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Ted Cruz: “I've been pressing in the first Trump administration, I…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 32:57

And so following the money is how you get the people writing checks that are sitting in their Manhattan penthouses funding the anti American, anti Israel communist jihadist agitators that are destroying this country. And so I gotta say, I was really encouraged. I've been pressing in the first Trump administration, I pressed for years for the first Trump administration to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization. There was a lot of openness to that argument, but it never succeeded. They never did it this time. When I pressed on Tuesday, the next day, the President came out and said, we're going to do that. (32:57–33:09)

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