Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mark Meadows
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Mark, you were at the Republican retreat, I understand it. The president spoke. How did it go?
REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-N.C.: The president brought the diesel (ph) tonight. He did a great job. Obviously, fired up the crowd. Was very jovial as he addressed the members of the Republican Conference. More importantly, set out why 2020 is so important.
But tonight, what this is all about is holding people accountable. For two and half years, we've got a Russian collusion narrative that wasn't based on facts. Hopefully tonight, we are starting to hold people accountable, starting with Andy McCabe, but not finishing there, including James Comey, Peter Strzok, and others that need to be held accountable for their actions.
HANNITY: You know, Joe, I use WWHTH standard. What would happen to Hannity?
Now, the I.G. concluded I was a liar and leaker. In that position, I think Hannity would go to jail. That's my guess. And you're a great lawyer. I would go to you and Victoria and say, good luck, see you later.
Or if I had a premeditated fraud on a FISA court, we know multiple warnings, it's a dirty dossier and agenda. Hillary, yes, don't use it but they used it anyway. Even, apparently, the Brits warned us, including Bruce Ohr and Kathleen Kavalec.
Why would we ever expect anything but the I.G. to come back with -- this is premeditated fraud against the court, you were warned, you never verified it, it says "verified." That would be premeditated fraud. Why would we expect anything less than that from the I.G.?
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HANNITY: Well, I want to know about Jim Comey. And I want to know, you were warned, you didn't verify, then you sure did, and then you went to the President said though I didn't verify it and then I did verify it three times. That's a problem, Mark Meadows, for Jim Comey.
REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-N.C.: Well, it's even worse than that, Sean. Back in October 2016, we now know that not only were there emails and communication back and forth between the state department and others, but we also knew that there was a real credibility problem.
That was before the very first FISA. We also know that there was credibility problems, Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Grassley are looking into some of those state department contacts. There are dozens of protocols that were broken. I would suggest that there were a number of laws that were broken.
And ultimately, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Glenn Simpson all have to be held accountable. But more importantly than that, we are going back right now and looking at the testimony of James Comey, of Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok.
Now matching it with what we know and we are finding a number of irregular inconsistencies there that would suggest that perhaps not everybody was truthful with Congressional investigation. So a lot more to unfold but certainly today is a good step forward for justice and for all of your viewers who are saying it's about time some but he goes to jail.
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