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Ted Cruz: “The DOJ said no. They asserted executive immunity, which was…”

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

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Podcast Discussion with Ted Cruz on Biden's Cognitive Decline and Media Accountability

Published | Video Starts at 26:27

And by the way, you and I on this show called for release the tapes so we can see how bad it was. And The DOJ said no. They asserted executive immunity, which was incoherent. It made no sense legally. What they were really asserting is this is politically embarrassing, and people will realize that we're covering up a mentally incompetent president if they're released. Well, they've been released now. (26:27–26:37)

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Asserts that the DOJ's assertion of executive immunity regarding Biden's tapes was legally incoherent.

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