The state of our union, much like the state of our podcast, is strong. This is verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. Senator, you have just come from the

capital and the state of the union address. I want to get into that because it was one of the

greatest state of the union addresses I've ever seen. It was Roccas. Before we get to that,

I have to talk about Iowa because the last time I saw you, we were here for three hours last night

waiting to do a podcast about Iowa and then the results never came in. Look, two words, dumpster fire.

I mean, it is. So last night, last night, Monday night, you and I arrived here at night. The plan

was we're doing a podcast. We said, all right, we'll get Iowa results and we'll go just on air and

react to them and then nine o'clock became 10. That became 11. That became 12 and we're sitting

there going, we have no results. We still don't have results. But the nice thing about a podcast,

look, if we had a TV show that went on at 9 p.m. We'd have to go on air and say tonight, we know nothing.

And then you just kind of sit there and so we said, all right, if we don't know the results,

let's do the podcast tomorrow. But you remember then we said, all right, let's do it 10 a.m.

We didn't have results at 10 a.m. Then we said, let's do it at 3 p.m. We didn't have results at 3 p.m.

And we're sitting here now at that 1243 in the morning and we have 60% of Iowa reporting.

We have 60% of Iowa reporting. There is a discrepancy between the delegates and the popular vote.

Now you happened to win Iowa in 2016. So I want your insider take. But just from what I'm reading,

Pete Moodyge, who declared victory last night with no results in, he has 27.

I actually give him some credit. That was a ball. So look in that scenario and actually the numbers

are backing him up. If he had come in with 3%, he would have looked pretty ridiculous. But that was

fortune favors the bold. That's exactly right. Now in terms of delegates,

Pete Bootedge has 27%. Bernie is at 25%. Elizabeth Warren 18%.

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