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Ted Cruz: “Giving $300 billion to Iran is a spectacularly bad idea.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 23:04

And I'm like, look, until I know what the agreement is, I'm not going to comment without basis. We're saying the reporting. What I can say without equivocation is that Giving $300 billion to Iran is a spectacularly bad idea. I hope and pray that's not what this deal is. I'll be very happy if when the deal, the details become public, it's not giving $300 billion. (23:04–23:09)

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Asserts that giving $300 billion to Iran would be disastrous.

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