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[crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] stands by his claim that Senate Majority Leader [crscore]Mitch McConnell[/crscore] is a liar arguing, “Every word I said there was true and accurate.”
In a town hall on MSNBC hosted by the moderator of “Meet the Press” Chuck Todd on Thursday, Todd asked Cruz, “You called Senate Majority Leader a liar on the Senate floor. That has not sat well with your colleagues. Do you regret calling him a ‘liar’ on the Senate floor?”
“You know, Washington is an amazing place,” Cruz said. “When somebody stands up and lies to you, and someone else points out that they lie…”
Todd interjected, “He lied to you. You still stand by it?”
“Every word I said there was true and accurate. No one has disputed a word I said,” Cruz argued. “The reaction in the Senate is ‘How dare you say that out loud?’ They’re not upset that somebody lied to them. I mean, that’s the amazing thing.”
“If that’s the case, how do you stand working with somebody who lies to you?” Todd asked. “And how can you work with him going forward?”
“What I have done from day one is endeavored and it’s a promise I made to the people who elected me, I’m going to tell the truth, and I’m going to do what I said I would do,” Cruz said.
In July 2015, Cruz said about McConnell, “What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what [McConnell] told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.”
“We know now that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false. That has consequences for how this body operates,” Cruz said.