Ted Cruz actually said...

"a couple of weeks ago Senator Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA asking if the NSA, quote, has spied or is the NSA currently spying on Members of Congress or other American elected officials, and the N..."

"I am concerned, on the one hand, that the Federal Government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys."

"And is it the judgment of the commission that if the data were kept in private hands of the phone companies that already possess the data legally, that that would do nothing to undermine the efficacy ..."

"I think a great many Americans have concerns about the current state of NSA surveillance."