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Maybe you’ve already seen this clip circulating on X last night or today.
Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/hJNwAHAnxZ— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 18, 2025
Pulling 90 seconds from a 2 hour conversation seems like a cheap shot but I was struck how similar this seemed to a moment in another debate that a lot of the isolationist crowd mocked when it happened.
Douglas Murray brutally shuts down Dave Smith when he admits he’s never been to Israel or Gaza:
“If you’re going to spend a year and a half talking about a place, you should at least do the courtesy of visiting it!”
pic.twitter.com/ktaXy56BHT— ???????????????? ???????????????? ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 10, 2025
“Do you have to go and actually touch the ground to talk about it?” Rogan asked. Similarly, do you need to know the population of Iran from the CIA World Factbook in order to have an opinion on whether or not the country should be allowed to build nuclear weapons?
Anyway, the full interview is out today and it starts out a lot calmer than the snippet above suggests. Cruz praises Carlson at length for his positions on the border and the pandemic shutdowns. He suggests they agree on about 80% of their politics with the exception of some foreign police issues. Cruz argues that he holds a position in between interventionist and isolationist which he calls “non-interventionist hawk.
