As The New Civil Rights Movement reported this morning, after accusing Rubio of making “knowingly false” and “Alinsky-like attacks like Barack Obama”, Cruz continued the attack.
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He again said he doubts Trump will be the nominee, but told Baier he has no problem repeating the same thing he said behind closed doors.
Cruz’s questionable remarks came during an exchange with Florida Senator Marco Rubio over the USA Freedom Act, which replaced parts of the Patriot Act that expired in June.
Watch above, via Fox News.
But Burr said he’d be “a lot more worried” if Cruz were actually a member of the Intelligence Committee, which Rubio is.
Sen. Ted Cruz was put on the defensive Wednesday about the role he played in a failed Senate attempt at immigration reform, asserting that he did not support granting undocumented immigrants a pathway to legalization. “That gives us greater ability to stop acts of terrorism, and [Rubio] knows that that’s the case”. It’s unclear what consequences Cruz might face if he did disclose classified information, The Hill noted. “Any time you deal with numbers… the question is, ‘Is that classified or not?’ Or is there an open source reference to it?”
Rubio followed Cruz’s comments by saying national television was not the appropriate venue to talk about classified government information, without directly accusing his foe of leaking sensitive details. “This bill did, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling”.
“So it’s not as clear as just reading what he said”, he added. But Cruz, in Senate Judiciary Committee comments from May 2013, also argued for expanding legal immigration and temporary visas for high-skilled immigrants and for offering a chance for legal status “for the 11 million who are now in the shadows”.
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A Cruz spokeswoman told Politico the Senator did not release classified information and pointed to a Washington Post article that previously disclosed the 30 percent figure.
