--- title: Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York Times Tapes description: Some say the tapes may show him revealing an inconsistent stance on immigration canonical: https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-29T23:05:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:29:15.396Z article:section: Politics og:title: Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York Times Interview Tapes og:description: The tapes were from an off-the-record conversation og:url: https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York Times Interview Tapes twitter:description: The tapes were from an off-the-record conversation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York _Times_ Interview Tapes by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 29, 2016 11:05 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 29, 2016 11:05 PM UTC Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have called on Donald Trump to [release a recording](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape?utm%5Fterm=.cw2AYaamy#.dgA9jWWzk) made in a meeting with the New York _Times_ that could reveal him holding a softer position on immigration than he’s declared in public. The tape, from a meeting for Trump to argue his case for the paper’s endorsement (standard for presidential candidates), is partly off the record. It has been speculated by those with knowledge of the conversation that in the off-the-record section, he may have said his plan to deport millions of immigrants would be backpedaled once he were in office. As [BuzzFeed reports](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape?utm%5Fterm=.cw2AYaamy#.dgA9jWWzk), a pair of lines in a [recent column by Gail Collins](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/opinion/trump-meets-the-mean-boys.html) (who was in the meeting) may be more than theoretical: --- > “” --- **Watch live:** [Super Tuesday voting takes place across the U.S.](http://time.com/4242287/super-tuesday-2016-primary-results-live-stream-online/) [Cruz](https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/704411964739420160) and [Rubio](https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/704426120041603073) seized on the BuzzFeed article and have now both called on their rival for the Republican nomination to give the _Times_ permission to release the tape, which the paper says it would do with Trump’s go-ahead. > [](https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/704411964739420160) > [](https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/704426120041603073) Trump has not yet responded to BuzzFeed’s request for comment. \[[BuzzFeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape?utm%5Fterm=.cw2AYaamy#.dgA9jWWzk)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/"},"headline":"Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York Times Interview Tapes","datePublished":"2016-02-29T23:05:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:29:15.396Z","description":"The tapes were from an off-the-record conversation","url":"https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4242300/cruz-rubio-trumb-new-york-times/","name":"Cruz and Rubio Call on Trump to Release New York Times Interview Tapes"}}]}] ```