Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. This is obviously one of those shows that neither of us wanted to do, but it's an important one to get you information about what has happened.

And this horrific terrorist attack in New Orleans and also what looks to be some sort of attack in Las Vegas outside of the Trump Hotel there.

Senator, this has a connection, obviously, to Texas.

Many of us were celebrating New Year's Eve.

You were down at Marlago.

I was with my family at the beach.

And then we see and wake up to this news breaking.

And I want to timestamp this for people to understand when we're recording this. We're recording this at 9.30 Eastern time on Wednesday. So much of this may change. So I

just want you to know when we started this, but I want to get your initial reaction to what we've

witnessed. Well, we're less than 24 hours out from the United States once again seeing a significant terrorist

attack on U.S. soil. At 3.15 in the morning, New Year's Day, 42-year-old Shamsaddin Baharjabar,

who is a U.S. citizen, a Texas resident.

He drove a white pickup truck into people celebrating on Bourbon Street.

Jabar was born in Beaumont, Texas.

He resides in Houston, your hometown, and my hometown.

And he was an Army veteran.

As we talked today, 15 people have been killed, and several dozen more have been injured.

And I will say, as is the nature of any fast-breaking crisis and fast-breaking news story,

the news that is available is rapidly moving. It is changing.

So we're going to talk about what's happening, what we know now, but with the caveat that

we can fully expect the information we know on this to change and very possibly change significantly

in the days and weeks to come. We're less than 24 hours out

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