The Hill is being political and not “reporting”, not doing a professional journalist’s job, but editorializing.
It is NOT a matter of “Cruz suggests”, because any respectable journalist worthy of the title could have and would have reviwed the Project Veritas video, confirmed the persons in it and reported THAT, as not what “Cruz suggests” but as what Cruz revealed. That would be “reporting”.
You are exactly right, Cruz’z statement is backed up by a Veritas video. The Hill long ago quit being a news organization and became just another leftist outlet. Very little of what they have to say is balanced any more — not worth reading.