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Ted Cruz: “If we were to go through with it and give $300 billion or…”

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

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Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson

Published | Video Starts at 07:57

And I just made a very simple observation, which is history shows giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to kill us, that does not work out well. That If we were to go through with it and give $300 billion or cause others to give $300 billion to Iran, they would use that money to murder Americans. They have not backed off of their desire to kill us. They publicly declared, in fact, they publicly declared, right after Lindsey Graham died, the IRGC publicly put out that they wanted to kill me and they wanted to kill your former boss, Tom Cotton. (07:57–08:10)

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Asserts that giving $300 billion to Iran would result in them using the money to murder Americans.

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