Ted Cruz

I did, after Face the Nation, I also did State of the Union with Dana Bash.

And Dana Bash asked a question of me.

She said, you know, President Trump campaigned on no more wars.

And I, in my response, I said, well, Dana, you actually misquoted what the president said.

What the president said was no more forever wars.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I said, listen, we're not going to see troops on the ground in Iran.

We're not going to see hundreds of thousands of Americans there for an extended period of time.

I don't think we'll see that at all.

That is very different.

And I said, look, there are isolationists who want

want America to withdraw from the world.

Donald Trump has never been an isolationist and he is acting to protect America.

This is America first.

The reason we are striking Iran right now is because the odds are unacceptably high.

Iran has already killed nearly a thousand Americans and they have every desire to kill more.

As I told the president driving in the beast, I said, if the Ayatollah could kill the two of us right now,

He would.

The only thing that is preventing him is that he's not able to because he is trying.