Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, with you, and we have got two major

stories that we're going to have to deal with. One of them deals with Hunter Biden, indicted on

nine tax-related charges. Three of them felonies, and we're going to break down these charges for

you so that you understand exactly what's happening with that. Also,

there was a very interesting questioning that took place in the judiciary of the FBI

director Christopher Ray. And there was some pretty intense back in force between Senator Cruz

and the FBI director. We're going to run through all of that for you as well.

But Senator, we were not expecting this headline that Hunter Biden would be indicted on nine

tax-related charges, three of them felonies. This is obviously significant, especially when

they thought they were going to have this sweetheart plea deal that the last second exploded

because of whistleblowers.

So how promising is this? It's a 56-page indictment filed in federal court in L.A., something that's

never happened before, or is this still going to be a big, well, yeah, we indict him, but he's still

going to get a sweetheart deal? What's your reaction?

Well, listen, when you say we were not expecting this indictment,

I don't think that's entirely accurate.

Once the sweetheart plea deal collapsed,

and it collapsed because there was public scrutiny,

it collapsed because the IRS whistleblowers came forward,

it collapsed because the House of Representatives held hearings,

it collapsed because the federal district judge held hearings. It collapsed because the

federal district judge realized that signing off on this sweetheart deal would profoundly compromise

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