Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Ron Johnson

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We all know that the media would treat this differently if it was a Trump, and by the way, a good decent human being would not exploit his troubled son for his own financial gain. How serious is it?

With more, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson.

All right. Senator, these pictures now emerging just in the last two weeks, okay, that means Joe Biden lied about ever talking to Hunter not one time about his foreign business dealings. You and Charles Grassley, you did a deep dive. You discovered Kazakhstan oligarchs, the Russian oligarch, first lady in Moscow, Chinese national shopping spree, the Bank of China, Burisma.

Now, he's the commander-in-chief. Is this a conflict of interest?

SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Well, of course, it is, and it was back then even though the press declared that it wasn't.

But no, Joe Biden outright lied to the American public repeatedly about the fact that he didn't discuss with Hunter the overseas business transactions, but we -- you know, we proved they lied in our report, and we uncovered a vast web of foreign financial entanglements that should have troubled every American, obviously didn't trouble the press. .

But as Tony Bobulinski stated -- and he, by the way, had dinner with Joe Biden -- said that the Bidens are compromised.

And, Sean, I have to admit, this latest -- it's pretty imaginative the way they're figuring out how to cash in on the family name, but we've we know the Bidens are shameless but the press just won't call him on it.

HANNITY: Okay, I'm a little bit troubled about this because we know that Joe got nothing for with his summit with Vladimir Putin. Okay, he didn't get anything, but Vladimir got something of great worth and great value, even though we now know that the State Department of Joe Biden recommended that he not give a waiver to the Nord Stream pipeline which would allow Russia to get rich again, and Putin to supply energy to our allies, that we are paying the bulk of freight defending from Russia, making Russia rich again.

He signed off on the pipeline but the extra twist is he did it while simultaneously cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, and along with it, high paying career energy jobs.

Now, I'm having a hard time understand. Vladimir gets the waiver to build his pipeline. Our workers get pink slips. Can I -- would I be wrong to interpret that that maybe Joe thinks that Russia has him compromised?

JOHNSON: Well, you wouldn't be wrong to be suspicious that maybe that's the problem there.

But, Sean, what really concerns me is all the policies that the moderate Joe Biden is enacting -- no radical Joe Biden, is weakening America. The spending spree, the massive trillion dollars of debts that he's already pushed and proposed, but what he's proposing in the future, and they're four or five, six trillion dollars more, it weakens America. The fact that we have open borders weakens America.

And, of course, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, waving the sanctions on that will put enormous geopolitical pressure on Ukraine and other European nations and really put Vladimir Putin in the driver's seat from that standpoint.

So, all the actions, he's taken weakens America, strengthens our enemies, and puts our nation at risk.

HANNITY: We're about to do two investigative reports on the border. When the president of the United States not only doesn't enforce the laws of the land and they're letting people in this country illegally, then they aid and abet the law breaking by giving them transportation to any state I guess that they want to go to.

Now that if you claim -- make a claim of amnesty, now, we're going to fly in your family to be with you when you enter the country illegally, and we haven't -- we haven't been able to sort through if that asylum request is valid. What is Washington to do when an administration does not uphold the laws of the land?

JOHNSON: Well, we just need to press -- push back on it. But, yeah, you know, Sean, we've, over the last three months, we've apprehended about 6,000 people per day, each and every day for the last three months. And we have probably about a thousand gotaways that we know about, we don't know how many other people get away.

As you're pointing out, the human depredations, the inhumanity of those individuals that are in the hands of human traffickers, the sex slaves, the involuntary servitude, Biden knows all these things, and yet he's still basically facilitating that evil business model, of you know, multi-billion dollar business model, some of the most evil people on the planet. That's what Kamala Harris, that's what Joe Biden are facilitating and with full knowledge.

HANNITY: Yeah. All right, Senator, thank you. Keep up the good work.

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