TED CRUZ DISCUSSES SUPREME COURT RULINGS - JUDICIAL RETENTION ELECTIONS

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we have senator Ted Cruz with us now hello senator how are you sir

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prime doing great my friend how are you

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good have you had a have you had a

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Confederate birthday cake %uh

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made or anything like that recently

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I E you know I have been and I will say this: glad now that you're a

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a duly adopted text and I'm her

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we lost a lot more attached to the flag today to taxes we were out nation for

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nine years shirt and I and a lot about

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still think we are a nation 90 ido Amanda we might be here

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what are these days anyway are I wanted to get your

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I want to get your look on on several things we it's been a while since we've

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had a chance to talk to me so I don't lie know we have you for half hour and I

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don't wanna waste any time

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arm let's let's start with the two major decisions

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that I came down yesterday I came down last week

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the Supreme Court is has decided that they now can legislate

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I tell me about what you thought about with Obamacare

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at Blackburn you're exactly right the two decisions last week

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where judicial activism plain and simple they were both lawless steadily these

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words dark days in our nation's history

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on Thursday majority of the Court rewrote Obamacare

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ignored the text that the law ignored the statute simply rewrote it just force

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that failed law

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on millions of Americans to take away the jobs in the health care a million

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Americans

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fundamentally wrong and then the next day on Friday in the marriage decision

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five un-elected judges

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rewrote the constitution ignored the constitution and purported

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tear down the marriage laws adopted

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in all 50 states to demand the gay marriage in every state it was

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profoundly lawless and

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and as justice scalia powerfully observed in the stands it was a

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fundamental threat to our democracy. you said

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a minute ago and this will be the headline if I were a writing a headline

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and I didn't like you a it was

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if these are dark days for the Supreme Court in america

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so are you saying that people getting the right to marry getting good people

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having the right to love whoever it is they want to love

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that's a dark day a Glen you and I both

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believe in the Constitution I spent much of my adult life

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fighting to defend the Constitution last week

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twice in two days the supreme court disregarded the Constitution you know

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reasonable minds can disagree on the question america's personally I i

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am a strong supporter of traditional marriage as the union of one man and one

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walk

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and and marriage was not created by man it was ordained by God but I have also

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spent decades fighting to defend the Constitution under the Constitution

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marriage has always been a question

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for the stakes if an individual citizen

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disagrees with the definition of marriage in his or her state

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there is a method under the constitution that you can try to seek change which

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you can try to convince

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your fellow citizens to go to your state legislatures

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and change the Marriage Law passed the constitutional system

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what we saw happen last week justice scalia put it perfectly where he said

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fine

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un-elected lawyers have declared themselves the rulers have $320 million

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americans because what the court said

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is they don't care what you think what I think

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what any democratically-elected legislature

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thanks they're going to impose by decree

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their radical in Italy viewer American everybody else and and that years

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a profound threat to our democracy.

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when we no longer have the ability is citizens

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to pass the laws that govern ourselves still scott Walker's says that he is

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gonna push for a

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a.m. a constitutional amendment that will ban same-sex marriage

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Rand Paul says we should just get government out of the business

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love marriage entirely Wellwood

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what would Ted Cruz do

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well a number of things one several months ago I introduced in the United

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States and a constitutional amendment

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to protect the authority of State Legislatures to define

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marriage as the union of one man and one woman number two i introduce legislation

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in the United States Senate stripping the federal courts have jurisdiction

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over attacks on marriage that's one of the explicit checks and balances the

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Constitution gives Congress

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to rein in an overreaching judiciary and then number three in the wake

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I'll last week's rulings I have publicly called

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for us to adopt a constitutional amendment

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to make Supreme Court justices

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subject to periodic judicial retention elections twenty states across the Union

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do that any

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the supreme court justices are going to jump into the political sphere

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are going to violate federal law and violate the Constitution and we've got

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to hand

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a meaningful check or we the people

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to rain in judicial tyranny

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tell me about the

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a the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare

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what he do now well

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there is one bit a silver lining in that disaster shrill

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twice in three years the court has rewritten Obamacare's ignore the plane's

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languages a statute

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in order to force it on the American people but the silver lining is with

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this decision

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the Supreme Court has made 2016 a referendum

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on repealing Obamacare and if a 2016 presidential candidate not prepared

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read the fight campaign every day on repealing every word about Obamacare

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and here she should get out of the way because that is front and center

