colleagues aren't amused and say cruz has gone too far. cnn's chief congressional correspondent dan that bash spoke with cruz. she's on capitol hill as she always is, standing firm still today, right, dana? >> that's right. you said there's no deal. there's a good reason for that. there's no deal making going on. ted cruz is leading the charge. he's a 42-year-old who won in a gop upset last year by tea party supporters who want him to be a senator not who legislates by negotiating but standing firm on principle and that's exactly what he's doing. the way ted cruz sees it -- >> obamacare is a disaster. >> reporter: he's simply keeping a campaign promise, do whatever it takes to destroy obamacare. >> that should be priority, not simply continuing business as usual in washington. >> reporter: cruz's scorched earth strategy, tieing defunding obamacare to a must-pass spending bill is inflaming many fellow republicans who think if