Posted: Jan 21, 2020 / 03:29 PM EST / Updated: Jan 21, 2020 / 06:19 PM EST

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) Congressman Jim Jordan, from Ohios 4th District vigorously defended President Trump during the House impeachment hearings. Now, he is one of a half dozen Republican House members who will be defending him during the Senate trial.

Jordan was in his home district today, at the Marysville Honda plant. NBC4s Colleen Marshall had a chance to ask him some questions about the impeachment process.

My job is is to get to the facts, to get to the truth, and like I said before, the facts and the truth are all on the Presidents side. Thats why hes gonna win, said Jordan.

Like other leaders of his party, Jordan wants the Senate and the American people to take the presidents word for that, seeing no need for witnesses or documents at the impeachment trial.

The American people understand that its time to get this over with and never should have happened in the first place, said Jordan.

Then why not let them testify to that? Why not present the witnesses and hear from people like Lev Parnas who seem to have unusual access to the President? asked Colleen Marshall.

If youre going to if youre going to go down that road then I want to hear from the whistle-blower, I want to hear from Hunter Biden. If youre going to bring in Lev Parnas and John Bolton, and whats good for the goose is good for the gander as they say, responded Jordan.

Opening arguments are expected to focus on the prosecutors claim that the President obstructed Congress from investigating his alleged abuse of power. The defense claims nothing rises to an impeachable offense.

Theyll make theyll be the argument that the process was completely unfair on the house side, which is definitely true. I mean, we were we werent allowed to bring in any of the witnesses we want on the house side. There were times during depositions where Adam Schiff actually prevented the witness from answering our questions. Ive never seen that happen. They got a lawyer there, the lawyer can do that. Its not supposed to be the chairman of the committee doing that, said Jordan.

As Hondas Vice President signed a White House-backed pledge to Americas workers, Jim Jordan claimed jobs and a thriving economy are overshadowed by impeachment.

Theyre going to keep going after this president because when you go to Washington and you drain the swamp, start to drain the swamp, the swamp fights back. And thats what were seeing, said Jordan.

Rep. Jordan and Colleen Marshall also discussed the investigation into abuse at the hands of Dr. Richard Strauss at Ohio State. Colleen will have more from that part of the discussion on NBC4 at 6.

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