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the entire hour. here's how it all went down earlier today. ♪ >> please join me in welcoming back to liberty university senator ted cruz. [ cheers and applause ] >> it is the time for truth. it is the time for liberty. it is the time to reclaim the constitution of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] i am honored to stand with each and every one of you courageous conservatives as we come

together to reclaim the promise of america, to reclaim the mandates, the hope and opportunity for our children and our children's children. we stand together for liberty. [ cheers and applause ] i believe in you. i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. and that is why today i am announcing that i'm running for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> joining us now, the man himself 2016 now official presidential candidate texas senator ted cruz. senator, good to see you. >> sean always great to join you. >> all right. those kids are adorable. >> thankfully they look just like their mother.

>> interesting no teleprompter first out of the gate. by design? >> well certainly it's time to get in there. and it's time to start making the case. we got to change what we're doing. you know, i think there is an urgency to what we're facing in politics that's unlike anything you or i have ever seen before. i think it's now or never. i don't think we've reached the point of no return yet but we are close. and i think if -- >> what is the point of no return? >> well, we've seen our national debt go from $10 trillion to $18 trillion. it's larger than the size of our whole economy. we're seeing our constitutional rights constantly under assault from the federal government. and we're seeing america recede from leadership in the world. and the world is melting down. i think if we have four or eight more years on this same path we risk doing irreparable damage to this country. >> i'm going to get into the

specifics on the economy, on foreign policy. first a couple of questions about ted cruz. you went through a little bit of family history, your family life story. try and sum that up. very fascinating background. i didn't know a lot of the things you said today. >> well it was great. my family was all there and able to join me. i shared my mom's story. my mom grew up in wilmington delaware. she grew up in an irish-italian working class family. her mom, my grandmother was the second youngest of 17 kids. i mentioned that my mom's uncle ran the numbers in wilmington. i got to admit my mother was a little horrified that i said that up there. and my grandfather my mother's father, was a tough man. he drank too much. and he didn't have very enlightened views. he didn't really think women should get an education. and my mother is very soft spoken, but she's strong-willed and very bright. and she stood up to her dad.

she battled her father. >> 17 kids. >> well, that was her mother. and she became -- my mom became the first person in her family ever to go to college. and she went to rice, graduated 1956 with a degree in math and went into computer programming at shell. i mean was shattering glass ceilings. my mom is 80 this year. she was there at the event. and she is a woman of strength and fortitude but also incredible compassion. she is a wonderful mom and an incredible grandmother to our two little girls. >> and your dad fought bautista in cuba, came here at 18. >> he did. one of the things i try to do with the students at liberty is try to help put them in his shoes. that he was 14, 15 years old. he was a kid in high school in student council when the revolution began. and the revolution in cuba it

started in the student councils, in the high schools, in the colleges. and, you know, i sort of laughed. i was in student council growing up, but nobody would confuse our student council with revolutionaries. and my dad ended up when he was 17 bautista's police captured him and threw him in prison and beat him halfway to death. and he fled cuba. my grandfather told him look, they know who you are. they're just going to hunt you down and kill you. so he applied to three universities, applied to university of miami lsu and university of texas. and ut let him in. so my dad -- my grandfather drove my father to the ferry boat. my father lay down on the floorboards in the bottom of the car to hide because the police were keeping an eye on him. and he got on the ferry boat. he had a passport. he'd gotten a legal student visa from the american consulate because he'd been admitted to

ut could get a student visa. and then they had a family friend who ended up he needed a stamp from the bautista government to get out and they weren't going to get it to him, so a family friend paid a bribe to the cuban authorities to get the cuban stamp to let him out. he took a ferry boat to key west and then got on a greyhound bus and went all the way to austin and couldn't speak english had a hundred dollars in his underwear. >> very similar stories for a lot of families, my family as well. there have been a lot of issues. you were born in calgary, canada. is there a birth certificate issue? i don't mean to -- i did look at social media today. i know you mentioned at cpac. >> look, there's political chatter on it. the facts are clear. ives born in calgary. my parents, as a legal matter my mother is an american citizen by birth. and it's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an american citizen

