Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan

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HANNITY: All right. Here now with more reaction to these explosive, brand-new, just released text messages between Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Congressman Jim Jordan, Congressman Mark Meadows. It all started two days ago with the media strategy and drip by drip, we keep getting more and more of these text messages.

What do we see, Congressman Meadows? It looked like the FBI, DOJ, now the CIA leaking all this information before the election, after the election, all designed to destroy Trump. Some of them are involved in leading investigation supposedly against him.

REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-N.C., FREEDOM CAUCUS CHAIRMAN: Well, obviously, today's new text messages would suggest that the media leak strategy was exactly what we surmised in the letter we sent to Rod Rosenstein just a couple of days ago, I think. But the bigger context of this is that this is not the end of it. I can say the Department of Justice has been working with Jim and I to get us additional documents.

And I can tell you, there are dozens of other documents that would support the fact that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had ongoing relationships with multiple reporters, and that they were feeding them information to spin a narrative against this president.

HANNITY: Is that illegal?

MEADOWS: No, it's not even -- it's not legal, it's against protocol. But the other thing is, is they are denying it and we have the proof that would suggest otherwise.

So, you know, good reporting tonight on behalf of Catherine and Sara with these text messages, but I can tell you this, we believe that all the documents need to be made available to the American people. Let them judge. We have nothing to hide. The president has nothing to hide. Let's get it out there.

HANNITY: Let's talk about that, Jim Jordan. Look, a lot of people, including me, are frustrated because we've been waiting and requesting -- Congress has requested and it's been denied again and again and again, and it's been constant obstruction, but specifically, there is something, apparently, on pages 10 through 12, 17 through 34 of the Rod Rosenstein -- the signature of the third FISA renewal, the fourth warrant altogether, 302s, which would get into more detail with Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr, they were trying to feed -- Steele was trying to feed this information, funnel it through Bruce Ohr, to Robert Mueller's group.

MEADOWS: Yes.

HANNITY: It conflicts them I think.

Then, of course, you got the "Gang of Eight" information. Then I think at some point, we should get all the Strzok-Page text messages and correspondence. When are we going to get this information? People are frustrated.

REP. JIM JORDAN (R), OHIO: Hopefully soon. Transparency is a good thing. Here's what so frustration about -- the dossier was a big lie. So, what they did is they said this is a big lie. The more people we can get talking about the dossier, the more likely it is they will believe the lie.

So, that's why they had this leak to support a document that was the basis for everything. That's the big problem here. They took that document, the dossier, untrue document. They took it to the secret court and didn't tell the court important facts to get a warrant to spy on the other campaign.

HANNITY: Wait a minute, you say it nicely. Didn't they purposely lie to the FISA court, purposely withhold pertinent information to the FISA court? Isn't that a fraud committed on a court?

JORDAN: Didn't tell them who paid for it. Didn't tell them the guy who wrote it, Christopher Steele, had extreme bias against the president, said he was desperate to stop Trump and didn't tell the court about Ohr's involvement, both Bruce and Nellie Ohr's involvement in production of the document. Didn't tell them.

You and I go to court, Sean, we talked about this before. Mark and I go to court, we've got to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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HANNITY: If the (Inaudible) redacted, what do you know and what do you expect the American people will say? Why do people tell me -- I've not seen them.

JORDAN: Yes.

HANNITY: I ask them, what is it on a scale of 1 to 10? Everyone says a 10 or a nine is the lowest number it's gotten.

MEADOWS: Well--

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JORDAN: Go ahead, Mark.

MEADOWS: Go ahead, Jim.

JORDAN: Well, I was just going to say I think Matt Gaetz and some others said it best last week, it's probably was not there. We'll probably see very clearly they didn't tell the court the things you and I just talked about that if we were in front of court we would have -- we would have to tell them.

So, I think that will be the -- if will be the omission what was omission from the FISA application that will be the big news. But those 302s are important too, because the pattern was every single time Bruce Ohr communicated with Christopher Steele and with Glenn Simpson he immediately went to the FBI and reported on that conversation.

I want to know what those reports contain, what all did he say to these key people who were the ones who paid for and put together the dossier in the first place?

HANNITY: Mark, where is Spartacus, Cory Booker, when we need him for revealing information?

MEADOWS: Well, here's the thing, we do need to reveal this. We know that James Comey leak. We know that Andrew McCabe leak. We know that actually Peter Strzok and Lisa Page--

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HANNITY: Strzok and Page.

MEADOWS: -- leaked. We also know that the reporters that they leaked to, know that they leaked and listen, we've got names. We got actually reporter's names. I believe that journalism is alive and well. But at the same time we got to make sure that we get rid of this and the FBI and DOJ--

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HANNITY: Are you confident, I am told that there's exculpatory evidence in the 302s, gang of eight information, and in unredacted FISA that they literally, purposely held exculpatory evidence as it relates to Papadopoulos, Carter Page, is that true?

MEADOWS: Well, we've heard the same things. I can tell you seeing some of the unclassified documents there is more of the story that has not been shared with the FISA court and actually with the American people. The time is now, we've got to get out there and we are calling on the president hopefully to release those documents.

HANNITY: All right. Gentlemen, thank you both for what you do.

JORDAN: Thank you.

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