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Ted Cruz: “Under Trump, the number of people on the terror watch list…”

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

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IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198

Published | Video Starts at 30:04

National security, that is an alarming number that we caught because that doesn't count the ones, the gotaways. And we had record gotaways in December as well. Understand? Under Trump, the number of people on the terror watch list apprehended in an entire year were in the single digits. They were like zero. Two in an entire year. We're up to 50 in three months. And 19 in the month of December alone. Yes. So the month of December is more than any single year under Donald Trump. It may be more. (30:04–30:16)

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Asserts that under Trump, the number of people on the terror watch list apprehended in a year was in the single digits, compared to 50 in three months under Biden.

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