Ted Cruz

I will tell you, every one of us that was on the plane, it was unanimous.

We said hit them and hit them hard.

That was the assessment.

And look, Trump often when he's making decisions and talking to people who he trusts, he tries to get their take.

Their thoughts, yeah.

Yeah, he wants a barometer.

Is this a good idea?

What are the risks?

What should we do?

So we talked quite a bit on Air Force One about it.

And then when we landed, the president waved me over to join him in the Beast.

And so he and I drove from the tarmac to the event.

It was probably 15, 20 minutes.

And it was just the two of us in the Beast.

We were the only two.

And we spent almost the entire time talking about Iran further.

And so that was one-on-one.

And in that context, I was leaning in even more vigorously than I had on Air Force One and was saying, listen, this is a moment in time which we've never had like this before.

This regime is so weak.

You know, dictatorships, and this is true, this is true of the Soviet Union, this is true of communist China, this is true of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, this is true of the communist regime in Cuba, and this is true of Iran, dictatorships exist.