Ted Cruz at the Voters First Presidential Forum

senator Ted Cruz Arthur Schwartz here in Manchester is in the audience tonight he wonders what your

vote to defund Planned Parenthood and I hope very much that that we see the Republican leadership actually

lead the fight to get it done and we stopped funding plan let me answer the question you ask is a very important one I

believe this Obama raining a nuclear deal is the single greatest national

security threat facing America it is a catastrophic he'll if this deal goes through several things will first

of all roughly a hundred billion dollars over a hundred billion dollars will flow into Iran Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism that

money in turn billions of it will go on to Hamas Hezbollah to the hood piece you know it's it's very interesting I pointed out a couple weeks ago that if this deal goes through that

radical Islamic terrorism in response just last week president Obama attacked me from from

Africa for saying that he said that rhetoric was over here Iraq's baking the truth is not rhetoric the truth is

if this administration of president Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are responsible for sending billions

of dollars to Iran and that Iran does that that those billions go to jihadist who

use that money to murder Americans to murder Israelis to murder Europeans then the administration is responsible beyond that this

the nineteen seventies to abandon our hostages in Iran we shouldn't see and other and this deal accelerates Iran acquiring nuclear weapons what should we do I've

already introduced legislation in the Senate that would reimpose sanctions that would strengthen them and that would lay out a clear path a

sensible path veranda lift sanctions that they would disassemble all nineteen thousand centrifuges they

would hand over their enriched uranium they would shut down their ICBM program which exist for one purpose and

that is to carry a nuclear weapon to the states of America and they would cease being the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism over the next sixty days I'm

going to do everything I can to mobilize and energize the American people against this catastrophic deal because I think it is a profound threat to

the safety and security of American we need a commander in chief that will defend the state senator Tom Boucher of that for new Hampshire's in the audience he asks tell

us about a time when your judgment has been tested in crisis and what you want us to appreciate about

your judge well you know I'll tell you a serving in the United States Senate is an interesting experience %HESITATION I

have spoken a lot about what I call the Washington cartel what is the Washington court it's career politicians in

both part don't get in bed with lobbyists they get in bed with special interest and they grow and grow and grow yeah

the American people are frustrated they're frustrated because we keep winning elections in twenty ten we won the house and twenty fourteen we

won the Senate and we don't have the leaders who follow their commitments and I'll tell you the sad reality my time in the Senate what