Welcome. It is verdict with Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. And we've got a lot to talk about in the show today, including some breaking news on Hunter Biden.

Also this big rail vote, but even more shocking than that is the fact that Senator Cruz, apparently, and we're going to confirm this, fist bumped with Bernie Sanders.

Now, before I deal with Hunter Biden, Senator, I just

seem to know this really happened. This wasn't fake news on the internet. It is true and

accurate. Bernie and I fist bumped on the floor of the Senate today. And if it wraps your

alert, if you're not right with the Lord, get right with the Lord. Because when things like this

happen, you never know what

could happen next we're going to deal with that vote in a moment but senator there's some fireworks

that happened this week and it has been spreading and that is you asking questions some pretty tough

questions in a senate confirmation hearing that dealt with the issue of Hunter

Biden. Now, before I play this clip of this questioning, set the stage for everybody to understand

what this was about and this confirmation and why it mattered and it was relevant to bring up Hunter

Biden.

Well, this was in a hearing for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week.

And in particular, I was questioning an individual named George Kent, who is a State Department employee, and he was a senior State Department official that handled things concerning Ukraine. He's been now nominated by Joe Biden to

be the ambassador to Estonia. So he was having his confirmation hearing. And you may remember

George Kent, he wears a bow tie and he was one of the Democrats star witnesses in the impeachment

of Donald Trump. And he had all sorts of bad things to say about Trump,

but he also said in front of the House and sworn testimony that he had raised with the Biden

and the Obama White House concerns about Hunter Biden's being on the board of Burisma,

and that the office of the vice president had blown him off and said,

we don't have time to deal with this. And so I questioned him. I had a poster board behind me

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