Ted Cruz: “Qatar has also spent billions of dollars funding anti…”

“Look, I think there's a range of accountability that depends upon a range of culpability. So if you look at Qatar, Qatar has actively supported Hamas from the beginning. It has sheltered senior Hamas leaders in Qatar. Qatar has also spent billions of dollars funding anti Semitic radicals in the United States infiltrating our universities. I'll tell you, it's been publicly reported. Qatar hired spies to spy on me because they see me as their leading opponent in Washington.” (16:44–16:53)

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