including lying, deceiving, sucking up, throwing his wife and his father to the side in per suit of power. and that is pretty much the headline for where the republican party is today. carol len i go, i think in five years i have never contemplated leading with a ted cruz story. but this isn t a ted cruz story. this is about what threatens our country, what a terror attack is and is not. in the words of ted cruz on january 7th, 2021, the january 6th insurrection was, quote a despicable act of terrorism. in the words of ted cruz on january th, 2021, quote, yesterday s terrorist attack was a horrific assault on our democracy. january 8th, 2021, quote, we saw a terrorist attack on the united states capitol.