'Sham': ​Ted Cruz torched for blocking Jack Smith at 2020 election hearing

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Sen. Ted Cruz of holding a "sham" hearing on an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 election crimes because he blocked the testimony of the primary investigator, special counsel Jack Smith.

At a judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Durbin recalled Trump's plot to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election, followed by the former president taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago home.

"My Republican colleagues claim the Watergate-level...