he's not sure about ted cruz since he was born in canada. are we to assume he'll dispatch an expensive team of investigators in order to find mr. cruz's birth certificate? >> i don't think he'll do that. he just runs his mouth. most of the time he doesn't make a lot of sense. he makes a fool of himself and a joke of himself. what was really going on in iowa this weekend and nia is right. the fact is that republicans who win iowa generally don't go onto the nomination not since george w. bush. democrats generally do. but the reason this is starting so early is because you have a competition between people like cruz and rand paul to be the nonchristie in this race. i'm for ted cruz for the republican nomination or failing that paul. republican friend of mine said to me this weekend if either of them wins the nomination, they'll get spanked in the general. he won't vote for them. but that's what's happening here. chris christie would have a hard time winning iowa. he's conservative but believes in governing. his opening comes in new hampshire w

>> he was in canada maybe not. >> he was definitely born in canada. >> you have to ask him that question. >> antics meaninging blood sucking insects. >> ♪ >> and we open with a look at the hottest ticket in consecutive circles this month, the defund obama care summer tour. in a few hours, ted cruz whose canadian citizenship well get to in a minute will take the stage in dallas to explain why now is the time for a government shutdown if democrats won't help repeal president obama's signature health care law. >> obama care is at its most vulnerable it's ever been right now. there's bipartisan agreement it's not working. the wheels are coming off. the unions are jumping ship. >> defunding obama care is just as much his signature issue as the actual law is president obama. he's is so attendees probably shouldn't expect the main act to stray too far from the hits that always produce the biggest applause. >> they say this is a fool's errand. you're tilting at windmills. if we can hold 41 republicans in the u.s. senate, or 218 republicans in the u.s. house, we can defund obama care. heritage

. >> how about our allied to the north, how much help on syria can we expect from canada? well here's the prime minister steven harper. >> we do support our allies who are contemplating forceful action to deal with this. that said, at the present time the government of canada has no plans, we have no plans on our own to have a canadian military mission. >>> and south dakota governor jumped out of a plane thursday. skydiving to benefit hospitals in the children's miracle network. good for him. that's your morning dish of skrafbled politics. >>> after a look at our weekend weather, i can't believe we're talk about labor day weekend weather. >> where did the summer go by. i'm not ready to welcome in september. in some areas it's going to feel like summer for several more days. we're looking at that heat to continue especially back across the central parts of the united states. 98 degrees today in kansas city. we do once again have heat advisories in effect in des moines, iowa today. we still have that excessive heat warning where it will feel we're up at 105. when you factor

outages had cascaded across ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, new york, vermont and parts of canada. parts of ontario blacked out. 50 million people without power, the largest outage in north american history. power was not fully restored for 48 hours. all because of what started with that one tree. it became a huge problem what happened with that one tree because of the shocking vulnerability of this electrical grid that we've got. which we started building in the 1800s with wires and wooden poles. ten years after that giant blackout of the whole northeast, question, of course, is, could it happen again? and the answer is maybe, but it is in fact probably less likely now. since then our country decided to try to fix it, at least we decided to spend a bunch of money trying to fix the problem. after the blackout, utility companies spent a lot to maintain what they've got per mile of line, transmission line, they've been spending nearly three times what they spent in the ten years before the blackout. the federal government also stepped up, five days before the '08 presidential electio

>> well, if he was born in canada, perhaps not. i'm not sure where he was born. >> he was definitely born in canada. >> okay. then you'll have to ask him that question, so perhaps not. >> ted cruz's mother was an american. >> that will be ironed out. i heard somebody tell me he was born in canada. that's really his thing. >> that's really his thing. i mean i'm sure it will be worked out. this is the guy that was passionate about president obama, but cruz, he'll work it out. i don't know if he's eligible or not, angela. >> well, rev, i think this should have been your nice try but we gotcha. i think you should have used this one. it's clearly a huge problem here. i think there's one factor that we know is kind of the elephant in the room here. president obama looks a whole lot different than senator cruz. and even with the republicans, you know, especially the tea party folks and the birthers going on and on about this, even though the president produced a birth certificate, we also saw this in 2008 with senator mccain. it wasn't ne

