May 1, 2026 • 7 mins
With the war in Iran starting over two months ago, President Trump reached a new deadline today. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, he is required to withdraw forces from a conflict after 60 days if he has not received congressional authorization. Bret Burkhart and Veronica Carter talked to Republican Senator Ted Cruz to hear his thoughts on the conflict, and what we can expect next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are taking a look at Ted Cruz. He is
a US Senator from Texas, as you know, and he
is joining us now on the Cogo News liveline. Because
it's not often we get to talk to a US Senator,
but Senator Cruz, who has served in the US Senate
since twenty thirteen and who our listeners can hear every
day every Sunday, I should say on his show Verdict
(00:21):
with Ted Cruz at five pm on Cogo's sister station,
The Patriot thirteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you, senator for taking some time to talk with
us this morning here on San Diego's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Veronica Brett, great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, we have just a limited amount of time. We
want to get as many questions as he can, so
we're just going to jump right into it first. You know,
with San Diego being home to thousands of active duty
Marines and sailors, many of whom are involved in the
war with Iran, thousands of their families here, what do
you want them to know about how long this conflict
may go on?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, the military conflict has already gone on just over
two months, and today we've had extraordinary military successes. Every
single benchmark that the President laid out at the front
end has been achieved, and has been achieved almost one
hundred percent. Iran's air defenses are completely gone. Iran's ballistic
(01:17):
missiles and its missile manufacturing capability entirely destroyed. Drones and
drone manufacturing completely gone. Iran's air force is in rubble
on the runway. Iran's navy is sunk on the bottom
of the ocean. And of course, the Iyahtola, the Malas
and virtually all the senior military leadership are no longer
(01:39):
with us. So in terms of military operations, the degree
of success is staggering. It took Iran forty years to
build that military. It took the United States military a
total of thirty nine days to entirely eliminate it. Where
are we now, go ahead, Where are we now? The
(02:01):
President has laid out four red lines for resolving this.
Number one, Iran can engage in no enrichment. Number two,
Iran has to hand over the enriched uranium they have.
Number three, Iran has to stop funding terrorism that is
killing Americans. And number four, Iran has to open the
(02:22):
straight of horm Mooves. I think President Trump is exactly
right to hold those red lines. All right, rule long
will that take? Sorry, go ahead, Brett Oh, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Just gonna say, yeah, how long will that take? Answer
that question? Everybody's on the edge of the sea with that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't know how long it will take. Right now,
the stage of the conflict we're engaged in, though, is
not active military conflict. We are not our fighting men
and women are not significantly in harm's way. The main
lever point right now that the President is using is
that we have blockaded the Straight of Horne moves for Iran,
and we have stopped Iran from sending ships into and
(03:02):
out of Iran. The consequence of that, Iran is fit
losing over five hundred million dollars a day because they
can't get their oil out of Iran. They are also
days away from filling up their storage capacity. Once they
do that, they will have no choice but shut in
their wells. Now, when you shut in wells, the production
(03:23):
drops permanently. And if Iran has to shut in its
wells when it reopens them at some point in the future,
it will have lost anywhere between five hundred thousand to
eight hundred thousand barrels a day of oil. So the
economic consequences on Iran are massive. Right now, we're not
in a significant live fire shooting war. It is more
(03:46):
using military might to impose significant economic costs to get
the Iyatoldu to agree to the president's demand.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We're talking to Republican Senator Ted Kruz of Texas well.
No one knows more about high gas prices, and we
do here in Kellifornia. So when the war does end,
how long will it take for those gas prices to
come down.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I think we will see gas prices go down significantly.
If you look at where we had been over the
past year and a half under Joe Biden, gas prices
spiked to around six dollars a gallon. When President Trump
came in and a Republican Congress came in, gas prices
dropped in half to about three dollars a gallon. What
(04:27):
has happened with the wars, They've risen about halfway back up,
so they're about four dollars and fifty cents, although I
will say, unfortunately in California, yours are substantially higher because
of the state taxes and state regulations. In terms of
the rest of the country, the rest of the country
is paying about four dollars and fifty cents right now
(04:47):
that obviously we would like it to be lower. My
view is this is a temporary increase, and if and
when the job in Iran is completed, I think that
will have a long term significant day pressure on oil
prices and gasoline prices. I think this is a short term,
short term and temporary rise while the military conflict is ongoing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, fingers crossed US Senator Taed Cruz with us
on San Diego's Morning News. We want to turn down
to the funding of homeland security after the longest partial shutdown.
