Ted Cruz: “Hurricane Harvey was at the time the second most costly…”

“I mean they're kind of, they're the equivalent of Navy SEALs or Delta Force Green Berets. They're the most badass coasters. Yes. Yeah. And I met a number of them particularly in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. So Hurricane Harvey was at the time the second most costly natural disaster in American history. Did massive damage all the way down from Corpus Christi, all the way up hundreds of miles up the Texas coast to the border right with Louisiana.” (11:39–11:46)

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