Transcript for Donald Trump Jr. talks about having drinks with Ted Cruz after 2016 election

It's really an honor and it's great to be able to be down here to support Ted. In his campaign for those of you didn't know and this is a story I feel like I actually. Really have to tell but for those of you didn't know there may have been a slightly contentious primary. It's what he sixty. But the reality is you know a few weeks after that there was a big dinner and in DC when it is sort of politicos the EE ninety inner and me being the sort of Fifth Avenue rent an act. I'm here a lot of hunting and fishing that's all I do so I was seated. I was seated at the Texas table. And it was a lot of my friends and a lot of Ted's friends and we receive it at the same table so. First few seconds were little awkwardly both of us are having you know good conversation is as we should it and at the end of that meal. All the guys like it done let's go back to the trump hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue Ohio lobbied some of them will have a couple drinks now. I know that in this week in particular. You're not allowed to have a beer. If you are a conservative. Now if you're liberal you can do cocaine and you can be the president but. But that's a Jack. Except Jack. Well hold ourselves to a higher standard it's fine you like that when did you. Amp as that. So what interested or going back to the trump hotels I say to Ted. More than look at what you want to come back to us. And Ted Cruz. Came back with us and his group of Texas Lewis. Sat in the lobby of the trump hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue two months after contentious primary for three hours. We had a poll for the good relationship. Says. That wasn't easy. I mean it is at the highest compliment I don't know that if issues were reversed that I could have done that I'd like to believe that I could. But that's a testament to this man's character. From that moment on. As we have to talk about it and that's the elephant in the room that the media will run with from moment one so that is the reality and that's what happened from that moment on. This man has fought for you. It's thought protects us. And he's fought. Where his constituents.

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