Watch: Ted Cruz Peppered with Delicate Political Questions in Late Night Interview
By T. Becket Adams. Sen. Ted Cruz, during an appearance Monday evening on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” addressed several politically charged topics as the show’s host used the occasion of their meeting to pepper the GOP lawmaker with questions ranging from global warming to same-sex marriage.
Meyers early on in the interview addressed Cruz saying in a speech this weekend in New Hampshire that the White House’s failed foreign policy has set the world “on fire.”
The Texas Republican’s weekend remarks prompted a three-year-old girl in the audience to ask her mother whether the world really was on fire, much to the amusement of Cruz’s audience.
“The world is on fire, yes,” Cruz said during his weekend speech, addressing the girl. “Your world is on fire. But you know what? Your mommy’s here and everyone’s here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better.”
Meyers used Cruz’s weekend speech to question the Texas senator’s position on global warming. (Read more from “Watch: Ted Cruz Peppered with Delicate Political Questions in Late Night Interview” HERE)
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Mom: Ted Cruz Did Not Scare My 3-Year-Old Daughter
By Catalina Camia. A New Hampshire mom wants the world to know: GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz did not scare her 3-year-old daughter with his assertion that “the world is on fire.”
Michelle Trant is disputing the characterization by some news media that Cruz frightened her daughter, Julia, with his comments Sunday in Barrington, N.H. That assessment was all over Twitter on Monday morning.
“There were no tears, none at all” Trant told WRKO-AM, Boston’s talk radio station, during Jeff Kuhner’s call-in show Monday. “She was quite happy.”
Cruz, a Texas senator, was in the midst of criticizing President Obama on the economy, health care and foreign policy when he said “the world is on fire.” Julia, sitting on her mom’s lap in the front row, was described as being terrified by Cruz’s rhetoric or “listening in horror.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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