Welcome. It is a special post-debate verdict with Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson podcast. We get to do

these on big nights jointly like this. Depending on where you're listening to us right now,

you get us both. Senator, your initial reaction, we're doing this right now. Midnight Eastern,

you watch the debate. I watch the debate. What were

your big takeaways? Well, tonight was a big and consequential debate, but I have to say it,

before we get into it, and then this entire podcast, we're going to analyze the debate in depth

and say what it showed about where the race is, where President Trump is, where

Kamala Harris is. But I do want to point out, it is exactly midnight, as you and I are recording,

which means it has just become September 11th. And for our listeners who are downloading

this, you'll be downloading this today during September 11th.

And so I just want to start by acknowledging that 23 years ago, the worst terrorist attack in

our nation's history happened. And you and I both live through 9-11. We had friends who

lost their lives in 9-11. We saw the agony. And we have talked

on this podcast many times about my view that today we have a greater risk of a major terrorist

attack than we have had any time since September 11, 2001, because of the disastrous policies of the last four years.

And so I want to acknowledge that at the front end. And then we're going to walk through right now

what the biggest takeaways are from the debate tonight. Yeah, I'm so glad that you mentioned

the front end.

And you also have a story to talk about that deals with those that lost their lives as we

were pulling out of Afghanistan.

We're going to chat about that coming up in just a little bit.

I want to tell you real quick about our friends over at Patriot Mobile.

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