Sen. Ted Cruz on ABC's This Week from the Munich Security Conference

republican senator ted cruz he joins us now from munich senator chris thank you so much for joining us well

this morning we've heard of this division between the %HESITATION europeans and perhaps the united states over this issue army

bipartisan congressional delegation with ukrainian president poroshenko when he made clear if

you craning ins are fighting to defend their nation they wanted if they and our nation we have a treaty obligation to stand with them and right now unfortunately the

obama administration is not honoring that obligation we need to come together and provide defensive arm so that they can stand up as

russian aggression i know you also discussed the battle against isis this weekend in new again i know you said in the past that

reason is we had boots on the ground are ready with the kurds the peshmerga are trained

effective fighters they are close allies of today i met with the president of kurdistan and

shuttling in all of baghdad and baghdad is is very slow in getting it to the kurds we need to arm the kurds and we need to use the peshmerga as

boots on the ground they're effective they're ready there are close allies but if that's not enough would you be willing to send american ground troops

into that bad i look we need to accomplish the mission in the mission should be defeating isis before

to be we should go that step but it should be driven by the mission and the first step should be to effectively arm the peshmerga use that i'm as boots on the ground and

to use serious overwhelming air power problem is right now the obama clinton carry foreign policy has

been consistently wrong it's been wrong on isis it's been wrong on russia it's been wrong on iran and and when it comes to isis

our policy of leading from behind we've seen essentially photo op foreign policy where we drop a bomb here a missile there we

need a focused direct military objective of taking out and destroy i

said isis in arcata also posing a threat to our homeland as you know other departmental insecurity about to run out of funding i by

the end of this month and speaker boehner's college you out on your strategy get a block that funding in in in the effort to block the president's executive orders on

an immigration i do you have a strategy to implement your plan is going to take democrat both do you have a strategy get those votes and

if not what do you need to make sure that almost thirty funny is put in place well george i don't agree with the premise of your question this was not my

plan this was leadership's plan this was the cromnibus which you'll recall in december i

fought vigorously against it i said this plan doesn't make sense it gives away all our leverage and

it's a plan that nine to fail so i would ask leadership this is their plan they designed let's

see what their next step is but i'll say to additional things this past week we saw senate democrats three

times filibuster funding for the department of homeland security the democrats need to stop filibustering