Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well, and Senator, you and I have been preparing for this show today.

It is, in my opinion, maybe one of the most important podcasts that we've done together, and it is under the premise of a headline that the military could have stopped Afghanistan bomber who killed

13 American service members, but the military men on the ground, the women on the ground,

could not get authorization to take out this bomber because the Biden administration

basically turned this into a massive quagmire.

That is some shocking testimony that came out from a man that is lucky to still be alive

who told his story to Congress this week.

Well, that's right. Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews testified on Wednesday this week

before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

And I got to say, his testimony was incredibly powerful. It is moving. It is personal. This man is an American hero.

And what he testified about, that the failure of the chain of command above him that these 13 servicemen

and women who were murdered could have been saved is enormously consequential and I got to tell you

right now Ben I am pissed off that after this testimony there's been virtually zero coverage of this in the

corporate media. They've just completely ignored it. What you're going to hear right now,

you haven't heard on the 6 o'clock news, you haven't heard on cable news. And this testimony is important. One of the

things about this podcast, we cover issues of foreign policy and national security that much of the

corporate media ignores. And this matters because people's lives were lost because of the

incompetence of the Biden administration.

There's no doubt about it. And this is also emotional testimony. We're going to play large

chunks of this. I will say this on the front end. Please make sure that you share this podcast

because every American needs to hear this testimony so that you understand what happened in Afghanistan

at that airport when we were pulling out of Afghanistan and the lack of command and leadership

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