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and outside england won the things that I talk about I've got a new book coming

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out tomorrow

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time the truth that's available online and

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in the book a time for truth what I focus on

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is what I call the DC cartel I

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it is a coalition a career politicians in Washington Democrats

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and Republican to get in bed with a lobbyist with giant corporations

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who work together to grow

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Washington to construct it expand Washington and the sad reality is

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in the wake of last week's decision of a lotta Republicans in Washington

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were quietly celebrating that they put out a statement

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mildly disagree but behind closed doors they're popping champagne they're

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celebrating

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because of Obamacare they don't want to do anything about it they didn't want

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congress to have to deal with that of marriage

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there thrilled because they don't want to defend america chain and

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I think the American people are fed up with politicians who don't tell them the

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truth

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it's one of the reasons we're seeing so much energy and enthusiasm behind our

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campaign because when I'm endeavoring to do

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is tell the truth and do what I said I would so ted i I just have to come back

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to the marriage thing

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up one more time because and this is my personal

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I'll opinion at all when I am a Christian I believe

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in a a moral absolutes right and wrong god says

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cetera et cetera however I'm also more libertarian

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and I believe that you have that right

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to decide and I also a realist I don't think you're ever gonna put this genie

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back in the in the bottle

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those days are behind us now what I'm

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I in my view what I am very concerned with

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is the idea that we're making this

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about marriage when the real goal has nothing to do with marriage

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it has everything to do with silencing people

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who happen to believe in %uh moral

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absolute they happen to believe that

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the Bible is is is true

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and I am very concerned that

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the those voices are going to be silenced and you're gonna start losing

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funding to

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Liberty University you lose tax exempt status for our churches

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you'll start to see oppression when it comes to opinions

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that's a real problem well I very much agree with you on that point you know

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you know I will note that I'm I'm more optimistic

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bed but you are all and you know one of the things that the left and the

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democrats in the mainstream media

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want us to believe is they want conservatives

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to believe that all is lost abandon hope all ye who enter here

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so they try to convince is over and over again there's nothing you can do with

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the that's right Wesley

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propaganda campaign problem the mainstream media from hollywood

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telling those who believe in a biblical definition of marriage

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that it's hopeless you know I I'll point out

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forty states have passed laws are constitutional amendments protecting

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traditional marriage even the state of California bright blue liberal

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California when it was on the ballot

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a majority of californians voted to protect traditional marriage that's why

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the court stepped in

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because the american people when given the opportunity

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still stand for our judeo-christian values its the elites that are forcing

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the socks

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but where I very much agree with you land is that religious liberty is in the

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crosshairs one of the things I write about a great length in my new book a

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time for truth is

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is the two decades I've spent fighting to defend religious liberty over and

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over again

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Solicitor General attacks that defending the Ten Commandments monument on the

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state capitol grounds

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winning 5-4 before the Supreme Court defending the pledge allegiance two

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words one nation under God winning unanimously before the Supreme Court

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and in private practice representing pro bono for free

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over three million veterans defending

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the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial alone white Latin cross

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corrected over seventy years ago honor the men and women

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who lost their lives in World War one and winning 5-4 before the US Supreme

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Court and this next battleground you're right

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tax exemptions Christian University's

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Christian Schools a Jewish schools are

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love ShareThis anyone who believes in the traditional definition of marriage

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the Obama Justice Department admitted it the oral argument that their next on the

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chopping block

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for persecution and I'll tell you what sad watching these religious liberty

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battles just how many in the 2016 Republican presidential candidates and

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run for the hills last

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two decades fighting for religious liberty and I believe 2016 will be a

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religious liberty election

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and I will never shy from fighting to defend the religious liberty every

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American

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to live according to a space and its conscience I think

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2016 is going to be election on a couple things religious liberty

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but also the economy i wanna talk to a little bit about Greece

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you have to settle an argument between parents do they're very upset

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it's been going on for weeks now and if we have time I wanna get your answer on

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this

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I believe if you just look at what they've accomplished

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and how and how much they have affected

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the the but the nation I believe

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President Obama maybe v most effective president

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in the history America I'd love to hear your comment on that when we come back

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he has a new book out tomorrow Ted Drewes a time for truth reigniting the

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miracle love America he joins us now he's gonna be with me for a full hour on

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I think it's Thursday on television a but let's %uh

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lil E we need to address one thing that has been going on for about a month and

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it's been

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ugly behind-the-scenes dead I gotta be for the senator Kors