a day after releasing his birth certificate to show he was born to a mother in canada. he says the following. as a u.s. senator i believe i should only be an american and went on to say this. >> i suppose that the fact that "the new york times" is this hysterical after my only having been in office about eight months, you know, maybe that's a sign we might be doing something right. i was born in canada. my mother is a u.s. citizen. she lived most of her life in the u.s. and i'm a citizen by birth. those are the facts of my birth and i'll let other people worry about the legal consequences of it. >> let's bring in msnbc contributor goldie taylor and managing editor of the goldie taylor project and republican strategist hogan gidly. you heard the explanation there from the senator. is your thought here the controversy is over? sealed? done? >> i don't think the controversy should have ever started. the fact is that ted cruz was born in canada to an american citizen and by birth right is a natural born american citizen. did he by that birth have citizenship? he did in cana

. >>> park scientists in alberta canada are bringing new meaning to the phrase bearing it all. scientists are excited to see bears communicating through what appears to be exotic dance. they call this a communication tree, but isn't it like a scratching post? >> i call it the seven-year inch. >> it's time for first buzz, all the stories we're talking about this morning. you have a heart warming story? >> yeah, it's feel good friday. john stamos a heart throb for millions of women. >> uncle jesse. >> uncle jesse. he posted this picture with a quadruple am tee who's been in the hospital since february. she asked if he would be her date to go to disneyland which she can see out of her hospital room. he said he would go on her date to disneyland. >> if you want to have dinner with george clooney, this may be the way to do it. they have a swap app, if you didn't eat all your denver ainn you -- they can trade some food for what your leftovers. we're hoping you don't see bite marks in it. >> have you ever been in a restaurant and someone eats a quarter of their plate and it's a great

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>> he was in canada maybe not. >> he was definitely born in canada. >> you have to ask him that

dimaggio is believed to be driving a blue nissan versa with california plates and headed to canada or texas. locals are being asked to contact police if they see anything. describing the suspect as posing an extraordinary threat to life or property. >>> in a final chapter worthy of a hollywood gangster flick, 18-member jury is deliberating the fate of whitey bulger. prosecutors described him as one of the most vicious violent and calculating criminals to ever walk the streets of boston. defense lawyers question the testimony of gangster witnesses. bulger is charged with 19 murders, extortion and money laund laundering. >>> update on two boys believed to have been killed by a snake in canada. today, autopsies will be performed on the 5 and 7-year-olds. investigators say they were asleep in an apartment above an exotic pet store when the python escaped from its enclosure and slithered through the ventilation system. it it was captured and turned over to police. >>> the house are aerial castro held three women for more than a decade will be torn down tomorrow. yesterday, castro's childre

born in canada. >> okay, you'll have to ask him that question. >> he was definitely born in canada. does that mean sorry, ted cruz? will there be birthers on left? the same way there were birthers on the right? >> it may be the donald trump birther. seems not to let go of this issue. who knows where that will go. >> i want to get a sense from you, kim. ted cruz asked evangelical voters to send their cell phone numbers for him. this guy looks like he's making bigger plans. >> iowa doesn't want hillary clinton's shadow campaign. they want hillary clinton in their living room. they expect it because they have it each election cycle. so he is going for the personal touch. i mean, i think he is going to build a database. the person who has the best ground game there wins. >> does this open up a window for somebody else who might open it up in iowa? >> it might be anybody. except maybe in the football realm. >> fair enough. we focus on the iowa hawkeyes every fall, never to be under estimated. thank you so

he was born in canada, but to an american citizen. i have written a lot about it. it is a gray area in terms of his ability to run. my guess is he would be able to. he believes he would be able to. you know, look, i would say, if you want to go through everybody who has been through iowa, i refer to jonathan. he's just been there. scott walker, rand paul, all the political names, rick santorum. ted cruz has the best reception. it fits that iowa grass roots republican activist best. washington isn't working. barack obama is leading the country in the wrong direction. i'm a guy not willing to go along to get along. his message, i don't think there's a question really does resound there. >> another man whose message resounds there, when you consider the fact it was last year that rick santorum won the iowa caucuses, he made the headlines attacking the romney campaign, crediting president obama where he described it, at least making an effort to do the same. he's hardly a moderate. how does the party expand its base when see the more conservative candidates? >> taking