born abroad is a citizen by birth, a natural born citizen. which is what the constitution requires to one. and several prior candidates have had this issue. john mccain was born in panama, mitt romney's dad was born in mexico, and actually barry goldwater, a lot of people don't know this, was born in arizona before arizona was a state. so as a legal matter the issue is quite straightforward. if you or i were to travel aboard and we have a child born abroad, and we're american citizens, that child is a natural born citizen. >> why does ted cruz, you senator, want to be president? it's a big decision? a big impact on your family. how would a cruz presidency differ from an obama presidency? >> well, our country is in crisis. we were talking just a minute ago. we've got to change the direction we're on. one of the things i talked about this morning in the announcement speech is that so many americans

across this country feel that the promise of america is drifting away from them, is unattainable. you know the miracle that was this nation that our rights we understand they come from god and not government, that government is limit and had that any one of us can come like your family like my family with nothing and achieve anything. that's slipping away. >> you think that's slipping away. here are the numbers, 92 million americans not in the labor force. >> yep. >> highest number since the '70s. almost 50 million americans on food stamps. almost 50 now in poverty. almost 20 million more than when president obama took office. $18 trillion in debt, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. those are real, real economic problems. >> yes. >> specifically how do you bring a budget in balance? how do you fix this economy? how do you get those people back in the labor force? >> well we can turn it around. and how you do it is all interconnected. my first and top priority is growth and jobs and opportunity.

you know, if you look at the federal budget you're a numbers guy. >> uh-huh. >> there's only one first order variable when it comes to the budget and that is economic growth. everything else is a second or third order variable. >> even spending? >> even spending is a much smaller impact on the federal budget than growth. historically in this country we've averaged 3.3% growth a year since world war ii. there have only been two four-year periods where growth has averaged less than 1% a year. 1978 to 1982, now that was coming out of jimmy carter, same failed economic policies. and then 2008 to 2012 where gdp growth averaged 0.9% a year. if we can get back to historic levels of growth 3, 4, 5%, suddenly the federal budget picture transforms. suddenly we have the revenue to take care and support our troops and build our military to defend this nation. suddenly it becomes possible to

step in and preserve and reform social security and medicare. suddenly it becomes possible to turn the problems around. >> the way government works is you have baseline budgeting where there's built-in increases every year. we've had -- this president will accumulate as much if not more debt than every other president before him combined. >> yes. >> that's unsustainable, right? so spending has to be a part of it. do you cut back -- do you curb spending? >> absolutely yes. one of the things you have advocated is the penny plan. i think the penny plan has an awful lot of force to it. and i'm an emphatic advocate of a balanced budget. putting in the constitution a strong balanced budget. >> every year has to be balanced. with the penny plan one penny of every dollar for six years and you would get without growth a balanced budget in six years. would you support cutting a penny of every dollar defense, social security, medicare. >> you're going to be hard

pressed to come up with a cost cutting program that i'm not going to support. i do think the military we need to look at the growing national security threats. and we need to make sure we take care of the men and women in the military and we provide what we need to protect this nation. and also if you look at the budget, you cannot bring the budget into control without taking on entitlement reform. two-thirds of the federal budget is entitlement. so if you don't talk about entitlements, you can't do it. >> entitlements? means testing? >> absolutely. >> raise the age of eligibility? >> sure yes. >> so somebody who paid in their whole life into social security, happens to have been successful, all that money they were promised, no? >> well, look, i think any social security reform that you do for those people who are seniors, for those people near retirement, we need to honor the commitments we've made to them. >> you're talking about future generations. >> people my generation. i'm 44. there are not a lot of people in my generation who think social security's going to be there for

us. >> i'm 53, i'm close to your generation. probably one step ahead. i want to talk economy problem solving, what your answers are. coming up we're just getting started with senator ted cruz. he'll be here for the entire show tonight. we're going to ask if elected what would he do in his first hundred days if he's the commander in chief. and send us your questions via facebook and twitter and we'll ask senator cruz some of those later in the show so stay with us. >> it is the time for truth. it is the time for liberty. it is the time to reclaim the constitution of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] no super-slow-motion footage of trucks splashing through the mud. no cowboy hats, horses, or hay bales. just a ram 3500 that, head to head,

