What a day. John Bolton throws impeachment into chaos. President Trump's legal team comes out swinging on their first full day of arguments. And the senator of this very podcast drives at least one journalist completely up a wall. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles.

Thank you so much to all of the listeners who have kept this show at the top of the charts.

Again now into our second week.

What a big day.

It started as a crazy day before the impeachment trial even

began because of a leak from the new memoir of John Bolton, the former national security advisor,

leaked to the New York Times, and it alleges that President Trump tied Ukraine aid to an investigation of the Biden's quid pro quo.

He's guilty as charged.

Isn't that right?

Well, today was a big and consequential day.

And you're right, it started off crazy.

We all had off yesterday.

So I flew home, was home with my family, then came back to D.C. at the crack of dawn, walked into the Capitol.

The press was going nuts. They were in a total tizzy. The New York Times had broken this story that Bolton says there was

a quid pro quo. And I got to say when I sat down at lunch today before we started the trial,

there were a lot of Republican senators who were feeling a little rattled by it. I mean,

it was designed to shake people up, and were feeling a little rattled by it. I mean, it was

designed to shake people up and it had a little bit of that effect. I'm actually somewhat surprised

that this shook up Republican senators because the story itself made all of these headlines,

a big splash. And yet it seems to me just reading about it, and especially given our previous

conversations on how the quid pro quo is not really a big deal, that it's, And yet, it seems to me just reading about it, and especially given our previous conversations

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