John Ratcliffe (R-TX) interview with Maria Bartiromo 12 15 2019

An exerpt

MB: …We are looking ahead to the House vote on impeachment as well as looking back at the IG report, now joining me is Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe of TX, he's a member of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees and a former federal prosecutor…So we are expecting this impeachment vote to be on Wednesday. What are you expecting in the week ahead and tell me about the reaction you've been seeing from that IG report.

JR: …The vote will be on Wednesday despite what a Democratic scholar called the fastest, thinnest, weakest impeachment in US history… we've already seen one Democrat apparantly switching parties over it, another saying he's gonna vote against it…and the reason for that Maria is, because the Democrats have made the mistake of staking the credibility of all this on Adam Schiff. The person they put in charge of this investigation, turns out is the one that helped start it, by meeting with the person who walked out of Adam Schiff's office and became the whistleblower and at the very same time that that's happening, as you mentioned, now there's an inspector general report that comes out, that says during the last impeachment hoax, the Trump Russia one, Adam Schiff repeatedly made false statements to the American people, about the FBI's actions, and so I think you know, that's what's happening and that's why the Democrats have been rushing to keep this from unraveling and keep their folks in line and they're having a real hard time to do that. I wouldn't want to bank my political future on Adam Schiff's credibility but they've made that mistake.

MB: Yea, so going back to the IG report, Adam Schiff was certainly out and about alot throughout the last 3 years, saying that there is collusion in plain site, and now we get the IG report and we actually see the misconduct and what they called errors, fraud, whatever you want to call it, what is your reaction to what you learned from Micheal Horowitz?

JR: Well, it wasn't just that AS was out and about, he put out a report that said:

• There was no FISA abuse by the FBI. That was false.

• He said that the FBI didn't fail to turn over exculpatory information. That was false.

• He said that the Steele Dossier was not a central part of the FISA applications against Carter Page. That was false.

• The inspector general's report, the findings in there detail all of that.

• It's an indictment of the things Adam Schiff was saying

• It's an indictment of James Comey's leadership at the FBI

The biggest takeaway for people out there Maria, is that what the IG's findings very clearly delineate, even if you concede, and I don't, but even if you concede that there was a predicate to start this, there was no predicate to continue a counter-intelligence investigation against the President of the United States. They had to do it by making those false representations to the FISA Court …

MB: …Schiff came out with that correcting the record memo, which we know now was wrong, just flat out wrong. You mentioned some of the wrong doing, one of them …is an altering of a document by an FBI lawyer, tell me about that and where are you expecting accoutability?

JR: Well, as the inspector general's findings outline, what are referred to as errors and omissions are really false statements, misrepresentations, destruction or alteration of documentary evidence. What you have are FBI lawyers literally changing evidence to make false representations to the court to continue this counter-intelligence investigation against the President…What the inspector general's report really outlines is criminal activity …

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