Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Ratcliffe

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HANNITY: All right, let me go to this John Ratcliffe, it was pointed out to me by Jason Chaffetz your former colleague that it was you who first said that there is on top of FISA application, the word "verified," is that true?

REP. JOHN RATCLIFFE, R-TX: It's true.

HANNITY: Go ahead.

RATCLIFFE: I was going to say, one of the points that your viewers need to take away from today Sean is something folks haven't really talked about. I know they aren't going to read the whole IG report but they can go to page 60 the conclusion of the Inspector General and it tells you everything you need to know about Jim Comey and every decision that he made throughout all of these investigations.

The Inspector General, the Obama appointed Inspector General Watchdog said that Jim Comey did one thing any FBI agent much less than FBI Director should never do which is to allow their personal opinions, their personal animus, their personal desires to influence official conduct.

And Jim Comey promised us that he never did that. But on page 60 the Inspector General finds that Jim Comey engaged in the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. That outcome was to get in this case a Special Counsel to stop Donald Trump. It calls into question literally all of the actions and all of the decisions made throughout by Jim Comey in his tenure.

HANNITY: This is such a narrow sliver of what will be a cascading amounts of information that are coming in. To stay with you Congressman Ratcliffe, we now know the Inspector General, his big report that is coming on FISA abuse. We know that the information from the Nunes report who is sitting right there and from the Grassley-Graham report, that the bulk of information to obtain that - those warrants was Hillary Clinton's brought and paid for dirty dossier that James Comey in particular and the FBI and DOJ were warned on multiple occasions that Steele had a political agenda, Hillary paid for it and none of it is verified.

Now at the top of the FISA application says it's verified, you go with unverifiable information, does that to you mean perjury, premeditated fraud on a court, denying constitutional rights of other citizens, obstruction of real justice, to all of those laws now come into play based upon your knowledge of FISA applications?

RATCLIFFE: Sean, I think anyone that worked on and signed off on those FISA applications is going to get tremendous scrutiny and should for that reason. The Steele dossier I can tell you was front and center in that FISA application.

But beyond that and back to Jim Comey and some of the decisions that were made, information that was not in there that I have seen, exculpatory information that was not presented to the court and the court should have been allowed to look at - the Steele dossier as bad as it was, at least the judges were able to look at it and determine the whiten sufficiency of that evidence. The bigger problem for a lot of folks is there was exculpatory information that wasn't presented to the court.

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