Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you on this Monday. It's really nice to

have you with us. Senator, you and I had a very fun weekend, which we're going to talk about a little bit later,

hopefully this week, and get people behind the curtains on that. That's the tease for everybody.

So you're going to want to stick around for later this week, but we've got some breaking news that deals with two different articles that have come out.

One of them in Politico and the other with the New York Times that have come out to talk about Hunter Biden's legal team and the handling of not only their emails, but also the handling by the DOJ, basically saying, we don't want to touch this,

we don't want to prosecute, and only because whistleblowers have come out, as their narrative

change, break all this down for people because it's shocking. Well, these two news stories

are both astonishing, and they're based on the leak of 200 pages of

emails and communications between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden's legal team.

And it turns out that the sweetheart deal we all know about, where DOJ went in and tried to give Hunter Biden a slap on the wrist,

where he pleads guilty to two misdemeanors and gets no jail time and magically gets off with everything,

that wasn't actually where DOJ started.

And I don't know who leaked these correspondences, and they leak them. One story is in Politico,

the others in New York Times, and they're both based on the same set of correspondence.

DOJ initially planned to charge Hunter Biden with nothing, not bring a single charge, not a tax charge, not a gun charge. By the way,

it was, Hunter Biden was unquestionably guilty. Nobody disputed it was, he was guilty that he hadn't

paid millions of dollars in taxes. There was no dispute about that. That he owned a gun illegally.

It is illegal for a crack user to own a gun. There was no dispute about that,

that he lied on the form, and he said he didn't do illegal drugs when, in fact, he was regularly

smoking crack cocaine. There's no dispute about that. So he was, he was undisputably guilty,

and yet DOJ's initial position was, we're going to charge you with nothing.

Instead, what they were going to bring was a deferred prosecution agreement where Hunter Biden

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