Ted Cruz: “My hope is this legislation is shining a light, will protect…”

“And if you sanction the individual government officials who are complicit, who are facilitating it, who are enforcing and prosecuting so called blasphemy laws, that can have a real and powerful effect. And so My hope is this legislation is shining a light, will protect the Christians who are in Nigeria and will stop the wide scale of murder of Christians that has been going on in Nigeria. Yeah. Amen to that. We're going to keep you updated on this subject. Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So hit that subscribe or auto download button wherever you get.” (28:21–28:36)

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