On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, co-host Vladimir Duthiers tried to trip up Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) by implying he would take away health insurance from 16 million people if he is elected president.

Duthiers said to Cruz: "Senator, you say that if you are elected, you would repeal the Affordable Care Act. But since its passage, sixteen million people have become insured. So, would you take that away from them?"

Appearing a day after he announced his official 2016 candidacy, Cruz calmly responded:

Well, you know, those numbers don't tell the whole picture. For one thing, the bulk of those numbers are coming from expanded Medicaid. And Medicaid is a program where a lot of the people on Medicaid are not getting health care. Medicaid is a system that is already overburdened and more and more people are just getting waiting lists and not actually getting health care. Beyond that -- remember, six million people had their health insurance canceled because of Obamacare. You're not doing someone a favor if you cancel the health insurance they like and then force them to buy new health insurance at higher premiums that covers less. 

As Cruz continued speaking on the disasters of the ACA, CBS cut to a graphic showing the uninsured rate dropping since October of 2013 in an effort to prop up the program's success.