Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And as we get ready for a new year,

it's important that we take a look back at some of the biggest stories of this past year.

Give you some of those big stories and things to look forward to or issues that you may need to be

paying attention to heading into 2024. The White House had a very interesting response, and this is the third change now in the

goalposts for Joe Biden's involvement with Hunter Biden's businesses.

The first was they never spoke about business ever.

Then they changed it to he was never in business with his son.

That was the goalpost moving yet again.

Now the White House's Ian Sams came out and moved the goalposts again when he said this.

The other allegations is the president was present at some of the meetings between Hunter Biden and his business associates.

Why was the president at those meetings on those phone calls?

Well, again, I think this is part of the right-wing's misinformation machine to try to confuse people about what the truth is.

The truth is that the president, as he has said publicly for years,

calls his family every day to check in. He calls his son every day to check in. He calls his other family members to check in to see how they're doing.

He loves them. They're a tight-knit family. And what the GOP's own witness testified in this case is that that's exactly what the president

was doing.

He was checking in with Hunter during a particularly hard time, I might add, a time where

the family was going through Hunter's brother, Bo's illness.

And of course the president checks in with his son and talks to him.

But again, that witness testified, no business dealings of Hunter Biden's or anyone's was

discussed in these conversations. And so again, they're trying to make this sort of strange

connection when their own investigation has disproven these claims. Before I let you go in,

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