Tucker Carlson Grills Ted Cruz on Iran: ‘You Don’t Know the Population of the Country You Seek To Topple?’

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CARLSON: “How many people are living in Iran, by the way?”
CRUZ: “I don’t know the population.”
CARLSON: “At all?”
CRUZ: “No, I don’t know the population.”
CARLSON: “You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?”
CRUZ: “How many people live in Iran?”
CARLSON: “Ninety-two million.”
CRUZ: “OK. Yeah, I --”
CARLSON: “How could you not know that?”
CRUZ: “I don’t sit around memorizing population tables.”
CARLSON: “Well, it’s kind of relevant because you’re calling for the overthrow of the government.”
CRUZ: “Why is it relevant, whether it’s 90 million or 80 million or 100 million? Why is that relevant?”
CARLSON: “Well, because if you don’t know anything about the country --”
CRUZ: “I didn’t say I don’t know anything about the country.”
CARLSON: “OK, what’s the ethnic mix of Iran?”
CRUZ: “They are Persians and predominantly Shia --”
CARLSON: “What percent?”
CRUZ: “OK, this is cute. OK --”
CARLSON: “You don’t know anything about Iran.”