Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. We've got a lot to chat about today, including some breaking news with China and Iran, plus a attack on judges coming from the Democrats, plus COVID vindication. But first, we're going to start with China.

Senator, it is, many are concerned now that we may be on the verge of this turning into a really big war between Russia, Ukraine.

Some are referring to it as World War III.

The UK, we're being told, is going to supply Ukraine with long-range weapons.

China is also being accused of giving Russia lethal support.

You had that question asked this morning to Anthony Blinken on Face the Nation,

and I want everybody to hear what he had to say and then your reaction.

There is open source reporting that Chinese companies are providing surveillance equipment to that

mercenary group, the Wagner group, fighting in Ukraine. Does the U.S. consider this to be

providing military support to Russia? We've been concerned from day one about that possibility.

In fact, if you go back to the very first

conversations that President Biden and President Xi had about Russia's war of aggression

against Ukraine, just a couple of weeks into the war, President Biden shared with President

Xi our deep concern about the possibility China would provide lethal support to Russia in this effort,

as well as engage in the systematic evasion of sanctions. And the reason for that concern was

just weeks before the aggression. You'll remember that President Xi and President Putin had a

meeting in which they just talked about a partnership with no limits. I mean, Senator, a partnership

with no limits, that obviously is something that would concern

you, but now saying that apparently they're providing lethal aid to assist Russia's invasion

of Ukraine, your reaction?

Well, number one, China is the most serious geopolitical threat the United States faces for the next century.

And this administration is fundamentally weak on China, they are soft on China, they are unwilling to stand up to the Chinese Communist government.

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