Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, we've got a lot to chat about, including words like MAGA and buying a Bible or going shopping at Dick's sporting goods.

Could actually get you on a watch list with financial institutions and the U.S. government. We're going to deal with that.

Also, they're admitting now, four years late, that the

Hunter Biden laptop is actually real. Yes, the DOJ doing that. We're going to deal with that.

But before we get to that, I want to break some news, and that is this. Senator, you decided that it

was time to lead on an amicus brief on behalf of Donald Trump with the case that involves Colorado

and that Supreme Court removing him from the state's 2024 ballot.

Not only did you file this amicus brief, but you were able to get more than 170 lawmakers to sign on.

This is significant, and yet a lot of the media are acting like this didn't actually happen.

Walk us through how important this amicus brief is, and exactly the basis, legal basis,

for why you decided to do this.

Well, we've talked at length about the Colorado Supreme Court decision, throwing Donald

Trump off the ballot, and the combination of Colorado and the main Secretary of State, I think

without hyperbole, is the greatest assault on democracy we've seen in our lifetimes. These are partisan

leftist Democrats who are issuing rulings saying the voters

should not be allowed to vote for Donald Trump. Mind you, these are Democrats who posture all day

long about how much they believe in democracy, how they're defending democracy, and nothing

says defending democracy better than stopping the voters from voting for

your opponent. I mean, it is an absolute assault. So yesterday, I filed an amicus brief on behalf of

179 members of Congress. So I led the brief in the Senate, Steve Scalese, the majority leader in the House,

led it in the House. And our brief is supporting Donald Trump. And it's urging the Supreme Court

to reverse the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, as we've talked about at length. And by the

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