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 Capitol 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 raucous.

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 nine. The plan was we're doing a podcast. So we said,

all right, we'll get Iowa results and we'll go just on air and react to them.

And then 9 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 at 10 a.m. We didn't have results at 10 a.

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 1243 in the morning. And we have 60% of Iowa reporting.

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