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Ted Cruz and John Kasich One-On-One With Wolf Blitzer
Ted Cruz took swipes at Trump and Obama over their foreign policy. He blasted the Obama administration for not living up to an agreement with Ukraine to secure its territorial integrity made at the end of the Cold War when Kiev gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons. Cruz also slammed Obama's trip to Cuba, saying the President was in the company of celebrities who have glamorized the Castro brothers."As Barack Obama is sitting there sipping mojitos with brutal Communist dictators, he can't be bothered to meet the dissidents, he can't be bothered to visit with the Ladies in White, he can't be bothered to hear the screams of oppression," Cruz said. Cruz, who is of Cuban descent, said what Obama was doing in Cuba was similar to what he was doing in Iran -- giving "billions of dollars" to enemies of America. He then attacked Trump, accusing him of possessing a dangerous lack of knowledge about the world, after Trump said the U.S. should rethink its involvement in NATO. Ohio Gov. John Kasich struck a more conventional foreign policy stance in his interview than Trump, especially on NATO. "We clearly have to make sure we strengthen NATO, we have to make sure that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin understands we will arm the Ukrainians so they fight for freedom," Kasich told Anderson Cooper. "We need NATO. NATO is important; we all wish they would do more." And he would not go as far as Trump on moving the U.S. embassy in Israel, though he took pains to describe his own speech to AIPAC on Monday as strongly pro-Israel.