Ted Cruz
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But if you wanted to talk to me about this, I'd be willing to have that conversation.
We did talk about it.
We had a good conversation.
The president made the decision to go with Jeff Sessions.
Jeff was a good friend of mine, was a colleague in the Senate.
I was happy for him.
And I will tell you, in the 11 years since that conversation, I have been grateful every day since then.
that I did not go down that path.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
And look, I made a half-hearted play on purpose.
I know how to make a full-throated play, but I thought I perceived...
the downsides of the job.
And I liked what I was doing then.
So I was like, but to be honest, the reason I made the half-hearted play is just for love of the game.
I mean, frankly, the job of attorney general, I would really enjoy that job.
It didn't make any sense.
It wasn't consistent with what I wanted to do, but it just would be fun.
In hindsight, so I will tell you nine months into it,
There was a story in The New York Times.
This would have been, I think, August of 2017.