Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan
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Here with reaction, Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.
All right. Before I get to the stuff, there's a big fight going on in North Carolina, one of my favorite states, congressman met us, you happen to represent 12. I kind of wish he were running for Senate, Jim and I agree on that. We talked behind your back.
Tell us what's going on.
REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-S.C.: You know, it's a special election that is happening tomorrow. I am supporting Dr. Greg Murphy, who will be not only the best candidate and represent Congress well, but he is willing to fight for this president, just like you just saw, the media gets him both coming and going. He needs people that are willing to stand up for him.
And so, Dr. Greg Murphy hopefully will earn the trust of the people they are in eastern North Carolina. Jim and I have endorsed him. And he will be a member of the Freedom Caucus and a real fighter.
HANNITY: Well, you know, I got to tell you, this is important for a couple of reasons. We need more of you guys because without the Freedom Caucus, we have nothing. Those are not words, because we now have seen what you guys have been doing behind the scenes.
All right. So, as you look at the reaction to the president, Jim Jordan, Kim Jong-un, he didn't bribe him. He's not bribing Iranian mullahs. The only thing the president gives is time. That's it. His time, not anyone else's. And he says America first and he doesn't want to intervene in a war that we are going to pull out of because it is politically charged three years later.
So, to me, that's common sense.
REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OHIO: (AUDIO GAP) advocates for the Democrat Party instead of reporters of facts. It's unfortunate but that is just too they are. And they don't report the real facts that matter, like the fact that unemployment is at its lowest in 50 years, taxes have been cut, the regulations reduced, economy growing as you said, over 3 percent, 200,000- some jobs added last month. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in the court, o9ut of the Iran deal, embassy in Jerusalem, hostage out of North Korea, you could go on and on.
But the press is going to attack this guy and the Democrats are going to attack him because they are all focused, much more focused on stopping President Trump than they are in helping the country. And that's a fundamental problem in Washington today.
That is why the race in North Carolina is so important. Greg Murphy will come and help the president fight the swamp and do what needs to be done to help the country so we can deal with these Democrats in the press and all they are trying to stop.
HANNITY: What do you make, Mark Meadows, I think this is a big report by Catherine Herridge, and also big news by John Solomon? But Catherine Herridge, we've already known that what James Comey testified to in October of 2016, the Russian lies of Hillary Clinton that were paid for were in fact unverifiable. Now, they are going deeper. Now, we know this woman, Kavalec, over at the State Department.
Now we know that Bruce Ohr, because of your interrogation, and Jim's interrogation, behind closed doors, they all said they warned Comey. They were the FBI. They told him everything about the dossier being phony and they used it as the bulk of information to get the warrant to spy on the campaign of Trump anyway.
Where is that taking us?
MEADOWS: Well, what we see is James Comey went through not only yellow flashing lights, but he went through red stoplights to try to get this president and indict this president. I can tell you that not only the good work that Catherine Herridge reported in terms of what we are seeing, what we knew, but we know that Christopher Steele not only was talking to the DOJ, was talking to the FBI, was talking to the media, talking to the State Department. He was talking to anybody who would listen --
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HANNITY: He was trying to talk to Mueller to Ohr. He was sending messages to the special counsel's office.
MEADOWS: He was sending out smoke signals everywhere trying to get someone to take this particular story that was false. The FBI knew it was false. They knew they had credibility problems. And yet, they continue to spy on American citizens.
HANNITY: Jim Jordan, didn't he say, Comey, that he doesn't spy? That sounds like spying to me.
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JORDAN: Yes. Here is why Catherine's story is so important, why people are coming forward in Mr. Horowitz's investigation. The reason they are coming forward is because there is a new sheriff in town. That's Bill Barr. And Bill Barr has announced he's going to get to the bottom -- never forget what he said. We talked about this on your show.
He said there is a failure of leadership in the upper echelon of the FBI. He said spying occurred. He said there is a basis for his concern about the spying that took place and he used terms that should scare every American, unauthorized surveillance and political surveillance.
And he and John Durham will get to the bottom of it and that's where people are coming forward in Michael Horowitz's investigation.
HANNITY: All right. Thank you, both.
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