Ted Cruz on Fox Business

is running to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Senate tex is one of the state's challenging by the way the legality of

obamacare in a case that is likely to end up in the Supreme Court Ted good to see if things were coming in appreciate it great

to be with you David so outside some people saying the next Marco Rubio how do you take that comment well

conservative leaders all across the country and we've raised over a million dollars in in just the first ten weeks of the campaign so

not really has been encouraged I married a Hispanic guy from Nicaragua she lived under the the communist Sandinista regime and she

knows the difference between free market and and social a lot of folks from Latin America do and

that's why they come here you I think that is it is a huge audience has been exploited properly by Republicans and conservatives well

understand what the stakes are about you understand that they have how easily and how quickly liberty can be taken away wife

as a teenager he was thrown in prison and torture my grandfather bride to prison guards to get him out he fled Cuba and came to the U. S. to

go to the university of Texas in nineteen fifty seven he was eighteen didn't speak a word of English had a hundred dollar sewn into his underwear and

I got a job as a dishwasher making fifty cents an hour it's incredible and and and how much of that experience his experience has

affected you your life in the way you live your life well it's an enormous influence my dad's been my hero my whole life and and you know when I was a kid David he used to say to me all

the time when we face depression in Cuba I had a place to flee to if we lose our freedom here where do we go and

and there is no no question that better captures why am running for the U. S. Senate than that question now

it's interesting folks who don't know you might not appreciate value it's a Princeton and Harvard to I'd first of all how is it that you were corrupted by Princeton and

Harvard I mean so there so it's nice liberal institutions how did you end up with your ideas well I tell you any time I'm traveling in West Texas that

I mentioned I went to Harvard Law School I made it we have to follow it up by saying I've got a lot to apologize dnmt

right now right but we hear we have it's interesting you used to contrast you with president Obama I mean %HESITATION you both were IV guys and

yet his his way of seeing the world is so very different from hertz why do you think that is dammit

world view that that views government controlled that views European socialism as something attractive is a good direction for this country to go I

think that's profoundly contrary to the freedom and opportunity our nation was built upon do you think though that that

it was just that difference of four years that maybe he was kinda still stuck with all those professors who were in the build

I I think he very much body into the the prevailing wisdom at virtually every

policy of the Obama administration is conventional wisdom in the faculty lounge at Harvard Law School through

and and one of the real blessings I had coming in was a strong foundation coming from a family that had fled oppression and