Sen. Ted Cruz on Special Report's Center Seat

liasson national political correspondent national public radio and Jonah Goldberg senior editor of National Review

center thanks for being here breast ratio and I will start with today's vote on %HESITATION TPI the trade agenda

out you were a big supporter of trade and he spoke out about a year or even a column with Paul Ryan about it but

today you voted against I did why well I'm a big supporter of free trade a campaign in support of free trade %HESITATION

one wikileaks relate released the text I have a portion of the trade in services agreement that

explicitly contemplate changing immigration laws of member countries %HESITATION over

and over again we've been assured there were no changes in immigration laws that leak was one material change and

then a second material change was the backroom Washington deals that were cut on the export import bank the export import bank is

a classic example corporate welfare and it appears now that leadership cut a deal to reauthorize this cronyism hundreds

of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars on the line to help giant corporations as the price for TP a and

and the two together %HESITATION work too much and you know I voted now you know center it seem to catch your leadership by

surprise and you have done that numerous times %HESITATION your leadership often is not happy with you legislatively

working with Republicans is that a problem I you know leadership in Washington is not listening to the American people back home I'll tell you as I travel the country I

ask groups gathered all over the place how many of y'all are frustrated with Republican leadership I've yet to see a crowd where every hand doesn't go up and

the reason is over and over again this is a great example when when trade promotion authority was in the house a

group of conservatives came to the speaker and said we'll give you the votes you need to pass this if you agree to let the

export import bank guy let this massive corporate welfare program die which is going to do under

current law leadership said no they're more indebted to case street in the Washington lobbyist in Washington cartel in the art of conservatives and

a result of their standing for their principles and I look conservatives across this countrified is leadership always

cut a deal with the Democrats instead of standing for conservative problems will get to the export import bank and

subsidies have been illegally distributed through exchanges are not established by the states if

they hold that way six million or so Americans might suddenly lose their health insurance there will be a move in Congress among Republicans to extend

the subsidies for seventeen months to get into the next president's tenure could you support that I

could not under no circumstances should Republicans in Congress extend obamacare if

the Supreme Court rules as many observers expect it will conclude that the Obama IRS violated