Welcome. It is the verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, it's an international pod tonight as you're across the pond.

Well, that's right. This is our very first podcast that I have done from Paris, France. I am in Paris right now.

I flew yesterday to Normandy to be here for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. I was at the

celebration all day. I've got meetings the next couple of days here. And it was really an

incredible time celebrating what was what was an historic landmark, a milestone

that changed the course of history. And the heroism, the courage that was shown by those

American GIs that landed on the coast of France and that invaded the continent to take back the continent from the Nazis.

It was incredibly dangerous, incredibly difficult, incredibly inspiring, and it changed the course of history.

Yeah, it is truly incredible.

And there's also the politics that are now coming out with the Biden campaign as well.

They're now trying to use D-Day to advocate for funding with Ukraine.

That had to be shocking to you.

Well, it's not surprising because everything they do is political.

That's how they approach, unfortunately, day-to-day life is it's all politics all the time.

But I've got to tell you that nothing can really diminish the experience of being here.

It truly is extraordinary.

Being with heroes, and there were hundreds of

World War II veterans who came back for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. And these guys are all,

you know, in their late 90s or in their hundreds. You know, if they were 18 years old,

80 years ago, then they're 98 today. Now, there's several of them that were even 17 and 16 and

lied about their ages, so there are a couple that are younger that are 96 and 97. But I visited

today with one World War II veteran that was 104, and these guys are

...