Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, you're back in Washington, D.C.

My oh, my, how things have changed since the last time you were in D.C. before Election Day.

Well, I've been back in D.C. the entire week. I'm actually back in Texas right now.

You and I are talking. It's 11 o'clock Thursday night. I just got back to Texas this evening. But this was the first week back in D.C. since the election. And I got to say,

it's a remarkable time that there is an enormous energy. There's an enormous enthusiasm.

People are really excited. People are excited about President Trump coming back in the

White House. People are excited about the new administration. People are excited about a Republican

Senate and a Republican House. And it's interesting. You look at the Democrats. The Democrats are

shell-shocked. They're just they have a difficult time believing what has happened, and they're just kind of

looking around like, you know, okay, wow, we're in a whole new world. And so it was a really good week.

It was a consequential week. We got back. We had the very first thing we did is dove into leadership elections for the new

majority leader. And the very first majority leader was elected in 18 years. And so on the podcast

today, I'm going to bring you inside of that. I'm going to tell you about what's going on in the Senate.

We're going to break all of that down. We I'm going to tell you about what's going on in the Senate.

We're going to break all of that down. We're also going to break down a major terrorist arrest that happened in your and my hometown, Houston, Texas. So we're going to talk about all that.

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