The Supreme Court confirmation hearings have just ended on Capitol Hill, which means that

Senator Cruz has got to go do his second job, which is to come on over to the studio with

us.

This is an extraordinarily consequential week.

This could fundamentally reshape the balance of power on the Supreme Court, and we're

about to talk to a guy who sat through

all 12 hours of the hearings. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. Senator, it occurs to me. As we sit

here about to discuss the Supreme

Court confirmation hearings, we've got impeachment, we've had COVID quarantines, we have the

Supreme Court confirmation hearings. With the possible exception of murder hornets, you have been at the

center of just about every major story of 2020. And maybe, I don't know,

maybe you've been involved in murder hornets too. I don't know. Well, I will say this,

that podcast feels reminiscent of the beginnings of verdict and spending all day then in the

impeachment trial, now in the Judge Barrett confirmation

hearings and and then recording this late in the evening, although it's only, what is it,

9, 20, 9.30 as compared to midnight or one in the morning. So we're, we're more humane than

we started. But it is, look, it's part of what

this podcast is all about, is to try to bring folks inside the battles real time as they're

playing out in Washington. And that's what we're doing right now. I think in this case, too,

Senator, maybe some people were watching all of the impeachment hearings.

I don't think anybody has been sitting through all 12 hours of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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