Begin impeachment of Trump?

CBS’ “Face the Nation” led off with host John Dickerson interviewing Rafael (Ted) Cruz, GOP senator from Texas.

In the Senate, Sen. Cruz serves on the:

• Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation;

• Committee on Armed Services;

• Committee on the Judiciary;

• Joint Economic Committee; and

• Committee on Rules and Administration.

The transcript includes the following:

“Sen. Ted Cruz (R), Texas: Well, these are serious allegations. And I think they need to be looked into seriously. You have got open investigations in both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. You have got next week FBI Director Comey testifying. And we need to find out what the facts are. We do know — or it’s at least been publicly reported that there were two FISA applications for some sort of surveillance or wiretaps, one of which was turned down by the Obama — by the FISA court of the Obama administration, one of which was granted. I think it is important to learn a little bit more detail as to what was contained in those FISA applications. And I think the investigations will bring that out.”

If Sen. Cruz’s information is correct, the Justice Department presented evidence to the FISA Court of probable cause that someone in the Trump campaign was jeopardizing national security and violating the law which justified surveillance.

Next step is to find out what the probable cause evidence was, and what further evidence was obtained via the surveillance. Even absent evidence obtained by the surveillance, the probable cause evidence may be sufficient to justify the beginning of an impeachment process for one or both of the leaders we elected in 2016.

And so goes the long and winding road of the current production of Trumpgate. — Steven E. Zalesch New Haven