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Ted Cruz: “The United States is the indispensable nation in the world.”

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

Sen. Ted Cruz on TikTok, China, the Ceasefire Deal, and Much More

Published January 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:43

How is that not a failure of the Israeli government? Why is it more Biden and Kamala's fault? Because The United States is the indispensable nation in the world. And when you have a strong president and a strong commander in chief, our enemies are afraid. And when you have a weak president and a weak commander in chief, our enemies are emboldened. (04:43–04:47)

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Asserts that the U.S. holds a unique and essential role globally.

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“This occurred because of catastrophic failures from the Biden White House.”
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“I don't believe October 7th happens if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not in the White House.”
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“They [China] have enormous culpability for Covid.”
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“This administration remains the most anti Israel administration we have ever seen.”
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“Joe Biden is responsible for flowing over $100 billion to Iran.”
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“Much more so. Not even close.”
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“The State Department sent out a tweet from the Office of Palestinian affairs that said, Israel must not respond.”
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“Tony Blinken from his own Twitter account sent out a tweet... We agreed Israel must not respond, must not retaliate.”
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“Since October 7th, the Biden White House position has been stop killing the terrorists.”
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“Israel has decimated Hezbollah as well.”
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“This deal doesn't happen without Donald Trump.”
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“I spent day before yesterday about 45 minutes on the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu.”
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“Qatar has repeatedly got in bed with enemies of America and has supported enemies of America and supported enemies of Israel.”
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“I've introduced legislation that would sanction [Qatar] back to the stone Age.”
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“Joe Biden came in and immediately returned to the studied ambiguity undermining Israel.”
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“I think US Airlines need to resume flights to Israel.”
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“Politics on the part of the unions. Yes. In particular, you look at the flight attendant union that has been very vocally anti Israel.”
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“I'm the incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that has jurisdiction over, among other things, has jurisdiction over 40% of the…”
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“I'm going to predict within 30 days they'll resume flights.”
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“After Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, I began leading the fight to end the oil waivers.”
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“We ended the oil waivers. Iran's oil sales plummeted and the price of oil didn't move globally.”
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“Today, Iran is selling 2 million barrels a day of oil.”
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“Iran provides 90% of the funding to Hamas and 90% of the funding to Hezbollah.”
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“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the funders behind the terrorists who carried out October 7.”
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“I think the Iraq war was a mistake. I think toppling Saddam Hussein made America less safe.”
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“When Trump became president, we were at war with isis. And Trump utterly and completely defeated ISIS and took every square inch of their…”
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“Trump ordered the strike that took out General Soleimani. That was exactly right.”
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“Communist China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over the next hundred years.”
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“I think we need a comprehensive strategy to deal with China, reminiscent of the strategy Reagan laid out to defeat the Soviet Union.”
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“China engages systematically in espionage.”
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“We have over 1 million Uyghurs living in concentration camps and slavery.”
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“The statute gives the President the authority to have a 90 day reprieve [for TikTok].”
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“The Chinese Communist government uses TikTok, number one, for espionage and number two, to push propaganda.”
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“The Chinese variant of TikTok for their kids, number one, the hours they can use it are limited.”
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“The First Amendment only applies to Americans.”
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“The law passed by Congress is not seeking to suppress free speech.”
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“I also want to see the client list for Jeffrey Epstein. I think that should be public.”
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“300,000 is the number of children that the Biden Harris administration has lost in the last four years.”
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“They are unaccompanied minors who came to this country, were in federal government custody.”
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“The Biden administration says we can't find them.”
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“We know many of those kids are being abused sexually and otherwise.”
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“The arguments we saw from the government, from the Biden administration, from the corporate media about the COVID vaccine, particularly the…”
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“The risk of COVID were nominal [for a four-year-old child].”
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“The New York Times is an utter piece of garbage that does enormous harm to the world.”
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“Covid originated from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, China.”
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“Dr. Fauci was asking [social media companies] to [silence the lab origin theory].”
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“Multiple agencies of the federal government now conclude [the lab origin theory] is right.”
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“There is enormous corruption [in HHS and the FDA].”
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“Giant pharmaceutical companies...use government power...to enforce their monopolies.”
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“Giant pharmaceutical companies...use government power...to stop innovation.”
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“I've written legislation called the Results act.”
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“Obama succeeded in...systematically weaponizing the federal government to attack their enemies.”
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“The entire Russia investigation...was based on a fraudulent oppo research dossier.”
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“Merrick Garland wrote a memo to the FBI directing [them to] go after parents who go to school boards.”
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“Merrick Garland and the FBI sent a dozen storm troopers with machine guns to arrest Markout.”
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“In more than two centuries of our nation's history, we have never previously indicted a president or former president.”
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“Democrat prosecutors have indicted and prosecuted Donald Trump not once, not twice, not three times, but four separate times.”
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“What Joe Biden has done on illegal immigration is qualitatively different from any other president in the history of this country.”
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“Obama deported millions of people.”
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“Federal law, the statutes are explicit. You shall detain them, you shall deport them.”
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“The 12 million illegal immigrants who came into this country, I believe, were deliberately allowed in this country because Joe Biden and…”
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“Elon [Musk] is smart as hell.”
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“Elon Musk buying Twitter was the single most important action for free speech in our lifetimes.”
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“Title six makes [anti-Semitic protests] illegal.”
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“Under Joe Biden, not a single university [has] lost their funding under Title VI.”
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“The people funding the anti-Semitic protests are the same people who are funding the Democrat Party.”
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“One of the most significant shifts under Trump is DOJ is going to go after any university that looks the other way [on anti-Semitic…”
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“Columbia is right at the top of the worst offenders [for tolerating anti-Semitic threats].”
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“To the best of my knowledge, I am the only senator who is a bitcoin miner.”
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“I have three miners in West Texas that are hashing right now.”
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“Boca Chica was an empty beach at the southern tip of Texas. Nothing was there.”
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“He's built an entire city with such precision, they're making a rocket ship a month.”
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“Pennsylvania is the most important swing state in the country.”
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“Josh Shapiro is a relatively popular governor of Pennsylvania.”
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“There is such a thing as a pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.”
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