Cruz: Obama Setting ‘Dangerous Precedent’ with Iranian Hostage Swap

WALLACE: “Joining me now here in Washington is Senator Ted Cruz. And, Senator, welcome back to ‘Fox News Sunday’.”
CRUZ:  Chris, good to be with you.”  
WALLACE: “Let’s start with the breaking news.  Iran, as we just reported, has released those four Americans, at least three of them have cleared Iranian airspace and the Iran nuclear deal went into effect, which means the U.S. and other Western countries have started lifting sanctions releasing billions of dollars to Iran. What’s your reaction to both?”  
CRUZ: “Well, listen, praise God that the prisoners are coming home, that the Americans are coming home.  You know, in particular, millions of believers across the world have been lifting up Pastor Saeed Abedini in prayer and speaking out for his case.  And so, we celebrate their coming home, Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, the fourth individual.  We celebrate all of them coming home. I spoke yesterday briefly to Naghmeh, Pastor Saeed’s wife, who I’ve gotten to know very well, and we’re all very grateful he’s coming. But at the same time, this deal is a problematic deal, and it reflects a pattern we have seen in the Obama administration over and over again of negotiating with terrorists, and making deals and trades that endanger U.S. safety and security. This deal has a lot of deals in common with the Bowe Bergdahl deal, where in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl — someone now facing court-martial — we released five senior Taliban terrorists. And this instance, this deal to bring back Americans who were wrongly imprisoned, we release seven terrorists who helped Iran with their nuclear program and we agreed not to prosecute another 14 terrorists for doing the same thing.  That’s 21 terrorists helping Iran develop nuclear weapons that they intend to use to try to murder us. And I think it’s a very dangerous precedent.  The result of this, every bad actor on earth has been told go capture an American.  If you want terrorists out of the jail, capture an American and President Obama is in the let’s make a deal business.  That’s a really dangerous precedent.”