Ted Cruz

Three in the morning, Thursday night, Friday morning.

It was an interesting example.

And by the way, the reason we had done it so late is actually Thursday night I was speaking at a faith and freedom gathering in Pittsburgh.

And it was great that you had probably 500 Christian activists who were fighting to save our country.

It was a terrific evening.

But when I finished the event, I needed to get back to D.C.

And given how unreliable the airports were, we decided to drive from Pittsburgh back to D.C.

And so we left at about 9 p.m.

from Pittsburgh.

Ordinarily, that's about a three-hour drive.

Yeah.

It was raining.

The weather was not good.

So it took us five hours to get from Pittsburgh back to D.C.,

I show up at our D.C.

apartment just after 2 a.m., and you and I sit down and did the podcast.

All right, that makes me feel a little better.

I drove further than you did for the same reason, because the airports, with all the chaos, it was just unreliable, and I didn't want to have to count on that to get back, so we decided to drive.

But I will say, as we were recording the podcast late Thursday night, early Friday morning, that's when the Senate passed the bill that funded all of TSA and funded all of DHS, but carved out ICE and carved out $6 billion from CBP.

And in fact, in the middle of the pod, I looked and said, oh, wow, OK, it just passed the Senate.