joining me now to talk about all this is
a great friend
senator ted cruz of texas a member of
the foreign relations committee
and a wonderful ally during the trump
administration years
uh senator ted cruz welcomes her to the
program
i want you to you and i have a great uh
talk about foreign policy but first
you heard my opening riff on this crazy
pro-public irs
scandal and um being this
smart gentleman you are i thought you
might have a thought or two on it
well larry it's great to be with you let
me congratulate you on being back on air
things seem right in the world with you
back on air and and i
always enjoy your analysis of what's
going on in the world as usual you're
spot on when it comes to the irs
this is an abuse of power it's a
grotesque abuse of power it's
politicization
of the irs we saw barack obama
politicize the irs
and we're just a few months into the
biden administration and they're
politicizing the irs
and you know if if you're sitting at
home and you're thinking well that's
just those super rich billionaires
what do i worry about that listen if
their privacy of their tax filings isn't
protected your privacy isn't either and
whoever
leaked this illegally should be
prosecuted and should go to jail
and and i'll tell you the best solution
for this is what i've been advocating
for a long time
which is that we should adopt a simple
flat tax it's what you said
in your opening monologue broaden the
base lower the rates have a simple flat
tax
fill out your taxes on a postcard and
then abolish the irs
get rid of that abusive politicized
institution
shut them down i love that center you
know i love that i'm a sucker for all
that stuff
i got laffer coming on later in the show
he's gonna walk through it again but
thank you for that
especially uh let's turn to this um g7
meeting
and uncle joe cavorting in the english
countryside first of all what do you
think does he
does he understand how high the stakes
are
in the post-trump era we can't give up
for example
nato paying its own dues we can't let
russia
rule the roost not just with nordstrom
but with many
other things we can't spend our time on
foreigners raising american taxes i mean
what do you think where do you think
biden is going what's the substance here
i know the pomp and circumstance but in
terms of foreign policy
one of your areas of expertise what
should he be doing
well larry i've got to say it's been
stunning to see in the first
five months foreign policy blunder after
foreign policy blunder after foreign
policy blunder
you you have to go back to the jimmy
carter administration to find
an administration that had as many
catastrophic foreign policy mistakes
joe biden began his presidency by
ripping up the remain in mexico
agreement an historic agreement
president trump had negotiated with
mexico that had lowered
illegal immigration to the lowest rate
in 45 years
biden ripped that agreement up and we
now have a border crisis that joe biden
created
not only that we we saw joe biden in the
middle east
undermine our friends and strengthen our
enemies we saw joe biden undermine
israel and prime minister netanyahu we
saw him send over 250 million dollars
to the palestinian authority that is in
bed with hamas
and and pledges his number one foreign
policy objective
sending billions of dollars to the
ayatollah khamenei
who pledges and chants death to america
and death to israel and what did that do
it took what had been historic peace
flowering piece of the abraham accords
and within nine months turned it into
war in the middle east with over 4 000
rockets
raining down upon israel and and then
you mentioned russia
a minute a minute ago it is stunning
that joe
biden managed to give a multi-billion
dollar gift of vladimir putin
he waived the mandatory sanctions i
authored those sanctions
bipartisan sanctions president trump
signed him into law not once but twice
they shut down that pipeline from russia
to germany it was an incredible
bipartisan victory was a victory
for europe it was a victory for america
and american jobs and what did joe biden
do
he said putin start the pipeline again
i'm waving the sanctions and
this is i believe a generational
geopolitical mistake
that will strengthen russia at the
expense of all of the west
see this is so serious you're quite
right and we did work together on these
sanctions
you know we had them stopped out the
last hundred miles which is not nothing
in
in that game as as you wanna know um
what's so ironic here senator is that
supposedly you got all these media
people saying well now we can normalize
relations with europe because president
trump is gone
i think that's hogwash but the irony is
that the europeans the eu
opposes the uh nordstrom ii
the eu is opposed to germany playing
ball
with russia now why if biden wants to
make love to the eu
uh if such a thing is fathomable why not
star i mean
to me he should have said okay we are
going to keep the sanctions
nobody can help the last hundred miles
