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Ted Cruz: “This hearing is going to focus on $9 billion stolen from the…”

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

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My Democrat colleagues want you desperately not to focus on those facts. And so instead, miraculously, the Democrats have discovered the Sermon on the Mount. Well, This hearing is going to focus on $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers and hundreds of millions of those dollars going to the Al Shabaab terrorist organization funded by the Democrats. You would think there would be some sort of accountability there. On the point that you just made senator, and that is about money going to terrorist organizations. When. (20:52–21:07)

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Asserts that $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers, with hundreds of millions going to Al Shabaab, facilitated by Democrats.

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