Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as always.

And if you're regular, you know we put out our podcasts Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

This is Thursday.

And why are we going it early?

Because there's some legislation that's going to be introduced by the Senator that's extremely

important.

It deals with school safety and the shooting issue that just happened in National Senator.

This is something that is heartbreaking for me.

And I know for you because what you're working on in the legislation is exactly the same

thing that could have been done in September of 2022.

Here we are again after another school shooting where there are not guards there to protect

these kids.

It was a gun-free zone without a resource officer.

And we had the same outcome, unfortunately.

And now you're going to continue to fight to protect our kids in their schools with

resource officers and with everything that you could possibly need to do everything

you can to keep kids safe.

Well, let me say first of all what happened at Covenant School in Nashville.

It's just terrific.

It is every parent's nightmare.

A deranged lunatic murdered three nine-year-old children, murdered three adults.

I got to say I cannot imagine the quantity of evil that leads someone to murder children.

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