Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you as always. Senator,

this will be our last show before there is an inauguration that's going to be taking place next week,

which is really fun, but it's already started on Capitol Hill with confirmation hearings.

And I think it's pretty fair to say if Democrats were hoping for fireworks

and they were hoping to, you know, derail some of the nominees this week, they failed miserably.

We're kicking tail and taking names. So, Ben, I love you, but I got to say somebody needs to buy you a

calendar. So inauguration is on Monday, which means we will have a Monday morning podcast,

which means you and I will record it on Sunday. So this is our second to last podcast.

All right. Second to last show. Okay, fine. So we're going to have one more show technically

on the day of the inauguration. Fair point. I understand when Monday occurs is a difficult thing to figure out.

So I'm going to give you that.

But right now, this is Friday's podcast.

And so we're going to talk about what happened this week.

And what happened this week, it's real simple.

We had confirmation hearings for half of the Trump cabinet.

And the Democrats came out pouncing. I mean, that's what the New York

Times says Republicans do all the time. They pounced and they pounce and they pounced. And the

bottom line is they utterly failed. If you're a Democrat trying to think you're going to defeat the Trump

cabinet, you are despondent right now because they shot at everybody and they failed everywhere.

Here's the spoiler alert. I believe every single Trump cabinet nominee will be confirmed.

We're going to talk about, so I participate in a number, and we're going to talk about in particular, Pam Bondi.

Because Pam Bondi, because Pam Bondi

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