also joining is scott jennings and brian fallon. brian, the former press secretary for hillary clinton, i'm wondering what you make of today. >> i think politically today has a lot of meaning because you saw last week the trump administration and its allies trying to gather ahead of steam to call mueller's integrity into question, suggesting he shouldn't step down. fox news was getting a steady drum beat. after a day like today where robert mueller dropped the mic and showed what a serious prosecutor really does and how he immunities serious investigation, he's under house arrest, staring at charges that could deliver 10 to 15 years in prison, which could be a life sentence considering his age, he's playing for keeps. it sends a message to all the other white house staff officials. i think at this point it becomes much harder for the president to entertain any negotiate of firing bob mueller. >> scott?

brian fallon figures into that as well. president clinton speaking fees drunk dramatically after mrs. clinton was appointed secretary of state? >> the president has given speeches to all kinds of entities in the united states and abroad. all of them went through a rigorous vetting process conducted at the state department. if he gave a speech, it was because the people who inspected and reviewed and deemed there was no conflict. all allegations suggesting there was a conflict are coming from people like peter schweizer who has been widely discredited. had to admit he had no evidence. >> bret: you don't think there's any problem there. when foreign entities pay secretary clinton or the former president to speak or make contributions to the foundation after they speak, do you think they expect something in return? >> if they do, they are foolish. >> bret: that had evolved through 2015 and 2016. >> brian fallon is earning his money. i think one of the things that the entire democratic postelection campaign to link trump to rus

that man, brian fallon, joins us right now. brian, a cheeky tweet, to say the least. you a serious question here. you say you just learned that the clinton campaign and dnc funded this dossier. this has been out there for a long time now. this has been in the news a lot since january. it was floated around privately before that. how could you not know that the clinton team was paying for it? and didn't someone in the clinton campaign know this? >> i'm sure there was a small group of folks that were aware of the nature of the decision to hire fusion back in the spring of 2016. but it was kept for reasons that i can understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired, a former mi6 agent, christopher steele, that was taking these discreet, covert meetings in europe, trying to track down information about business meetings that trump had with russian oligarchs. the details of it, the fact that fusion was hired, and the fact they subcontracted with christopher steele and that's how the dossier came about, i just learned this past weekend in anti

brian fallon was on her campaign team when she said that.that's the way they think of america. they think we are nasty, bad, racist people. that's what they think. >> this is why i can no longer caucus with the democrats. this is why i can no longer identify with the values of the democratic party because they have become the antithesis of what america has stood for for over two centuries. it is -- they smack patriots in the face. they kneel when we stand for the national anthem. they disrespect people that have made the ultimate sacrifice. they exploit parents like this gold star mother down in florida for their political gain and their political expeed i can't notice, meanwhile, calling real american patriots -- you know, when you look at the numbers with veterans, there's a huge overlap in terms of the veteran population and trump supporters. and they call those veterans deplorables. they call people like us. they write us off as if we're irredeemable. she said that. hillary said we're irredeemable. stuart: now, when you came on this prog

. >>> meantime, brian fallon that worked as clinton's campaign spokesman said he was not aware of any connection ween the campaign and the trump-russia dossier, if he did know, he would have volunteered to go to europe and help steel. if anything helped robert mueller and his investigation, it is money well spent a.dnc spokesperson says the new leadership was not involved in the decision-making process that led to the retention of fusion gps. >>> the dossier revelations come after the leaders launched two new investigations involving hillary clinton. they are looking into how the doj handled several issues related to the 2016 election, including clinton's use of a private e-mail server. did you she used a private e-mail server. >> i had not heard. that that is revealing. house intelligence committee devon nunez using an investigation into a u.s.-russia deal handed out under the obama administration while clinton was secretary of state. cnn's jessica snyder has more from washington. >> reporter: dave and christine, house republicans are now launching a probe into the russian purchase o

