Ted Cruz

They don't care about abuse of power.

For them, partisanship and partisan control is all that matter.

And I contrasted it with what happened in Watergate.

Here, listen to what I had to say.

Fifty years ago, this nation was confronted with an abuse of power.

And it responded not with indifference, but with accountability.

I'll tell you one of the big differences of Watergate versus Arctic Frost.

When Richard Nixon and his corrupt attorney general and his corrupt administration abused their law enforcement powers to go after their political opponents, Republican senators stood up to the president of their own party and defended the rule of law.

Where is even a single Democrat senator who has said one word about this abuse of power?

Yeah, and look, I will say what happened in Watergate, what actually ended it when Richard Nixon resigned, is it was a group of senior Republican senators that drove the 16 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House and sat in the Oval Office and they said, Mr. President, you have a choice.

You either resign or we will impeach you, convict you, and remove you from office.

And it was a moment of real political courage for those senators to do that.

I'm not a Richard Nixon fan.

I think he was utterly corrupt.

As you know, Ben, I've written four books.

The third book I wrote was called Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.

And the opening chapter of that book is a deep dive into Watergate, and it details the just absolute corruption and abuse of power.

What Richard Nixon tried to do, Barack Obama and now Joe Biden succeeded in doing.

And one of the real differences is.

Republicans were willing to stand up and say, no, this goes too far.