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Welcome. It is verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well today. So nice to have you with a

Senator. I know you're really excited about this idea that was put out there a couple days ago.

In titled in the Atlantic, let's declare a pandemic amnesty and let's focus on the future and fix

the problems that we still need to solve. I'm not buying it. I'm not going forward. Maybe you

want to do this, but I say, uh-uh. I have two words in response. Hell no. Look, this is, you know,

a leftist writing this article saying, let's just forgive and forget everything that happened

on COVID. It's all okay now. And it actually, that article in turn was then tweeted out by Randy

Weingarten, who is the head of one of the big teachers unions, and she said, I agree. We ought to

have a COVID amnesty. And basically what she's saying is, okay, look, my policies were an absolute

disaster. They hurt tens of millions of kids because I was a shameless partisan hack. I got

Democrats and the Biden White House to support school closures for over a year. We now have national

reading scores. We now have national writing school or math scores that our kids scores have plummeted

because Democrats shut down schools because the teachers union and Randy Weingarten in particular

pushed it. We also know that the racial gap, the gap on test scores between black kids and white

kids grew by the largest amount in the last year of any time in history. All of that was predictable.

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