. >> we will speak to brian fallon who was a spokesperson for the campaign. whoever funded this dossier, and we know it was people associated with the clinton campaign and dnc, and the intelligence community corroborated parts of it, and the mueller investigation goes on no matter who funded the dossier? >> it does. like a big aircraft carrier, it just keeps moving through the water while we have spats on the side. i do think that, yes, it is true that campaigns do a lot of opposition research and sometimes pay for it, so there's nothing earth shaking about that, and what i do find is the hillary clinton and dnc have been paying for this, it has an unsavory quality about it, and it looks like they were trying to frame trump in some way. it loses credibility if it has been paid for by the democrats. it's from that the republican standpoint and the trump standpoint, it's a gift they have because they can muddy the waters with it. >> we will see what brian fallon says. >> we will. >> senator jeff flake says get ready for more republican senators to speak out aga

brian fallon was press secretary to the clinton campaign and he joins me now by phone, brian, thank youo much. you tweeted that you had no idea about it, but you don't think it's a problem. >> no, don. i mean, campaigns engage in opposition research all the time. and my understanding of what took place is that in the spring of 2016, in april of 2016, the firm having been under contract with a republican aligned client during the gop primary made an overture to the law firm that was connected to the campaign, or our campaign, and said hey look, we're knee deep in a lot of this very interesting businesses and russia, and our existing client has dropped us because the republican primary's over, trump is emerging as a republican nominee. but now going into the general, you might find this interesting. it would be malpractice in my view for the campaign to not to want turn over every rock and learn everything it could about donald trump. so while i didn't know that that meeting took place at the time, i'm glad that marco and whoever else was aware of it at the time authorized it and went for

we were not aware of this dossier at certainly my level and as reported, brian fallon reported yesterdaye was not aware of it either. >> brian fallon tweeted, i regret i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring. if i had, i would have volunteered to go to europe and help him. >>> behind bob corker's simmering capac peration with donald trump, is deep concern he'll march us into a war with north korea by undermining diplomats and tweeting reckless threats. we'll share nbc's exclusive reporting on that next. ♪ ♪ (bell mnemonic) i'm ryan awith chantix.king everything i did circled around that cigarette. when i started taking the chantix that urge just slowly diminished and it was a great and empowering feeling. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects ma

joining us senior political analyst for cnn ron brownstein and political commentator brian fallon.ou both here. we had richard branson on the show earlier this week talking about the time with the obamas on the island. they've had their time to relax and moved on, he's back on the trail. ron, how do you think that he will -- if he will address the current political climate and especially the allegations made by the current president, president trump, about him saying he didn't call these family members of the fallen soldiers, will he talk about that as he hits the trail today? >> i'm guessing very limited, if at all. i don't think they wants to be the story. he doesn't want -- he knows if he says anything about president trump that is the message from his visit. he wants the message to be about the democratic candidate because, you know, it is -- these are two fascinating races. new jersey and virginia are both states that completely embody the modern democratic coalition built around minorities, young people and socially liberal college educated whites and the challenge they have

and i thought the other thing is brian fallon was saying he didn't know about the dossier during that campaign i covered. if he had, he would have gone to europe to help christopher steele. well, come on. christopher steele, the british intelligence official, former who put together the dossier, unverified information about donald trump, some are sayingve that he got that from russian officials who were trying to spread disinformation about donald trump to mess up the campaign. i thought the clinton folks were worried about russian officials spreading disinformation and controlling the campaign? now if it was information that was going to help them, all of a sudden they want to be part of it. >> bill: dnc came out with a phrase we are under new management and current management didn't know about it at the time. sort of what you were saying there. when you think about hillary clinton and listen what devlin was describing there. the wrinkle in the story today is that we have not heard from her. m based on her m.o., is that to be expected? is she that careful? >> i mean, look, when she w

