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We have got Senator Ted Cruz with us today, and he has got some strong thoughts on the debate this week,

and is actually calling now for new rules to be implemented on who can moderate these debates, suggesting there is too much anti-Trump or anti-Republican bias in the moderators, in the selections that the Commission on Presidential Debates are making.

And it's interesting to me because I will tell you I had my own experience this week where I live tweeted the debate and my random thoughts as I watched it, and was promptly met by an article from some website that normally traffics in the Kardashians and the Bachelorette saying one thing is clear from her Twitter feed, Megan Kelly is for Trump.

So this is what happens when you just cover him and Joe Biden fairly, right? When you just say, okay, point Biden, point Trump, point Biden, point Trump, this is a weakness for Trump, this is a weakness for Biden, and I encourage anybody to go back and look at my Twitter at Megan Kelly to make up their own minds, but it's stunning to me, unless you are talking about Trump as though he is frothing at the mouth, and only a little bit close to human.

You're biased, you're in the tank for him, and you're clearly voting for him. I think this is crazy, and I will tell you even when Trump and I are good now, but when he was coming after me for all that time after our debate last time around, you go back and look at my coverage.

I hit him when he deserved to be hit, he did a couple of really crazy things like going after the Gold Star family, but I covered him very fairly and defended him on a lot of stuff, even though personally I wasn't that happy with the guy.

And that is the challenge that these journalists face today. I know they hate him. They make no pretense of even trying to hide it, but you owe it to your audience to try and just to be fair.

And honestly, if you don't, you're going to lose them. You're going to lose at least half of them. They don't, they don't trust you. There's not a single Trump fan in the country that trusts CNN or MSNBC, whereas I do think some center lefties watch Fox News. They certainly did watch the Kelly file when I was on.

So I think this sort of attitude is at the wrong peril. And I think people really need to consider, is it that hard? Is it that hard to try to be fair to both sides?

Hope springs eternal that they will learn as Scarlet O'Hara said tomorrow is another day.

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And this guy served our country honorably and understood the troops needed something very badly and that was caffeine and not just the troops, but listen to what he did. He started roasting his own coffee in 2006 to bring with them while overseas.

And then he modified his gun truck in the invasion of Iraq to grind his coffee as a man who's committed to his coffee. I mean, that is impressive.

So he founded BRCC Black Rifle Coffee Company in 2014 along with his buddy, Army Ranger Matt Best as the combination of two passions. It would be to develop premium fresh roasted coffee and also to honor and support those who serve in the front lines. I love this. This is brilliant. They say you do well at things that you love.

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Senator Ted Cruz, great to have you here. That's great to be with you Megan and congrats on the new podcast. Thank you so much. You know, you were the very first guest on the Cali file, which turned out to be a very good omen for me. And so here you are my very first week on the Megan Kelly show. So I'm feeling good. It's an honor.

Well, I remember I remember well and you took off like a phenom on on Fox and I'm sure you will in the in the podcast world too.

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