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and eyes stew %uh was very

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a.m. a free-trade guy sure i'm a i'm a believer in free trade in a big way

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a lot of our audience was beating you up specifically for your support of TPA in

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TPP

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so I wanted leading us break Latin clip

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but we didn't and we didn't fully had fully looked into it so I decided to do

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the hard work in listen to multiple lengthy

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somewhat boring interview mine shows

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about it in which you eloquently defend free trade

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you go into you know eloquently defended albright

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censures about you hey ME

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to locate and then and then we had to listen

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Ford Jesi about how you defended

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what I said was he got more information

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hold on let me finish your career I and I said I tried to pitch this to these

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guys

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the is senator and I say I i said listen these interviews listen to them he's

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defending all the point to bring up he's got the answers to them

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and then when times get tough you bail on me

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switch sides began to explain this

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well Tuesday let me start by apologizing that the interviews were born in

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okay and I will say every interview i've done with you guys has been anything but

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with and I i sorry for that cell

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so I appreciate you when you were defending me and

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and I appreciate you always when you when you're speaking the truth is you

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guys do every day

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outlook on trade on

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you know TPA in CPP these are complicated issues and I'll point out

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for people that want it now

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more we actually have an extensive Q&A in blog posts on our website Ted Cruz

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out or

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Ted bruised or where you can answer detailed questions

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when the senate first took up TPA which is trade promotion authority it's called

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fast track

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it's a process for adopting free trade agreement I voted yes back in May and

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the reason is

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like ronald reagan still I support free trade

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I i believe that in the open foreign markets it benefits american farmers and

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ranchers and we agree with that

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to the senator cheese me it's not just do that agrees with that

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well i i has don't trust the president

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and at all well

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ended glad I don't have to say you are powerfully persuasive

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big your boating initially

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for FasTrak I two additional fact came that came to light

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that cause me to change my position number one after that many though

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WikiLeaks released the text %uh trade in services agreement

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which explicitly purports to change immigration laws a member countries

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now okay all that was here

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we've been told that there was really nothing impact immigration identities in

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an amendment

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in the senate City PA to put explicitly in it that nothing could could

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impact immigration jeff Sessions introduced an amendment very similar to

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that

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so I publicly at I will not support

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fast-track unless Congress adopts the crew session amendments to take

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immigration of the table for Amber

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in trade agreements and then the second thing that changed is when

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TPA went to the house it became abundantly clear the house leadership

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at cut a deal with the democrats to reauthorize

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what's called the export-import bank one of the classic example

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me of corporate welfare and cronyism where hundreds of billions of dollars in

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taxpayer money

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are put on the line in loan guarantees to handle a giant corporations and I

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publicly say I can't

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abide by this back room corrupt deal-making this is the washington

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cartel

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and so i i wrote a long up and bright part which is also our website it said

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bruised or

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that lays out why I changed my view but against EPA the back in time

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because the the refusal to adopt the crew sessions amendment on immigration

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number one in because the number to the corrupt deal

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on cronyism court where is this from the export-import wears a stand now

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so it it passed it passed the Senate with sixty votes

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which was the bare minimum need itself so fast track

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is going to be the law of the land that's the process

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for approving free trade agreements not only

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specific agreements have been voted on yet TPP which a lot of people have

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concerns about including me

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hasn't been voted I haven't voted on it but in the senate voted on it because

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it's still being negotiated

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solder does that indeed set up some kind a global

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entity that that compromises our sovereignty and what I wanna know is

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that at least you know where do we stand on the

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immigration is that just gonna happen now well

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bad unless it is to pieces I don't we have one minute

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TBT set up by a call Blaney to compromise archives

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still don't believe that okay just let me just sessions is all over that

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but let me throw the caveat that this is an agreement that still being negotiated

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so your part of the reason I haven't stated definitively have known about it

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I wanna see the final agree

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and under the terms a fast-track congress can't vote on PPP until the

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text is public for at least 60 days I think it is ridiculous

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that the Texas secret right now got more chill at least for two months it'll be

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public

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for you and me and everyone to read it now I read the current draft

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text in the basement of the Capitol but it needs to be public and we need to

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have a robust debate and

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if it undermine sovereignty that undermines our immigration laws if it

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starts

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american workers I will vote against okay Ted Cruz

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thank you very much senator for being on the program today we'll have more with

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him a full hour on Thursday on television

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new book out tomorrow time for truth by Generation X

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