Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Ben Ferguson. Nice to have all of you with us. And, Senator, we have got a lot to discuss today, including this new news that Steve Bannon is going to spend in theory four months in jail. We also need to talk about some news, and that is the media is starting to actually tell the truth about the damage done to

kids with school closures. We're going to have that plus gun control in Canada and a very

important Senate race in Utah. Now, before we get to those other stories, Senator, I want to get to

this shocking headline, and that is that Steve Bannon is supposed to spend four months

in jail in prison for defying an outwardly partisan kangaroo court is how one tweet put it earlier today.

There's a lot of people asking questions, how do you get four months when guys like

Eric Holder didn't get any time in jail?

Klein Smith, for example, the former FBI Assistant General Counsel involved in Crossfire

Hurricane, didn't get any in time in jail as well. Look, I think the news of Bannon's

being sentenced to four months is absolutely outrageous and I am furious about it.

I'm furious because Merrick Garland has presided over a Department of Justice that it now

consists of simply being a partisan weapon to attack the political opponents of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

And Merrick Garland should be ashamed.

He should resign in disgrace.

And if he doesn't, he should be impeached and removed from office.

What happened here?

The January 6th Committee subpoenaed Steve Bannon.

Now, the January 6th Committee is not a real congressional committee. A real

congressional committee has members from both parties. And the Democrats select the Democratic

members of the party. The Republicans select the Republican members of the party. Nancy Pelosi

didn't want to have a real committee. She wanted to have a kangaroo court.

So she selected the Democrat members of the committee and the House Republican Majority Leader,

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