CNN hosts Anderson Cooper, Brianna Keilar and Brian Stelter mocked Ted Cruz after the senator apologized to Tucker Carlson for calling January 6 a "violent terrorist assault."

The community's anchors took goal on the Texas Republican after he appeared on the Fox Information host's present to backtrack on remarks, which he has made a number of instances earlier than, following criticism from Carlson.

Cruz has referred to January 6 as a terrorist incident a minimum of 17 instances on social media, statements or public hearings over the previous 12 months, in response to CNN, however by no means apologized for them—till Carlson took concern.

On Friday, Cooper accused Cruz of "assuming the place" in a determined bid for Carlson's forgiveness; Stelter predicted a Republican "Tucker Carlson main"; and Keilar stated Cruz had "rushed to the misinformation mothership."

Throughout Cooper's monologue about Cruz, CNN's chyron on the backside of the display screen learn: "Thank You Sir, Might I Have One other?"

"Senator Cruz's alleged sin was having the gumption to confer with the assault on the Capitol as a terrorist assault, one thing that seems he is completed 17 instances earlier than," Cooper stated, taking part in a clip of Cruz calling his personal feedback "sloppy" and "frankly dumb."

"A sitting U.S. Senator, one in all solely 100, somebody with precise affect, a former presidential candidate nonetheless, grovelling on the toes of Tucker Carlson," Cooper stated.

Copper then pointed to how Cruz remains to be a staunch Donald Trump supporter even after the previous president made disparaging remarks about his spouse, and advised his father was in some way linked to John F. Kennedy's assassination.

The host additionally advised the rationale why Cruz was so keen to behave "docile" to Carlson is he's conscious of the key affect he has over the GOP.

"The ability of the Republican Get together is now on the fringes," Cooper stated. "That is the place the vitality is vitality that the Ted Cruz's of the world are betting will drive voters to the polls, or a 12 months in the past drove mobs to storm the very establishment that Senator Cruz is meant to serve."

Keilar and Cooper each referenced criticism of Cruz when in 2021 he flew to Cancun, Mexico, whereas Texas skilled a significant winter freeze and mass energy outages.

Cruz "rushed to the misinformation mom ship sooner than he fled to Cancun throughout a lethal deep freeze in his state to bend the knee earlier than Tucker Carlson, though the Fox host is not a critical or perhaps a plausible particular person," stated Keilar, who known as Carlson a "bulls**t artist."

Stelter, in the meantime, advised Cruz "folded like a paper airplane" as a result of he knew that he would want Carlson—and his fanbase—on facet if he ever runs for president once more.

Stelter stated Cruz's apology is proof of the Fox Information host's energy throughout the GOP, and that it's going to form the way forward for the occasion for everything of the 2024 presidential cycle.

Talking to Victor Blackwell on CNN Newsroom, Stelter stated: "A few 12 months in the past, media reporters like yours really began to say Tucker Carlson is the brand new Donald Trump, and I've by no means seen a little bit of proof that is higher than this. That is the final instance of Tucker Carlson's energy.

"He primarily now runs the GOP media and as we take into consideration the midterms and 2024, there may be going to be a Tucker Carlson main and also you simply noticed what it will be like. It'll be this sort of obsession with sticking to the occasion orthodoxy and denying the fact of the riot."

Cruz's representatives have been contacted for remark.

Senator Ted Cruz and Ticker Carlson.
Senator Ted Cruz attends a listening to on China throughout a Senate Overseas Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, and Fox Information host Tucker Carlson on the Mandarin Oriental Lodge March 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. CNN Hosts have teased Cruz following the senator's apology on Carlson's present.