Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Jordan, Meadows Ask Trump to Declassify Carter Page Docs

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INGRAHAM: That was Congressman Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan today calling for the declassification of Russia investigation documents that could reveal big-time corruption at the DOJ. Joining me now, the aforementioned congressmen themselves. Welcome to both of you.

Congressman Jordan, the more we learn about Bruce Ohr's contact with Christopher Steele that predates what we believe, we talked about months ago, now the timeline has been pushed earlier. And yet his wife worked for the Fusion GPS firm. Did they not know this at the Justice Department? Why is this conflict not blaring across every media outlet tonight given what we've learned?

MEADOWS: It should be.

JORDAN: Yes, it should be, but you've got a top Justice Department official whose wise is working for the firm hired by the Clintons to produce the dossier. The dossier was the key, and everyone at the FBI knew about it, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and now we know Andrew Weissmann, a key player on Mueller's team knew about it as well.

INGRAHAM: How early did he know about it?

JORDAN: They knew about it before they went to the FISA court, and that's the key fact. They knew about the Ohr's involvement, they knew about who paid for it, and they knew what Bruce Ohr told us that he told the FBI what Christopher Steele said, that Christopher Steele, the guy who wrote it, was desperate to stop President Trump from becoming president.

INGRAHAM: And none of this was in the FISA application, Congressman Meadows?

MEADOWS: That's correct.

JORDAN: We don't believe so.

MEADOWS: We have not seen the actual FISA application, but from the footnotes that we have, from the memos we have --

INGRAHAM: Can it all be declassified? All of these?

MEADOWS: That's what we're calling for. Listen, the American people need to judge for themselves, and we believe that it is time, not a month from now, not two months from now, but days from now to declassify this information, show it. And you know what we believe we are going to see based on non-classified documents is that information was collected in an abnormal way. It was verified in an abnormal way, and it was prosecuted in an abnormal way, and all because there was a bias towards this president.

JORDAN: And that information was never presented to the court, which is what they're supposed to do.

INGRAHAM: Russia viewed Carter Page as an idiot. Of course, they want to recruit everybody. He's an idiot, they didn't put that in the FISA application either, correct? There was no red flag about that. How do you get an application to spy on Carter Page when the Russians themselves tossed him to the side as that's not someone we can --

MEADOWS: And Mueller is not even going after Carter Page. Here we are two years into it and we're not doing anything.

But here's the other thing, Laura. I shared with you, one of the things that we have recently found out.

INGRAHAM: This is exclusive reveal tonight?

MEADOWS: Yes. In a new batch of text messages is that there was a coordinated effort by those of the FBI to actually leak to the media. We now have documents that prove it, where they leaked to the media, and then use the same information to verify the veracity of their claims and actually use that for the FISA warrant. Well, you can't do both.

INGRAHAM: Wait a second, wait a second.

MEADOWS: So the FBI had a leak-to-the-media strategy, and it's troubling.

INGRAHAM: So they would leak. It's like circular, it's like the game telephone. It keeps going around and around. So they leaked to the media, then they cite the media report?

MEADOWS: Cite the media report.

INGRAHAM: This is insane. But why do these text messages, they just keep showing up under rocks, where do you get all these text messages?

MEADOWS: You know I've been very critical of the DOJ.

INGRAHAM: But they're turning them over now? These are new?

MEADOWS: These are new text messages that we viewed in camera.

INGRAHAM: So the Solomon report tonight, again, where we referenced Bruce Ohr's efforts to secretly reshape the Trump probe started earlier in the summer of 16. That's important for our viewers to understand why.

MEADOWS: I think the biggest part of that is when it started earlier it was also poorly supposedly about Papadopoulos. Now we see it had nothing to do with George Papadopoulos. It had everything to do, all roads lead to the dossier that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee.

INGRAHAM: But there was a footnote in the FISA application that referenced some opponent of the president's, might have been.

JORDAN: But it's worse than that. It not only started earlier. It went after they fired Christopher Steele. He continued to meet with Bruce Ohr, and the FBI continued to get briefings about those conversations that Bruce Ohr was having with Christopher, after they had got rid of him.

INGRAHAM: We are out of time, but he was forthcoming behind closed doors?

MEADOWS: He was. They actually met with Steele more times after he was fired than before he was fired.

INGRAHAM: Oh, my God. I want the text messages to never stop coming, OK, because every time we have you two on, the text messages, it's the text messages. Congressmen, thank you so much for coming in tonight.

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