Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Reps. Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz

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CHAFFETZ: Wow, Trace, thank you.

President Trump reacting to Obamacare ruling, writing: As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an unconstitutional disaster. Now, Congress must pass a strong law that provides great health care and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done.

Joining me now with reaction, Florida Congressman Gaetz and Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs.

Now, Congressman Biggs, I served with these two gentlemen in the 115th Congress. It's good to have you on tonight. I do appreciate this. I want to start with Andy Biggs.

Republicans are soon to be in the minority in the House. How do you keep all of these Republican-led investigations going or are they just going to be dismissed and they're done with it?

REP. ANDY BIGGS, R-ARIZ.: Well, the only way we can keep them going since they're going to pull the plug on us from the Democrat side is to use investigations they promise they are going to open up to our advantage. And so, we see things like the OGR hearing, the subcommittee hearing, where we start looking at what was going on today with the Clinton Foundation investigation, and guess what? Huber wasn't there again.

So, one of our responsibilities is going to keep pushing the DOJ to make sure they respond, even if it's the Democrats that are holding hearings on the Trump administration or Trump officials, we have to demand the DOJ and FBI provide transparency in the documents, because I think when those come out, we are going to find, just as we see in the Clinton Foundation scandal, that there is ample evidence of pay for play misuse of funds, co- mingling of funds.

CHAFFETZ: Yes, this is an important thing and the cohesiveness that can be there between the House and the Senate working together, because in the Senate, they are the majority.

But, Matt Gaetz, you have been instrumental. You've been aggressive in these investigations.

What do you think has to happen next?

REP. MATT GAETZ, R-FLA.: Well, Andy Biggs just laid out how Huber did not show up to the oversight hearing, so we don't know if he's doing his job or not. What we do know is that Congress isn't doing its job.

Jim Comey is coming back in on Monday, and that really is I think that is a smoke screen. We want Rosenstein. We're hungry for Rosenstein. And our leadership is feeding us Jim Comey bite by bite.

The reason we need to hear from Rosenstein is because he knows the plan to wiretap the president and potentially remove him from office.

CHAFFETZ: Why hasn't it come up?

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CHAFFETZ: Why?

GAETZ: I can tell you why. I can tell you why. Our leadership knows the first question we are going to ask Rosenstein is which members of the cabinet he was speaking to to potentially invoke the 25th Amendment and run the president out of town. And some of those people may still be serving in the cabinet, and I think they are doing everything they can to make sure that in the final days of Republican control, we can't ask Rosenstein who he was talking to and who he was scheming with to undermine and potentially end the presidency of Donald Trump.

I want those answers. The American people want those answers, and by the way, Jason, your book "The Deep State," lays the premise, lays the foundation for the fact that this stuff actually happens. But with the Democrats in charge, we are not going to get the answers, and that's why we need to have Rosenstein before the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee.

CHAFFETZ: Andy, who else -- Congressman Biggs, I should say.

BIGGS: No, you're good. You're good, Jason.

CHAFFETZ: That's what we always called each other when we were there in the halls of Congress.

Nevertheless, what else can you do in these last few weeks? Is there anything else Congress can actually do to get accountability in the last few weeks?

BIGGS: Well, Matt's exactly right. We have to request, push, everything we've been doing -- Matt and I have been doing to get Rosenstein in there. If we can get Rosenstein and we can start answering some questions and from there, then we have to rely on the Senate. The Senate is going to have to continue. We are going to have to continue by pushing the holes in the Democrats --

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CHAFFETZ: Do you believe--

BIGGS: -- yes, it's going to be tough.

CHAFFETZ: Do you believe there should be a second special prosecutor?

GAETZ: Of course, there should be, Jason.

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BIGGS: Yes, yes.

CHAFFETZ: All right. You know what. I'll tell you what. Both of these gentlemen are in favor of the second special prosecutor. I need to ask you about a former colleague of ours, the congressman from South Carolina Mick Mulvaney who is the head of the Office of Management and Budget, today being tapped by President Trump to be the deputy chief of staff. Your thoughts on Mick Mulvaney? I'll start with Congressman Gaetz.

GAETZ: I met with Mick Mulvaney actually over at the White House today, we were talking about other budget matters. But look, Mick Mulvaney is a workhorse, he knows the spending issues inside and out. He also understands the intricacies of the oversight process that you previously led, Jason.

So, having Mick Mulvaney by the president's side during these difficult times shows the importance of a wartime consiglieri, Mick is going to do a great job. I think the president made a great choice and I'm excited that we've got a true movement conservative. Someone who really believes in the conservative movement and believes in the president fighting alongside our president for the great agenda of the country.

CHAFFETZ: Your thoughts, Andy Biggs on Mick Mulvaney as deputy chief of staff.

BIGGS: Well, I think he's smart, he's articulate. And one of the things I love about Mick is that he doesn't suffer fools gladly. He's going to tell it like it is and make sure the work gets done. And he's also as Matt said, a movement conservative, he's going to go with the president's line, he's going to help the president achieve his agenda, and we need that.

CHAFFETZ: I got to tell you. My own experience with Mick Mulvaney, he is tenacious. He's this tenacious Irishman. He did serve with me on the oversight government and reform committee, he is an expert in the numbers heading up the Office of Management and Budget. He have the support of the speaker and a lot of others.

He is very close with the whole delegation there for the South Carolina delegation, he ran for the Republican study committee, a committee that was chaired by Jim Jordan, by Mike Pence by others, and he lost to a guy named Bill Florez.

But nevertheless, I think a lot of people have really appreciated Mick and I think we're all excited to see him as the chief of staff to the president. He will, I think bring a lot of conservative voice there to the Congress.

Congressmen, thank you for joining us on this beautiful Friday night.

BIGGS: Thanks, Jason.

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