It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore.

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Welcome, and it's verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

And Senator, I think we could just go ahead and start the show with

Simple, we told you so, on this show a long time ago, that there was, in fact, people that were

working with the FBI in and around January the 6th at the Capitol. You know, I got to say at this

point, it is getting striking. Everything that is

decried as a conspiracy theory, just a few months later, is proven right. It wasn't that long ago

where the media and Democrats were screaming if you said the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan lab

in China. You were painted as a crazy conspiracy theorist until it was confirmed very likely to be true.

It wasn't that long ago, if you said, as we did on this podcast, that Joe Biden has deteriorated mentally, severely, and will not be the Democrat nominee for president in 2024.

That was derided as a crazy conspiracy theory until again it was proven

right. And it wasn't that long ago that if you said that the FBI had confidential human sources,

had undercover agents at the January 6th riots participating in those riots, as we did on this podcast,

that was decried as a crazy conspiracy theory.

All three of those statements, verdict was ahead of the curve.

We laid out the facts for them early on, and now all three have been proven accurate.

This week, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice

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