Because we had the attempted assassination of President Trump last
weekend by a man who lives here in southern California,
there has been a lot of talk about security around
the president. Do you have concerns and does there need
(05:31):
to be a review?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There absolutely needs to be a review. There is cause
for concern if you look at the assassination attempt against
President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the assassin actually shot him,
hit him in the ear, killed a man, a fire
chief in that assassination attempt, Clearly there were serious shortcomings
and how Secret Service handled it in Butler Pennsylvania. In
(05:57):
terms of the White House correspondence dinner this weekend, the
Secret Service did stop the man, stop the man before
he could shoot and injure or kill anybody. This was
a ranged lunatic, a leftist who had been listening to
the unhinged rhetoric from the left wing Democrats, and he
came in. He rewrote a manifesto. He said his stated
(06:19):
objective was to murder President Trump, to murder Vice President Vance,
and to murder as many members of the Trump cabinet
as he possibly could.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Was.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This was someone who the angry, hateful rhetoric. It turns
out when you scream day after day after day that
your political opponent is Hitler and he's destroying democracy. We've
seen now there are radical left wing individuals who resort
to violence. And I think one of the things we
need to do, Brett, is just ratchet down the violence,
(06:52):
ratchet down the rhetoric, not constantly demonize each other. Neither
side is Adolf Hitler, and it is not helpful when
you have Democrats too frequently calling for or celebrating violence,
that violence has no place in politics. Disagree with speech, fine,
(07:16):
that's free speech, but violence should never ever ever be Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, we are out of time. We could talk to
you all day, but you've got a deadline. We've got deadline.
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, thank you so much for
taking the time and talking to us today.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Thank you, Senator, thanks for having me and I hope
people enjoy Verdict the podcast add on air yep.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Absolutely. You can catch it on the Patriot thirteen sixties,
our sister station here at Kogo
We are taking a look at Ted Cruz. He is
a US Senator from Texas, as you know, and he
is joining us now on the Cogo News liveline. Because
it's not often we get to talk to a US Senator,
but Senator Cruz, who has served in the US Senate
since twenty thirteen and who our listeners can hear every
day every Sunday, I should say on his show Verdict
(00:21):
with Ted Cruz at five pm on Cogo's sister station,
The Patriot thirteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you, senator for taking some time to talk with
us this morning here on San Diego's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Veronica Brett, great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, we have just a limited amount of time. We
want to get as many questions as he can, so
we're just going to jump right into it first. You know,
with San Diego being home to thousands of active duty
Marines and sailors, many of whom are involved in the
war with Iran, thousands of their families here, what do
you want them to know about how long this conflict
may go on?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, the military conflict has already gone on just over
two months, and today we've had extraordinary military successes. Every
single benchmark that the President laid out at the front
end has been achieved, and has been achieved almost one
hundred percent. Iran's air defenses are completely gone. Iran's ballistic
(01:17):
missiles and its missile manufacturing capability entirely destroyed. Drones and
drone manufacturing completely gone. Iran's air force is in rubble
on the runway. Iran's navy is sunk on the bottom
of the ocean. And of course, the Iyahtola, the Malas
and virtually all the senior military leadership are no longer
(01:39):
with us. So in terms of military operations, the degree
of success is staggering. It took Iran forty years to
build that military. It took the United States military a
total of thirty nine days to entirely eliminate it. Where
are we now, go ahead, Where are we now? The
(02:01):
President has laid out four red lines for resolving this.
Number one, Iran can engage in no enrichment. Number two,
Iran has to hand over the enriched uranium they have.
