Ted Cruz: “Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia hoax as a way…”

“We now have evidence that the intelligence community for months had concluded that Russia was not attempting to hack the election, and yet they deliberately lied for political purposes. We've now had the story break that Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia hoax as a way to distract from her own email scandal. And now the latest. A whistleblower from within the Obama intelligence community tried to blow the whistle, tried to stop, tried to say this is a lie. And the whistleblower was silenced.” (00:43–00:51)

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