Sen. Ted Cruz: If Mark Swidan was WNBA player, he'd be home

(NewsNation) — Texas businessman Mark Swidan has remained in a locked, Chinese prison cell for more than a decade. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, thinks if Swidan was a WNBA player or a journalist, he would be home by now.

“It has been over ten years that Mark Swidan has been trapped in a hellhole, in a Chinese prison. They’ve sentenced him to death on bogus charges. This is a wrongful imprisonment, and it is long past time Mark Swidan needs to come home,” Cruz told “On Balance” host Leland Vittert.

Despite a lack of evidence, Swidan currently faces a death sentence in China linked to drug-related charges.

Watch the full interview tonight on NewsNation's "On Balance" at 6/7c. Find your channel here.