Ted Cruz Interview with Megyn Kelly - Discussing Jeb Bush - Amnesty - Common Core

Ted Cruz Interview with Megyn Kelly - Discussing Jeb Bush - Amnesty - Common Core

I am a fan of Jeb Bush, his views are different than other republicans, but he is honest about it, Ted Cruz nor Jeb Bush do not have many position changes. Discuss Jeb Bush on immigration issues, discusses Bush amnesty position, granting in-state tuition. The people that get left behind are legal immigrants, most americans outside of Washington, no amnesty, stop the border crossings, Ted Cruz, we should repeal every single word of common core. Obama used federal dollars to entice states to adopt Common Core.

Ted Cruz would not have voted for Iraq war if we knew then what we know know.

 

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senator good to see you today so what do you think the jeb bush

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interview well Megan it's great to be with you it's always great to join you

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you don't look I'm a fan to get bush I I'll give them credit

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for candor and consistency he is running based on his views his views are

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different from that of a lot a Republican primary voters

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but he's honest about it and and I think we're gonna have

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a clear straight up debate about what what's the right direction for the

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republican party to go and what's the right direction for the country

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what about that because it

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in looking at at the records mostly can attend little mitts that they can't be

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hit with fun

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you know position changes you actually don't have many

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a and I'll say that's a look at your record very closely and

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jeb bush doesn't because he stands by you know even the most controversial

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things

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do you believe he deserves credit for that so I i think it is important for

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someone to stand by what they believe then and you know what I've tried to do

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in the senate has been real simple it's been tell the truth

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and do what I said I would do if I'm with P I'm really with your

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and if I'm not with the I'm really not with ya and I think people respect that

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obviously we spent a lot of time on immigration in common core which are the

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two big issues probably for him

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on as he acknowledges with some in the GOP base

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on this subject immigration which you've been passionate about yourself

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what he said to me was I i pressing for example on what you know when you were

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governor of Florida you supported in-state tuition tuition rates

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for the children of illegal immigrants and he said look what do you do with a

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kid

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who happens to be here illegally thanks to his parents who was valedictorian of

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his high school

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and can't go to college without that rate you gonna say no

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and the way he brought it to me was there's a point at which we r

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over the line you have to show those kids some respect

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what's your answer to that well you know there are a lot of a lotta candidates in

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the 2016 field who have supported amnesty are all gone back and forth on

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the issue not my position has been consistent and clear I think amnesties

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wrong

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but besides you unfair this is I don't think it's a benefit for an illegal

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immigrant

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child which so it's maybe a little less controversial than amnesty but it's so

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controversial

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well but if you grant in-state tuition to

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to students who are here illegally that that comes at the expense

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American citizens are it comes at the expense

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all the legal immigrants who follow the rules to come here you know you know

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there's there's a finite number of slots

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and a finite number dot dollars in you often the people that get left behind

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this immigration debate

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are legal immigrants are P

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my dad who in 1957 fled kill they came on a student visa

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came here legally and a and I think most american people outside a Washington

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agree that we need to secure the borders we need to stop

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illegal immigration and he's wrong he says that you

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and and but that amnesties wrong and and this is where

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I'm you know i i disagree with the many 2016 candidates who have embraced a

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pathway to citizenship

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Common Core he's gonna stand on that and defend that as raising American Standard

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&

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in education you see it a bit differently I do I believe we should

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repeal

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every single word of Common Core and and the reason is simple I think education

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is far too important for it to be governed by an elected bureaucrats in

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washington it should be

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at the state level editor at the local but it is the response to that is that

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it is the kit that governors got together to push this through

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but but Megan that's not how it works the Obama administration had use Race to

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the Top money federal money

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to force states to adopt common core standards at all

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out if they don't want to be a part of it well well sure they can but there

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there are a lot of dollars connected to and the federal government

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you know it it's sorta like the drug dealer that goes to the junior high and

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gets a kid

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hawked by saying just try it once the federal government does that to the

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states with dollars in there so many strings attached let's talk about the

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Iraq war

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discussion yeah you know after knowing what you know now would you have

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authorized the invasion

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he answered a different question than the one that I asked now he's come out

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and said

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I guy didn't you know I miss heard absolutely just ask you the question

