Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Donald Trump, he

announced it. I've been indicted. Apparently, it's a seven-count indictment that has rocked the media

world and really it is shocked to the country. Senator, your reaction to this, a former president,

being indicted for a second time now by the special counsel,

Jack Smith.

Well, Ben, you and I are talking.

It is 12.01 a.m. Friday morning.

I was on an airplane when this indictment happened.

I was flying back to the great state of Texas.

So I'm in Texas now.

And when I landed, I discovered what had been heavily leaked, had

been heavily foreshadowed that Donald Trump was going to be indicted today. I have to say today

is a very sad day in American history. It is a shameful day in American history. It is a disgraceful day in American history.

Look, our Constitution establishes a system of justice where, number one, we have had

for 46 presidents consistently a peaceful transfer of power with each president leaving office on

January 20th, at least in the modern times, and each new president coming in on January 20th.

We have never, in over two centuries of our nation's history, had a new president who launched the entire Department of

Justice, the entire machinery of justice, on a vendetta to persecute, to attack, to investigate,

to indict, to try to throw in jail. The former president, who, it should be noted, is also currently the leading contender

on the Republican side to run against the current president. That has never happened at any point,

no matter how bad the vitriol has gotten. Nobody has tried to do that. And part of the reason nobody has tried to do that

is for the vast majority of the history of our country, no Department of Justice would go along

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