i believe that most of the dossier was written by shearer into blumenthal. they are the class a dirty ops, black ops people. hillary at one point called me in the 96 campaign and said i really want you to get to know sidney blumenthal. bill followed up and said that she talk to about sydney, every time i met with him after a week i would call hillary. he was the dirty tricks operative. i asked blumenthal who was allegedly a journalist for the new yorker who asked all the questions. >> laura: it doesn't mean that he is necessarily the source of the dossier, the fact that he did all the stuff in the 90s, how do we jump to the conclusion that he did this. you heard what gaudi said, he has a long history. he was so radioactive that even rahm emanuel banned him from the obama white house because he believed blumenthal was behind all of the negative stuff that came out about obama and the 2008 campaign which they were right about. >> let me say that i agree with something said. which is that steele is a renowned mi6 agent and a foreign service agent. as to why the

sidney blumenthal was appointed guy.sion and did what he did is -- it doesn't impeach steele yet, we don't know, but the fact that hillary clinton was aware that any of this was going on -- >> shannon: we know she was. >> good point. that's a fair point, counselor. an intimate of hers, a person who did the wet worker in our campaigns, that was known to her and as we know from benghazi and libya, all of the emails, sidney blumenthal, prolific emails, the fact that he was aware of this investigation, trying to interfere, is another reason why hillary clinton, worst politician of my lifetime, and kept losing. if she has cleared this investigation, if sidney blumenthal has cleared this investigation, it goes arbitrary, then that is quite a capstone is all i say. >> shannon: there is more information about that flow of information tonight. chris stirewalt, great to see you. north korea held a military parade ahead of the olympics opening ceremony. henry kissinger met with donald trump today to talk about the hostile regime. f

i can't understand why the fbi, who knew who sidney blumenthal was.ok at the text messages of peter strzok and lisa page and you understand why. >> there was a cadre at the top who were not playing fair and square. david: be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you believe leaving peter strzok and lisa page in their jobs at the fbi represents a real threat to national security? cast your vote @law dobbs. follow lou dobbs on facebook and instagram. stocks closing slightly lower in a volatile trading session. the dow falling 19 points and the nasdaq down 64. volume heavy at 64 billion shares. the dow slipped late in the session to close lower. a reminder to listen to lou's reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. lawmakers behind the democratic memo are accused of playing politics with classified intelligence. we'll take up the dirty tricks with former congressman jason chaffetz. liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to d

blumenthal's question on prescription drug pricing. because we see a lot of consolidation in this industry. as an example, there is continued consolidation in the pbm industry where large companies dominate the market. many of these companies also own proprietary pharmacies, retail, and mail order, which compete with our local retail pharmacies, often on an uneven playing field. as somebody who represents a state with a lot of seniors, this obviously is very important. so mr. simons, how do you expect to deal with this, the ftc? i saw you shaking your head. >> so i agree wholeheartedly with that concern. one of the things i want to do at the commission, which has spelled out in a little more detail in my response to the committee's questionnaire is to establish a retrospective program so that we look at self-critically whether our merger enforcement has been as effective as it should be. and if it hasn't, why hasn't it and see how we can fix it. so as part of that, that look back, i think it might make sense to look at the industry you

thing is ram emmanuel was a chief of staff a tough hard ball political guy would not allow sid blumenthal to be hired by hillary in the state department and the president's people thought he was too notorious and she hired him at the clinton foundation and the clinton foundation paid him 10,000 a month. david: and he was feeding the trump dossier and the democratic memo was coming out to defend the trump dossier. he's still on one of the clinton affiliate payroll and his job is to go out and be the hatchet man david: ed rollins good to see you my friend. we're coming right back with a lot more please stay with us. >> an fbi informant breaking his silence testifying that the russians paid millions to influence the clintons on the uranium one deal. >> the clinton foundation got $145 million from the people who gained when their stock rose after the uranium one purchase went through. i think that it takes some looking into. we take up clinton corruption with ambassador john bolton. a.nuclear north korea showing off its military might as tensions rise ahead of the winter olympics. those detai

why doesn't he push the statute, richard blumenthal was here.say pass the law. >> because he wants to give himself political cover and the backlash from his base who will be angry he's curtailing the second amendment rights. >> he thinks it won't get approved by the courts. >> exactly. >> as we used to say in the cowboy movies speaking in a foreclosed tongue, remember what he did with daca? all for it meeting with pelosi and chuck schumer. he started to add all these new conditions. is he pulling the same number? >> you talk to anyone who does any bit of legislating on the gun issue and no one within trusts him. part of that is reminiscent of the daca debate. they don't know where to pin him down. part is he's trying to thread a needle. he was elected with more support from the nra than any candidate in history. >> he says i'll never let you down. >> also a man who back in his formative days as a real estate developner new york city was very supportive of gun control measures. it's tough to figure out where he is. >> he is a city mouse like most

