Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Doug Collins

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All right, joining me now is Doug Collins Ranking Member in the House Judiciary Committee. Congressman great to have you on tonight I know you are very busy. We have seen the Democrats lie, spin and block GOP cross- examination. What other stunts are you expecting at the public hearing tomorrow?

REP. DOUG COLLINS, R-GA: Well, I think we're going to find out. It's really - you made a question you said what are they hiding? They are hiding the fact that they have nothing on the President. They are fighting the fact to everybody that these evidences when they have done these interviews that it shown that there was nothing improper on the call - the fact that President Zelensky and President Trump both said there was no pressure on both ends of this.

Did he ask proper questions? When we were called on as a government to make sure that corruption doesn't exist in a country we give aid to even if that happens to be a Former Vice-President and his son. That is a valid question on what happened in the past. This is something that the President was doing right.

So what they're going to try to do tomorrow is spin - I call it putting flowers on the show. They are going to say here are the worst parts. They are going to put the witnesses together. So you really can't even take time to delve into each of them individually. You are going to go at it under Adam Schiff's rules saying here's the way we are going to do it. And that's all they want you to see is the show. What is appalling to me is how the media has started this process and saying oh, this going to be the most important day in history. The drama is here.

INGRAHAM: It's ridiculous.

COLLINS: It is crazy.

INGRAHAM: I kind of half want Congress to just to turn its back and start reading old issues of "Vanity Fair" or something. This is so ridiculous on so many levels. I do want to get your reaction again I am treating this for humor's sake at this point Congressman. What one your colleagues said today on CNN.

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REP. RO KHANNA, D-CALIF.: I don't think the American people want to hear from members of Congress or our spin or our interpretation. The facts here are so powerful. Let people just hear what happened.

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INGRAHAM: What the facts here are so powerful. They want to hear members spin, but what the man in charge of this whole thing pulled this stunt.

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REP. ADAM SCHIFF, D-CALIF.: I "m going to say this only seven times so you better listen good. I want you to makeup dirt on my political opponent. Understand? Lots of it.

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INGRAHAM: Congressman, do you expect anything like this in tomorrow's public hearing?

COLLINS: You are going to see a lot of theatrics from Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff as I have said many times before and we'll see it tomorrow. He has trouble spelling truth much less telling it. And for Ro Khanna to actually say that the American people want to hear from them, they are not going to spin. This is someone who joined the others especially ones on the Intel Committee who have wanted to impeach this President long before they ever heard of Ukraine and probably you could find it on a map.

This is the problem we're having right now is they simply want to impeach the President because they can't find a way to beat him. He is doing the things that he promised to do. He is looking after taxpayer dollars. He is putting America First around the world. He has his - one of the most appalling segments that you showed just a moment ago was when they said that this President was undercutting our diplomats. He is not undercutting our diplomats. He is making them strong if they have a President stands behind them.

INGRAHAM: Congressman, how did we get to this point where State Department employees who are great people and they devote their life to public service. But they actually didn't get elected. They didn't canvass the country or hold rallies or into Town halls. They are supposed to serve the interest of the policies of this President.

Now it's the opposite. They're the perpetual - they can call themselves whistleblowers when they are not to subvert Presidential authority executive authority and policy. That's what is happening on the Ukraine. You got a people who want money going to Ukraine including Former Bush Administration officials. You know who you are complaining about this? They want no questions asked and because Trump was asking questions, they wanted him out. It's as simple as that my view.

COLLINS: Well, I think it is. When I got to Washington, D.C., it was amazing to me again we talk about the swamp and we talk about the bureaucrats. There are a lot of people up here who try to really do good work but they don't like their messed with. And this President is a disrupter this President coming in and said I'm going to ask questions that nobody else has asked. If it's foreign affairs, if it's domestic affairs I'm going to get to the truth for the American people.

Here's the problem: if these diplomats and these other organizations who are all upset at the President and they said policy. That's not their job. Their job is to carry out the directives of the executives of the President and they're supposed to do it. But this Democratic Party, take this into account. Remember they'll use anything they can.

Even in my committee which was got sidelined because they were so inept with everything they've done. They actually brought in bring your donor to work day when they allowed two of their consultants - one of their consultants in the Corey Lewandowski hearing to asks questions to Corey Lewandowski, he shouldn't been able to ask questions. And this is a paid donor, bring your donor to work day. That's what the Democrats do.

INGRAHAM: Bring your daughter to workday, bring your donor to work day why not? By the way speaking was a good segue to this. Adam Schiff has put a Former U.S. Attorney but most importantly an MSNBC contributor Daniel Goldman in charge of questioning impeachment witnesses. Here's just one of his small utterances as a cable news talking head.

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DANIEL GOLDMAN, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR: I think legally we already now know that the President has committed a felony in order to obtain the office of the presidency.

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INGRAHAM: Okay, that was his first bite of the apple in July of 2018. Again that was January 2018, that was all about Mueller. This is the kind of guy who is getting to the facts that have already been concluded.

COLLINS: Wow! What is really concerning here is the American people ought to really get concerned here. The Democrats are willing to put up people who already made up their mind in positions where they present themselves as arbiters of truth and fairness and the facts. This is just wrong. I mean, here he is already made up his mind he knows where it's going to be.

The Democrats know where they want to be. They just need to find the way to get there. And this is what should concern every whether you are a Democrat or Republican or Independent, when you get to this point, the founding fathers warned us about this. They warned that a political impeachment was imperiling our country. They were scared of this because they didn't want to own a position in which an executive to do his job was fearful of a Congress they would take political means to disrupt or to actually to remove him from office. This is a real concern.

INGRAHAM: Congressman, you don't understand. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are literally sleeping with copies of the federalist papers under their pillows at night. Okay, they are quoting federalist 42 for the 17. So they're doing that, so you just rest easy. Congressman, I really appreciate it. I know you are very busy. We really appreciate your prospective tonight. Thank you so much for coming on.

COLLINS: Thanks much, keep fighting.

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