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today was all about lighting that first spark and doing everything we can to empower men and women across this country to say there's a better way. we want our kids and grand kids to have a better future than we did. and we know this current path we're on isn't producing it. but if we can get back to the values that made america great. >> all right. that was senator ted cruz from earlier today at liberty university. he joins us now with more for the full hour tonight. when we go back to the economy, 50 million americans food stamps 50 in poverty, 92 million americans out of the workforce, 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities $18 trillion in debt. you talk about growth and getting the average growth has been which we're not at at this point. and you said you would cut spending. >> uh-huh. >> raise taxes. do you think you can do all this without raising taxes?

>> absolutely. if you look at how growth happens, it doesn't come from government, it comes frooift sector. but government can screw it up. historically there have been three levers that government applies to create an environment where small businesses can create growth. and the whole focus should be small businesses. because two-thirds of all new jobs come from small businesses. the first factor is tax reform. the more burdensome, the more complicated the tax code the less growth you have. the simpler the tax code, the less burden the more growth you have. a direct correlation. >> and you want a flat tax, not a fair tax. why flat not over fair? >> i support a fair tax. if you gave me a button and i could push an ideal outcome i'd push for the ideal tax. i think consumption tax makes more sense than a tax on production. but i think getting to a fair tax is going to take some time. we have a significant burden to persuade others. i think a flat tax is a much more achievable middle ground. so what i'm campaigning on is a simple flat tax where every

american can fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. >> how big a part of the equation in the economy is health care? by the time the next person becomes president, if it's you, it will have been voted on about seven years ago. that's a long time. it's almost institutional at that point. how do you repeal it? cost has gone up some 24%, costing the government more than originally estimated. what do you do and how big a portion of that is in the economic equation of getting to the balanced budget? >> it's a huge portion. as you know today is the fifth anniversary of the president signing obamacare into law. that's one of the reasons i announced this campaign today. because i think obamacare has been the biggest disaster, the biggest train wreck. it has cost millions of americans their jobs, forced them into part time work, cost them their health care their doctors, their health insurance premiums are skyrocketing. and listen the sad reality is an awful lot of republicans both in

washington and outside washington are resigned to leaving obamacare in effect. i am convinced in 2017 we will see a republican president in the white house sign legislation repealing every word of obamacare. and then we will pass common sense health care reform that expands competition that keeps government away from getting between you and your doctor and that makes health insurance personal, portable and affordable. >> okay. the "new york times" pointed out today that the single most important issue or determinate in an election i'm sure you read it is the "elites." i'll add to that they quoted that you were the most hated man in the senate. this dovetails right out of health care. and when you did your 21, 22-hour filibuster. john mccain's called you a wacko bird.

but the question is how do you -- when they say you're the most hated man in the senate why is that? why are some people in your party so against ted cruz and angry you did the filibuster? >> you know, sean when the "new york times" says that the washington elites despise me, my only question is i have to disclose that the as -- frankly i can't think of a better ground to run on. washington's broken. and it's both parties that aren't listening to the american people. >> do you think your party let you down when you stood on health care? in other words you said if we stand together we can get this done and they didn't stand with you. >> look, it's not a question of letting me down. it's a question of letting down the people who elected us. republicans all over the country campaigned saying if you elect us we'll fight -- >> if every republican stood you think it would have been successful. >> i think it absolutely would have been successful.

