Ted Cruz: “I introduced legislation to mandate that those who were shot…”

“They characterized that mass shooting as workplace violence rather than what it obviously was, which was a terrorist attack. I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee at the time. I introduced legislation to mandate that those who were shot by Nidal Hassan receive the Purple Heart. At the time, it was a Democrat Senate, and I got support from Democrats, from Republicans. The Obama Pentagon came in and argued against it. They did not want to give those Purple Hearts.” (02:40–02:47)

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