Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Jim Jordan

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Here with reaction, we have Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, along with former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

Look, guys, I have been down there -- Jim Jordan, I've been down there more than a dozen times, all the way from the Rio Grande to San Diego. Not away from the border, but on the actual border.

We now are on track to a 25-year record of illegal immigrants, and all Joe and Kamala doing are processing and aiding and abetting lawbreaking. How did they get away with that?

REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): Well, they're clueless, Sean, and they've created this problem. I mean, think of it in a broad sense -- the president won't go to the border. The Vice President Harris only went to the border because President Trump announced he was going to go with secretary --

HANNITY: She didn't really go.

JORDAN: Yeah, right, she didn't get to the border.

Secretary Mayorkas, when he did go to the border, he wouldn't let the press in the facilities that he was touring. And now, tomorrow, Secretary of State Blinken, the guy who's supposed to be looking at the root causes of migration, tomorrow, he's going to announce what? That you can choose your gender on your passport.

These guys are out of touch. So, of course, governors have to step in and start sending law enforcement down there to help with the situation because the Biden administration, as Mark Levin said, caused this problem and they're clueless as to how to fix it.

HANNITY: Their policies are failing, Reince Priebus. They're failing on the border. They're failing with energy.

They're failing with inflation. They're failing with COVID. They're sending mixed messages.

Is there -- you know, and now, even the radical Squad feels like nothing is getting done. Where did they go from here considering they don't really have another agenda but that radical agenda?

REINCE PRIEBUS, FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Well, you've been touching at it all night, Sean, which, you know, starts with just six months what the Democrats have done and heading into the sort of destruction of everything that was built into this country.

You talk about shooting up cops. You have illegal immigrants pouring over the border. You have Olympic athletes turning their back on the flag. You have men competing as women breaking weightlifting records.

And this is all to be applauded by the Democrat Party, but it's going to catch up with them because 80 percent of the American people in a poll last month said that illegal immigration is a serious issue. And 68 percent of those people said it was Joe Biden that was encouraging illegal immigration.

Last year, 6,000 people immigrated illegally -- illegally across the border. This month or last month, 178,000 people did the same thing. But the issue is all found -- the way to fix this is all in the executive order that Donald Trump signed on January 25th. And in that executive order, not just that he addressed the issue, it said that continued illegal immigration with a clear and present danger to the interest of the United States.

And in that document, the reason why we didn't have to do what these Republicans are trying to do today was that in the executive order, it gave authority and directed the secretary of DHS and the attorney general to work with states and to fund the protection of our border, which isn't happening today.

And so, we've gone 180 degrees to the opposite direction.

HANNITY: Jim, what is the motivation here do you see?

JORDAN: Well, I mean, who knows? It's a different policy than President Trump's. It seems like sometimes, that's all the motivation Democrats need.

But I think you're right, Sean. One reason the Democrats talks so much about January 6th, what else can they talk about?

They're going to talk about the crisis on the border? They're going to talk about inflation? They're going to talk about the tax increases coming? They're going to talk about crime in our urban areas?

I mean, they've got nothing to talk about that, so they talk about that, all the while, while the problem on the border gets worse.

So, again, that's why Republican governors are stepping in and say, we've got to deal with this because individuals are coming across. They're getting either a plane ticket or bus fare to some community in our neighborhood. And that's a concern to those governors and rightly so.

HANNITY: And the governors don't have the authority to even stop the law breaking. That's a federal government's role.

All right. We'll be down there tomorrow night.

Jim Jordan, thank you. Reince Priebus, thank you.

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