new york magazine marked him for begging tucker carlson's forgiveness. -- reached a new level of pathetic. the washington post characterize exchanges, ted cruz kisses tom carlson's feet. exposing the far-right's ugly underbelly. >> don, what's tucker is upset about is undermining the false narrative that the people who attacked the capitol were heroes and patriots. the pretending to -- we talk a lot about what it will take to break through that echo chamber, what is that exchange tell you about just how hard this going to be? well >> you know, i don't really know how much it tells me about how hard is going to. be my major concern from that, these folks say one thing in the media, then they do another thing on the senate. floor we've come to expect that. many politicians -- largely talking to their gather teams, so to speak.