and also there are certain parts of canada i -- no. you don't want to -- thunder bay is nice, but you really don't want to be a citizen of canada living in thunder bay or remote stretches of nova scotia and newfoundland. >> so about texas and your little feud, you've got a feud going here with rick perry. which i think is a combination of your attitude toward texas and what rick perry doesn't know about new york. which would you most like to instruct him on? feel free to go in any direction you want. >> i would just like -- well, actually, i'd just like to instruct him on -- i think if he's got this time off from governor, maybe to kind of go back to just -- it's not even new york. just go back to college and start over and take really another four years and let's look at the world again, rick, and this time try to memorize some stuff and pay attention in class and things like that. i mean, the fact that -- he may run for president again. if that happens, i -- i mean, as a comedian i'm thrilled. but as a citizen i weep. >> now, speakin

i don't believe that his citizenship at birth in canada will be any fact for him. he is a native born american citizen. soil is not the issue. but his politics are so far to the right, his political machine is so strong, his fund-raising prowess so very, very strong. he's going to drag much of the field, including people like governor chris christie, further to the right and we'll wind up with a gop candidate who really does tow the party line and is the answer to the gop. >> we'll leave it there. thanks so much for your time this morning. >>> coming up, bill karins and richard lui will be here for first buzz, all the stories we're talking about this morning. it starts with something little, like taking a first step. and then another. and another. and if you do it. and your friends do it. and their friends do it... soon we'll be walking our way to awareness, support and an end to alzheimer's disease. and that? that would be big. grab your friends and family and start a team today. register at alz.org >>> time now for first buzz. i'm joined by richard lui and bill k

tar sabds extraction which scrapes off huge forests in canada. deep water drilling. this is a new paradigm in energy development. much more toxic and destructive. it creates human rights violations. this is what we're seeing and that's what the new film explores. >> also, these companies are then not held accountability for whatever damage may be done. >> it is very hard to keep them accountable. when you see the civil suits, you mentioned that family which knew well. we were tracking this sxem interviewing them and then they dropped off the radar. about half the people cannot speak anymore because they entered into a settlement. those settlements have gag orders. that to me is a high school rights violation. when you force people to move and you take away their ability to tell their story, you're taking away two of the most fundamental thing about who they are. that's the story. >> so let's talk about the family. they cut the words into their lawn so people could see it. can you really have a gag order against children? >> well, i've never heard of one before. this

. >> we have canada who makes so many of their citizens famous. >> that and a lot of my friends from my hockey life. we have a couple from china. who doesn't love their best customer? although i don't think in reality they love us the most. that >> my siblings have given me grief for years about how i take about i'm going to win the lottery some day and actually we got together not so long ago for my dad's 80th birthday and playing this game, i don't remember the gist but who in the crowd would match this description and the description was, their financial plan consists of playing the lottery. well, everybody picked my name. and they thought it was funny then. who's right now, that's what i want to say. >> who is laughingig

joining me is miriam elder, foreign and security and author of "sale for a seat in canada's barment. thank you both for being here very much. >> thank you. >> great to be with you, ezra. >> i want to begin with you. because this does feel up in a way that wasn't true a couple of months ago, the snowden snub did not have a lot of upside for russia as far as meeting seems similar both sides are content to get into it. >> russia's been trying for a long time to get into a fight with the united states. a bunch of stuff has happened over the past few months that some have forgotten, russia kicked out the u.s. agency for international development. russia cancelled the right for americans to adopt russian children. there was a huge spy scandal a couple months ago. russia has been poking for a while. the obama administration has finally realized this is a government that we can't really work with. there's certain things that the obama administration accomplished early on, including renegotiating the stark treaty on nuclear weapons. as the issues get more and more complicated including syria,

