first you have marc elias a lawyer for the clinton campaign and the dnc. he hires a washington firm called fusion gps. sounds like a lovely restaurant to do research on trump in the nomination. fusion gps hired an intel officer to get dirt on trump. that officer's name is christopher steele which happens to be my stage name when i made those amateur films. [laughter] trying to make this interesting. so steele who was hired by fusion who was hired by the clinton campaign and dnc compiled his dossier with all those allegations about trump's rushing connections. campaigns get opposition research on each other all the time, nothing new but why would they deny it? kim fogle from "the news york times" to this week when is working on the story marc elias told them his sources were wrong. making haberman from the time said they lied with sanctimony all year. the question remains with the media cover this story the way they covered the collusion story or call it old news? he went to one media critic for comment. greg: kevin do you think the media has covered this p

. >> juan: nobody says marc elias was directing steele.uch a hatchet job much of the dossier has been verified. the fbi -- >> kimberly: no, it hasn't, juan. it hasn't. >> juan: the most lewd and lurid part has not been confirmed but the reason the fbi was thinking of paying steele was they thought this guy is pretty good. >> greg: steele was already on the payroll. also i think the fbi -- correct me but i'm pretty sure comey had him on the payroll and they were using this guide. >> juan: they might've used him for something else but fusion hired him after elias came on. >> greg: the key difference between the democrats -- adversary wanted to look at his businesses. it had nothing to do with the dossier. the dossier came into the picture when hillary and fusion came together and said, let's get this dossier. >> kimberly: none of that was worth anything either. >> greg: and another thing. >> dana: next, some of president trump's toughest critics in the media trying to enlist retired senator flake to get him out of office. later, sean hannity

. >> juan: marc elias. i don't see how you would say it's the media if this wasn't about old, the media is hiding something. >> jesse: her friend stephanopoulos this morning gave this story uranium 30 seconds. you know how much time he devoted to the trump, jr. trump tower meeting? 10 minutes. >> greg: the meeting driven by the questionable dossier they paid for. >> jesse: i want to take issue with something else juan said which i found totally inaccurate. you said the dossier, besides the salacious thing, was mostly true. i looked at the dossier. here are some of the findings. >> juan: do not bring up anything about women in bed. >> jesse: i wouldn't. that's the part that's obviously false. the kremlin supplied trump with a regular flow of intelligence about democrats. was that true? trump was offered very sweet business deals by the kremlin but turned them down. don't think that's true. trump's personal lawyer michael cohen was the point man for meetings for kremlin officials in the czech republic. and tr

fusion gps approached marc elias in march of 2016. a month later, a deal was struck with the clinton campaign and the dnc to fund the project. the research led to the unverified salacious trump dossier that was later shared with the fbi. on fox, house government oversight committee chairman question whether former fbi director james comey led the bureau at the time knew about the dnc clinton funding and still used the unverified research to launch the 2016 russia probe. obtain surveillance warrants. >> i want to know whether the nation's premier law enforcement agency relied on a document that looks like the "national enquirer" prepared it. >> fusion gps hired christopher steele, former british intelligence officer for the project. by the summer of 2016, fusion gps was already working for russian lawyer. while fusion denies the connection, the lawyer is at the center of the june 2016 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. after her associates promised dirt on hillary clinton. >> wanted to hear it out but really it went nowhere

after that point, marc elias, a top lawyer for the democratic national committee and clinton campaign paying fusion gps, and that's when the steele dossier was compiled. it's these payments that the white house says proves the clinton campaign was behind the whole russia story. they seem to be arguing that because christopher steele got his information from russian sources, that means the clinton campaign was colluding with the russians and creating a false narrative. here's how white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders put it today: >> there is clear evidence of the clinton campaign colluding with russian intelligence to spread disinformation and smear the president to influence the election. >> brangham: the white house's theory ignores the broad consensus shared by u.s. intelligence agencies that the russians did try and influence our elections, in part by hacking emails from the d.n.c. and clinton campaign chair john podesta. the second story is about the so-called uranium one deal, which president trump has called this era's watergate. it dates back to 2010, and the sale

senator bob menendez's case, they are arguing a judge's decision to block testimony from lawyer marc eliaser address. elias who's worked as a lawyer for the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc has gained attention recently for of course his role in commissioning the trump dossier that we now know about. menendez is accused of accepting gifts from a wealthy florida doctor in exchange for political favors. interesting. >>> and president trump's feuding with filmmaker michael moore blasting his broadway show show. while not at all presidential, i must point out that the sloppy michael moore show on broadway was a total bomb and was forced to close. sad. michael moore tweeting back: you must have my smash hit of a broadway show mixed up with your presidency which is a total bomb and will indeed close early, not sad." reportedly it took in less than half of its potential growth. pete: the sloppy michael moore show. hey, we're gonna talk to rick for some weather. a little birdie told me something in my ear otherwise known as our executive producer that you spent the evening with richard branson