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Ted Cruz: “Democrats are becoming the chief defender of Nicolas Maduro.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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And they're just being hypocrites. They just hate Trump. And just like they're defending every illegal immigrant, they're defending all of the gang bangers who are here. In this case, the Democrats are becoming the chief defender of Nicolas Maduro. But as I mentioned, on the legal front, if you look back to Noriega, front and center in terms of the litigation that will happen over this, is that that in 1989, Bill Barr was the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. (39:56–40:02)

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