Ted Cruz: “I think the president as commander in chief acted decisively…”

“I think he made America safer. The Iranian regime, the ayatollah, when he was chanting death to America, he believed it. And I think the president as commander in chief acted decisively to stop that ayatollah from getting nuclear weapons. which God forbid, if Iran got nuclear weapons, in a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of Americans could be killed.” (00:27–00:35)

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