Ted Cruz: “I called President Trump and I talked to him in the White…”

“I was on the phone with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. I was on the phone with Nim Kidd, who's the head of the Texas Department of Emergency Management. And then I called President Trump and I talked to him in the White House. It was right as the flooding was happening. And I just said at the time, I said, look, we don't know all the details. It's happening right now, but everything we're hearing, it looks like this is really bad, that there's going to be a really significant loss of life.” (06:27–06:33)

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