Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Ronny Jackson

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Here with more, former White House physician who called for Joe Biden to take a cognitive test, Congressman Ronny Jackson. He was the White House physician from both President Obama and President Trump, along with California Congressman Devin Nunes.

Doctor, Congressman, let me start with you and talk about the cognitive side of things. Donald Trump took that cognitive test. You told me that he passed it with a perfect score, 30 of 30. You told me it's a hard exam. You told me that you want Joe Biden to take one.

What has been the response?

REP. RONNY JACKSON (R-TX): None, I haven't heard a single thing, Sean. And you're right. This is not a laughing matter anymore. I've been saying this ever since he was candidate, candidate Biden. And, you know, we have to know what's going on at this particular point. It's sad.

What about your hypocrites you showed on TV? We had the far left, the liberal mainstream media, all the self-appointed elites in academic medicine demanding -- demanding that President Trump have a cognitive test just because they didn't like the nature of his tweets, not because of any cognitive issues whatsoever. Now, they're completely ignoring this, and it's sad.

We're being tested. Just like you said, every day, we're being tested, whether it's Iran or China or Hamas, or you know, or Russia, whatever it is, we're being tested on the -- on the -- on the national and global stage every single day. And he's failing miserably. And it really is, at this point, we've got to figure out what's going on.

I feel -- I feel bad, Sean, because the White House has been transformed from a symbol of power and authority into what looks like at this particular point an assisted living facility. And the American people are that -- they are they're going to start demanding at some point the very near future, that we know what's going on. It's already starting to happen and we need to know.

HANNITY: Fifty-seven percent, Doctor, think that somebody else is in charge in the White House, including 58 percent of independents and a third of Democrats think that he's not making the decisions. How does a -- how does a country function if the president's incapable of performing his duties? That's what the poll says.

My personal poll -- everybody I talk to talks about it.

JACKSON: Yeah. Well, Sean, we can't -- we can't function. I mean, we're spending money like it's going out of style right now. We at least need to know that our commander-in-chief, our head of state and our president knows what's going on in that regard.

And then on a world stage, we're failing miserably. He's not inspiring confidence in the American people. He's not inspiring confidence in our allies and he's sending the absolute wrong message to our adversaries.

Our adversaries are taking advantage of us. We draw a line in the sand, they crossed the line. He draws another line, they crossed the line.

That did not happen in the Trump administration. When President Trump, drew a line in the sand, our enemies, our adversaries knew -- they knew -- they knew exactly what would happen if they crossed that line, and we don't have that anymore. And we're going to -- we're going to pay a price for it.

You know, Congressman Nunes, the geopolitical territorial ambitions of China seem to -- seem to be at no end here. We see what they're outlining and plans for Taiwan. We've seen the crackdown in Hong Kong. We see that they've partnered with the Russians to arm the Iranians so they can fight their proxy wars in the Middle East. That's a dangerous trifecta in my mind.

As you look at these, now, and then now, Joe grants a waiver for Putin to build the pipeline while simultaneously canceling our pipeline in the Keystone XL pipeline can you explain any of this and how nervous are you as a member of the House Intel Committee?

REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-CA): Well, I think I can explain it, Sean. The way that I look at this is, is that you have the Pravda style media in this country that the Democrats control. And then you run that through a filter, which are the social media companies and it makes it easy to govern as long as you're doing it in the United States.

So, you run a campaign, you hide in your basement, you don't answer any tough questions. The same thing happens here in the United States. He's been snapping at his own press people that they control, and that's even when they're giving him cards to try to tell him how to answer certain questions.

But here's the problem, Putin knows exactly how this works. He's a former KGB guy. He runs his press in his country.

The same with -- the same thing with President Xi, he does the same thing with the Chinese Communist Party propaganda that's all throughout the globe.

So when he sits down with these people, they laugh at him because they know his cognitive decline. They're probably some of the only people that get to sit one-on-one with him like Putin got to for an hour or two. You know, very few members of Congress have even sat down with him for any length of time.

So I guess the way I would explain it is, is that when you get out to the real world, where people will kill others, they will take over companies.

They will -- they will take over economies, things get real, Biden and the Democrats just can't --

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HANNITY: Let me take it to -- let me take this question to one another direction.

If 57 percent of the American people in this Trafalgar poll -- Robert Cahaly, is a great pollster -- if the 57 percent don't think he's in charge, and then you add to the equation that social media is not showing the video clips that we just showed, and that we've been showing, I would argue that the number would be dramatically higher except you have big tech and the media mob not showing their audiences what's really going on when the struggles he's really having. They're protecting him.

NUNES: No, that is exactly right, and that's why I keep bringing the attention of the American people to how big tech is really the big tech the biggest danger to our democracy right now. It's not only the Pravda media but it's also coupled with big tech.

And a lot of people think Republicans are going to have a great year next year and I think we are. We're recruiting candidates across the country.

We're doing a great job. We're getting phenomenal people that are standing up to run like Dr. Jackson did in the last in the last Congress and last campaign.

But you're right, I think if the social media companies weren't covering up Biden tripping going up Air Force One, his -- the whispering thing --

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HANNITY: Congressman, be fair, be fair. You're being unfair. The wind blew him over not once, not twice, three times. That's what they said. It was a very windy day. You got to be fair.

NUNES: But then also explain the strange whispering deal, the strange whispering thing.

If Donald Trump or -- I did that, I mean, or if you did that, we'd be mocked from now to the end of time. It would be like the old -- the old misspelling of potato with Vice President Dan Quayle, it would never end.

HANNITY: Congressman, what do you -- what do you mean by that? Yeah, very strange indeed.

And -- I'm serious. I'm not going to call him sippy cup anymore, because it's -- honestly, I'm very worried. This is not a joke anymore.

Congressman Jackson, thank you. Congressman Devin Nunes, thank you.

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