Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, you're in Washington, D.C. right now.

And I am going to let people know in advance where we're going on the pod today because we have so much news.

So we're going to talk about the balloon and the classified briefing that you just got out of.

We're also going to talk about some significant big tech legislation that you are authoring.

And then there was an amazing hearing today that deals with the FCC and Gigi saw and an amazing back and forth. And then we're also, if we have time, we're going to get to this

shocking about face from James Clapper dealing with those, the Hunter Biden laptop.

But before we get to the rest of that, I want to talk about this classified briefing that you got out of today.

What can you tell us about what we've learned about the balloon?

We've seen a lot of the headlines.

We now are shooting down things left and right.

There's even been some people out there,

Senator, saying, are we maybe overreacting politically because the White House got the first one so wrong that they're shooting everything down?

There's even been people speculating that some of the things we may have shut down may have actually been literal space junk.

And this is just to try to show, you know, we're tough on balloons in outer space or, you know, at 60,000 feet.

Let's, you know, that's kind of where America is right now.

It's very weird.

So what can I tell you about it?

Not a damn thing.

So last week on the pod, we talked about the classified briefing that I went to last week that focused on the first Chinese spy balloon, the one that spent over a week in American airspace conducting espionage, that ultimately Biden shot down over the Atlantic after it had traversed the continental United States, after it had completed its espionage mission. Since then, we've had three other

objects shot down in space. This morning, I went to a second classified briefing on the new

object shut down in space. I have to admit, I was really curious to find out what they were.

Now, I can't disclose anything said in the classified briefing,

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