we do have a call out to richard blumenthal. hope springs eternal.ley, what i'm curious about, where there might be middle ground. we talked about the president meeting with florida teachers, students, presumably at the light house and how the election process will go. the idea being that maybe there is some middle ground here. the president has talked about maybe tighter mental health background checks, that sort of thing. and other republicans have talked about maybe addressing some of these weapons themselves. but in baby steps. what do you see happening? >> well, i think congress represents the american people, neil. the american people are tired of seeing the senseless violence occur over and over again. most of all, they're tired of seeing innocence lives being taken. it's high time for congress to act on this and find middle ground through common sense compromises. there's plenty of common sense reforms and different regulations out there that could be formed that co-exist with the second amendment and those are the conversations that congress

and senator richard blumenthal on the president's charges of treason. >> can we call that treason? why not? >> reporter: pl >> plus, debunking the lies of devin nunes. >> papadopoulos had never even met with the president. >>> the stock market is at an all-time high and continue tos go up, up, up. >> the politics and practical reality of today's historic market loss. and what the president's deportation force is up to while no one is watching. >> no one should have the right to destroy a family like this. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight, the democratic rebuttal that we've heard about to the nunes memo is headed to the white house. that's after the house intelligence committee voted unanimously to release it earlier this evening. now, this happens on a day when the stock market went into free fall, just as the president hit the road to promote his tax bill. the dow jones suffering its largest single-day point drop in history, erasing its gains for the year. much more on that, coming up. while he was in ohio today, the presi

a reporter apparently and now there is a so-called second memo to the state department, sidney blumenthalas a long-time bill clinton and hillary clinton is served in the white house. apparently they were somehow involved in passing information from writing a detailed memo with allegations that went to blumenthal supposedly, was passed on to the state department official and off to authorities feared what you think about the fact that clinton advisers may have a hand in this? >> shocking. it goes around and around and around. christopher steele was friends with some democrats working in the state department close to the clinton white house. christopher steele in fact, knowing how this world of private intelligence and private security works, and there's some very good people and people out there peddling a load of who hot. don't know him for an add-in. just saying that is the and i suspect he was playing his government contacts here in the u.s., spinning not to his other clients and i've got special acts. over several years to the state department and the clinton white house said we are re

i want to ask senator blumenthal, if you think we're headed towards a court case now and whether your understanding of the law is that the president is on the wrong side of it? >> if the president invokes either the executive privilege or the fifth amendment, he faces huge hurdles. on executive privilege, clearly the nixon take place case, united states versus nixon shows what the outcome is going to be, because it holds that the president's broad indefinite claim of executive simply will not withstand a challenge based on a specific need for evidence in a criminal case, like this one. and the fifth amendment defense may be in some sense viable, but it will lead to the potential for charges, at least in a report against him. >> let me ask you one more question. because there's reporting that the white house says that lawyers are in favor of appointing a second special counsel, which seems in some ways a means of sort of curtailing and reining in robert mueller without firing him. what do you think of that idea? how realistic do you think that is? >> the great danger here, chris, is th

based on russian government sources and sid blumenthal's lies.he fbi also knew christopher steele had been lying and have been leaking to the press yet they still used the.ca and they still used steele's credibility to the fisa court to present that as justification for spying on the trump associates. why would the fbi do that? why would they hide it from the judge? >> kimberly: we have trey gowdy on this and i will ask for your reaction, juan. >> when you hear who one of the sources of the information is, you're going to think oh, my gosh. i have heard that name somewhere before. where could have possibly been? >> the foreign source? >> the domestic source. i am trying to think how secretary clinton defined him, she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time. >> sidney blumenthal. >> that would be warm, really warm. >> juan: i don't get it. >> jesse: we know, juan. you don't get it. >> juan: i don't get what you think this is somehow an indictment of the steele dossier or the investigation. i would hope you would have every reso

