Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller. I was on with Alicia Menendez sitting in for Nicole over on MSNBC.

And we were covering this Kimmel Ground that obviously we've been following quite closely.

There was one element of the story that I got into that we haven't yet covered on the feed.

And that was Ted Cruz's surprisingly normal response.

Surprisingly, I don't, I can't, I can't put the word principle next to Ted Cruz,

but at least consistent.

How about that?

Consistent with past statements position from Ted Cruz.

You'll be able to hear that clip in the interview I did with Alicia.

But, you know, I just, I think that one potential, we're going to the weekend.

I'm giving everybody one little silver lining.

One potential silver lining of all this is that free speech is just such a universal principle that is so woven

into the American identity that there are a lot of people who, how should I put this're they might have been drawn to trump for cultural reasons

or partisan reasons or dislike for elites whatever there are a million reasons people were

drawn to trump um but fundamentally their, their identity is not MAGA.

Like these are not talking about Fox News eight hours a day viewers.

I'm not talking about people that have the red hat.

I'm not talking about people that like, when you ask them their identity, they put Republican in their Twitter bio.

I'm talking about Trump voters who were drawn to him for a variety of socioeconomic forces.

A lot of those folks, they look at this and wince.

Not for them.

It's not for them.

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