. >> when i was a kid, my mom had always told me, if i wanted to, because i was born in canada, i could act to affirmatively try to claim canadian citizenship. i've never done anything to claim canadian citizenship so i thought that was the end. as a u.s. senator, i think it's appropriate that i be only american. >> by the way, cruz can't simply renounce this canadian citizenship with a statement. he has to fill out a form and pay $100, according to the canadian government. tea party limits on display in kentucky where senator mcconnell has been hitting his primary opponent for once claiming he graduated from m.i.t. school officials have said the seminar he attended is not affiliated with the university. senator lamar alexander got a tea party challenge from state representative joe carr. >> i got with my family, i got with my god and i got with my friends and i said what do we need to do here? are we hear something in our message in the fourth district that has broader appeal in the state of tennessee? and without question, without reservation, and without equivocation, the answer was

. >>> oh, canada. texas senator ted cruz has released a copy of his birth certificate of the "dallas morning news" and it shows that he was born in canada, although his mom is a u.s. citizen. the 2016 presidential candidate has faced scrutiny in recent weeks over that canadian birth certificate. >>> "the washington post" said that bob mcdonald and his wife will spend the day behind closed doors with prosecutors. >>> former massachusetts senator scott brown may be ready to re-enter politics. he spent his sunday at the iowa state fair. the republican told the boston herald that he's not ruling out a run for president. and speaking of potential presidential candidates, hillary clinton will be speaking at her alma mater in october. she will address yale law on the 40th anniversary of her graduation. >>> and former president bill clinton turning 67 years old today. so happy birthday mr. president. that's going to wrap things up for me today, i'm going to see you back here tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. >>>

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can't run for president because he was born to an american mother in a foreign country in this case canada. why would he be running for president if by the definitions put out by somebody on his side politically, donald trump, is he still insisting on running for president? it's so inconsistent. does that matter to anybody. >> not to him. there are so many reasons why he shouldn't be president before that one that i can barely -- >> i think he's eligible. i think trump doesn't know his history. >> interested to hear what steve has to say about this. i think he is a first class demagogue, very talented at what he does. he has the capacity to whip up that strident tea party base in the republican party. and create quite a bit of havoc. >> you know, i compared him to mccarthy. i shouldn't get into what people look like. he reminds me so much when i look at him interrogating a witness on the hill, he acts that way with that somber indictive aspect. like this guy's the evil one. i will say he's a terrorist. what he's done is say my goals is demolition. blow up health care, blow up the continuin

authorities believe he may be headed to canada. >>> watch this high impact crash caught on tape. a bus in china hit from behind by a semi. surveillance video shows passengers volted back ands toed around as the bus rolled over. it was so severe the bus driver was ejected out the side window. all 22 bus passengers were treated for injuries. a person in the truck was killed. new yorkers will tell you they have seen it all. a shark on the subway may top everything. a writer found the dead shark on a queensbound n train. the conductor isolated the car, put the shark b in a garbage bag. the discovery channel said this is not a shark week stunt. there wasn't suddenly a "sharknado" either. one writer posed with a cigarette, red bull and mta card. now of course the shark has its own twitter feed. >>> everybody's buzzing about beyonce's new 'do. she reveal ed her cut with several instagram photos. she got her hair caught in a fan while perform ing in montreal. i don't know. does it have anything to do with the hair cut? >>> there is still time for summer fun. the website ten best.com has

we see that going on in canada. what you do you think of the senator's encouraging movement forward, to send that to secretary sebelius supporting it saying we need to take a look at this and re-evaluating it because medical science has proven that we can do better. >> absolutely. it's not only canada but the u.k. and i am encouraged by the fact that it's a bipartisan letter. in fact, republicans and democrats in the house and senate have sent letters to ask about the re-evaluation. i come from silicon valley and we adhere to science. let us use rational scientific based deferral periods to re-evaluate this referral policy. >> you certainly started a great conversation, and as i said in washington, senator baldwin is taking this up as well, but you are a perfect example of why we need to re-evaluate this, because as the mayor and someone who supports blood drives, you should be able to donate. mayor evan low, thanks so much for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> that's going to wrap up this hour. i have t

