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Ted Cruz: “Yesterday they launched 15 [ballistic missiles].”

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

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Sen Ted Cruz: THIS is the single most consequential decision of the Trump presidency

Published | Video Starts at 04:32

They were doing that to massively increase the cost of the President coming in later to take out nuclear weapons capacity. If you look at the first day of this conflict, Iran launched 350 ballistic missiles. Yesterday they launched 15 [ballistic missiles]. You look at the first couple of days of the conflict, on day two, they launched 541 drone attacks. Yesterday they launched 12 because we've taken out their capacity and that's to defend America. (04:32–04:38)

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