The Cruz Agenda
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Jeffrey Toobin joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the Republican candidates are sparring over national security.
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| 1:11.2 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about |
| 1:15.8 | politics. It's Thursday, December 17th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the |
| 1:21.0 | New Yorker. On Tuesday, at the 5th Republican presidential debate, some of the most lively |
| 1:26.9 | exchanges took place between senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. |
| 1:31.1 | Here's Cruz. |
| 1:32.6 | One of the problems with Marco's foreign policy is he is far too often supported Hillary |
| 1:38.8 | Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists. |
| 1:45.3 | We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars |
| 1:50.1 | that don't keep America safe. |
| 1:52.7 | Jeffrey Tubin joins me today to discuss the growing focus on national security as the |
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