Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Interview with Doug Collins

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Joining me now, Congressman Doug Collins, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. Congressman, how can the Democrats run a credible investigation without the Republicans really involved?

REP. DOUG COLLINS, R-GA: They can't, Laura. This is the point I've had it. I've been nine months with this, I've been in Judiciary Committee watching Jerry Nadler and his happy bad majority, run roughshod over rules, and they don't care about the rules. They want one thing at the end of the day and that is to impeach this President.

They want to do it since November of 2016. That's why we've been talking about fairness. And at the end of the day, people understand fairness. People may disagree with the President, may not like President, but when you have the Speaker of the House, who refuses to bring an inquiry to the floor, why does that matter?

Because if she might have Democrats vote for an inquiry and they started a true inquiry, then actually we in the minority have a right. Myself would have subpoena power in the Judiciary Committee just like Chairman Nadler would. The President could weigh in to say actually be accused. Isn't that a unique concept?

In America, we actually believe that people have due process rights. But this speaker is running roughshod over the House and it's got to stop. This is a travesty and it's affecting the institution of the House.

INGRAHAM: It's affecting how people lay out in "The Angle," Congressman, how people view our Democratic republic, people view the press, how people view the entire concept of fairness? The President being hamstrung in his ability to conduct foreign policy. I'm sorry, but that China, North Korea, and the way they look at this - they don't care one whit about how this affects our economy or anything else.

It's about tearing down this President, ripping them out of office by any means necessary. I've got to ask you. Nancy Pelosi gave an interview on ABC where I think she revealed unwittingly what's really going on? Watch.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF.: The reelection of Donald Trump would do irreparable damage to United States. We have some serious repair and healing to do in that country for what he's done so far. I'm not sure two terms, it might be irreparable.

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INGRAHAM: Okay, so that's it, right. Then we can't risk the people voting for peace and prosperity, you cannot risk it.

COLLINS: It's amazing to me. The Speaker Pelosi has such little faith in the American people. If she was right, if she had agenda, if she believes the Democratic Party candidates for President were actually on the right track, actually sharing the right message, why is she so skeptical of the American people actually voting for what they believe is the right idea.

The Problem is she knows that Donald Trump is connecting with the American people, he did it in 2016. We are going to see it again next year, and what they're seeing from her, is simply a warning to overturn election because the next election they're scared of. What is - it's causing an irreparable damages.

This is her second term as Speaker. This is her second time around Speaker, what did we get the first time? We got Obamacare; we got all kinds of things that we now have to still dig out of.

INGRAHAM: Shovel ready. It's all shovel ready.

COLLINS: Shovel ready. What shovel ready is what she's spreading to the American people about what they are doing with this impeachment inquiry? That's shovel ready because it's not anything close - she's lying to the American people, that's why the amicus brief was filed. If she wanted this information, she knew she had to. They're telling the people wanting or not?

INGRAHAM: Congressman, Fox news has just confirmed that the President will send Pelosi a letter tomorrow that the White House is going to ignore Democrat demands until the House formally approved impeachment proceedings. He's daring her to hold impeachment vote. Good move?

COLLINS: I think what you are going to have to have - do you know who is scared right now? About 30-40 Democrats in the seats that President Trump won, they're going to actually go and record now and say look, Ms. Pelosi is - Speaker Pelosi, if you want to take us down this path, then you recognize your putting in jeopardy of the House majority that you won last year on a platform of you are going to do something of the American people.

You're going to do trade, you're going to do infrastructure, you're going to do prescription drug crisis. You've done none of that except attacked this President. And also at the same time by the way, take the rules of the house and throw them in the trash can. This is the problem that we are having right now. If you want to do it properly, by the book, do that.

But Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff, he can't spell truth much less tell it. And when we understand this, this is the problem we are seeing right now, they are destroying the institution of the House and everybody, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents ought to be aggrieved by that.

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