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Ted Cruz: “The administration has stated that the objective is to…”

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Why I Told President Trump to Attack Iran - Sen. Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 08:22

And so in terms of what are the objectives, I'll break it into two categories. Number one, what are the objectives the administration has stated? And number two, what I think the objective should be. So The administration has stated that the objective is to degrade the military so that they cannot strike out. And so we've seen in the and a half weeks that this military conflict has been ongoing. We've seen, number one, their air defenses essentially completely eliminated. (08:22–08:29)

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Asserts that the U.S. administration's stated objective is to degrade Iran's military capabilities.

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