Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Kevin McCarthy
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So if they can impeach Trump even on a bogus narrative teased out in secret, the permanent resistance can say "See, I told you so" and feel vindicated. This is their revenge. Yet, as usual, they underestimate the common sense of the American people who may just have their own revenge against the globalist impeachment mob on November 2nd, 2020.
Joining me now is House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Congressman, how can Democrats run an impeachment inquiry like we're seeing unfold day-after-day?
REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY, R-CALIF.: Let me ask, but first, you could not be more right in that angle. Everything you said is 100 percent correct. What they are doing, they are changing every rule we ever had. You know what's happening in the intel community today? In the committee, now you - even the members on the committee, the Republicans, cannot read any information unless one of Adam Schiff's own staffers are in the room next to them. No one has ever done this (inaudible).
And if we're wondering who that anonymous person already, I bet it's Adam Schiff. Remember how he made up the whole transcript when he's talking before the committee of what he wanted the phone call to say? And he won't release anything that said today. They go out to the press and they said, Taylor was terrible. And Adam Schiff won't let us talk about what happened. But I'm hearing - and I just saw Devin talk about this on TV. In 90 seconds, we had John Ratcliffe destroy Taylor's whole argument.
INGRAHAM: Congressman Ratcliffe. Tell us what happened.
MCCARTHY: Well, we can't really talk about it, but what we're finding is, just his questioning in 90 seconds refuted everything of what Adam Schiff believes out there. There is no quid pro quo. And the one thing that you find out in this process is all this information is just like that whistleblower. Remember, we haven't seen that whistleblower anywhere. Everything is second, third and fourth hand information. None of it--
INGRAHAM: I've been hearing a little bit about who this second supposed whistleblower might be. This is becoming more evident to me after reading these 15 pages of drivel of the opening statement from today's star witness.
But Congressman, I want to say that the Democrats are trying to respond to your criticism and justify keeping this all under wraps. This is what they're saying.
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REP. ERIC SWALWELL, D-CALIF.: In this phase of the hearings, because very few witnesses know some of the very important details, we want to conduct it in a way that other witnesses don't know what witnesses are going to say, because otherwise, they could work together and cook up alibis and tailor their testimony. And the fact that we've been able to keep it so close has protected, in some respect, against that.
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INGRAHAM: They are patriotic, Congressman McCarthy. They are protecting the process by keeping it secret. That's a good trick.
MCCARTHY: You know what they found? Even in the investigations and the lies and metaphor, the longer it goes out, their lies all come to fruition. Remember what Schiff said to us, that their whistleblower in the administration was trying to stop them from coming forward, that somehow there was quid pro quo.
Now we find that in the conversation, there was not. And now we find he met with the whistleblower. And the whistleblower goes to the Inspector General and never says that. As every day progresses, we now find more lies from Schiff. We now find that this is a script written, that's pre-decided, that had the Speaker waited 48 hours, we would never be putting America through this night.
INGRAHAM: An MSNBC analyst today, I'm sure very close to you, is saying - and again, they repeat what Schiff and Swalwell and the rest of them say. But that Republicans are focused on process because they believe the underlying facts are so bad for them. Watch.
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GARRETT HAAKE, MSNBC POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: All I hear from Republican lawmakers are concerns about process. Yet either they say this inquiry is unfair, that Adam Schiff is running it like it's - like we're in communist China. They hammer Adam Schiff in the process. But even when there were talking points coming out about some of these witnesses, the Republicans in the House are by and large not bothering to use them.
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MCCARTHY: You know what's interesting? It's the Republicans who are saying let us have the transcript. It's the Republican members of this Congress who are going down there. And who is denying us? Adam. He does not want the public to see this because he knows if the public saw this, they'd find one more time he's lied to America.
INGRAHAM: So I read this entire 15-page--
MCCARTHY: Yes.
INGRAHAM: --opening statement by Taylor. And you know what I find repeatedly through this, is that these are second, third, and in one instance, I kid you not, fourth-hand account of what was said. And we still stick to the same conclusion or the fact that the Ukrainians were not aware that the security aid was withheld or held up until August 29th. It was released on September 11th. So how can there be a quid pro quo when they weren't even aware that it was withheld?
MCCARTHY: It's very simple. They're claiming there was a quid pro quo with the President, a phone call of President Trump with the President of Ukraine on July 25th.
We now find from all of what they said, even in here, on August 29th, Ukraine found out that the money was being held up from "Politico." You know what happened on September 11th? The money was sent forward. You know the money was sent forward? What did Ukraine have to do to have the money sent forward? Nothing. So what's the definition of a quid pro quo?
INGRAHAM: I want to get back to what I stated in the - in that mini ANGLE at the top. I really believe in reading this - Ambassador Taylor. I don't know him. I mean, he's a career diplomat, he was with the Bush administration.
MCCARTHY: He doesn't like the President's style.
INGRAHAM: But they despise his - the President's style, his distrust for the global elite. And they are the global elite. But is it - I mean, I hate to say it so (inaudible), but it seems like it's the revenge of the globalists here. They're so angry that he's been successful on so many levels, and his success reflects badly on them. I think it's actually a very prideful way of going about things.
MCCARTHY: They hate the idea that a man can come into office, never been elected before, stand up to NATO that they have to pay, stand up to China where they think, oh, we'll--
INGRAHAM: We'll get along. That's worked out well.
MCCARTHY: --we'll show you how to deal with China, why they steal everything that what we have. And you know what else that sounds like he's really frustrated with? He's not invited to meetings. So he talks about third and fourth hand. And this is what the Democrats pride, but in his own testimony, we found out July 25th is the phone call with the President.
INGRAHAM: Yes.
MCCARTHY: The Ukraine does not know any money is being held up, and we release the money, and they don't have to do anything for it.
INGRAHAM: Every time Sondland says, well, the President says this is no quid pro quo. He won't take that for an answer. He's like, well, no, but - but I think - but it's like he's arguing with the conversation that the President has already had with other people. So he's upset about that because that narrative then collapses. I think--
MCCARTHY: He won't (ph) accept the truth.
INGRAHAM: I read right through this. And I highlighted it and I dog-ear it.
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INGRAHAM: It's like, well, back in law school. Congressman, thank you for being here tonight.
MCCARTHY: Thank you.
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