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Ted Cruz: “Senator Kaine said in this hearing that he found it a…”

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

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Sen. Cruz Gives History Lesson to Sen. Kaine

Published | Video Starts at 05:45

I would actually encourage observers to go back and listen to what Senator Kaine said because I have to say it, I think, was disturbing and showed much of where today's Democrat Party has gone wrong. So Senator Kaine said in this hearing that he found it a radical and dangerous notion that you would say our rights came from God and not from government. I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that and I almost fell out of my chair. (05:45–05:58)

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Asserts that Senator Kaine finds the idea that rights come from God, not government, radical and dangerous.

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