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Ted Cruz: “Designating a group as a terrorist organization unleashes a…”

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

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Huge Victory-Trump Designates Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization, plus NYT says Illeg...

Published | Video Starts at 10:01

And the reason we fell just short, and the reason we fell just short is the deep state in the State Department. They did not want to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. And the old … Designating a group as a terrorist organization unleashes a host of tools, including sanctions and direct military action. … well, it is not definitively proven that every single Muslim Brotherhood affiliate across the globe is a terrorist organization. Some of them clearly are, but it's not proven that all of them are. (10:01–10:13)

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