Ted Cruz battles 'The View' on Clarence Thomas and affirmative action, as host says 'Welcome to being Black'

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' affirmative action stance on Wednesday as he faced questioning from the co-hosts of "The View" about his new book. "Clarence Thomas, he stated that affirmative action diminishes achievements because it allowed people to believe he had not earned his place at Yale and I think we can all agree that affirmative action was put in place to provide opportunities to qualified Black students, like Thomas, because those institutions