Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you on this Friday morning. It's so

nice to have you with us. And Senator, we have got some very big legislation that you've been fighting

hard on. The White House got on board and worked with you, and I can't believe it, but this is something

that's actually bipartisan happening in Washington, D.C. Well, the Take It Down Act is now past the United States

Senate. It's past the House, and it is headed to President Trump's desk to be signed into law.

This is legislation that protects kids, protects women online from revenge porn, from deep fakes that

are targeting more and more kids. We're going to break all that down.

Explain how that came to pass. We also have yet more facts about the Maryland man.

The Maryland man that the Democrats have decided is their poster child. It is who they stand for.

It is the illegal alien MS-13 member who now we have growing evidence was also active in human trafficking. We're going to break

that evidence down as well. And finally, Doge. Elon Musk is laying out yet more shocking revelations

Doge is uncovering. We're going to go through all those as well. Now, Senator, this is something

you've been working on for quite some time. The president

got involved with this. The First Lady got involved with this. And this is bipartisan in nature,

which is great to actually see Congress do something on a bipartisan level. And this is going to protect

people, a lot of young women and girls, especially who have been in essence blackmail by exes that

wanted to put out things that should never be on the internet with them in it.

Well, this is unfortunately a growing problem. It is a massive problem. And there are two big

manifestations of it. Number one are real images, non-consensual intimate images, where, say, you have a boyfriend and girlfriend, and they take explicit pictures of each other, that take explicit videos of each other, and then they have an ugly breakup. And one or the other is pissed off. And they say, all right, I'm going to stick it to you. I'm going to put these pictures. I'm going to put these videos out online and the whole world is going to see you. And I've got to say that is wrong.

It is a grotesque violation of your rights, of your privacy. And it's a problem we're seeing growing more and more.

There's a new iteration of it that is a product of technology, which is now with artificial intelligence, you can

create deep fakes, where you can create images or videos of real people that appear to be real,

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