after consulting with canadian legal scholars the paper reported "born in canada to an american mother, ted cruz became an instant u.s. citizen but under under canadian law he also became a citizen of that country the moment he was born there." unless the texas senator formally renounces his citizenship, he will remain a citizen of both countries. legal experts say, well, that means he could assert the right to vote in canada or even run for parliament up there. while dual citizenship doesn't preclude the senator from becoming president in this country, he's asserting that he's not, he says, a canadian citizen. they say differently. >>> up next, stop and frisk. yes, it's controversial, but does it work? you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. the same thi. it's what you love about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph

an amber alert for the kids now extends to four states, canada, and mexico. >>> police say a south florida man murdered his wife and let the world know by posting a picture of her dead body on his facebook page. 31-year-old derek medina allegedly confessed to the crime when he turned himself in yesterday. in his facebook message, he reportedly says, quote, my wife was punching me, and i'm not going to stand anymore with the abuse. i hope you understand me. and more than 2,000 people have now been evacuated from their houses and all because of this raging wildfire in southern california. the fire has burned 16,000 acres and is threatening more than 500 homes and buildings. there are no casualties to report, but one man suffered severe burns and five firefighters have been injured. the fire is 25% contained. >>> still ahead, 2016, presidential politics heating up in the all-important state of iowa. one of the main events today aimed at getting hillary clinton elected to the white house, we bring you a live report. >>> plus, anthony weiner's bizarre campaign event in harlem. >> anything else

we begin with a return to canada. yes, back to toronto, ontario, where rob ford somehow still remains in office, months after crack-smoking allegations threatened to end his career. not only is ford still the mayor, he continues to provide ridiculous evidence of his athletic prowess. today, rob ford helped open an event with a friendly arm wrestling match. his on the, hulk hogan! apparently hogan wasn't just interested in beating ford, he also wanted his job. >> oh, oh, oh! oh, big man! oaks, that's all you got, huh! oh, brother, you know, something, not only am i going to rip this arm off, i'm going to take your job while i'm at it, brother. they're going to call me mayor hogan. >> i own this town, man! >> oh! >> yeah! >> rob ford managed to pull it out, although i'm sure if they tested for banned substances, this whole event would get shut down. >>> the second awesomest thing i saw today on the site, a website that takes a fascinating look at language, particularly words from other languages that are untranslatable

is still the only advanced economy with no legal right to vacation unlike canada and japan and eu which has 20 and nearly 1 in 4 americans have no paid time off whatsoever. >> wow. makes me want to take a vacation day! thank you, kayla. >>> a battle at the box office this weekend with four new films all vying for the top spot but it was matt damon's movie that took first with a little more than $30 in million. the surprise we are we are the millers. analysts expected new disney pixar film to come in second but dropped to third with.22.5 million. "sea of monsters" was fourth and "two guns" rounds out the top five. dog, bigfoot. could you get the light? [ loud crash ] what is going on?! honey, i was close! it's a yeti! [ male announcer ] must! have! wheat thins! honeythto fight chronic. itosteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce thi

he was born in canada so he had to answer questions about his citizenship. let me play this. >> my mother was a u.s. citizen by birth. she was worth in wilmington, delaware. under american law i was a u.s. citizen. >> it's likely that his eligibility is not an issue for him but that comment when he says, "i'm a citizen by birth" it got a lot of buzz going about his presidential act birmbition >> reporter: in fact. he said in new hampshire, a number of voters there are french canadian so maybe it will be a little bit easier for cruz in that early primary state and cruz, of course, is keeping a schedule that indicatthat indic is not worried about it. he was in iowa this week and in new hampshire again this week. in a lot of ways, you know, this citizenship issue really stokes all of that speculation. >> nbc's kasie hunt in dallas for us, thank you very much. >>> president obama will continue his economic push tomorrow stopping in buffalo and syracuse, new york, where he'll outline a new plan to make college more affordable. nearly 1 million jobs have been adde

britain and france chiefly may be canada, may be some others. >> one reason it will not be nato, we were talking off camera, germany. you've got elections coming up in germany and merkel has a lot of problems with us right now because of the snowden leaks, the fact that the latest leak in der speigel yesterday was that the u.s. nsa have been spying on the u.n. and we've reported previously about spying on u.n. headquarters and on the european union. but the specificity nondenied, not denied in the last 48 hours by any of the agencies here, is pretty striking and the reaction over there is pretty bad. >> yeah. for a whole host of reasons helping the united states bomb another country would be highly, highly unpopular in germany and germany is unlikely to go along with a full nato backing for this. that said, there are ways to get some kind of a not full nato backing but something close that allows -- would allow president obama to say that he's not going it alone. >> and to say that he is going in to protect turkey, to protect jordan, the refugees but primarily this is all about punitive

