Bash asked Reid if it would be worth it if he could help "one child" with cancer.

During the interview that aired on Sunday, Cruz said that Reid showed Democrats were "vulnerable" and that Republicans should have used children with cancer as a pressure point to win the fight against health care reform.

"President Obama and the Democrats' position throughout this is, 'We will not negotiate, we will not compromise, shut it all down.' That's not a reasonable position," he explained. "If Senate Republicans had united and supported House Republicans, if we had 46 Senate Republicans on television every day, in the media every day making the point, 'Why won't they fund the VA, why are they holding our veterans hostage? Why won't they fund the NIH, why are they holding kids with illnesses hostage?'"

"That's a fight we could win because their position was unreasonable."