Senator, nice to be with you in person. I love it when we get to do this once a week. You had a very

interesting weekend. And I think this conversation, what people are about to see is very foreshadowing

of the presidential election and the conversation that many Americans are going to be having.

There's this thing called Trip Fest down in Austin. It's a bunch of lefties in a room, a bunch

of young people. I love what I get to

watch you do these things because I know how much you enjoy it. But there was real dialogue and a real

conversation that's important for the country. And one of the things about this was you got to

talk about issues like school choice, which was incredible. Well, that's right. So on Saturday, I was up in Austin, and the event Tribest they do every year.

It's hosted by the Texas Tribune, which is a Texas political and news organization.

And they have lots of different elected officials. They have predominantly Democrats.

They get media, they get reporters from all over the country.

National media comes down. They've had Hillary Clinton down there. They get media, they get reporters from all over the country. National media comes down.

They've had Hillary Clinton down there. They had Joe Manchin this year. They bring in,

it's sort of a nickname the weekend has is Lib Fest instead of Trib Fest.

Accurate. It skews heavily left, and most of the attendees are either left-wing reporters or their UT students

who lean heavily left.

And so this event was an hour long where I'm up on stage being interviewed by a reporter,

Patrick Svitek, who's their political reporter,

very smart, capable guy.

I know Patrick well.

And so he interviewed me for 45 minutes, and then the audience had 15 minutes of questions.

And as I said, I've done it year after year after year.

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