and deal you know deal blow to russia
but he didn't do it
yeah now look you're exactly right the
european parliament
has voted to condemn nordstrom 2. the
vote was
400 and some odd votes to about a
hundred it was an overwhelming vote
in the european parliament and and this
is really an amazing
foreign policy victory you know you go
back to the summer of 2019
where where putin was rushing to build
this pipeline i first introduced the
sanctions
seeking to shut it down and there was
russian disinformation that
that putin was putting out that said the
sanctions wouldn't work they couldn't
work there was no way to stop the
pipeline
though that misinformation was a lie
then it's a lie today
we passed those sanctions i got
democratic support republican support
passed it through both houses of
congress president trump signed that
bill if i remember correctly at
7 pm on a thursday at 6 45 pm
15 minutes before it was signed into law
the company that was building nordstrom
2 announced they were immediately
halting construction
and for a year it laid dormant now
tony blinken's talking point is well
they inherited a tough situation because
it was 90 percent built
well well you know what a 90 percent
complete pipeline
is zero percent complete it doesn't work
until you finish it we
we literally came in and gave this to
putin
you know we had him over barrel and he
gave it away and you're absolutely right
let me just ask you the last few moments
sir i'm interested in your thoughts on
u.s
anglo-us british relations um
barnes johnson gets a fairly good press
but he's a bit of an erratic i mean i've
known him for a long time you probably
have too
he's a bit of an erratic guy um there's
a couple things
number one do you anticipate do you
think the bidens will and do you think
we should
move to a free trade deal with britain
in the brexit era
and and number two senator do you think
we can rely on boris johnson
to keep huawei out of the 5g game
in england at first by the way they were
very bad but then after covet
uh prime minister got very sick and
suddenly hated the chinese
and now huawei is out will we keep them
out
and in your judgment uh in the
post-brexit era should we have a free
trade deal
yeah two great questions on question
number one i think we absolutely should
have a free
free trade agreement with the united
kingdom they
they are are one of our closest allies
an incredibly close and
valuable ally boris johnson has been a
strong leader for the uk
i am worried that the biden admin is
going to try to undermine that
that that they're mad about brexit and
and and that they're
they're going to try to to work against
our allies as they're doing across the
globe
and and you know on on huawei i i've got
to say
that the uk government as you noted at
the beginning they were going to have
huawei install significant telecom
infrastructure
in the united kingdom you spoke out
against that president trump spoke out
against it
i had nigel farage on on my podcast
verdict with ted cruz and nigel was
there
we were talking about this topic and i
pointed out
the uk is part of the five eyes
intelligence sharing agreements
closest allies right and and the problem
is huawei is a chinese espionage
agency and so if huawei provides their
infrastructure it sets up
for the chinese communists to intercept
our communications and what i told
nigel and what was covered heavily in
the uk i said listen
we love the brits but four eyes are
better than six eyes
which means as important as that
alliance is
we're not willing to give our most
confidential secrets to the chinese
thankfully and you noted it right after
covid the british leadership realized
the chinese communists can't be trusted
i got to say as joe biden goes to europe
i have zero faith
that that he will stand up against china
that he will stand up against huawei the
biden administration
refused even to commit to keeping huawei
on the entities list i asked multiple
biden cabinet nominees that
not a one of them would make that
commitment and so if joe biden wants to
show he can do something he's going to
be in europe
when he's talking with the eu he ought
to get the eu to agree
just like the brits have to keep huawei
out of europe that's
if no other reason senator ted i want to
have you on
to raise that 5g point and give it some
visibility
nobody pays any attention to it you are
quite right it's the heart of our global
intelligence system the five eyes
we cannot let it slip you're also right
i mean you and i have talked a million
times about this
huawei is not on our team they're on
china's team and i think it's important
that the biden stay with this
and i think by the way they got to keep
uh boris johnson
prime minister johnson he's a good man
but he needs to be on a short leash
on this stuff too i hope you'll come
back and talk some more i love talking
to you about foreign policy
just as much as tax cuts senator ted
cruz i look forward to it
ted cruz of texas thanks very much sir