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Good morning. Good afternoon, Senator Cruz. I've moved to the

afternoons. It's different for me now. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you doing, Hugh?

Great. I got a couple of quick questions for I just finished watching Landman last night.

On the scale of one to ten, where is that on the reality scale? Well, on the awesomeness scale, on a scale of one to ten, it's about a 46. I think it's the

best show on television. Billy Bob Thornton, look, on the reality scale, I know a lot of landmen,

I know a lot of oil and gas men in Midland. I would say there's fewer kidnappings by cartels and

getting fingers cut off and less torture and murder.

But other than that, pretty accurate.

Yeah, we got these grasshoppers out in Huntington Beach, where I am.

And I'm afraid you're running by them.

They're going to blow up.

That's like there's a grasshopper that blows up and everything.

Next question for you.

Pam Bondi sends a letter to the FBI today.

You're a DOJ.

I was a DOJ a long time ago.

Can you believe the FBI did not turn over the Epstein files?

I think it is astonishing, and I don't have a good explanation for it.

I've been calling for the Epstein files to be made public for a long time,

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