senator richard blumenthal. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, what is next for president trump and his team in the wake of the latest indictments in the mueller probe? and then later, the first lady's noticeable absence as new revelations surface about a one-time affair with a playmate. experience lexus safety system plus standard. in the 2018 lexus es and es hybrid. lease the 2018 es 350 for $339 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>> special counsel robert mueller has indicted 13 russian nationals for their role in u.s. election meddling of the i want to go to our experts on this. to you first. i want to talk about the president's tweet which i'm sure you saw. there was a statement from the white house. there's also this tweet which gives us his unvarnished opinion. it says russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014. the results of the election were not impacted of the the trump campaign did nothing wrong. no collusion. the thing that stands out is he doesn't con

putin we would find it leading to sidney blumenthal. no scandal where his name doesn't come up. the larger point is what it shows is that we're now hearing more sources outside the steele dossier that all seem to come from the clinton campaign or clinton associates. and you just wonder was any of this stuff from the russians in that dossier? >> you think a u.s. attorney would be the one to go after that. >> whose job is to restore the credibility of the justice department and the f.b.i. which has been very damaged. i think with the good team of investigators and a good focus could do it, yes. >> a lot of questions, a lot of suspicious activity. we'll have to see. >> president trump's plan for daca hits a roadblock. how the judge's ruling will affect dreamers. one climber falls to his death and several others rescued at a popular climbing site. what went wrong? >> she was unable to walk. she is unable to physically move. so they have put her on a sled. they are roping her down. it's a time consuming maneuver. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor no

which it was not, which the law requires now we know clinton additional allies including sidney blumenthallved in the transmission of false information, unverified information to the fbi through state department officials. somebody's going to have to go to prison. >> laura: kimberley strassel we have been led to believe that any omission in the application for the fisa warrant was inadvertent or it was minor. it was a footnote referencing political influence. but i think the fisa judge might have had a different view had we known that some of the information had come from, i don't know, sid blumenthal, who knows maybe cody shearer, these old clinton its thats, this is wild what we learned tonight. >> well, that's obviously one of the most obnoxious parts of this is finding out that, you know, they did not and this memo goes to this, the grassley memo makes far more clear exactly what the fbi told the fisa court and we know that they did not say that it was the hillary clinton campaign, the dnc. we now know the language, in fact, it was told that it was a law firm that was connected and had

i -- i ask a consent to commit that letter that senator blumenthal that i sent -- >> without objection. >> section five provides agency enforcement authority to take action against deceptive or unfair marketing practices and i feel strongly this practice needs to be investigated. what are some of the consumer harms of allowing social media box to be sold to individuals and companies what kind of market distortions would you expect from this behavior? in other words, what's your take on circumstances that -- is reported in the press of a young girl finding herself her identity utilized in are a deceptive and damaging way? >> sales and marketing is often more effective with more trust and the extent to which that these practices are undermining trust and how consumers are communicating back and forth with firms. that's, obviously, something we need to be concerned about. deception has specific legal criteria so i look ford to reviewing your letter closely an seeing how we can address that. >> we make sure that the letter is provided to all of you. anyone else? in the minute that i have r

there's also sidney blumenthal. >> sean: sidney is back.hocking. >> i remember i wrote about that several weeks ago in a reportk. that i filed. there are a lot of connections here and a lot of questions that need to be answered. there is also another name. jonathan winner. the special envoy for libya, tht state department. that's very interesting because christopher steele was a foreign asset. >> sean: real quickly, we have two dossiers, if you will. the first dossier was 16 separate memos. wewe have the second effort by steele. steele leaking all of this crap with coordination to media outlets. >> lying to the fbi about it. >> sean: you have clintons feeding the dossier, the phony dossier, also fake russian information.n: that is used as a means to spy on an incoming -- to stopfo a president from getting elected and an incoming campaign. >> it would be abuse of powerng and perjury on the doj and fbi. i have two highly placed sources who say that on january 10th, about 3 weeks ago, rod rosenstein threatened to subpoena the calls and texts o

at issue, notes written by a colleague of long time hillary clinton friend sydney blumenthal.n those notes, uncollaborated claims about trump and russia with other reporters and sources that colleague of blumenthal's claimed with in russian intelligence and elsewhere. according to sources familiar with the matter, it was passed on to christopher steele by an official at the state department. >> mr. steele was more of a political operative than a reliable informant. even though he had been used in the past and was reliable in this case he had a political bias. he was being paid by the democratic national committee and he was out to get trump. and using his work product was a mistake. >> reporter: and tonight there could be another internal battle brewing for the house intelligence committee even though adam schiff wants to subpoena corey lewandowski. the republican leading the investigation won't say if he'll back the subpoena push from schiff and republican pete king even flat out said tonight that he won't support the lewandowski subpoena. and that's becauser pete king said t

