Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Rep. Nunes on IG report vindicating his memo on the deep state
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Laura Ingraham: Nearly two years ago Adam Schiff released a scathing memo attacking then House intel chair Devin Nunes who uncovered shocking evidence of deep state FISA abuse against the Trump campaign. Well, the left predictably jumped on Nunes. The Washington Post calling his memo a joke and a sham. Sounds like it's describing the Washington Post. And they weren't the only ones.
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Male Speaker: It really underscores just how partisan Mr. Nunes has been. He has abused the office of the chairmanship.
Female Speaker: The Nunes memo is a dud.
Male Speaker: He Devin Nunes memo, it backfired on them.
Female Speaker: This is what all the hype was about?
Female Speaker: It was just kind of like a sad trombone.
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Laura Ingraham: More like a trumpet. Of the course the talking heads praised Schiff.
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Male Speaker: This was a case of Nunes baselessly claimed and Schiff came back with a 10-page body blow.
Female Speaker: He's a very clear and lawyer-like rebuttal of specific facts.
Female Speaker: The Schiff memo definitely fills in some of the gaps in the Nunes memo and is much more consistent with actually how the FBI obtains these things.
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Laura Ingraham: Well, now we know those blithering idiots were wrong. How any of them are in political analysis or prognostication is beyond me. IG Mike Howowitz's new report vindicates Nunes. He was right on the money. Schiff was just peddling lies and misinformation, remember? That abuse of power impeachment article we talked about. Well, for example, the Schiff memo claims the FBI didn't omit any information in its first FISA application for Carter Page. Wrong. Horowitz found at least 17 significant errors or omissions. The Schiff memo also asserts the FBI determined Christopher Steele was credible. Wrong again. The FBI exaggerated Steele's credibility we now know and omitted discrediting details. So, the question is, why is the media still lionizing a habitual liar? Joining me now, Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Intel Committee and Kash Patel, who worked on the Intel Committee under Nunes and helped craft the now vindicated report. He currently serves as special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterror. Congressman, does Adam Schiff still enjoy legitimacy? And if so, why?
Devin Nunes: Well, he absolutely does not, Laura, and I should say that I'm glad you have Kash Patel on but there are a lot of members of Congress who were really involved in this, including Trey Gowdy, John Ratcliffe, the entire intelligence committee team on the Republican side that had to sit through two years of this nonsense. And what you really find out is that these dirty cops were covering up a whole lot and if it wouldn't have been for the good work that a lot of people on our team did like Kash, this -- we would not have got to the bottom of this because really, you know, despite what the media keeps saying about oh, well they had a predicate for the investigation. There was no bias. That's not what we claimed. That's not what we claimed. That's for somebody else to get to. We said there was FISA abuse and it's quite clear.
Laura Ingraham: And that's what you stuck to. That was really the focus of your report. Kash, you helped write this report. It's a huge amount of information that had to be culled. Bill Barr spoke about this problem today. Watch.
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Bill Barr: One of the things that's poisonous about our politics is the use of the criminal law process as a political weapon instead of just debating ideas they want to label their adversary as a criminal and then they start calling for scalps. Nowadays I'm constantly hit why aren't people going to prison for what they did to the president? And on the other side, you know, throw Bill Barr in prison. These things take time. [laughs]
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Laura Ingraham: Weaponizing power to hurt your political opponent. Kash.
Kash Patel: Thanks for having me on, Laura. And as Congressman Nunes said, it was a gigantic team effort and as a former terrorism prosecutor at national security division, and a public defender, due process is one of our most vital important laws that we have to safeguard our community and I was furious at the abuse that was enacted by the DNC funded Steele dossier through James Comey and then the clown car cover operation by Adam Schiff. It is nice today that Attorney General Bill Barr, a well-respected two-time attorney general, gave us in America a piece of our due process back.
Laura Ingraham: Well, Congressman Nunes, I just ran into Carter Page in the green room as I was getting ready for this show and I gave him a big hug and I said, "You and so many others have been through hell" and Congressman Nunes, you as well. I mean, they've called you every name in the book, but the poor Carter Page is hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills. They called him a Russian asset. They accused him of pretty much everything. He's totally vindicated. Frankly, as is Papadopoulos and his comments about being weary of Russia and the need to be very careful. But all these people's lives were just dragged down by Adam Schiff and he's going to skate away on this?
