Ted Cruz says that if one of his daughters as a young adult joins the Navy and her boat strays into the territorial waters of an unfriendly country whose own Navy then holds the boat, he would want the president to torpedo diplomatic discussions for their release by speaking belligerently about it on national television hours after the incident began.

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I can’t remember which network I watched the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, but one of the post-speech commentators was Hugh Hewitt, a winger talk radio host whom I had never heard of until he participated as a questioner in one of the earlier Republican debates this cycle. Hewitt began his commentary […]

• Ted Cruz says that if one of his daughters as a young adult joins the Navy and her boat strays into the territorial waters of an unfriendly country whose own Navy holds the boat, he would want the president to torpedo diplomatic discussions for their quick release by speaking belligerently about it on national television hours after the incident began.
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