China, a major vote on marriage and a rail strike.

That's the stories today on verdict with Ted Cruz.

Senator, nice to have you with us.

You're back in Washington, D.C. after Thanksgiving.

And I want to get people up to speed on what's going on right now, specifically with China.

It was shocking because the prime minister actually came out in the UK

and is now leading on this issue of China after watching what's having the people.

He came out earlier saying something that the President of the United States of America

just said, if they're still silent, take a listen. Now let's be clear, the so-called golden era is over, along with the naive idea that trade

would automatically lead to social and political reform. But nor should we rely on simplistic

Cold War rhetoric. We recognize China poses a systemic challenge to our values and interests,

a challenge that grows more acute as it moves towards even greater authoritarianism.

Instead of listening to their people's protests, the Chinese government has chosen to

crack down further, including by assaulting a BBC journalist. Senator, he came out and when

you desperately need leaders, leaders stand up and lead. When they see that America's not

leading on China, I felt like he probably had no choice but to stand up and to. When they see that America is not leading on China, I felt like he probably

had no choice but to stand up and to say this. I'm glad he did, but where's America right now?

Well, unfortunately, Joe Biden and the White House are completely AWOL. Now, you know, I will say for

the British Prime Minister, that was a degree of clarity missing in the United States of America, but that being said, you know, one of the things he said is we should not rely on simplistic Cold War rhetoric. I actually think it's a conceit of the so-called intelligentsia that simple terms like good and evil can't be used.

You know, I was 10 when Reagan became president, and I remember well that at the time, all of the

Democrats, many of the Republicans, all of the media, all of the academy, they all

recognize that the smart and nuanced thing to say on the Soviet Union was that we needed

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