Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Devin Nunes and Rep. Steve Scalise

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All right. Joining us now, we are joined by -- he is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes is with us.

Also, he's a House minority leader, that would be -- well, I guess you're not a leader yet. You hope to be one day. Minority Whip Steve Scalise.

Devin, I know you can't tell us everything but my sources are pretty clear. It's a complete Adam Schiff shutdown. Republicans can't ask questions, Republicans can't do pretty much everything.

You've read this so-called resolution. Is this resolution what Newt Gingrich offered Bill Clinton in 1988?

REP. DEVIN NUNES, R-CALIF.: Well, I think people should be asking themselves, especially if you're a Democrat and you're on the Judiciary Committee is, where is Jerry Nadler? Nobody's seen him for like two and a half months. He is like the missing men in action.

So, clearly, Schiff and the Intelligence Committee Democrats, they completely obliterated the Intelligence Committee. It's now known as the impeachment committee.

So, you know, that resolution is just more of the same and I'll tell you, you mention that you haven't seen this in your many years in radio and TV, I have never in my life seen anything like what happened today. I mean, they have been bad and most of these depositions but to interrupt us continually, to coach the witness to decide whether or not what we are going to be able to ask a witness, and we don't even get witnesses at this point, and it doesn't look like we're going to get any ever, but do not let us ask questions, I have never, ever had that.

And to see someone coach a witness, you know, this isn't the first time that -- Schiff is very good at coaching witnesses, remember? He also met with the whistle-blower. So, this is -- this is just unprecedented.

HANNITY: You know, Steve Scalise, I look at this "New York Times" report. White House Ukraine expert sought to correct transcript of Trump call. OK. That's fine and he is claiming that the vice president is on tape discussing Ukraine's corruption.

Now, I'm actually glad that they bring this up because I would like to know what you think Joe Biden -- what he did was a quid pro quo, fire him in six hours or you don't get a billion dollars, and if his own son admits he's being paid millions with no experience, doesn't that sound like they are buying favor and doesn't that sound like something the American people need to get to the bottom of if Joe Biden sold out his office so his family could make millions when they had no experience? I think that's an important thing that we ought to be investigating.

SCALISE: Well, Sean, I think everybody in America who is objective that looks at this knows it doesn't pass the smell test. Joe Biden himself bragged about it. He said he flew over there and he told them that in six hours he's leaving with the billion dollars of our money, taxpayer money, if they don't fire the guy that's looking into his son. I mean, my goodness, if that's on a quid pro quo, I don't know it is.

But of course, that's why the Democrats wanted to uphold the smoke screen, they don't want you to look over there, they show you that shiny object behind a tree and they try to create all this innuendo about President Trump who, by the way, the law that says that the president, before he gives taxpayer money to any country, has to go and verify, actually verify, that they are not participating in corruption. In fact, that's a law that Adam Schiff himself voted for and so when you look at what President Trump is doing, he is trying to root out the corruption of stomach that started in 2016 with the Russians trying to interfere with our election, some of that went through Ukraine.

Of course, he's got a legal obligation to root out corruption and that's what President Trump is doing creative that's why they want to impeach him instead of looking into the real quid pro quo that he bragged about.

HANNITY: So, the president, recall, Devin Nunes, OK, I would say he is guilty of trying to get to the bottom of election interference and corruption. He is guilty of that.

We know also that there is no quid pro quo. How do we know that? Number one, the Ukrainian president, foreign minister, they both said there's no pressure. Number two, they didn't know money was delayed at the time. And number three, they got the money without doing a darn thing.

So, that would mean the theory goes out the window and blows out, doesn't it?

NUNES: Well, there's a common theme, Sean, in all of these interviews that they have. When they bring in these State Department people, they all say the same thing. They don't have a clue about anything that happened in Ukraine in 2016 but it was really wrong. Donald Trump was wronged, OK, by many in the Ukrainian government.

All of these supposed geniuses at the State Department and here in the swamp, well, they don't know anything about this 2000 -- what happened in 2016. Ukraine is great. Ukraine never did anything wrong.

But then they seem to then think that Donald Trump getting to the bottom of the corruption that they don't even pretend to not even know about, that somehow that's a problem, and that's what we are dealing with here in the swamp and is just going to continue to be the same thing as long as they continue to do this in secret in the dark.

HANNITY: All right. Guys, thank you very much. Maybe one day, we will open it up and get back to the real question.

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