i supported the other aspects of the bill, which was a terrible bill and brett, you've been around washington long enough, you know how to defeat bad legislation, which is what that amendment did, is it revealed the hypocrisy of chuck schumer and the senate democrats and the republicans who voted against it i'll give you the simplest proof why this notion that my fighting amnesty, made me a supporter of am nesty. jeff sessions voted with me on my amendment to eliminate citizenship. is anyone remotingly suggesting that jeff sessions supports amnesty? >> of course not. we were fighting side by side to defeat marco rubio's bill for amnesty. >> the problem is at the time you were telling people like byron york with the "washington examiner" that this was not a

brett you've been around washington long enough. you know how to defeat bad legislation which is what that amendment did. >> the problem though is that at the time you were telling people like byron york, with the "washington examiner" that this with a not a poison pill. you told him my objective was not to kill immigration reform. you said you wanted it to pass at the time. my question to you is, looking back at what you said then and what you're saying now, which one should people believe? >> what the amendments i introduced, i introduced five amend mtsz, a whole series, what they did is illustrated the hypocrisy of the democrats, they showed that it was a partisan effort and they succeeded in defeating the rubio/schumer

>> i think what this shows and this comes from a leftist political cartoonist at the leftist "the washington post," this exposes at least for me the inherent racism of some on the left. you have got vicious hypocrisy coming out of the left. you also have their incull incull -- indulgence in identity politics which is what this is. you can imagine if a conservative or political cartoonist put the shoe on the other foot and portrayed a liberal's children in this way? holly -- holy hell would have broken loose. if they do it to conservatives that's fine. they took a latino man's children eric, turned them into monkeys and try defend that and say that's okay. they do that and try to brand donald trump as a racist and then they are all scratching heir heads wondering why so many of the american people are supporting those two. >> the editor of the "the washington post" said well, it's against their policy to bring children into their editorials, however, he

. >> but just a few days later, a washington post political cartoonist accused cruz of using his 5 and 7-year-old daughters as political props. and went so far as to portray the presidential candidate in a santa outfit with an organ grinder and little caroline and kathryn cruz as mondaykikeymonk. but the cartoonist is not apologizing. taking to twitter, arguing the little girls are fair game, because cruz put his children in the ad, something many politicians on both sides of the aisle do. the paper's editorial page editor had a different take, saying, quote, it's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of t i failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. i understand why ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but i do not agree. meanwhile, senator cruz hit back

town hall.com sky benson and from "the washington times"

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