Good evening. It's Wednesday, June 18th.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight we have a great show for you, courtesy of Republican Senator Ted Cruz. The core value of an adversarial press, arguably its only real value, is to force political

leaders to account to the public for the decisions that they make, especially the most

consequential ones.

The lack of such an adversarial media conversely, which is what we have, means that the

population never really hears any real explanations for or challenges to their policies. Few things illustrate that contrast or illustrates the rot at the heart of America's decades-long,

bipartisan foreign policy failures, quite like the two-hour interview that Tucker Carlson,

notably now an independent journalist, conducted this week of GOP Senator Ted Cruz from Texas,

who, among other revealing statements

in that interview told Tucker that, quote, ICOM came into Congress 13 years ago, he said,

with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States.

And I've worked very hard every day to do that. That's what Ted Cruz admitted to

Tucker Carlson for some reason. Many of the clips from that interview published in full

just earlier today very quickly viralized all over the internet. That's because it is so rare to watch

a U.S. Senator, especially on advocating a brand new war of regime

change in yet another country when usually the media becomes even more subservient than normal,

watching a senator be confronted with all the questions, every politician ought to be asked in that

case, but almost never is. One such question that seems really simple, yet obviously is so

important that Carlson asked, but that Cruz couldn't answer even with a rough estimate, let alone a precise number,

was, hey, Senator, you want to go and bomb Iran, you want to invade Iran with some sort of

military assets, you want to change the country's regime, you want to do a regime change

...