Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz in an interview and posted a clip Tuesday night in which the senator was unable to answer questions about Iran.
"How many people live in Iran, by the way?" Carlson asked Cruz, R-Texas.
"I don't know the population," Cruz responded.
"At all?" Carlson asked, prompting Cruz to reiterate that he did not know. "You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?"
Asked again how he did not know Iran's population, the senator responded, "I don't sit around memorizing population tables." (The CIA estimated in 2024 that the country's population level was 88 million.)
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