He didn't realize he was being recorded when he was speaking to Maria Bartiromo. The cameras weren't rolling at the time. Her producer recorded the confession.
To summarize Cruz said they needed Fox News to keep reporting that there is evidence of fraud (when there wasn't) and they were going to use that as a basis to stop the January 6th certification. Once they stopped the certification, with help from the shitkickers, they were going to form a special commission that would announce a short time later that it found legitimate issues of fraud and then declare Trump the winner.
There you have it all nice and neat the participation in the coup by several Republican Senators and Representatives gift wrapped in a recorded Ted Cruz confession.
The story broke last night and this morning news broke that the Cruz tapes are being subpoenaed by the special prosecutor.