now, would we necessarily have succeeded in at the time defunding all of obamacare? i don't know. that was a difficult -- it would have taken a perfect storm. but i think at a minimum we would have provided meaningful relief for millions of people being hurt by obamacare. but it's important to point out. you and i were talking right in the midst of that battle and both parties saying this is terrible, shouldn't be fighting against this. remember they all went on tv and said as a result of this harry reid and the democrats are going to keep the senate. well, it strikes me we have a little bit of a different result. and not only did we win a historic victory, the largest majority in the house since 1920s, nine senate seats retired harry reid as majority leader but the number one issue we won the senate on was stopping obamacare. was the most frequent campaign commercial of every republican candidate. and it's interesting it doesn't occur to any of those republican elites or washington elites that

helping lead an effort that mobilizes and energizes millions of americans to stop the train wreck that is obamacare may have played a significant role in our winning. >> conservatives like myself we've been critical of republicans because they didn't fulfill their promises. there were a lot of showboats repealing obamacare, but when it came to using their constitutional power of defunding it, things got dicey and didn't want to be blamed for shutdown. similarly on the president's issue of executive orders with immigration. do you think this president through executive orders he's defined the constitution? >> absolutely. i think president obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had. >> is that impeachable? in other words in principle is it? or something politically? >> it is lawless and at the end of the day impeachment is a political question for the house of representatives. the house of representatives is

not moving forward with impeachment. one of the things that i tried to do for the previous two years i was the ranking member on the constitution subcommittee the senate judiciary committee, we put out a series of five reports chronicling all of the ways in which president obama has defied the constitution, defied federal law. and it is a profound threat to our liberty. and if there is one thing that is my touchstone that i go back to over and over and over again, it's the constitution of the united states. and i think that's going to be a central issue in this election in 2016. >> last question on the issue of the economy. how important is securing the borders? illegal immigration as it impacts the economy, criminal justice system, health care system educational system, how big an issue? >> it's hugely important. the american people largely agree. outside of washington there's bipartisan agreement number one that we got to secure the borders. >> first. >> first. >> what do you do with the 11 million here? >> you don't have to answer every question one at a time.

the first thing you should do is secure the borders. the second thing you should do and you should do it at the same time is improve and streamline legal immigration so that we cannot just welcome but celebrate legal immigrants. my dad was an immigrant who came here seeking the american dream, we're a nation of immigrants. if you want to pass something through congress, what you do is you focus on the areas of bipartisan agreement. democrats always want to focus on the 11 million or 12 million here illegally because it's the most devicive political question you can focus on. let's focus on where we agree. once we demonstrate we can solve the problem, then we can have a discussion about the next step. >> it's interesting. if you hear spending cuts are coming, you always get the tax increase up front never get the spending cuts. i would argue you would always get the amnesty and never the secure border. >> we saw that in the '80s. in the '80s congress told the american people we'll grant amnesty for 3 million people and in exchange secure the borders.

what happened the amnesty happened, the border never got secured. and i think the american people aren't interested in falling for the same deal a second time. >> we'll continue more with senator ted cruz. how would he deal with america's enemies? and later we'll ask some of your questions on twitter facebook as we continue. >> instead of a president who seeks to go to the united nations to end run around congress and the american people, imagine a president who says i will honor the constitution and under no circumstances will iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. [ cheers and applause ] toenail fungus? don't hide it... tackle it with fda-approved jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. most common side effects include ingrown toenail, application-site redness itching,

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imagine a president who says we will stand up and defeat radical islamic terrorism.

