Ted Cruz

If you don't teach your boys to play poker, you are failing as a father.

I'm not sure that will get you out of any trouble at all.

I think it's like a 2000 year old Chinese woman.

I'm just saying if the 2000 year old Chinese woman happens to be alive, I'm not sure you want to fight her because there's a zombie action going on.

Yeah, let's start with Minneapolis.

And listen, everyone who has anything resembling a conscience is horrified by what's happening in Minneapolis.

And what I want to call on everyone to do is just ratchet things down.

Ratchet the rhetoric down.

Ratchet the anger down.

You know, we are a nation and we're supposed to be one nation.

And right now we're seeing a confrontation.

Now, look, this is an organized confrontation.

This is a deliberate confrontation.

We're going to talk about that.

But I want to start with the rhetoric that politicians are using on both sides and the rhetoric, frankly, that people are using, just people on both sides on X are using, where on one side they view every shooting as an absolute tragedy, as evidence that –

that America has become Nazi Germany.

On the other side, you see some people that seem pretty eager to celebrate a violent and lethal confrontation with law enforcement.

And listen, there are lethal confrontations with law enforcement.

They happen.

But any time