Ted Cruz

This is the same Ayatollah.

Look, one of the reasons we went into Venezuela is Iran had a major beachhead in Venezuela.

Maduro allowed Iran in there.

Hezbollah had a major beachhead to wage war against.

in Venezuela to attack the United States.

Look, this avuncular man with a bushy white beard, as the numbskulls at the Washington Post put it, until yesterday was actively trying to murder President Donald Trump, had hired hitmen, had put out a video, an animation showing a drone going to Mar-a-Lago and killing President Trump on the golf course.

You know, the phrase for the media that's been used more than once is useful idiots.

And I think sometimes headline writers decide they haven't given us enough material.

They need to be even more ridiculous cheering for our enemies.

Yeah, so I was on Air Force One with President Trump flying from Washington, D.C.

down to Texas to Corpus Christi.

I was joined by my colleague, Senator John Cornyn, and then there were multiple members of Congress that were there.

And the president came and was talking with us.

And asking about Iran.

And he went around the room and he said, should we strike?

What do you think?

Should we strike?

Should we hit them hard?

Or should we go and keep trying to cut a deal?

What do you think?