Welcome to his verdict to Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and our guest, J.D. Vance, live from CPAC.

There we go.

This is going to be fun for everyone listening to the show later.

You guys have a vote today, and you both have to go back.

We decided we're going to make this work. We'll have J.D.

on with us as well. Senator, let's just talk about like, you guys have really good jobs, but I've

learned you guys have no idea what your schedule is. How is that possible in government?

It's actually, it is. You got the joke. All right, I like that. It is a bizarre thing in the Senate.

You have utterly no control over your schedule.

The Senate Majority Leader decides when to call a vote.

And look, Chuck Schumer is really bad at it.

So you have literally no idea what's happening.

He'll come in, decide to have a vote, maybe not decide to

have a vote. So on Thursday nights, typically we fly into D.C. Monday mornings. We fly home Thursday

nights. But we don't know if we're home or not. So I would call home. I remember, you know,

when my girls were little, I'd call home and they'd say, well, Daddy, are you going to be home tonight?

And I'd say, I have no idea.

And actually, Caroline referred to Mitch McConnell for years as that mean man.

Because she would say, she'd ask, Daddy, are you coming home? And I said, well, it depends on when Mitch calls the vote.

She said, is that mean man going to let you come home tonight? Which I told Mitch that,

and to his credit, he lasts pretty hard. He thinks that's funny. But is that not a bizarre aspect

of this job? It really is. So my version of this is, you know, when I first got sworn in early January, and I would go home and do a lot of radio interviews with people, they'd say, what's the most interesting part of the job? What thing you didn't expect? I talk a little bit about the schedule. And I think they wanted me to have some brilliant policy solution or idea. And what I always just sort of blurted out almost accidentally was these guys don't work very hard,

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