Ted Cruz: It's 'Racist' to Defund the Police

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As municipalities around the country ponder defunding their police forces, Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing back. The Texas Republican argues that more black lives will be lost and more black women will be sexually assaulted if law enforcement is cut or abolished in some communities. Cruz joins The Daily Signal podcast to discuss.

The senator also talks about how and why he was sanctioned July 13 by the communist government of China for "interfering in China’s internal affairs."

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, July 21st. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.5	And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Will black communities be negatively impacted if they
0:15.8	defund their police forces? Senator Ted Cruz of Texas joins me on the podcast today
0:21.0	to discuss.
0:22.5	Plus we talk about why he was sanctioned by China
0:25.5	and why that's good news.
0:27.6	Don't forget.
0:28.6	If you're enjoying this podcast,
0:30.2	please be sure to leave a review
0:32.0	or a five- star rating on Apple
0:33.6	podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. Now under our top news. If rioters decide to target federal buildings in other parts of the country besides
0:50.4	Portland, Oregon, the Department of Homeland Security is prepared to send federal
0:55.0	officials to those cities to protect government property.
0:59.2	Ken Kucinelli, the Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary joined CNN's new day on Monday and explained that the actions taken in Portland by the Department of Homeland Security are not only within the department's rights, but it is their duty to protect federal property.
1:17.0	So the violence in Portland was going on for four, five, six weeks before we got intelligence about planned
1:27.2	attacks on federal facilities where we backed up the Federal Protective
1:31.9	Service which is responsible for protecting the
1:34.4	courthouse there and other federal buildings with other DHS law
1:39.4	enforcement components and that and we've been there ever since wearing by the way the very same
1:45.4	uniforms every day in the crowd has seen them every day marked and so forth but if we get the same kind of intelligence in other places
1:56.4	about threats to other federal facilities or officers we would respond the same
2:01.4	way and we have a responsibility the
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