joining us now, richard blumenthal of connecticut. a member of the judiciary and armed services committee. thank you for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. >> do you support this compromise worked out by both the democratic and republican leaders, the minority leader and majority leader in the senate? >> it is definitely bipartisan progress. i would lean toward supporting it because it provides both military and nonmilitary spending. it is very important in providing community health centers and opioid treatment funding and of course, aid for puerto rico. but i'm still very concerned that it fails to address the protection of the dreamers. >> the minority leader chuck schumer says he has a commitment and we heard the majority leader mitch mcconnell say they will take up border security, daca, the dreamers, all of that immigration-related issues immediately following this. >> i want to solidify that assurance. we've seen assurances before. i want to make sure that promise is going to be iron clad. that we will address the daca issue to pro

not only did he get information from hillary's cronies, sid blumenthal and odders.ut she paid for russian propaganda to lie to the american people and mislead them before an election. the grassily-graham memo' points out that it became the bulk of the information they used in getting the fisa warrant. jesse: do you remember who sydney was? he was the guy who started obama is a muslim born in kenya rumor and put the picture out of obama in the muslim garb. he launders it into the dossier. when comey presents the dossier to the fisa judge, he doesn't stay it was prepared by hillary. sean: the fbi, the doj, everybody night was a clinton bought and paid for dossier. so they tried to manipulate the american people. but the democrats lie every election that conservatives are islamophobic and agai xenophobi. but to not tell the fisa judge and take it and let it go on this long. here is why this is to me the biggest scandal in the history of the country. we have individuals that decided to let hillary off the hook. the evidence is overwhelming that she committed crimes. mis

and how sid blumenthal who worked with the clinton war machine was one of the sources for chris steelegregg: this is so ugly inner way. this latest document by grassley and graham shows the department justice actively concealed vital information from the fisa court and deliberately deceived the judge. they knew the dossier was a phoney document politically motivated. they knew steele was untrustworthy and he had lied. none of this was conveyed to the judge. nunes sent a letter to the presiding judge of the fisa court asking for all of the transcripts of the fisa warrant applications and hearings. that's four different hearings, to find out exactly what was misrepresented in court. david: mr. nunes is also gramming with the notion of going to the chief justice of the supreme court because the supreme court is involved in deciding who those fisa judges are. some question about whether this would violate rules of conduct between various branches of the government. should there be some reexamination of the process by which we get these fisa judges? >> they rotate every 30 days, so with fou

blumenthal:. blumenthal. i am familiar with the work done by the belford center.hank you all for the work that is done by each of your organizations. i want to tell you, you already no, the immediacy and urgency of this task was reinforced this morning before the senate intelligence committee where dan nots said, there should be doubt that russia perceives its past efforts as successful and abuse -- views the 2018 midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. that statement would be beyond conventional wisdom. it would be unnecessary to state. it is the consent since of our intelligence community -- consensus of our intelligence community. it has been accepted by everyone except the president of the united states. in my view, that is the elephant in this room. the president refuses to acknowledge this threat to our national security. record simplythe can propose all the great ideas in the world and some very good ideas came out from a report done by the senate foreign relations committee. senator cardin called the assault on democracy i

thank you to senator blumenthal who is kindly agreed to step in as breaking today since i have to be in the places at once. when the federal trade commission was a small agency it is getting bigger and it is one thing big responsibility protecting american consumers and whether it involves smalltime global scholars, all-time million-dollar payday lenders or giant silicon valley tech companies the ftc acts as a cop on the beat that places a whole host of unscrupulous practices that put american pocketbooks at risk and it is not just financial harm, public health can also be at stake. in the past the ftc has cracked down on cigarette advertisement aimed at kids or on phony sports equipment claiming to prevent concussions. just recently the ftc and the fda sent warning letters to 11 companies who were touting opioid cessation products and given the depth of the opioid crisis in our country it is unconscionable that anyone would prey on vulnerable families in desperate need of help what they do. and while the recent action by the ftc is a positive step it also raises serious questions ab

senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. we now continue to monitor the situation down in parkland, florida. 17 people confirmed dead. there may be more by tonight. the suspect remains in custody. we're joined by brandon odoy, nbc producer for the latest on the ground down there. tell us what you know we don't know yet. >> well, the harrowing stories of those who is survived this research continuing to pour out. a young man i know personally i spoke to his father this evening. he's at home just recuperating. but he's dealing with the shock of having told his teacher, his instructor back into the classroom and holding the door closed and another young man was beating down the door but unfortunately, he couldn't open the door for the safety of those inside. and that young man unfortunately was shot at. there's no confirmed on his status. it's one of those situations where he's just traumatized right now. and these are the sorts of stories that are coming out here as families are reuniting with their children and everybody's ju

blumenthal and -- a journalist in washington. apparently involved according to reports with the so-called state department memo information that went to steel. entasis when they were talking about what alleged may have been done. >> a senior debt department state official does not meet with someone like sidney blumenthal just to find information out about russia. remember, blumenthal, clinton foundation connected. sending dossiers almost every day to hillary clinton while secretary of state. these are not actors operating in good faith on behalf of the american people. these were paid political operatives who were using their access to their friends in the various obama agencies who wanted to hear from them. >> what you know about this? this is the second round of allegations against then candidate trump. >> was worrisome is that this could be yet another example of material and information that was gathered for political purposes. ultimately making its way to the hands of los fresnos. and it says that that is dangerous territory

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are you referring to blumenthal? of course on the left. a long time and hillary clinton eight.he served in the white house. a new yorker journalist. always came to the aid of the clintons. then you have the men on the right, this is the story as it is talk to us. he writes a memorandum with similar allegations like steel. he gets into an official of the state department who is admitted that and then it ended up in the bloodstream to authorities. is it appropriate think for a memo that begins with unverified accusations and somehow winds its way to blumenthal and into the fisa port? do you think is appropriate? is that what you are referring to? talk about the fan club? >> it is. in that is entirely inappropriate. with this dossier we find that it was not only commissioned and paid for by democrats but along the way various operatives were working to add salacious and unverified elements to this dossier. the sacrament is that it became relied upon by the fisa court despite members of the trump transition team and despite the president himself through association. yes, i think so

. >> that information passed along by hillary and sidney blumenthal. as you remember he was allegedly laundering money through that state department. what gave steele the info? we don't know. this all adds up to compromise, people doing whatever they could to pass president obama's bloodline through that sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit by influencing them to preserve their job and get a pat on the head. they played outside constitutional bounds in order to keep a lock on power. spying and lying is apparently okay if it keeps the establishment that and happy. lawn order be damned. but hillary lost and bought these plans so what now? impeach trump? on what grounds? annoying unlike ability? the only solution now is to publish everything. every fisa application. every covering memo that is only designed to mislead and maintain. put up and shut up and let us decide. is partisan bickering just clouding up the russia probe even more? but joins me once again. >> it's good to see you. it's all weird. i'm trying to figure out how it adds up to collusion or

we learned from fox news that one of the contributors was sit blumenthal, the dirtiest in the -- >> iidn't think that was the -- that was a rumor. >> david: fox news has done due diligence in suggesting this may have happened. nobody is denying it as far as i can tell. the bottom line, if this dossier had as much junk in it as it would emanate from sid blumenthal, the one who called monica lewinsky a predatory monst monster, leading the attack against women going against bill clint clinton, this is what he is about. if the democrats are standing by that let them have it. >> jessica: i already voiced my initial concern. i'm not sure about the confirmation about that. well, either way, we know that there are issues surrounding the dossier to get it. adam schiff is on record saying they only used portions that relate to carter page to turn over to fisa court judges, which we know carter page was under investigation, and bragged that he was a kremlin advisor in 2013. this is assault salty character way. we were doesiscussing this morn, it would be nice to hear from the nib as well. >> har

we reached out to blumenthal for comment. he's not responding to our request. whole scandal starts with hillary clinton. remember, rigging the primary against bernie sanders. why bernie people aren't more mad, i don't know. then she tried to rig the general election against donald trump. she pays for a phony russian propaganda dossier filled with russian government lies and propaganda. the fbi then takes that bought and paid for dossier, they don't tell the fisa judge the truth to go out and get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign before the election and then they use it after the election. now concerns that steve bannon, former top trump aide, well, that he might have been caught up in incidental surveillance. by the way, a lot of other people. by the way we are learning in addition to the clinton campaign, while we have hillary's allies, they are feeding anti-trump dirt to the state department, which is sharing it with christopher steele. like we have been telling you, sit tight. if you think this is bad right now, i promise you it's going to only get wors

