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Gingrich: Boehner happy media attacks Cruz

House Speaker John Boehner is happy to let the media demonize Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the government shutown, Newt Gingrich said Monday.

"I think he's quite happy to have the news media attack Ted Cruz instead of attacking him; I don't think Boehner thinks of himself as a national personality in the way that Cruz does," the former speaker of the House and current co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" told WMAL radio.

Gingrich said Cruz has a clear and deliberate goal of becoming the leader of the conservative wing of the Republican party.

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"This is a freshman senator who is emerging about as fast as Barack Obama did when he was a freshman senator," Gingrich said. "I think Cruz will be a very formidable player."