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Ted Cruz: “I predicted the House would come back, they would reopen the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 00:32

Look, that's exactly right. I will say in Monday's pod, I, I said, in fact, the title of Monday's pod was A Very Short Government. I predicted the House would come back, they would reopen the government. That's exactly what happened. So now the Democrats did not have the stomach for a long, prolonged fight on government shutdown. So it didn't happen. (00:32–00:35)

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