Senator, let me get this straight.

House Democrats are impeaching the president for threatening to withhold money from Ukraine

if they didn't investigate Joe Biden for threatening to withhold money from Ukraine

if they didn't stop investigating his son for corruption.

Is that about right?

That's about right.

We'll get into it. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, joined by the man himself, straight from

the Capitol and the impeachment trial.

Senator, I want to get into Burisma, Ukraine, Hunter Biden, this really opaque story at the heart of impeachment.

Before I do that, though, I want to brag and congratulate you on becoming a rising podcast star because this podcast,

verdict with Ted Cruz, is now in the top 10 podcasts in the world after just two episodes.

Congratulations.

Well, thank you and thank you to the great job you're doing and thank you to everyone who's

subscribed and downloaded.

I will say driving from the Capitol over here, I was talking to my daughter, Caroline, who's 11,

and I was kind of excited about it, and I tried to brag to her about it, and she's like,

Dad, I really don't care.

So it didn't, I don't know that 11-year-olds are our target audience.

You know, maybe 11-year-olds are not our target audience.

I think the real thing we can brag about is not even just being in the top 10 in the world.

We're beating Ben Shapiro.

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