., canada, or mexico. they are concerned he could be armed with homemade explosives. that news surprised brett anderson, the father of hannah, the missing teen. he told us he and the kids spent lots of time at dimaggio's home 60 miles east of san diego. he knew dimaggio had gun you but learning he is explosives is beyond his comprehension. he never suspected dimaggio would be a suspect in this case after knowing him all these years. hannah's mother and her brother was found over the weekend. amber alerts in four states, california, oregon and washington and nevada. there was a cluster of possible car sight is on wednesday in northern california and in oregon but so far nothing has been confirmed by investigators. at this point, they are asking everyone to still keep an eye out for dimaggio's blue nissan versa and warning people not to approach the car because of the concern over those explosives. robert? thomas? >> such a bizarre story there. thank you. appreciate it. >>> here is a look at the stories topping the news now. >>> firefighters struggling to contain a wild

his mother was up in canada when he she delivered him. this right wing crazy crowd thinks foreign borne is like evil and referee to the president being foreign born sympathying that would somehow disqualify him but when you have an american mother, you are american. your thoughts? >> yes, is he foreign born and yes the comment was reprehensible to the member of congress. there are concerns with what the president did the employer mandate. it has been done before. i understand the substantive concerns of that. but taking the argument to that extreme is a distraction. it is upsetting and i don't think it does the party any good. >> let's get back to where we starred tonight. is this extremism what will charles krauthammer calls looniness on the part of people like cruz going all the way out there saying we're going to shut down the government. we haven't gotten to november yet. this is just september. we're going to default and the chinese will go crazy and ask for their money back. >> yep. >> could be zmirngs, of course. >> is there a tipp

nothing against canada but i am an american by birth and as a u.s. senator, i believe i should be only an american. >> we're going to work on that canadian accent. what's that a boot? ted cruz -- >> you're from the south. >> that's my jfk! can anybody do a canadian accent here? >> no. >> what's that -- >> boot the -- >> ted cruz will be headlining a town hall in dallas tonight, part of a nine-state tour by the heritage foundation to drum up support for the effort to defund obama care. so ted cruz, he's a player. >> just ask him. >> no. listen, he's going to iowa and people are going -- >> people like him. people are excited about him. >> why? >> i think he taps into -- >> because he's a cade nade yan. >> the sinking sarah palin base, people that were excited about sarah palin, have now transferred to ted cruz. >> and michele bachmann. >> so that is a vibrant part of the republican party, love them or hate them, they look every two to four years for someone that will champion their animosity towards the large federal bureaucracy. >> it's resentment. >

. >> you were born in canada. could you -- are you even eligible to be president of the united states? >> my mother was born in wilmington, delaware. she's a u.s. citizen so i'm a citizen by birth. >> okay. well, that shouldn't be a problem, then, because as we know republicans are nothing if not understanding on that particular issue. as long as your mother was born in the united states, you could be born anywhere on earth and be completely accepted as a viable presidential candidate. >> finally, they get it right. natural born means you don't have to be naturalized. you're born an american. all those birther charges were wrong about the constitution just as they were totally wrong about where obama was actually born. well, "the washington post" may be a washington institution but its influence extends well beyond the capital. since 1933 when donald graham's grandfather bought the post at auction for $825,000 is, it's been the standard bearer of exemplary political coverage, a testament to the management of the g

i accept the fact decent american born in canada, but this kind of talk i don't think is the way we talk in this country. your thoughts. >> we have some vile politics down here in texas from time to time. but this, this kind of language has transcended even the things that you see down here. and as you know, chris, the races down here can get about as nasty as they get anywhere. and senator cruz has sort of taken this thing way out to the edge. and he's made the middle very uncomfortable. i'm talking about texas conservatives. i'm not talking about conservatives outside of this state. he's making people very uncomfortable in his home state. >> chris, he knows what he's doing. he knows exactly what he's doing. you should have seen the right wing on twitter after he said those things about haggle. they fell in love with him then. he knows what he's doing. >> so do we. thank you michael and jim moore. thank you for coming on for a look at this guy when there's still time to do something about him. >>> coming up, the hard lurch to the right means the party's over for a growing number of repu

