This is the Fox News Run Down Extra.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal.

We recently spoke to Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz about his new book, UnWoke, How to Defeat Cultural

Marxism in America. Cruz writes about his worldview being shaped by his Cuban

family's experience with communism. He explains why he believes the concept of an oppressor and an

oppressed is a Marxist idea and the danger of applying it to things like race, sex,

and national origin. The senator explains how he thinks this ideology has infiltrated schools

through more liberal educators,

and why he believes the idea that you can fight racism

by offering equity will end badly.

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this full interview.

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Now here's Senator Ted Cruz on the Fox News

rundown extra.

So Senator you wrote a book, UnWoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.

Can you give us some, I think just to start, I want for people who hear you and to listen to you to hear right off the bat

what was the catalyst for this book were there examples is there something you can

highlight that's happening now that bothered you enough to write this?

Well, the catalyst for this book is that we've seen every major institution in America captured by

the radical left and I wanted to examine and explain

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