Ted Cruz: “France has short term and medium range ballistic missiles.”

“And by the way, you know, and I, I pointed out like, like the, the mission being articulated as we're taking out short, short range and medium range ballistic missiles. Look, the missiles themselves are not the problem. France has short term and medium range ballistic missiles. We're not bombing France. Why? Because France's leadership are not theocratic lunatics who want to murder us. There are other nations that have nuclear weapons that, that we're fine.” (13:51–13:55)

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