Fox News "The Story" - Transcript: Rep. Jordan: Do we need an endless migrant caravan before we say it's an emergency?

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INGRAHAM: Now more on the dire situation of the border is going to be coming up later in the show, you do not want to miss it. It goes way beyond that and there's a lot more in that New York Times piece we're going to get into.

And we will be naming names and unmasking the motives of those on the Left and some on the right who are working to stop stronger enforcement on our southern border which includes a physical barrier.

The President must continue to stand firm on this issue and forge ahead against the chamber of commerce Republicans who want an endless flow of cheap labor and the open borders Democrats who think they have an endless supply of new voters.

And as for the democratic impeachment squad, keep unmasking their real motives, you bet. If they cared about the constitution or the rule of law, they wouldn't have let the border get this out of control in the first place and they would have demanded that Hillary Clinton and her protectorate pay for their wrong doing.

That's law and order, don't you think? This is a political war. All of this that you're seeing around you and it's meant to undo the President's successes and block his agenda for the next two years, that's all it's about.

This isn't just harassment of President Trump. He said that today. It's harassment of the millions of Americans who voted for his agenda and it's an abuse of the entire democratic process that the Democrats claim to care so much about. And that's THE ANGLE.

All right, joining me now with reaction, Congressman Jim Jordan, Ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. Congressman, let's start on the border issue, then we're going to get back to what else is cooking but I mean, we're going to talk about this later but this is a national travesty and the Democrats will say, oh, it's not bad at all at the border.

It's you know, interception of people are down. There are fewer people crossing, what's the real truth?

REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OH: You just heard from the agency on the border talking about how that is - even the New York Times talking about the 77000 just this month alone crossing the border.

So I always say, if what are we on? The fifth caravan? What do we need? Sixth caravan, seventh caravan, an endless caravan before we say it's an emergency. The President is right and some of the - the Republicans who are opposing the President as you said in your - in your opening, in your INGRAHAM ANGLE, some of those are the same ones who last year during the Congress, didn't want to get it done when we had the majority in both the House and the Senate.

So this is something that's going to - looks like the Senate is going to vote to overrule the President's order but when the President vetoes and it comes back for veto, we'll be able to sustain this.

INGRAHAM: Mitch McConnell could have pushed this yeah. He could have demanded his numbers.

JORDAN: We shouldn't have done the omnibus, we shouldn't have done the last Congress.

INGRAHAM: But they promised the President, you're going to get your wall funding, just get us through this period, isn't that always a little carrot you dangle in front of someone?

JORDAN: No, right, right, we'll get it later, there's always the main reason why you shouldn't do what you said you would do, most importantly what the voters elected you to do but this President is keeping his word and doing what he said and that's why the American people and that's why this town doesn't like him.

INGRAHAM: Your advice to him in this moment when we're going to get into the impeachment squad.

JORDAN: Yes.

INGRAHAM: People are like, oh, we got him, the walls are closing around him, we got these subpoenas issued, Ivanka, Jared, weird Russians I've never heard of. They're all named and 81 people.

What should the President do as this is swirling around?

JORDAN: Just keep doing his job. I was back home Friday night, we had a Lincoln day dinner. I spoke out and the crowd was huge and they were so enthusiastic for the President fighting for what he told the American people to do.

You know what's interesting too about these 81 letters that Mr. Nadler sent. What's interesting is who we didn't send them to. He didn't send - all these people 81 different entities, over 60 different people but he didn't send it to the two most important, Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele. Glenn Simpson that was paid by the Clintons to put the dossier together and who do you do - he hired Christopher Steele, a foreigner to write the dossier that was a base of all.

INGRAHAM: That's the last of all the people by the way -

JORDAN: Yeah, all those people but not the two that count the most and so look, they started their impeachment effort last Wednesday, they started impeachment last Wednesday with Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen, their first announced witness of the 116th Congress, a guy who's going to prison in two months for lying to Congress came in last Wednesday and did what?

INGRAHAM: That's their ace in the hole.

JORDAN: Came in last Wednesday and did what? Lied six times under oath and that's why we sent a criminal referral letter to the Attorney General, this is where you start.

INGRAHAM: Well, I mean Bill Barr, okay? Bill Barr has got to act on this. I'm sorry Bill Barr could act on this, could Bill Barr reopen the investigation into Mrs. Clinton?

JORDAN: He could.

INGRAHAM: Should he?

JORDAN: What he should do is tell us what John Huber is doing, what Michael Horowitz is doing, what the FISA abuse that they're supposed to be looking into and this whole idea that you have the top people at the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Baker, Strzok, Page, all these people who were launched and ran the Clinton investigation and then launched and ran the Trump Russia investigations.

They've all been fired or left the FBI. Two are under investigation, that's where we need to look.

INGRAHAM: But listen, there's plenty of collusion here. But it's - right? But what about Tony Podesta? Why does he seem to be able to get away with so much - so much activity with Russia.

JORDAN: We've talked about this before and you've been great on this double standard, one set of rules for us regular folk, a different set -

INGRAHAM: But now we have a new Attorney General in place who could take a sober, dispassionate look.

JORDAN: Yeah.

INGRAHAM: We're not - no one 's looking to put scalps on the wall but if this is what we're going to be dealing with like on the other side at least people should have a clear sense of what happened before this, correct?

JORDAN: Right. They'll go back to look at this fundamental fact, the Clinton campaign paid the law firm Perkins Coie who hired Glenn Simpson who then went and hired a foreigner, Christopher Steele who talked to a couple of Russians, never went to Russia, put together this fake document called the dossier that the FBI used.

INGRAHAM: Manipulated -

JORDAN: Tony, McCabe and all these people used. Strzok and Page used to go to a secret court to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and that's what launched it all and now we got 81 letters going to people but none of them are going to the guys that count the most, Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson.

INGRAHAM: I think everyone who signed those FISA warrants, those applications to the court, not revealing that it was Hillary Clinton who paid for them, that still sticks in my craw.

JORDAN: Here's the other thing we have, we got competing testimony, we got McCabe saying one thing, Comey saying something else. Strzok saying one thing, this is why we need to look at this issue and -

INGRAHAM: Nobody pays though, this is what drives people crazy.

JORDAN: It does.

INGRAHAM: We have a new Attorney General who is a consummate professional.

JORDAN: We're going to talk to him about these things.

INGRAHAM: And you are in the process of talking to him about all this?

JORDAN: We are.

INGRAHAM: And I know, they'll say, that's looking backward, we want to look forward, none of - this is the rule of law.

JORDAN: This is the rule of law, equal treatment under the law most importantly. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us tonight.

JORDAN: Thank you.

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