Episode Details

Larry O'Connor breaks down Senator Ted Cruz's closing-night speech at the Republicans' midterm convention, where Cruz warned about a "red-green alliance" between communists and Islamists inside the Democrat Party, drawing on his own family's experience under Cuban communism. O'Connor plays CNN Newsnight's reaction, where host Abby Phillip clashes with commentator Noah Rothman over whether Cruz's remarks target Islam as a religion or Islamism as a political ideology, with O'Connor walking through the distinction in detail and arguing Phillip doesn't understand the difference she's mocking. The segment closes with a speech from the same convention night by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong Democrat, making nearly the identical argument about Islamism as an existential threat, a clip O'Connor points out CNN conveniently left out of the conversation.

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