Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Scalise turns up the heat on Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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HANNITY: Also tonight, the number of lawmakers turning the heat on the Attorney General Jeff Sessions to turn over documents related to the phony Russia probe continues to climb. Don't ask now. He's one of the list of lawmakers that are jumping in, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
Congressman Scalise joins us now.
Congressman, good to see you. I know you're in better health. I am very thankful as well as many other people are.
You won't come right out and say it's time, why?
REP. STEVE SCALISE, R-LA., HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP: Well, first, Sean, thank you for the prayers and the support, I appreciate it. Getting better every day.
But, look, I support Chairman Nunes and what he's doing because what he's been doing is uncovering the truth and frankly there's a lot of things we've already found that raise serious questions about what the FBI has done and possibly abusing the FISA court. There's more that we need to get information on.
And, look, the FBI stonewalling, I don't know why justice is trying to hide information, but we're going to use every tool we have to get the facts out and ultimately continue this investigation, Sean.
HANNITY: Yes. Well, we know that Rod Rosenstein, for example, begged Paul Ryan not to release the information that ultimately became the Nunes memo, up to the final hour, after there'd been a subpoenaed a long time. We have slow-walking. We have redactions. We have claims of national security that turn out to be false and erroneous.
SCALISE: Right.
HANNITY: Congress has a constitutional role of oversight. They have a right to these documents.
I know the attorney general is recused, but this is Congress's role and they are not providing them the information that they legitimately deserve.
SCALISE: Right. Congress's role is this function that we've been actually carrying out, the Oversight Committee and if you look at what Chairman Nunes and his intelligence committee have been doing, they've already uncovered a lot of things that raise real serious concerns about abuses of the FISA court, but there's still more that we're doing in this investigation.
And Chairman Nunes ought to have every tool and use every tool to get this information and we're going to get this, Sean. One way or the other, the FBI and the Department of Justice are going to have to comply.
But think about this question, Sean. We've already raised serious questions about bad apples at the FBI. The FBI ought to be working with us to root these people out. Why would they do things like this? They sent this document -- this was one of the documents they sent over, practically the entire page is redacted. This is ridiculous.
So, we're going to continue working and doing our job to get this information and Chairman Nunes has been doing a great job and his committee and uncovering more.
But think about this, Sean, this shows you where the media wants to go with this. All day, they want to talk about Russia and unrelated things. The economy just this week posted new record numbers. We got the lowest unemployment right now since almost 20 years ago.
We have the right track. Wrong is always an indicator of what is going to happen in elections. We cross 50 percent, we're at 57 percent right now where Americans think we are on the right track.
HANNITY: Congressman, if I had you back in a month then they're still playing this game, will you demand, will you support contempt?
SCALISE: Absolutely. Whatever Chairman Nunes thinks is the right course of action to get the facts out. I strongly support.
HANNITY: All right.
SCALISE: Because we are going to get to the bottom of this one way or another.
HANNITY: All right. Congressman, we're glad you're feeling better. Welcome back.
SCALISE: Thanks, Sean.
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