Devin Nunes: Well, look, I think there's a lot of lawsuits out there that are still ongoing that I have filed, that Carter Page has filed, that Kash Patel has filed. So, the courts are still going to get involved with this and then let's not forget, John Durham, the U.S. attorney out of Connecticut. I think the important thing that Barr said today that is important for people to understand -- because I've been highlighting this to that it's getting lost on people. It wasn't just that they used the Democrat and Hillary Clinton dirt, gave it to fake news, and used that as evidence for the FISA. What Kash, and myself, and Trey Gowdy, and John Ratcliffe, what we said for a long time is you need to really know what else is in there, too. And what you're finding out today is they didn't wait for the Carter Page FISA to spy on the campaign. They actually were recording their conversations --
Laura Ingraham: Right.
Devin Nunes: -- with listening devices. And then they decided to only put a piece of that to the court. They left out the exculpatory evidence. And you have to remember, we fought so hard for so long. I had to come on your show --
Laura Ingraham: Right.
Devin Nunes: -- nearly every night because DOJ, and the dirty cops, and the FBI and the dirty cops there refused, refused to give us what we called at the time, the "tech cuts." We had to fight over the tech cuts. Remember? We had to threaten to impeach officers of the Trump administration, okay, in order to get these tech cuts. Well, now you find out why we wanted these tech cuts.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, well, I certainly get it. By the way, a little breaking news to lighten the moment a little bit. According to the Free Beacon tonight, Time Magazine is set to pick its person of the year, and it looks like it's going to be the whistleblower [laughs], okay? The impeachment witness, the only person who knows who it is, apparently for sure, really, is Schiff, Kash. Kash
Patel: Right.
Laura Ingraham: I mean, you just can't even make this up. Kash
Patel: I mean, you --
Laura Ingraham: I mean, maybe you know who the whistleblower is, Kash, but I guess you couldn't tell me. Kash
Patel: No, I mean, I'm not here to talk about the whistleblower.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah.
Kash Patel: But maybe Time Magazine got their act right. The real men of the year and women of the year would be the folks on the Intel Committee under Chairman Nunes. Because that is the only reason --
Laura Ingraham: Excellent point.
Kash Patel: -- we are finally getting to accountability today, which is all that ever mattered.
Laura Ingraham: Excellent point. And Congressman Nunes, McCabe spoke out tonight, taking a sideswipe at Bill Barr. Watch what he said.
Devin Nunes: [laughs] [begin video clip] Andrew McCabe: It didn't happen. I know that. I didn't need the IG to tell me that. But it's good that the IG has reported now that there is absolutely no indications of that whatsoever. And I think what the attorney general has done here with that is he's actually kind of proactively misrepresenting the whole -- the findings of the report. [end video clip]
Laura Ingraham: So, in other words, no spine. Bill Barr came out and same there was surveillance, but he said that didn't happen, no bias.
Devin Nunes: Well, let me talk -- let me talk about McCabe, okay? Let me talk about McCabe. Because McCabe wrote a book that came out a few months ago. And at one point, I had to walk into a meeting where they tried to kick me out. And Rod Rosenstein, at the time the acting attorney general, the deputy attorney general, comes up to me and says, "Hey, you're not going to be allowed in this room." I said, "Sorry, I'm gang of eight. I'm in this room. I'm the chair of the Intelligence Committee." I thought at the time that it was the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi that were trying to kick me out of the room. It was actually McCabe.
Laura Ingraham: [laughs]
Devin Nunes: Now, look, that's obstruction of a Congressional investigation. So, you know, I think McCabe has a lot of other problems that he needs to worry about. And he probably ought to start with actually reading the IG report. Because when you start from page one to 318, every single page has bombshells on it.
Laura Ingraham: That's -- I mean, the more I read, the more infuriated I became yesterday. Gentlemen, it was great to have both of your voices tonight. So important. Thank you so much, both of you, for what you've done for our country.
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