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Welcome, it is Vertiquist, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have

you with us. Many of you listening to this on radio around the country, and we are thrilled to have

you with us as well. Don't forget, we do this show as a podcast, so make sure you hit that

subscribe or auto download button. If you download Vertic with Ted Cruz, we do it three days a week, and obviously this

radio show as well. Senator, we've got a lot to talk about in the show, but let's just start with

the big thing everybody's wanting to hear about, and that is your sit-down interview in your

office with Tucker Carlson. Well, this week I sat down with Tucker Carlson. We did a two-hour interview

in my office. And I got to tell you, it was a bloodbath. The two of us, frankly, beat the living

daylights out of each other for two hours straight. It was, there were fireworks. I'll tell you

online, there have been over 100 million views on clips from this

show it it was vigorous it was contested it was look it laid out two very different views on foreign

policy and and it's what we're going to talk about today. Yeah, it really is incredible on the foreign

policy front. So let's just start with the basic question that I think so many people have

been asking me when they saw the snippets of this interview. And I would actually encourage

people to watch the entire interview, not just the little things that popped on social media.

But number one, like, why did you decide to do this interview with him?

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