Senator Ted Cruz On His Trip To Cancun

it certainly was not my intention for that to be understood as as critics have tried to paint it as somehow diminishing uh the the the suffering and hardship other texans had experienced look texans want this problem solved i want this problem solved i want the power on we've got most of the the homes that had lost power have gotten power back that's a good first step we still have uh water supply is still questionable in a lot of places and that's frustrating having boil notices that's frustrating too we need to the first thing we need to do is correct the immediate problem and then the second thing we need to do is engage in the longer term examination as i said that the the operation and regulation of that is at the state level and not the federal level but i think those questions texans want answers and and i'm glad the governor is calling for the legislature to investigate that because i think that that is an investigation that needs to happen last question senator cruz did you a lot of people are calling your decision to go to jail at this time tone death did you come back because you felt guilty or did you come back because you got caught and there's a lot of backlash pretty roaming so the question from the video on the cell phone was was whether the decision uh to go was tone deaf look it was obviously a mistake and in hindsight i wouldn't have done it [Music] i was trying to be a dad and and all of us have made decisions when you've got two girls who've been cold for two two days and haven't had heater power and they're saying hey look we don't have school why don't we go let's get out of here i i think there are a lot of parents that be like all right let me if i can do this great that's what i wanted to do as i said really from the moment i sat on the plane i i began really second guessing that decision and saying look i know why we're doing this but but i've also got responsibilities and and it had been my intention to be able to work remotely to be on the phone to be on internet to be on zoom to be engaged but i needed to be here and and and that's why i came back and then as it became a bigger and bigger firestorm uh it became all the more compelling that i needed to come back because our priority should be fixing this problem and making sure it doesn't happen again and and i didn't want all the screaming and yelling about this trip to distract even one moment from the real issues that i think texans care about which is which is keeping all of our families safe okay thank you all thank you guys thank you