Ted Cruz Suddenly Denies Talking To Trump As The 1/6 Committee Closes In

On Sunday, Ted Cruz disputed elaborate reporting astir his conversations with Trump on  January 6th, arsenic the 1/6 Committee is closing connected Trump’s telephone logs.

Ted Cruz Abruptly Denies Talking To Trump On 1/6

Video of Sen. Cruz (R-TX) connected CBS’s Face The Nation:

Sen. Ted Cruz disputes elaborate reporting successful the publication Peril and denies that helium had immoderate conversations with Trump connected January 6th. " I didn't hap to person immoderate conversations with President Trump connected Jan. 6." pic.twitter.com/nk1sO34IYG

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Transcript via Face The Nation:

MARGARET BRENNAN: I’d beryllium remiss if I didn’t inquire you astir the authorities of our ain democracy. I cognize you person condemned the unit connected Jan. 6, but successful that book Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported elaborate conversations you had with the President Donald Trump astatine that clip connected Jan. 6, and that you knew determination was nary legislature authorization to overturn the election. Didn’t indulging the doubters harm our ideology and our lasting successful the world?

SEN. CRUZ: Well, I haven’t work that peculiar book, and I didn’t hap to person immoderate conversations with President Trump connected Jan. 6– 

MARGARET BRENNAN: Didn’t you speech to him arsenic they item successful the– 

SEN. CRUZ: But I tin archer you nether the constitution– 

MARGARET BRENNAN: –but they elaborate a fig of conversations you had successful the publication with the president astir challenging the election.

SEN CRUZ: I person nary idea- I person nary thought what that publication says– but I did not person immoderate conversations with them connected Jan. 6. But I besides cognize what the constitution provides and the–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –Or starring up to Jan. 6?–

SEN. CRUZ: –I had galore conversations with him successful days and weeks and months starring up to Jan. 6, I-I talked to the president sometimes arsenic often arsenic erstwhile a week oregon erstwhile a day. But my constituent is simple. Under the Constitution, Congress has a role, it has a work erstwhile it comes to certifying votes. And what I did, I brought unneurotic a radical of 11 senators, and we objected to telephone for a Foreign Electoral Commission to reappraisal the claims of elector fraud and to measure and marque a determination to see the evidence.

The publication Peril has been retired for months, yet Sen. Cruz ne'er denied reports that helium had elaborate conversations with Donald Trump until now. Ted Cruz is playing a risky game, due to the fact that if helium did talk to Trump, it is apt that determination volition beryllium immoderate grounds of those conversations successful the documents that the 1/6 Committee is seeking.

The 1/6 Committee has been funny successful the activities of Sens. Cruz and Paul before, during, and aft the attack.

The 1/6 Committee is digging, and Ted Cruz says that helium didn’t speech to Trump, but if helium did, helium won’t beryllium capable to fell it for overmuch longer.