Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, nice to chat with you today.

And let's start with the big headline that so many people, especially in the Catholic faith, are talking about.

And that is the fact that it looks like the FBI was trying to infiltrate Catholic groups and using trying to use people

in the church to basically become, you know, FBI informants.

There's also a lot of people that are asking the question now, did the FBI lie to Congress

about this saying, I don't know, we didn't do this, and now

it's coming to light that, in fact, this was actually happening, your initial reaction to that?

Well, I think these reports are very concerning. We have seen that the Biden Justice Department

has a persistent animosity to religious faith, and that they are willing to weaponize the Department

of Justice and the FBI to target people of faith. We've seen that in a host of different

context. We've seen that, for example, in their unwillingness to prosecute the protesters who are committing federal crimes by protesting

outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.

And because the Attorney General disagrees with the Dobbs decision, he refuses to prosecute even a single one of them.

At the same time, we've also seen the Attorney General and the Department of Justice and the FBI

bring very limited prosecutorial resources to going after violent terrorists who are attacking, who are vandalizing, who are

firebombing crisis pregnancy centers. Again, because they're politics, they don't prioritize

those acts of violence. And now the latest news, we knew publicly because of a whistleblower who had leaked it,

that one of the field offices, the Richmond field office of the FBI, had written a document that was entitled

interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic

ideology almost certainly presents new mitigation opportunities. And so this, this memo was called

a domain perspective, was leaked by a whistleblower.

And when Chris Ray, the head of the FBI, was asked before the Senate Judiciary Committee about it,

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