i think the average american is not looking at brian fallon or this left-wing congresswoman.a politician when that chief of staff was behind that podium. i want to bring you something that something kelly is overseeing part of. you know, general mcmaster is national security advisor. you know dunford is chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and kelly inseparable as well as mattis. they changed the rules of engagement, darren, and things are making progress. yesterday, raqqa fell. isis is dispersed. your reaction? >> i think that the military is doing a resounding job. a lot of things they don't take credit for because that's not what the military does. but, just going back to what this congress person did, i think that she used politics to advance her ideology and it totally moved away from the death and the loss of a military member out in this place niger. i think that is what the focus should be. not so much what the congresswoman's statement was moving forward. because she had this diametric opposition to trump in the past. and this just came to fruition that she used thi

brian fallon, clinton's former national press secretary, tweeted, if even a shred of that dossier endsp helping mueller, it will prove money well spent. that's a reference to special counsel robert mueller. he's investigating russia's meddling in the u.s. election and potential links to president trump. democrats say regardless of who paid for the research, what's important is the information in the document. >> i think that the key issue for the investigation is how much of the dossier is accurate? >> reporter: according to "the washington post" which broke the news, a republican initiated the original research. so who is that republican? >> i'm sure that will come out. >> reporter: the president playfully adding -- >> i have one name in mind. >> who? >> it will probably be revealed. >> reporter: nbc news has reached out to all of the major republican primary candidates, and their campaigns all deny paying for the opposition research that led to that dossier. lester. >> okay. kristen welker, thank you. >>> even if your family is up to date on all your shots you'll want to hear this st

former campaign smokesman brian fallon. >> i'm sure a small group of folks were aware of the decisionfusion in the spring of 2016. but it was kept for reasons i understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired. >> reporter: fusion hired christopher steele, a former british spy who compiled as the yea containing unsubstantiated information, including president trump's alleged connections to the kremlin. alex conant, now a cbs news consultant and worked for marco rubio's presidential campaign. >> every competent campaign does research on their opponent. you want to know your opponents' liabilities. hiring foreign spice is aggressive, and that's not normal, but it is normal to do opposition research. >> reporter: republicans paid fusion to initiate the research during the primary. later as the f.b.i. found some of the information credible it considered hiring steele, but when his role became public, that deal collapsed. anthony? >> mason: jeff pegues, thabs. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," would you give amazon the key to your home?to sorcery is t

this from brian fallon, the former clinton spokesperson. he says, but if i had gotten it handed last fall, i would have had no problem passing that along, urging reporters to look at it, opposition research happens on every campaign. we are also getting a statement from the dnc, the democratic national committee about this. their statement reads, that tom perez, the now head of the dnc and the new leadership were not involved in any decision-making regarding fusion gps, again, that investigative firm, nor were they aware that perkins coie the law firm was working with the organization. but let's be clear, they say. there was a serious federal investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia and the american public deserves to know what happened. >>> now, all of this news broke while the russia investigation was continuing here on capitol hill. michael cohen, an attorney for president trump, being questioned. lots of questions about whether there were ties between president trump, cohen you see here, the russia investigation. but now t

. >> reporter: former clinton campaign spokesperson brian fallon said the democrats did nothing wrong i think it's important to remember that opposition research happens all the time in campaigns. >> reporter: in fact, it's standard practice in xaes for both parties. >> i think it's important to know who paid for this dossier. what is more important than anything is whether the allegations in the dossier are true. >> reporter: and now one question is, which republican first started fusion gps down the road of digging up dirt on trump? >> reporter: do you know who those republicans are? do you have any idea? >> i think i would have, if i were to guess, i have one name in mind. >> reporter: give it to us. >> it will probably be revealed. >> wasn't willing to reveal it himself. brian ross with us tonight. and we know that hillary clinton, the campaign, and the dnc helped fund this, but the question that remains tonight is, which republican opponent in that primary helped fund it, too. >> reporter: right, david. the democrats say the firm first approached them in early march last year, wh

. >> brian fallon also worked on the kerry-edwards campaign.us. he said don't be fooled by the uniform. he's a cnn analyst. cnn should consider not renewing his contract. lou: mercedes thanks so much. joe, thank you. we appreciate it. thank you for being with us.

