Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz previews the hearing and discuss mail-in voting concerns on 'Fox & Friends.'
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New York, in a couple of hours
back to you,
PETE, just in a few hours Senate,
will hold hearing about Antifas
role and riots across the
country.
Ainsley TED Cruz is chairing
with what we can expect good
morning to you
good morning, good to be with
you
Ainsley senator. What can we
expect today
Senator well this morning we
will address peace to assemble
and we saw thousands of people
across the country exercising
free speech rights.
You and I we all have right to
speech and protest, but we cross
the line when we commit
violence when you assault
someone else, firebomb a police
car and when you murder, a police
officer, youve crossed the line,
and that has got to stuff and
the hearing is focusing on
violent terrorists. The attacks
are not spontaneous,
Antifa is organizing them.
Marxist group. Black lives matter
is organizing them and thats an
important distinction.
The phrase black lives matter is
indisputable. True, because
everybody is precious life from
God and the organization that
has called black lives matter is
formed by vowed Marxist who are
seeking to abolish the police
and seeking to destroy the
nuclear family and thats what
they say, their objectives are
and this violence. We need to
see concerted, real efforts so
that anyone understands if you
assault someone else,
commit act of violence. You are
going to be arrested and youre
going to jail and prosecuted
Brian senator. My hope is that
we are going to see who is
financing these eighteen to
25 year olds, who are destroying
city after city, and hopefully
you can unwind that and police
officers have debriefed some of
the people after they capture
them and before they let them go
and get to the bottom of it.
Meanwhile, one of the thing that
concerns you and the president
having mail in ballot for the
entire country, absentee ballot
and mail in ballots, different
absentee about a million youre
talking. One hundred million
here is the president yesterday
using the New York race, which is
still not decided as an example
watch.
If you look at the New York
congressional race, which is a
disaster Carolyn its been a
total disaster,
they have, they are six weeks
into it. Now
they have no clue whats going
on, and I mean I think I can
say right here now. I think you
have to rerun the race because
its a mess,
nobody knows what is happening
with the ballots and the lost
ballots and the fraudulent
ballots. I guess so. This is a
small race, with literally
thousands of people, small
thousands and its all messed
up.
Brian. Is this emblematic to
what happens in the country on
November? Third,
Senator
Senator im. Sorry, I didnt
hear the question
Brian. It was a good one.
Ly re ask it:
is this emblematic on what can
happen November? Third,
senator you know, I think it
could very well be
when it comes to elections. We
want them to be safe and secure,
and when you go cast a vote that
that vote count and that the
integrity of the election be
protected and the problem with
mail in ballots is some people
might wonder. Why is this such a
big fight?
Mail in ballots are a acceptable
to fraud.
You know in Texas, we have
fairly stringent standards of
when mail in ballots are allowed
and you go back to Texas
Legislature. It was a time when
there were a lot of Texas
Democrats and there was a lot of
voter fraud, particularly in
Texas, democratic primaries, and
you go back and look at
legislative history, where
elected Democrats in the Texas
Legislature were describing how
mail in ballots would be used to
steal votes from unsuspecting
democratic voters, many of them
african, american or hispanic who
didnt know that it was. It
was unscrupulous partisans that
were stealing votes and casting
them for whatever candidate had
paid them or whatever candidate
hired them to go, engage in
stealing votes.
We see in California, vote,
harvesting, harvest votes and
the ones they like they put in
and the ones they dont
disappear.
Thats. What? Sadly, the Democrats
have decided to focus on?
I think the president is
absolutely right.
We need integrity in our
elections.
We are sitting here six weeks
later and we still dont know
the results in New York.
Imagine if that happens in the
presidential race,
that wouldnt be pretty and
lets not have that happen.
Lets actually have peoples
votes count when they cast them
PETE we are out of time
senator we will be watching
considering Jim Clyburn denies
any violence in Oregon and
Nadler says. Antifa is a myth,
its interesting. What Democrats.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-05.