former communications director for ted cruz, also with us is former rnc and white house spokesman alex conan. alice, texas, cruz and trump back together again. could you have envisioned this a few months ago, even? >> a few months ago, yes. last year at this time, no. the reality is, presidential politics is tough. it's rough and tumble, and when it gets down to it, people do anything they need to to win, and this is exactly what happened here. at the end of the day, ted realizes that while you can be archenemies on the campaign trail, when you're in the same party and you're working to get an agenda passed, you work together. what ted stood for on the campaign trail, for limited government, strong national security, immigration reform, scalia-like justices, those are the same policies cruz advocated for and president trump is implementing. and it makes sense for them to work together. >> alex, it wasn't long ago that we talked about midterm -- republican midterm candidates running away from the president or not mentioning his name.