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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

What Just Went Down

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Senator Ted Cruz joins Michael Knowles straight from the Hill, where a lot of things just happened that you probably didn’t hear about. The Senator introduces forty six—yes, really—amendments to the Democrats' precious Corrupt Politicians Act. Is this top priority for Democrats—S. 1 and H.R. 1—one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever introduced on the floor of the United States Congress? Also, what the hell is a "ghost gun?" Democrats may have finally lost it as they create a made-up term to describe a made-up problem. Plus, does Senator Cruz have a Hill digital director job in his future? Twitter says yes.

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0:00.0

A lot went down on Capitol Hill today, a lot of which you probably didn't hear about.

0:04.7

But one man was there to do the job of many.

0:08.1

He refuted the Democrats' arguments for upending our election system.

0:11.9

He shot down the Democrats' arguments for taking all of our guns.

0:15.4

And most impressively of all, he tweeted the whole time.

0:19.5

I'm Michael Knowles. This is verdict with Ted Cruz.

0:27.2

Senator Cruz, I want to hear everything that happened today. It seemed as if you were in

0:32.8

multiple places at once. Hearings on guns, hearings on the corrupt politicians act. And there was a charge

0:41.6

that while you were tweeting during all of this, that it was just your staff sort of tweeting

0:46.5

on your behalf while you were in the Senate. You, I have to ask, I know you'll shoot straight here,

0:52.3

were you the one tweeting? Oh yeah. That was me. I was

0:55.8

live tweeting the whole... Look, when you're in a room with senators who are droning on and on and on,

1:02.5

particularly when they're reading from, like, staff has written a couple of pages of, like,

1:07.0

text for them to read, it's a little bit like the student and Charlie Brown listening to the teacher,

1:13.4

and the teacher goes, want, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

1:16.5

And the truth of the matter is, like most senators are on their phones

1:20.9

and are scrolling through email or texts,

1:24.7

or this being the social media world that it is. I was on Twitter. And then, of course,

1:30.1

some lefty publications saw me on Twitter on C-SPAN. And so tweeted about me being on Twitter,

1:37.4

on C-SPAN. And so I promptly retweeted them and said, yep, that's exactly right. And they were

1:42.6

sort of surprised going, holy crap, is he retweeting us? It's like, yes, I am. And, uh, and in fact, they made fun of me

1:49.2

because Amy Klobuchar was giving some long, long speech that, that I suppose somebody somewhere

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