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

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REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OH: Good to be here.

HANNITY: Mark, let's -- you know, Schiff has a lot of problems here. No wonder the non-whistleblower whistleblower, friend of Biden, friend of Schiff's, and he lied about contacts. I guess he doesn't want him to come.

Nancy Pelosi apparently doesn't have the votes for a real impeachment inquiry. I would say they're probably going to have a hard time impeaching even though there's nothing to impeach over.

REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-N.C.: Yes, obviously tonight, Nancy Pelosi decided to not put a resolution on the floor which would hopefully start the process of it being fair. I can tell you, Jim and I have been now and over 40 hours of deposition and what we are finding is, is that Adam Schiff only wants to have witnesses who will give the response that he hopes that they will give and even at that, it's a swing and a miss.

I -- you know, we need to have that whistleblower and we call it a whistleblower but it's really more of an anonymous informant. We need to have them come in so that we can say, how often did you coordinate with Adam Schiff? Did he help you in filing this so-called whistleblower complaint? And why did you not let everyone know that you had contact with Congress?

Those are the kind of questions the American people need to judge for themselves.

HANNITY: Jim Jordan, you've been watching the circus now go on for a couple of years. Everything they accuse the president of, they themselves are guilty of.

OK. Look at Schiff. Is Schiff compromised? If -- you know, do you think Hunter Biden is compromised? Or Joe Biden?

JORDAN: Yes.

HANNITY: You know, if these -- if countries make all of these great deals, millions of dollars, for his son to do nothing with no experience, I got to imagine their thinking that they are probably going to get favorable treatment from their father. That's just a guess of mine.

JORDAN: No, you're right. And Mark is exactly right, too. I mean, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are trying to impeach the president of the United States 13 months before an election, based on an anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand knowledge, who -- anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand knowledge and who -- went in front of -- he went to Adam Schiff's committee first.

I mean, think about this, Sean. The whistleblower gets a call, gets info about the call, writes the memo, and then waits 18 days before he files a complaint. And who is the first person they run off to see? Adam Schiff's staff.

And they don't mark the form either, Sean. They don't check the box on the form that says, we talk to people on Capitol Hill.

So, yes, Mark is exactly right. Why do they now want not want the whistleblower to come at all? Because we've got all kinds of questions. When did he come to you, what took place there?

That's the problem with this whole thing, this unfair, partisan process they are undergoing.

HANNITY: OK. So, where does this go next? Is Nancy Pelosi -- all of those Democrats, I'll scroll the names again. Those that were elected in districts that Donald Trump won in 2016, I got to imagine most of them are saying this is going to destroy you my career. This is -- my district does not want to play into this madness, Mark Meadows.

MEADOWS: Well, here's where it's going to go. The Democrats are going to write a report. They are going to come out of the secret rooms where they have been, where we believe there should be cameras and open and transparent process, but they are going to write a report and that report is going to take only a certain amount of the information, information and that they have actually tried to leak to witnesses to conclude.

And then they are going to put it in the Judiciary and they are going to say, oh, this is the most damning thing that we've ever seen since the Mueller report, and it's time to impeach. And yet, the American people are going to see it for what it is, and Jim is actually right. Thirteen months, we could have an election. Let the people decide in November of 2020.

HANNITY: Will they actually vote though? Will they vote to impeach the president?

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MEADOWS: Yes, go ahead, Jim.

JORDAN: Well, we don't know, Sean, but you're right. My guess is the reason the speaker of the House is not bringing it up for a vote to start this so-called impeachment inquiry is because those folks in those districts that President Trump won, they're probably hearing from their constituents.

They were just home for two weeks and they're probably saying, what the heck is going on? We're sick of this. Why don't you start dealing with the issues we care about instead of trying to impeach the president we all elected. We all elected.

Sixty-some million people voted for him, we all elected, and in 13 months, there's going to be an election. So, why are you doing this? I think that's the reason the speaker is holding back.

HANNITY: OK, and --

MEADOWS: Sean, Jim is exactly right. I was with Governor Matt Bevin last night in Louisville, Kentucky, and what we are hearing is not just in North Carolina but Kentucky and all over it. People are outraged that somehow their voices going to be taken away by a few Democrats in a secret room. It's just not American and it's not what we're going to stand for.

HANNITY: I thought they want transparency. Weren't they the same Democratic Party, correct me if I'm wrong, they wanted the full Mueller report released so we could see it, they won't let us see anything?

JORDAN: They wouldn't let Matt Gaetz in yesterday, a member of the United States Congress, a member of the Judiciary Committee, and tonight, they wouldn't even let members who came into the intel room to read the transcript of Ambassador Volker, they wouldn't let them read it.

HANNITY: Unbelievable. Pretty corrupt.

Guys, thank you.

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