We are in the belly of the beast, the left coast, la land.

We have left the politicians.

We have moved on over to show business.

And yet even here, even in the heart of leftism, there are some people, including our guest,

who have decided it was too much, who have decided to walk away.

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

I'm Michael Knowles.

We are in sunny Hollywood, California.

Senator, thank you for flying out here.

And also thank you to our guest, a showbiz man, not someone usually in politics, Isaiah Washington.

But Isaiah, you have become very politically active here.

Maybe not of your own desire, but because you have contradicted some of the leftist orthodoxies of Hollywood. And they don't

take that very well. Yes, yes. I have been a contradiction in this town for 24 years. I've been a lot of

checks from a lot of people I did not like, and a lot of people who did not like me for various reasons.

And none of them had anything to do with politics. It had everything to do with microaggressions.

You know, back in the 90s, there weren't a lot of people that look like me.

In colorism, there was certain people like, you know, you may know of a heard of a guy, Eddie Murphy.

Wesley Snipes, you may have heard of those guys.

Yeah, I think so.

My namesake, you probably know this guy named, Denzel, Denzel Washington.

Oh, yes, and it brings a bell.

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