Ted Cruz: “Qatar has a disturbing pattern of funding Hamas and…”

“What are your thoughts about all this? Well, listen, I'm not a fan of Qatar. I think they have Qatar has a disturbing pattern of funding Hamas and Hezbollah. And that's, that's a real problem. I also think that the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. So, so we'll see how this issue plays out.” (00:24–00:34)

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