Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, with you and Senator, it is always fun to be able to do this show and talk to people that are experts in certain areas and a dear friend of ours is going to be with us for this show and it's so important the timing

when we're dealing with such major issues on national security

we're dealing with what happened with Hamas and Israel. What's happening

now between Russia and Ukraine and also the intelligence failures that seem to be happening on a daily

basis at our southern border

with terrorists coming across our southern border and I want you to

introduce to the audience our special guests.

Well it is Thursday night it is 938 p.m. Pacific time and I am out on the West Coast. I'm in

LA just landed not too long ago tomorrow I'm going on Bill Maher so that's going to be wild and woolly and should be fun.

And so we are doing a special podcast here tonight that will come out tomorrow morning with

your and my mutual friend, Rick Grinnell.

Now Rick has had a storied career.

He was ambassador to Germany under Donald Trump.

He was the special, envoy for Serbia and Kosovo

for the peace negotiations again under Trump and and then he was also the acting director of national intelligence under Trump, which is an incredibly important and difficult job, and I think he did an extraordinary job at it.

And so we're going to talk a lot of foreign policy, we're going to talk a lot of foreign policy we're going to talk a lot of

challenges facing the world and and and and and Rick is a California native so so we are in Lala land together Rick welcome to verdict

welcome to Los Angeles senator thank you for coming all the way out here it's a

long way isn't it it is a long way I flew from Dulles straight out here and that that is a long way. I flew from Dulles straight out here and that is a long flight. It is longer than an iPad charge.

It's also for you East Coasters you can think about either flying to Europe or flying to California and it's about the same amount of time.

You know I got to say that may be the cruelest thing anyone has ever said about me.

You just called me an East coaster. I'm a Texan't.

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