Fox News "The Story with Martha MacCallum" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Jim Jordan
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MACCALLUM: So, let's bring in Jim Jordan tonight. House -- member of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees. What was it like on the floor tonight watching all of this play out?
REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OH: Democrats aren't going to stop. I mean, they're so focused on going after this president, so focused on actually getting to impeachment. I believe that they're not going to stop in anything even if it means breaking the rules on the House floor where there's a certain level of decorum that you must maintain.
The Speaker of the House didn't do that. Her words should have been taken down, should have been removed. Unfortunately, what she ended up doing even though the parliamentarian ruled in our favor, ruled in Mr. Collins favor, she just wound up having to vote. The Democrats all voted with her, but they are solely focused on doing what -- doing whatever they can to stop this president, instead of frankly, working on what can help the country.
MACCALLUM: You know, if she said she cleared her comments with the parliamentarian?
JORDAN: Obviously, she didn't. But the parliamentary -- parliamentarian would have told the person presiding over the House that her words were OK, and we'd have moved on. But so, obviously, she didn't
MACCALLUM: All right. So, the president work pretty hard to contain any potential Republican defectors on this vote. Four of the members of the House voted, yes, on this. We have -- we're going to put them up on the screen. Congressman Hurd, Congressman Fitzpatrick, Upton, and Brooks. You voted no to this.
JORDAN: Yes.
MACCALLUM: So, do you believe then that the president's comments were justified in that tweet?
JORDAN: I think the president was expressing the frustration that so many Americans feel about what's going on in the border.
Understand this Martha, it was just -- it was just a couple months ago when the president said this is a crisis and all the Democrats says, "No, it's not. It's manufactured. It's contrived." And they wouldn't provide the money we needed to actually deal with the situation on the border.
Then when the real crisis gets worse, the Democrats say, oh, wait a minute, it is a crisis, but it's your fault, Mr. President. Even though you asked us eight weeks ago, nine weeks ago, 10 weeks ago for help to deal with this.
So, the frustration he feels is frankly the same frustration of the American people feel when they hear comments like abolish ICE, abolish DHS, walls are immoral, non-citizens should vote. These detention centers are concentration camps. So, that's the frustration. He feels I think, the American people feel, I think, the American people feel and he was expressing that and I think in his statements over the weekend.
MACCALLUM: So, the four women who call themselves, the squad, said yesterday, you know, we're not going to take the bait on any of this. And yet, you know, they seem to be spending a lot of time talking about this, although, they say that they want to move on.
They were on CBS tonight on the evening news with Norah O'Donnell. Let's take a look.
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