thank you. >> senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank all of you for being here and i'm familiar with the work done by the belfour center and thank you for the work done by each of your organizations. i want to first tell you. you probably already know that the immediacy and urgency of this task was reinforced this morning before the senate intelligence committee before dan coats with the director of national intelligence said, quote, there should be no doubt that russia perceives its past efforts and views the 2013 midterm elections as a potential russian influence operations and that statement would be beyond conventional wisdom and it would be unnecessary to stay because it is the consensus of our intelligence community and it has been broadly accepted by everyone, except the president of the united states and in my view, that's the elephant in the room and the president needs to acknowledge this threat on our national security. so, i put that on the record simply because we can propose all of the great ideas in the wo

i'm also going to speak to senator richard blumenthal, who says donald trump is now izing justice. mike beschloss makes his beat debut. >> donald trump is once again ripping a page out of the dick nixon playbook. they were about to get nixon tapes which now show that nixon was guilty. >>> and the former trump aide at the heart of the memo. >> chris hayes joins me live on the beat to talk about it. i'm ari melber and we will be right back. how about some of the lowest options fees? are you raising your hand? good then it's time for power e*trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. alright one quick game of rock, paper, scissors. 1, 2, 3, go. e*trade. the original place to invest online. let office depot® officemax take care of you. this week all dell pcs are up to twenty five percent off! save even more when you purchase a dell monitor. and make sure you protect your investment. office depot® officemax. officedepot.com ybut today, you're ready to try something new. son: "dad?" son: "mom would be proud." with blue apron, any night is a chance to see what

we reached out to blumenthal for comment. he's not responding to our request. whole scandal starts with hillary clinton. remember, rigging the primary against bernie sanders. why bernie people aren't more mad, i don't know. then she tried to rig the general election against donald trump. she pays for a phony russian propaganda dossier filled with russian government lies and propaganda. the fbi then takes that bought and paid for dossier, they don't tell the fisa judge the truth to go out and get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign before the election and then they use it after the election. now concerns that steve bannon, former top trump aide, well, that he might have been caught up in incidental surveillance. by the way, a lot of other people. by the way we are learning in addition to the clinton campaign, while we have hillary's allies, they are feeding anti-trump dirt to the state department, which is sharing it with christopher steele. like we have been telling you, sit tight. if you think this is bad right now, i promise you it's going to only get wors

. >> secretary clinton said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time. >> sidney blumenthal. >> that would be really warm. you are warm. >> fox news has learned a group of individuals at the white house has known about the allegations against rob porter for number of months with cheddar increasing since he started dating thing white house medication structure. no word from the white house how long porter will stay in the job though he said today he will stay until someone else transitions into his position. >> shannon: busy news night at the white house. john roberts, thank you. we're learning more more about just how involved then president obama may have been in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election as the russian probe expanded. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> the texts, candid, unvarnished, raising an awful lot of questions. >> ron johnson's government oversight committee released a report including the fbi text messages that draw new connections to president obama. september 2016, 2 months after the fbi closed the clinton emaile

sidney blumenthal who is radioactive across the washington, d.c. is getting access.ow you are actually suing for something else and that is you are looking at whether or not james comey, former fbi director james comey's friends are still protecting him. what is that about? >> he has a big book deal, $2 million. and typically fbi directors and other senior officials like him have to submit man you scripts and before hand and other documents to their agencies for prepublication review. and we ask for those records and we got back we don't have any records which we don't believe. we pushed back, they ignored us and we sued in court. the same fbi let comey walk away with these alleged memos about his conversations with donald trump, which i really don't believe were accurate. but they let him walk away nevertheless, turns out some of those documents were classified. they didn't mind when he leaked some of the information to the "new york times" through a friend in a corrupt effort -- successful effort to get independent counsel appointed or special counsel appointed. so

now not only do we have a dossier based on an unnamed shady russians, but on sidney blumenthal.his was engineered by the clinton campaign from the start? and maybe it wasn't, but those are questions that need to be answered. >> it goes back -- every american, the abuse of power that occurs here when you are having a political operative feeding information which is then used to put together a dossier which is been relied upon, presented by the fbi to a fisa court as if it were fact. none of that is disclosed to the court and then the awesome power of the federal government is used two surveilled american citizen. it's just flat-out wrong and very un-american and against -- it violates our constitution in many ways. >> shannon: i look forward to seeing the democrats memo if it's ultimately released because there are still things to be filled in and it would be very helpful i think for americans to see all of it. hopefully we will. thank you very much. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: former attorney general eric holder was one of the most controversial figures during his time in