president trump, at time, candidate trump s campaign, spied on him. covered it up. watergate. you have democrats not even willing to look into that. comey said last sloppy. it was criminal. i will call every person who signed warrant application. i want to know how far up did this go. i want to know was president obama aware of counterintelligence investigation into the trump campaign? i would be shocked if he was not. if you re launching a investigation on major political figure, republican nominee for president, your opponent, they would be read in. nobody is asking questions whether barack obama or joe biden personally signed off on spying on and surveilling their political opponent. we need answers. charles: ahead, what happens in a senate impeachment trial? senator ted cruz lace it all out and shares predictions as we look ahead on
i m looking at christopher wray to fire somebody at the fbi and somebody needs to go to jail. i m looking at durham to hold people criminally accountable for the laws they broke. make a good point. we got a graphic of everybody who signed those warrant. you re saying each of those people you will call down to testify. that includes james comey signed a warrant three times. sally yates signed it once. andrew mccabe, his deputy signing it. do we have the graphic? yeah. maria: sally yates as well. all these people you will call to testify as you take a deep dive what took place in 2016. there are two questions i want to ask these people. when you signed the warrant application, how much time did you spend trying to figure out if it was actually true and how far up the chain did this go? did president obama know about the counterintelligence surveillance of the trump campaign? did vice president biden know? how much information was
russia allegations without looking at dossier. i don t know how you move forward once the dossier collapsed versus carter page. the horowitz report is first step in a long journey regarding fisa reabuse. the fisa court reviewed the fbi. that is a great start. they came down hard on the fbi. if they failed to do that i would have lost all confidence in the court. comey said last week he was sorry. it was slop sloppy. no, comey, it was not sorry. it was criminal. i will call every person who called for a warrant application. why harry reid went up to september of 2016 to talk about the investigation. find out why it took two years for mueller to realize there was no there there. we ll look long and hard at fisa abuse. we re going to pass laws to make sure this never happens again. accountability will only be successful if somebody gets fired.
provided to susan rice? i want to know how far up the chain the investigation went. i want to know why so many people could sign a warrant application so flawed. so there is a lot of questions. i want to make sure this never happens again. to the american people, you deserve better than this. every american should be worried about fisa. and to this impeachment debacle, to my democratic colleagues, impeachment is a dead cat. stop playing with it. maria: say it again, senator? impeachment is a dead cat. stop playing with it. bury it. it is going nowhere. quit violating the constitution. give the president his day in court. let s get this behind us so we can talk about things people really care about in this country. maria: senator, i want to take a short break, but what you said is really important. how high up the chain does it go? people keep telling me the mastermind was at the cia put
and ignorance as he normally does. what is outrageous is, the white house said you should give a defensive briefing. they gave it to hillary clinton, but not to donald trump, why? because comey wanted to continue to escalate his investigation of trump and spy on the trump campaign. of course, he did so by lying to the fisa court deceiving the judges and concealing vital evidence. in one particular case, actually a lawyer doctoring the evidence for the fisa warrant application. this is appalling. and the fisa court presiding judge, reaction to this is sort of oak, kumbaya, let us know in january what remedies you will take. for me, that should be the end of the road for the fisa court. it should be abolished and replaced with a new system that doesn t automatically rely on the fbi to be honest and