Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we have got a lot to talk about today, Senator, and I want to give a roadmap for people because there's so much news happening. First off, a big victory, and we're going to get to this first, dealing with a nomination, someone from the Biden administration that's actually been pulled. You're going to give that update. Plus, what's going on in Mexico with the four Americans that were taken hostage?

Two of them have died. We also have another issue with Fauci emails. And finally, January the 6th.

Senator, let's start with this big information, big news, a victory of the fact that President Biden's nomination of Gigi

Son to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission knows the FCC has been

pulled. How did we get there? I know that's something you talked about on this show early on,

and we're leading the way saying she was not qualified. Well, this is a huge victory.

So Joe Biden had nominated G.G. Sone to be a commissioner of the FCC, the Federal Communications

Commission. And many believe that Biden intended to name her the chairman of the commission

if she had been confirmed.

G. G. G. Sone has been a left-wing activist her entire life. She is a hardcore activist.

She had repeatedly denounced Fox News as an enemy to democracy as a threat to democracy.

She had demonstrated a willingness to use the powers of the FCC

to deny licenses and to otherwise use government power

to silence conservative voices.

And she had a remarkable pattern of just being a partisan activist.

So, for example, there was a group called Fighting for Our Future that Gigi Sone had supported

for years.

And every year, she sent out tweets fundraising for fighting for our future.

Now, Gigi did this, even though the group Fighting for

Our Future had a longstanding practice of attacking multiple senators and multiple senators on the

Commerce Committee. If you're nominated to be on the FCC, it's the Commerce Committee that has

to confirm you. So, fighting for future, it put out billboards attacking

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