when you interpreted it correct. i interpreted as they re not doing anything to stop it and it is a stop-gap for them if they allow people to leave at will. and they save a lot of money them don t have to take care of the people. we re not getting their best and their finest. they re pushing people out. and i m talking about serious, people that would be in their prisons them say let the americans. the americans have stupid leaders. let them put them in their prisons. and the problem is you have the absolute bad guy who killed kate and killed jamil and all these people. you have all these people coming in and they re killing and causing crime and the drugs are pouring in. i took tremendous heat that first day. a lot of your friends like rush limbaugh and a lot of people said boy, they used the word incoming. trump is taking tremendous incoming. it was an honor now. some of the people that you would least expect are calling me up and apologizing.
wing of the republican party, wanted to see happen. so there s an expectation it will pass, but in the time we have until the vote, there s an opportunity on both sides for people to really shine a light on the issues that make them uncomfortable, not wanting to give any ground on the points they feel where this deal falls short. continuing with the attitude of shining the light, the light is glaring now on speaker boehner, at least this opposition from conservative groups. i want to read a part of what freedom works said in its statement in response to boehner s remarks today. it said, speaker boehner may not care about the fiscally conservative groups, but grassroots americans still care about what he s doing in washington. when it comes to credibility, actions speak louder than words, and right now it looks like the speaker is leading the charge for spending increases and recruiting democrat votes in the house to help get it done. and this is a story line again, we rie looking b