And I took off my suit jacket, which actually is a violation of our House rules. I'd never done that before, and was prepared for whatever's going to come. And I think We came very close that day to losing our democracy, much closer than I think we still even have kind of fully wrangled with as a country. There's Texans, and Ted Cruz played a role in that, and we're seeing him play a continuing role, I think, undermining faith in our institutions. We've now had multiple prosecutors reach the same conclusion. (06:13–06:21)
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