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John Ratcliffe: “The Obama administration began and then continued an illegal…”

Featuring: John Ratcliffe, Republican | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | National

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Ratcliffe Discusses Wray's Admission that the FBI Illegally Surveilled Trump Campaign Associate

Published | Video Starts at 03:02

And I think that that's a profound, you know, admission by the FBI director that was just heard there. And I think it's very clear that The Obama administration began and then continued an illegal surveillance action against first Candidate Trump and then President Trump. Yeah. The one thing I do hope that happens is that there's an application of justice and that somebody gets charged in doing all this because there's a lot of people making referrals, but we're not seeing justice. (03:02–03:12)

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Asserts that the Obama administration conducted illegal surveillance on Trump as both a candidate and as President.

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