Number three, Iran has to stop funding terrorism that is
killing Americans. And number four, Iran has to open the
(02:22):
straight of horm Mooves. I think President Trump is exactly
right to hold those red lines. All right, rule long
will that take? Sorry, go ahead, Brett Oh, I was.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Just gonna say, yeah, how long will that take? Answer
that question? Everybody's on the edge of the sea with that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't know how long it will take. Right now,
the stage of the conflict we're engaged in, though, is
not active military conflict. We are not our fighting men
and women are not significantly in harm's way. The main
lever point right now that the President is using is
that we have blockaded the Straight of Horne moves for Iran,
and we have stopped Iran from sending ships into and
(03:02):
out of Iran. The consequence of that, Iran is fit
losing over five hundred million dollars a day because they
can't get their oil out of Iran. They are also
days away from filling up their storage capacity. Once they
do that, they will have no choice but shut in
their wells. Now, when you shut in wells, the production
(03:23):
drops permanently. And if Iran has to shut in its
wells when it reopens them at some point in the future,
it will have lost anywhere between five hundred thousand to
eight hundred thousand barrels a day of oil. So the
economic consequences on Iran are massive. Right now, we're not
in a significant live fire shooting war. It is more
(03:46):
using military might to impose significant economic costs to get
the Iyatoldu to agree to the president's demand.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We're talking to Republican Senator Ted Kruz of Texas well.
No one knows more about high gas prices, and we
do here in Kellifornia. So when the war does end,
how long will it take for those gas prices to
come down.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I think we will see gas prices go down significantly.
If you look at where we had been over the
past year and a half under Joe Biden, gas prices
spiked to around six dollars a gallon. When President Trump
came in and a Republican Congress came in, gas prices
dropped in half to about three dollars a gallon. What
(04:27):
has happened with the wars, They've risen about halfway back up,
so they're about four dollars and fifty cents, although I
will say, unfortunately in California, yours are substantially higher because
of the state taxes and state regulations. In terms of
the rest of the country, the rest of the country
is paying about four dollars and fifty cents right now
(04:47):
that obviously we would like it to be lower. My
view is this is a temporary increase, and if and
when the job in Iran is completed, I think that
will have a long term significant day pressure on oil
prices and gasoline prices. I think this is a short term,
short term and temporary rise while the military conflict is ongoing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, fingers crossed US Senator Taed Cruz with us
on San Diego's Morning News. We want to turn down
to the funding of homeland security after the longest partial shutdown.
Because we had the attempted assassination of President Trump last
weekend by a man who lives here in southern California,
there has been a lot of talk about security around
the president. Do you have concerns and does there need
(05:31):
to be a review?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There absolutely needs to be a review. There is cause
for concern if you look at the assassination attempt against
President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the assassin actually shot him,
hit him in the ear, killed a man, a fire
chief in that assassination attempt, Clearly there were serious shortcomings
and how Secret Service handled it in Butler Pennsylvania. In
(05:57):
terms of the White House correspondence dinner this weekend, the
Secret Service did stop the man, stop the man before
he could shoot and injure or kill anybody. This was
a ranged lunatic, a leftist who had been listening to
the unhinged rhetoric from the left wing Democrats, and he
came in. He rewrote a manifesto. He said his stated
(06:19):
objective was to murder President Trump, to murder Vice President Vance,
and to murder as many members of the Trump cabinet
as he possibly could.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Was.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This was someone who the angry, hateful rhetoric. It turns
out when you scream day after day after day that
your political opponent is Hitler and he's destroying democracy. We've
seen now there are radical left wing individuals who resort
to violence. And I think one of the things we
need to do, Brett, is just ratchet down the violence,
(06:52):
ratchet down the rhetoric, not constantly demonize each other. Neither
side is Adolf Hitler, and it is not helpful when
you have Democrats too frequently calling for or celebrating violence,
that violence has no place in politics. Disagree with speech, fine,
(07:16):
that's free speech, but violence should never ever ever be Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, we are out of time. We could talk to
you all day, but you've got a deadline. We've got deadline.
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, thank you so much for
taking the time and talking to us today.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Thank you, Senator, thanks for having me and I hope
people enjoy Verdict the podcast add on air yep.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Absolutely. You can catch it on the Patriot thirteen sixties,
our sister station here at Kogo
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