As riots, vandalism, and even all-out autonomous zones combine with calls to defund the police,

we sit down with the nation's top cop, Attorney General William Barr.

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

I'm Michael Knowles.

We will get to the Attorney General in just one second.

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Now, we're in a new location today, not our usual studio.

Senator, you have brought a friend.

Thank you, Mr. Attorney General, for being here.

You know, the news broke just moments ago that you will testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month.

So we are honored that you would sit down with us first and very much appreciate it.

I want to get right into this. Obviously, there's so much going on. And it occurs to me.

We have a man who writes the laws. We have the man who enforces the laws. And we have popular calls for utter lawlessness in the country.

How do we restore order?

Well, it's going to take both state and local government as well as federal government.

The federal government is best positioned to address this kind of violence and lawlessness after it occurs because we don't

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