Senator Ted Cruz

And if you can't get a credit card, it will drive every one of those people to an even worse credit option, whether it is a payday loan or whether it is a loan shark down the street.

And so I think the law of unintended consequences is really quite significant here, and I think there are a lot of downside risks.

Well, listen, I think what the president is doing right now is exactly right.

We are at a moment of history, an incredibly consequential moment.

I think there's a very real possibility that in the next 90 days we will see the regime in Iran fall, and I think we could see the regime in Cuba fall.

Those two together, if both oppressive dictatorships fell, would utterly transform the geopolitical frame worldwide.

In Iran, we are seeing millions of people standing up against the Ayatollah Khomeini.

And I think we could see that regime fall within weeks and even days or even hours.

It could fall today.

It is that precarious.

And I got to tell you, Clay, the reason for that – let's go back a few months ago to the 12-day war.

One of the things I said at the time is that I predicted that the regime, I believe, would likely fall as a consequence of that because there are real-world consequences to losing a war.

Losing a war is not just a communications problem.

It's not just a messaging problem.

It is reality that in the 12-day war –

Iran utterly and completely lost.

They were decimated.

And if you're an Islamist dictator, if there is anything possibly worse than losing a war, it is losing a war to Israel.

And dictatorships remain in power by convincing their people that they cannot be defeated, that they are omnipotent.

And the crushing defeat in the 12-day war destroyed –