Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: interview with Rep. Jim Jordan

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And Jim Jordan, it's not a whistleblower, it's hearsay - oh people told me and okay, and it looks really official the way it's all written up. And Inspector General didn't know the contents of the phone call and said this is arguably political bias, and the DOJ investigated it, no action warranted, that was like less than 24 hours. And the Ukrainian President denies being pressured as does the foreign minister.

REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OH: Right.

HANNITY: So debunked again, except it didn't take three years this time.

JORDAN: Sean, our community - the Oversight Committee probably deals with more whistleblowers than any other Committee in Congress. When a whistleblower comes forward, you look for two things, two things to assess their credibility.

One, were they an eyewitness, did they have first-hand knowledge? Two, what was their motivation? This so-called whistleblower has problems in both areas. He never was on - he never was part of the call, never had first- hand knowledge, and the Inspector General even tells us that that he had a political bias.

He says indicia of arguable political bias. That's Washington speak for this guy was out to get the President. So this guy's got trouble on both accounts and now we find out there was no quid pro quo when you read the transcript, but there was with Joe Biden.

HANNITY: That's the whole thing. OK, you're going to bring a whistleblower and it was not really a whistleblower, that was only hearsay. Excuse me, your honor, I object that would be hearsay, inadmissible your honor. OK, sustained. Boom, move forward.

JORDAN: Yes.

HANNITY: And the issue with the President, there is no there, there. There is nothing, there was - we saw the whole transcript.

JORDAN: Yes Sean, you know how you know this guy had political bias, because once you read the transcript, you said of course he had political bias because there's nothing in the transcript. Remember, he didn't know about the transcript, he's just filing this complaint from these other sources, hearsay - second and third hearsay that he had.

So of course this is, as you said earlier Sean, they always accuse us of what they're doing. Clinton worked with foreigners, Clinton worked with Russians to impact the 2016 election, and they blamed Trump for doing that, even though they're the ones who did it.

HANNITY: All right.

JORDAN: Now you have Joe Biden with quid pro quo and they're blaming President Trump for the same thing, and it's just not true.

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