[ cheers and applause ] and we will call it by its name. senator ted cruz earlier today at liberty university. if elected commander in chief how will he deal with america's enemies? we continue with the senator. what do you think our top three security issues are? and you said you would name radical islamist. why do you think the president will not? he refuses to. >> it's a bizarre orwellian speak. he will not utter the words. for example several weeks ago when you had the horrific terrorist attack in paris and he referred to it as a random act of violence. when radical islamists go in with butcher knives to a kosher deli to murder jews because of their jewish faith, it is not

random. it is naked anti-semitism. likewise when 22 coptic christians were beheaded by isis and the first white house statement came out and described it as they're being killed because of their egyptian citizenship. they weren't killed because of their citizenship. they were killed because they were christians. because radical islamic terrorists were murdering them because of their faith. and pope francis his comment what was their blood confesses jesus christ. we can't confront the evil that we're facing if we refuse to acknowledge it for what it is, or if the president is an apologyist for it which is what he was at the prayer breakfast. >> what do you think it's going to take? a lot of people, military people, will tell you that we ultimately will need boots on the ground to deal with isis. do you agree with that? >> i think it should be driven by the military objective. i think the objective should be to destroy isis.

now, we do have boots on the ground with the kurds. the peshmerga the fighting forces of the kurds are effective able fighters, they're allies of the united states. we should be arming them. sending to baghdad who won't pass on to the kurds. so in my view the kurds should be our principle boots on the ground. we should be using overwhelming air force power. and then beyond that if we need to embed special forces or have some limited ground troops driven by the mission we should. but it shouldn't be a political decision, yes, boots on the ground, no boots on the ground. it should be a military decision what's necessary to destroy isis. >> do you think the president made a mistake? george bush the president warned in 2007 that if we don't keep intelligence forces and training forces on the ground that the enemy will get worse and we will have to go back in. seems it was a prediction that ended up fairly accurate. >> well it was. and there were many mistakes. but the most pervasive one is

projecting weakness to the world. the consistent pattern of the obama-clinton foreign policy has been abandoning our friends and allies, whether it's israel the uk canada. and coddling and appeasing our enemies. that message of weakness has been heard. it's why putin is bellicose in invading his neighbors it's why china is more and more aggressive in asia. and it's why iran is galloping towards nuclear weapons capability. and the latter iran i think is the single greatest national security threat facing the united states. >> what's number two? >> radical islam generally. >> number three? >> a more aggressive russia. >> okay. let's start with number one. how do you deal with iran? you hear about the president in the sunset years of this deal in the meantime they'll be able to spin their centrifuges some 6,000, at the end of this ten-year period ultimately be able to build a nuclear weapon.

>> i agree with what prime minister netanyahu said many, many months ago, that this deal is a very, very bad deal and an historic mistake. this deal paves the path towards iran acquiring nuclear weapons. if they acquire nuclear weapons i think the odds are unacceptably high they'd use them either against israel or america. your question was what should we do. i've introduced legislation in the senate that would immediately reimpose sanctions trengthen them to be more crippling and then a clear road map to how they can be lifted. they would have to disassemble all 19,000 centrifuges, shut down their icbm program which exists only to carry nuclear weapons to america and stop being the world's state sponsor of terrorism. >> this weekend our secretary of state said we're close to a deal at the very same moment with the top iranian mullah chanting

death to america. is that somebody we even should be sitting down at the table with? >> every year in iran they celebrate what's called death to america day. it's the anniversary of iran taking americans hostages in the 1970s. if history teaches one thing, it is that if somebody tells you they want to kill you. >> believe them. >> believe them. >> what do you think about the president and his treatment of prime minister netanyahu and israel? >> it is shameful, it is disgraceful. this administration has been the most antagonistic administration to israel in the history of this country. >> last question. so you mentioned number three is putin. we talked about terrorism, we talked about iran. how do you deal with his territorial ambitions? how do you stop putin? the price of oil has crippled his economy a little bit, but -- >> yes. putin is fundamentally a kgb thug. he's not a complicated man. he's been very candid. he says he considers the

greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. he's trying i believe to reassemble as much of it as possible. putin only understands strength. now, listen, nobody wants to see a shooting war between america and russia. two nuclear superpowers you don't engage in a shooting war. but there are things we can be doing, we should be standing with ukraine and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commitments. we should have when putin invaded crimea, we should have immediately gone forward and installed the antiballistic missile batteries in poland and the czech republic that had been scheduled to go into effect and the president canceled in 2009 to appease putin. and third, we should immediately clear for export liquid natural gas. putin uses energy as his tool of economic blackmail. it produced jobs here at home, weaken russia and empower our

friends. >> how big an impact on the economy? >> we could absolutely be energy independent in north america. if you bring in canada and mexico the reserves we have in north america. >> because putin can turn off the spigot to western europe therefore he has a lot of leverage. >> that's exactly right. i've introduced in the senate the american energy most comprehensive legislation to unchain the private sector to create millions of high paying jobs. you want growth, you want to solve the budget and deficit and debt millions of high paying jobs in energy and also in manufacturing from low cost energy is a critical element to how we do it. >> coming up, not everybody by the way is excited senator ted cruz has announced he's running for president. up next we'll give him an opportunity to respond to some of his critics. and later you, our viewers get to ask senator cruz questions. go to facebook and twitter. some of those straight ahead. >> millions fear that the promise of america's slipping away. that the promise of america's unattainable.

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university. now, as rumors of his candidacy began to surface, the left predictabley jumped on the chance to begin criticizing his leaders and eligibility as a u.s. citizen and much more. he's here for the entire hour tonight. here's one thing i can guarantee. i mentioned earlier some of your republican critics you know jerry brown over the weekend you know all the things people have said. one thing i can guarantee you, whoever is the republican nominee is going to be labeled as racist, sexist, hates, wants to kill grandma hates children and, you know the list of things. forgetting all these people, jerry brown i don't think that bothers you or john mccain calling you a wacko bird. but how do you deal with the clinton machine and the predictable, i guess narrative that has advanced any election cycle against any republican or conservative? how do you handle that? >> you're right. the media historically paints

who care kitures of republicans. either stupid or evil. >> or both. >> or both. in the media telling reagan was stupid, george w. bush was stupid, dan quayle was stupid, by the way stupid is better. if you're picking one or the other, stupid is better. >> better than evil. >> yeah. i guess i take it as a little bit of a backhanded compliment that the media has to some extent invented a third caricature. >> which you went to harvard -- >> yeah. they do anything they can to paint me as a wild-eyed lunatic. >> you know who says nice things about you? alan dershowitz, austin guls by said you were probably his most formidable debater he ever had to go up against. but you've got this -- we hear it's a coronation, probably hillary clinton is going to be your opponent if you win this

primary. they have a machine, they have a war room, what do you think of hillary? and how do you deal with her campaign? >> listen i think the way you deal with the war room and the media chatter is the same way reagan did. the media's always been a disaster disaster. they hate republicans now they hate conservatives even more. reagan went over their head and went directly to the american people. one of my favorite exchanges is a classic press briefing at the white house where reagan is there and sam donaldson says mr. president, mr. president, you have blamed the problems of this country on everybody else. mr. president, you're president of the united states don't you bear any responsibility for the problems in this country? and reagan leaned forward with a twinkle in his eye and he said, well sam yes. yes, i do. i bear considerable responsibility because for many

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in november 2016. we can't have 4 or 8 more years down this road the only way to win is to bring back to the polls the millions of conservatives staying home, millions of christians, millions of reagan democrats staying home. and as i look at the field i see a lot of good people, i like who i respect but i don't see that a lot of candidates that can energize and mobilize conservative that's stayed home in 2008 and 2012. if we don't bring them back, hillary clinton is the next president we need a leader to stand up tell the truth and lead on the great issues of the day. obamacare, our debt, or defending religious liberty or second amendment or standing up for life, marriage, or israel or standing up against iran acquiring nuclear weapons, we need leaders who stand and lead thachl is what i've endeavored to do.

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