Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Meadows, DeSantis on developments in FISA abuse probe
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HANNITY: Interesting report by Sara Carter tonight. Do you -- well, I guess you probably wouldn't be able to answer if you didn't know. So I won't. I will spare my time.
One of the things that we know over a year ago, the State Department was supposed to hand over some 72,000 Clinton e-mails, Congressman DeSantis. We are still waiting for those emails. Do we know if that's part of the deleted e-mails? And is there any knowledge if those 33,000 emails were ever recovered that we know that she tried to acid wash and destroy?
REP. RON DESANTIS, R--FLA.: That's the thing, Sean. You almost always confined the emails somewhere. And yet in this case, it was the FBI's judgment that hey, these 30,000 emails, we just can't find them. Now in Judicial Watch litigation for FOIA, you know, they've identified the backup server by Datto Inc as potentially having those.
The FBI never searched that. I asked Christopher Wray whether they did. You know, he could not confirm that they did. So we need to look at all the possible areas where those emails were because when you have emails subpoenaed, you don't just turn over the ones that you want to turn over and then acid wash the rest. That's not the way it works.
I think there were a lot of work-related emails that they deleted. They may have been e-mails related to the foundation and other things that are of interest to Congress, so we've got to find them if they are out there.
HANNITY: Congressman Meadows, if you look at the original, the exoneration of Comey and Strzok. And Strzok eventually interviewed Hillary. The original exoneration written months before the investigation, or the interview of Hillary and 17 other people. They had said and it had been reported that five foreign agencies have hacked into Hillary's server in the mom-and-pop bathroom closet.
OK, so here's my question that means they exist. You know, WikiLeaks is a separate issue. They've always said it's not Russia. But if James Comey's original piece said that these entities had hacked into it, that means other countries likely have them. So wouldn't it mean we would be able to recover those e-mails? Because I don't believe these 33,000 emails about any one wedding, funeral, or yoga that exist on this planet.
MEADOWS: Well, you don't believe that. I don't believe that. And more importantly, the American people, Sean, don't believe that because as we look at 30,000 emails, getting rid of those, you know, isn't it interesting that there may be more foreign governments with Hillary Clinton e-mails than Congress or those who are going after it. You know, I just find it inexcusable.
And so, as we looked at this, the bigger picture really right now is, are we going to get to the bottom of it. I can tell you that the people I have the privilege of serving said it's about time that we get to the bottom of it. And I think that the coming days will provide a lot of fruit.
HANNITY: It's amazing how everything has backfired and is boomeranging. Both of you have done a phenomenal job. The American people deserve to get the truth on emails, about fixed investigations, about FISA abuses, about Hillary paying for a dossier full of Russian -- we need to get to the bottom of all of it.
All right. When we get back, President Trump's state dinner with the French president. Ainsley Earhardt is here and also to talk a about a new book, straight ahead.
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