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not knowing what we know now would you have authorized the invasion of Iraq

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ago of course not I i mean the entire predicate

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up the war against iraq was the intelligence that show they had weapons

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of mass destruction and that there was a real risk they might use them

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now I would know there was a bipartisan consensus both Republicans and Democrats

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looking at that intelligence

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concluded it was a real I we now know that intelligence was false

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and and with out that predicate there's no way we would have gone to

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to go to war with Iraq and and and we know that now in hindsight

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and and I know I mean do you defend the decision to go in by president bush

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at the time given the information was given well listen at the time I wasn't

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serving in the Senate so I didn't see the classified briefings I didn't see

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the in the intelligence and and so I don't want to second-guess

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based on on one at what I lack I have complete information that before you

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said that before they don't you want to do

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a hypothetical on because you can see the Intel but let me ask you this year

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governor bush is something of a and I thought would be

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controversial specifically he said nation-building is a good sentiment I

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was asking whether he

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subscribe to his brother foreign policy at the Bush Doctrine in he said Jeb Bush

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nation-building is a good sentiment exporting our values

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is a good sentiment but the core by foreign policies that will be peace and

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security

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you have said something very different about what you call it the cruise

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doctrine

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what what is the difference well to be fair I don't claim to have any doctrines

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and and and certainly don't hope too

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up but yeah Laden I think foreign policy

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ought to be dictated by the vital national security interest of the United

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States

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if and when military action is required number one we should be reluctant to use

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military power the america always has been

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you how it's worth noting the biggest country reagan ever invaded

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was Grenada but Giffin when we're required to use military force

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it should be with a clearly defined objective it should be with overwhelming

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force

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and then we should get the heck out it is not the job our soldiers and sailors

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and airmen and Marines

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to transform foreign nations at the democratic utopias

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it is a job to hunt down and kill terrorists

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who want to murder americans before they can carry out jihad

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I want to ask you I'm you got hit by BuzzFeed recently in washington Post

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columnist II

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general and pick it up she's not a liberal for your attendance at committee

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meetings

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in the US senate saying that a you have you've missed it too

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and suggesting that this has been a dereliction by you

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because the year not doing that bitch Jennifer Rubin wrote there's clear comes

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a point at which the taxpayers are not getting their money's worth because you

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missed 21 at 135

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roll call votes this here want to give you a chance to respond

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well look at the it's not a surprise at the washington post is criticizing me

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that's not the first time a little bit promise you it won't be the last

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%uh well what not what is the simple reality

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is anyone who is running for president you have to be out

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campaigning in Iowa New Hampshire South Carolina get me listening to the people

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you gotta be meeting the people

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hearing their questions that's the way our system works it's a great system

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that takes time if you look at it every senator who's ever run for president

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consistently they end up having to miss

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a lot a committee meetings a lot about because to do the job

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responsibly running for president you need to look voters in the eyes and

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answer their questions

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and and and there's my last question do dinner at a time speaking i'm looking

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people me as an answer questions

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there was a big dust-up between you and Mark helping this week

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he ask you some ridiculous questions about your Cuban Heritage Inn whether

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you would speak in Spanish and

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and basically it seemed to many like you trying to test

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your Cuban Heritage and then he came out apologize because there was a dust-up

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and in what some now are calling your finest moment

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you were quick to come to his defense and

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really took the class seam route want to give it a chance to

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tell the audience what you said in response to what could have been an

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opportunity for you to

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stop on the neck up a journalist who was in some trouble well thank you may I I

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thought it was much ado about nothing and I mention Mark Halperin his

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is a a serious and fair-minded journalist and he he took some grief for

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some silly questions that he asked me and any offered an apology and I said it

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was neither

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it wasn't needed because I i offense wasn't taken I don't think it was

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intended

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but it but I certainly appreciate the apology and I am

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proud of my Cuban Heritage at proud of my father's journey from oppression to

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freedom I'm proud of my

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fresh Italian heritage a and I'll tell you make any if you care sometime

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Heidi and I'll have you over to the house I let my dad fix some big in a

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land and given planning it you can test the food we put on the climate etzioni

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you tell you that there are even there she said it occurs it's great to be here

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Challe

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