'Come on': Jim Jordan gets snippy that Moms for Liberty dubbed hate group

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was frustrated during a liveCNN broadcast on Tuesday after he was questioned about a MAGA political operation after a prominent nonprofit pushed back on an indictment from the Trump administration.

Jordan was speaking with CNN anchor Phil Mattingly when the conversation got heated over mention that Moms for Liberty was considered to have ties with groups designated as hate or extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been accused by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice's of wire and bank fraud. In a court filing on Tuesday, SPLC said that the FBI was aware that the organization had utilized their source information.

"Come on, Phil," Jordan said. "They're running a $3 million scam, right? They were they were telling their donors, oh, 'These hate groups are so terrible. Send us a bunch of money.' Meanwhile, they were paying people in the hate groups to foment the hate. $3 million over an eight year, 8 or 9 year period of time. It's like, that's unbelievable."

Jordan, who claimed that the FBI had only worked with the nonprofit during the Biden administration, continued to accuse the group of wrongdoing.

"Here's a question I have because the FBI used the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Biden FBI used the Southern Poverty Law Center to train lawyers at the DOJ and people in the FBI," Jordan said. "I want to know were any of the confidential sources the FBI was paying, was the Southern Poverty Law Center paying them too? Were these guys double dipping while the Southern Poverty Law Center is scamming their donors like this is. This is ridiculous because they put themselves out there as the standard."

He appeared annoyed that the SPLC had designated the right-wing Moms for Liberty group as a having connections to extremist groups and mocked the findings.

"We evaluate what group is a hate group, what Moms for Liberty is an extremist group," Jordan said of SPLC. "Family research Council's a hate group. You got to be kidding me. And they were scamming this thing."

He claimed that the nonprofit did not use informants and instead called them "instigators."

"And that's why they got indicted last week," he added. "And God bless Attorney General [Todd] Blanche for doing it."

Jordan had sent a letter last week and said a hearing would be upcoming in the next month.