'He was a crook': Ted Cruz jabs Trump nominee for defending Richard Nixon

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a shot at Monica Crowley, President Donald Trump's nominee for Chief of Protocol, after she spent years defending former President Richard Nixon.

While introducing Crowley at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cruz noted that Crowley had disagreed with a book he wrote where he called Nixon a "crook."

"At just 22 years old, Monica was hired as a research assistant under President Richard Nixon, and she remained quite close to President Nixon...