Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Steve Scalise

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Sean Hannity: Did I just hear this right? Did he just say fact witness? Because he only even in his audition, you know, interviews to get the right people that he thought would help him, everybody he brought into his Schiff show, every one of them, was either a hearsay or opinion witness except one, Ambassador Sondland. What did he say? The only one that talked to the president of all the people they talked to. He said, well, Mr. President what do you want to release the aid? Nothing. No quid pro quo like Joe. There was no shakedown and by the way, that is a lie. Just like he lied three years. I got all the evidence on Trump, Russia, it's overwhelming. Lie. Zelensky has now said multiple times two weekends ago said it again, no pressure whatsoever. The aid was delivered. Five meetings after the call high level, including the vice president. No one ever talked about aid. In the call they never talked about aid. Oh, by the way, and the Democrats, well one non-hearsay witness, Sondland, gave us everything we needed in the whole thing here and guess what? Schiff also lied when he said he's not a fact witness in the case. Here with reaction we have the House minority whip Steve Scalise, Freedom Caucus chair, Andy Biggs. Steve, we'll start with you as you're the higher-ranking person here. This guy's lied for three years. Democrats have lied for three years. The mob in the media takes their lies and nothing but state-run TV an extension of all things radical, extreme, socialist Democrat.

Rep. Steve Scalise: Yeah, there's really no credibility left, Sean. And when you look -- I mean, even in his statements on the comedy show, he expresses his disdain for the people of Ukraine and their fight against Russia. Where was that disdain when Barack Obama was saying, "No," to Ukraine, when they said, "Hey, help us stand up to Russia"? Do you know, Sean, President Trump has sold 360 javelin missiles to Ukraine. Zelensky actually thanked President Trump on that infamous phone call. Do you know how many of those javelins Obama sold? Not one. Zero. Obama would not help Ukraine. Obama, and Biden, by the way. Why haven't they answered for that? So, President Trump gave them the things they need. There was no quid pro quo. You even look at the responses. There were agencies, they say, "obstruction of Congress," whatever they mean by that. Agencies like the Department of Defense, they subpoenaed information. I got a letter -- you had October 7th. They subpoenaed the Department of Defense for information. On October 15th, the secretary of defense, himself, responded, and not once did they come back to the Defense Department. Not once did they go to the courts. These agencies complied. They may not have given them the answers they wanted. In some cases, they might have gone to the courts like President Obama and every other president in history's done. Fast and furious took us six years to get information. We didn't get everything, but --

Sean Hannity: Yeah, I never --

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Sean Hannity: Yeah. All right.

Steve Scalise: Absolutely, and you look at -- look at what we've done to comply, what President Trump is doing, by the way, to get the facts out there, releasing the transcripts to show there was no quid pro quo, and yet they still go on with this. It's a political vendetta. It's not an impeachment. That's what the people of this country are seeing right before their very eyes.

Sean Hannity: And, as the whip, you can tell us that you're not losing a single Republican in this Schiff show and --

Steve Scalise: I object, Sean. Not only will there be no Republicans. There will be Democrats voting against impeachment.

Sean Hannity: Oh.

Steve Scalise: Never before in the history of our country have they rammed through a partisan impeachment. Never before. It was always bipartisan until now.

Sean Hannity: Well, I've got to get you --

Steve Scalise: There will be Democrats voting, though, as well.

Sean Hannity: And Kevin McCarthy and I've been, as you know, very critical of Republicans for a lot of years for being weak, and spineless, and visionless, and feckless. Sorry, you deserved it all. I'm a registered conservative. But I will say it's been very impressive to see Republicans fight for once. Don't stop. Now fight for everything else.

Steve Scalise: Well, we're fighting for the right things. President Trump is --

Sean Hannity: All right, let me get to Andy Biggs.

Steve Scalise: -- fighting for the American people. We're standing with him.

Sean Hannity: All right, Andy Biggs, I will say this, too. Without the Freedom Caucus, the Jim Jordans, the Mark Meadows, the every-so young -- but he had a great time. I mean, he's been great. Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik has been a rising star, Ratcliffe, Devin Nunes. This has been -- Freedom Caucus -- I don't know. Really, it seems to be the foundation of the backbone of the Republican Party.

Rep. Andy Biggs: Well, Sean, the Freedom Caucus is a group of men and women who really are principled. And, you know, you get a great constitutional debate any time you come to the freedom caucus. But one thing we know is that this is an assault on our constitution. It's an assault on the United States of America. It's an assault on the American voter. And that's the way we viewed this, and that's why we've stepped up, and we fought tooth and nail, and we're a group of fighters. And, with the help of Steve, and Kevin, and so many others in the conference, we've been able to stand up and really push back on the Democrats and expose them. I mean, you've talked about Adam Schiff tonight. That guy's credibility is nothing. And, you know what, they -- the Democrats relied on his report that he put out. So, last night, they're all quoting from Adam Schiff's report as if it's gospel, but we know that he's lied over, and over, and over again. So, the freedom caucus guys know that the conference knows that we've been fighting together. And it's been wonderful to be united as the Republican Party in Congress, at this time.

Sean Hannity: Thank you, both, for what you're doing. When we come back, oh, Hillary Clinton really, really needs to get over losing the 2016 election. Remember the long list of excuses? Oh, plus another hint that she might throw her hat in the ring for 2020. Okay. Go for it, Hillary. Stay tuned.

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