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Ted Cruz: “The president's case, and I thought it was quite reasonable…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:30

And so those two votes changed, and Rand put out a statement explaining that he was doing that. But I respected that Rand did that in particular. Look, The president's case, and I thought it was quite reasonable, is he said, we're in the middle of negotiating with Iran. And while we're negotiating with Iran, it comes over the TV that the Senate has blocked me from being able to continue with conducting the war. (06:30–06:37)

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