Senator Ted Cruz made his late night time debut on The Tonight Exhibit Friday, becoming a member of Jay Leno for a conversation about everything from Cruz’s campaign towards Obamacare to the political consequences of the federal government shutdown. Leno poked and prodded Cruz for basically causing the shutdown and over quite a lot of ways and policy positions that Leno couldn’t somewhat take into account.

Leno brought up the entire negative press Cruz has bought and in particular, all of the national negativity Congress has acquired (which Cruz thought was nonetheless way too excessive). Cruz blamed “entrenched politicians” in each events for the dysfunction, but Leno asked Cruz if he could be considered one of them because this attitude was once “this this or this or I shut the government down.”

Leno stated the Republicans must have let Obamacare fail by itself instead of letting the shutdown blow again on them. Cruz said he was “now not a fan of shutting down the government,” but Leno stated, “You appeared like an incredible fan from the place I used to be standing!”

Cruz talked concerning the “lost technology” of young folks to an technology of vast profits inequality, slammed Obamacare somewhat a little bit, and defended his make stronger of historical past checks and implementing present gun regulations when Leno pressed him on the gun regulate measures that failed earlier this year.

Against the tip of the interview, Leno groaned and requested, “We’re gonna have any other shutdown in February? Are we gonna do this again?”

Watch the full interview under, by way of NBC:

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