John Cornyn: “Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.”

“It's almost like anything and everything that President Trump proposes or does, Democrats reflexively oppose. The senator from Massachusetts was just here complaining about the, about trying to take out the Iranian nuclear threat. Iran's Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism. They've been enriching uranium in order to build a nuclear weapon. They've been building a stockpile of ballistic missiles and testing a space program that essentially will give them the technical knowledge they need to deliver intercontinental ballistic missiles to ultimately manufacture those.” (05:27–05:31)

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