Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Jim Jordan
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INGRAHAM: Congressman Jordan joins us now. Congressman, isn't it fun being so loved? I feel the same way lately. So doesn't it give you the warm and fuzzies? Does it really upset you to hear that criticism, that you're just going to be the ant at the picnic of the January 6th commission? Your reaction to that?
REP. JIM JORDAN, (R-OH): I tell my colleagues all the time, if the mainstream press and the liberal Democrats aren't saying anything bad about you, you're probably not doing anything any good. So you know that feeling, too, Laura. You're out there fighting the good fight and you get attacked by the left all the time. So that's just part of the deal.
Look, will she kick me off of the committee? I don't know. Since when does the other team's coach get to determine who gets to play for our teams. So we will see what happens. But I do know what this is about. This is about attacking President Trump once again because, frankly, Laura, what else are they going to talk about? Are they going to talk about crime going up in every city? Are they going to talk about inflation where the price of everything, gas, bread, milk, airline tickets, used cars, everything is -- are they going to talk about that stuff? So they have to focus on the only thing they know which is attacking President Trump because he did such a good job and they can't stand that.
INGRAHAM: Your pal AOC has a few thoughts on your being chosen for the January 6th commission. Watch.
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REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, (D-NY): Kevin McCarthy has decided that his role as the minority leader in the House of Representatives is essentially to be chauffeur of the clown car. And he believes that his job is to champion some of the most ludicrous, irresponsible, and dangerous members of this party instead of centering some of the more even keeled and responsible members of his party.
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INGRAHAM: So Congressman Jordan, the responsible members of the party, people like Adam Kinzinger and others, they would agree with the Democrats that this was an insurrection worse than any worldwide insurrection that has ever occurred.
JORDAN: If they want to use the term responsible, you know what would be responsible? Is to ask the fundamental question, why wasn't there a proper security presence and posture that day? And frankly the only one who can answer that is Speaker Pelosi. But my hunch is the reason we didn't have the backup there for those good Capitol Hill police officers is because what happened in the summer of 2020, Laura. Democrats normalized anarchy. If you attacked police officers, destroyed small business, they said that's fine. They called it a peaceful protest. And worse yet, they raised money to bail those very people out of jail.
So with that as a backdrop, you probably can't have the kind of presence you need when you're having this kind of -- this number of people coming to the capital. So I doubt the Democrats would address that question, but that would be the responsible thing to do.
INGRAHAM: Yes or no, should Nancy Pelosi be the subject of an investigation?
JORDAN: She should have to answer the question, why wasn't there a better security presence that day? It wasn't like we didn't know there was going to be a big rally that day, for goodness sake.
INGRAHAM: Congressman, thank you, good to see you.
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