Ted Cruz: “We now have one of the hitmen convicted in a federal jury…”

“And he also argued that he thinks America is going to nuke Iran. Yeah, to be clear, that's what jihadist Tucker said in his interview we should do. If Iran was trying to murder President Trump, We now have one of the hitmen convicted in a federal jury for trying to murder Trump. So Tucker's bad faith, disingenuous position is we should nuke them. Of course we should nuke them. We're not going to nuke Iran. That is bizarre. That is wrong.” (09:35–09:42)

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