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after consulting with canadian legal scholars the paper reported "born in canada to an american mother, ted cruz became an instant u.s. citizen but under under canadian law he also became a citizen of that country the moment he was born there." unless the texas senator formally renounces his citizenship he will remain a citizen of both countries. he could run for parliament up the there. al in many this country he's disputing the legal experts asserting that he's not he says a canadian citizen. that's what he says. they say differently. up next, stop and frisk is controversial but does it work. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. are probably gonna double. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? thto fight chronic. osteoarthritis pain. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help

in addition, canada and the uk and australia have also updated their policy. i come from silicon valley and so let us adhere to science. we are in 2013. let us use science and not look at a policy that perpetuates the discrimination and negative stereotypes toward a particular community. >> we reached out to the fda to ask them, re-evaluating the ban, a spokesman said the fda and health and human services are committed to continuously improving safety of the nation's blood supply. fda and hhs continue to re-evaluate the scientific basis for its blood donor deferral policies. the spokesman reiterated that this was a public health issue not a judgment in any way on a donor's sexual orientation. do you, mayor, think that we will see any change in policy soon? >> well, i'm hopeful for the change and certainly we are headed that direction. for those individuals who might want to join the conversation, they can visit change.org/gay blood ban to sign the petition and encourage other members of the community to join in support and create a positive course of action re

come monday the state department is not going to be closing embassies in europe or south america or canada or that kind of thing. so that's his impression of it. but, you know, obviously the -- it's really two things. it's the credibility of the source. now, you never know whether the source, of course, is accurately passing along information. that's trick one. the second thing here is there does seem to be, and congressman royce echoed this, a change in how the state department thinks about these things because of the attack on the embassy in bengha benghazi. >> pete, you brought up yemen. there have been drone strikes. we're going to talk about that with evan coleman. he believes that may play a role in what we're seeing as well. thank you, pete. as i mentioned, evan coleman is here with us. the first thing you said to us was, listen, there have been underreporting about these drone strikes happening in yemen or that have happened in yemen. that's caught your attention with the timing here as well. >> yeah, there's been a flurry of these strikes. reportedly, one of the targets of these s

which includes children born overseas to a parent who is a citizen. >> what's wrong with canada? >> nothing wrong with ka nada. this next story, i saw this next story, i'm like, come on. >> let's talk about this. >> sell tabloids but this is something. >> this is interesting. "the telegraph" new information into the death of princess dianaing a stir days before the 16th anniversary. new allegations that princess diana may have been murdered by a special service soldier sparked interest in the case. scotlandp yard confirming it's receive the new tip. as of now the royal family having no comment. >> we have tina brown next hour, talking to her on this. but everybody remembers where they were, when princess diana died. sam stein remembers where his mother was. >> i was in the womb. >> new york -- financial centers are more apt to recommendation the treatment for patients with prostate cancer. looking at ways to save money in medicare. investigators say other treatments for this form of cancer can be equally effective and less costly. and, you know, richard, this is -- i mean this is

i understand why canada is very interested in the project. it's not like this is going to increase our energy independence. it's a commodity, goes tint global commodities market. i don't think it really impacts prices one way or the other. >> i wonder if politically we reached a point where four-plus years, almost five years into its presidency, he's made the gestures before where republicans are saying just do this, prove you'll be bipartisan, take one of our ideas, do it. you think like in the budget talks every time you offer something, it gets nowhere. they walk away from the table. if that was the nags name for doing this, to prove buy partisan, i wonder after five years. >> he's done with these bthese bipartisan proofs. if some environmental calamity did happen because of this, a very small chance of it, but if it did happen, it would look very bad on his record considering that this is something if he approves will create 2,000 or 6,000 or some infinitesimal amount of jobs. >> 20 years from now you don't want nebraska to look like the