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John Ratcliffe: “There was surveillance [of the Trump campaign] by the Obama…”

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 03:00

I do. I do. Pete, you talk about, you know, planned, coordinated actions against the Trump campaign. Remember where this began, when that idea originally came out that the Trump campaign There was surveillance [of the Trump campaign] by the Obama administration and its officials. It was called a conspiracy theory. Then it moved to an acknowledgement that, yes, there was surveillance. But as Jim Comey said, this idea of FISA abuse is a bunch of nonsense. (03:00–03:12)

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Asserts that the Obama administration and its officials conducted surveillance on the Trump campaign.

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