Folks, you have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker with what you've done with the electronic surveillance involved.

That is the beginning of a surveillance state which I think is outrageous, particularly since with the Freedom Act in 2013, we curtailed the NSC's ability about that.

This is so absurd.

To take that out of context, say, he thinks he's a king, let me tell you what a king is.

This is so absurd. It's so absurd.

This is a major step in the surveillance state getting out of control in the hands of the Congress...

the surveillance state can get out of control.

I believe that that was a subpoena that is fully authorized under the law, and under congressional procedures.

You have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker with what you've done with the electronic surveillance involved.

Here we see a clear abuse of power on the part of the people who are prosecuting this impeachment against the President of the United States.

My friend, Jim Sensenbrenner, said in 41 years, he's never seen anything like what we have going on here to try to oust a sitting President.