Ted Cruz: “We will regret it for years and decades if we miss this…”

“I don't know if we get there, but what I told President Trump that the day he ordered the attack is, is this regime has never been weaker than right now. And we will regret it. We will regret it for years and decades if we miss this opportunity [to remove the Iranian regime]. Because there's very few things on planet Earth that would make America safer than getting this murderous regime out of power so they could no longer be able to kill Americans.” (25:32–25:37)

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