# Collins presses Cruz on Trump’s rising costs and Iran ‘military conflict’

https://mins.news/en/video/51899

- CNN, 2026-09-09 19:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4AOrmIirm0

> In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas defended Donald Trump’s response to rising costs by pointing to inflation during Joe Biden’s presidency. Cruz also declined to call the conflict with Iran a “war,” referring to it instead as a “military conflict.”

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