Rejecting the "Democrat talking points" that President Donald Trump's phone call with Ukraine was an encouragement of foreign election meddling, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., said it was due process for something Democrats once claimed to be worried about.
"This isn't a private investigation, Chuck," Scalise told NBC News "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd, a former Democrat campaign aide. "
"There is no private investigation. There's been a public government investigation into the collusion that Russia had trying to interfere with our elections. We still haven't gotten to the bottom of it. There's still a lot of serious questions that need to be answered so it doesn't happen again.
"And President Trump has continued to be aggressive not only at that but pushing back against Russia in many other ways."
Scalise, who was once shot at by an angry Democrat seeking to slaughter Republicans at a congressional baseball practice, also rejected partisan claims President Trump was investigating Ukraine corruption to do the work of Russia, who has been at odds with its former state.
"I mentioned the Javelin missiles – it's President Trump who sold the Javelin missiles to Ukraine so that we can bust those Russian tanks," Scalise told Todd of the missiles mentioned in the call with Ukraine.
"Obama didn't do that, by the way."
Scalise rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., announcement of an impeachment inquiry without an official vote on the House floor, which might stand to backfire on Democrats in 2020 if it falls through like the Mueller Report did, Scalise said.
"The people that have been saying for years that the president was involved in all of these other things, and then none of it turned out to be true," Scalise said of impeachment-seeking Democrats. "The Mueller investigation was their ticket to impeachment. Shouldn't, by the way, Chuck, shouldn't they first have voted to start an impeachment inquiry, which has always happened?
"This is only three times in the history of our country that Congress has moved articles of impeachment. They wouldn't even do that. It's like they're trying to shield their members from voting on this while they continue to go down the drum beat of impeachment because as the author of impeachment articles said he's concerned the president will get re-elected.
"That's not why you impeach an president. We have an election next year to deal with that."
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