brian fallon writing this on twitter, kelly isn't just an enabler of trump but a believer in him.hat makes them as odious as the rest. don't be distracted by the uniform. listen to michael walsh, fox contributor getting emotional, a heart wrenching moments when he had to call families who lost loved ones. >> as a commander i have had to write those letters. i have had to make those calls. there is nothing more difficult in the world to do. those men are out there doing what they love. the families have to suffer. they get weepy choices, don't come back in the come back missing arms and limbs, or not write mentally and not the same as how we left. nothing more sacred than the. heather: you have a lot to say about that. and tell us what you general kelly's speech. we will share your comments and look forward to that. a crucial step forward for donald trump's agenda republicans passing a $4 trillion budget proposal for donald trump tweeting great news on the 2018 budget, mitch mcconnell first step toward delivering massive tax cuts for the american people. let's get to griff jenkins

. >> brian fallon also worked on the kerry-edwards campaign.odious. he said don't be fooled by the uniform. he's a cnn analyst. cnn should consider not renewing his contract. lou: mercedes thanks so much. joe, thank you. we appreciate it. thank you for being with us. reminder once again that freedom isn't free. thank you both have much for your intellect and your time tonight. thank you at home for watching. we are doing extremely well, but it's all about you. here is lou dobbs. lou: good evening, president trump addressing what may turn out to be the biggest scandal in american history. shocking allegations implicating the obama administration and the clintons in a multi million dollar corruption scheme that gave moscow control of a fifth of america's uranium. >> uranium is a big

. >> brian fallon also worked on the kerry-edwards campaign.be fooled by the uniform. he's a cnn analyst. cnn should consider not renewing his contract. lou: mercedes thanks so much. joe, thank you. we appreciate it. thank you for being with us. k tomorrow night. please be with us. kennedy: u.s. troops dying in hotpots across the globe. but why are they here and should they come home? bryan suits breaks i it down. will political correctness cancel halloween? it just did in one elementary school, and wait until you shear why. grab some candy. what happened in niger. that's become the inconvenient question for our president. his botched phone call with a sole determines widow opened a can of worms. the president's feud with a

. >> charles: ron it wasn't just brian fallon also. lawrence o'donnell did some sort of monologue and found a way to connect this dot to racism and suggesting that somehow john kelly never met a black person until recently and that maybe somehow clouded his judgment of representative wilson. >> that's totally nuts. i mean and then you have the congresswoman telling the new york times this just broke relatively recently she thinks the entire white house is filled with white supremacists including kelly. he probably had many people serve above him and with him that had all sorts of diverse backgrounds and i heard more people from all sorts of backgrounds speaking of which who wanted general kelly to have more of a role after hearing this press conference that inspired them he obviously understands what our troops have to go through and understands what the role of the united states is and how to interact with these families. personally the president should do everything he can to call every one of the families that had somebody pass on a

. >> in an interview this afternoon, former clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon acknowledged thatillary herself may have known about the decision to fund the trump dossier. >> just to be clear, brian, you have said previously in the last 24 hours, you don't believe hillary clinton knew about this either. is that right? >> oh, i don't know. i haven't asked. i haven't spoken to her. >> thanks for clarifying. >> yes. >> shouldn't she know, shouldn't you, someone so high up in the campaign be informed of this? >> she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. >> she may have known. in other words, she knew. she kept it secret a year. brad is here with us. thanks for coming. >> how are you doing? >> i'm baffled as always. living here in washington. she not only kept this from herself, but it was not disclosed publicly. so here you have a campaign paying a foreign national some of the money probably going to who knows where but other foreign nationals, maybe a foreign government and not disclosing it publicly. i don't think it's legal. >> first of al

we're showing pictures of john podesta her campaign manager and brian fallon, debbie wasserman-schultz says ask them. debbie wasserman-schultz. >> it is not unusual for a law firm to hire a vendor like fusion on behalf of a client. what would be highly unusual and spend the money with the client's permission. this is not a minor spend. this was one of the most explosive items to come out during this election cycling. the idea that someone very senior at both the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc didn't know about this and expressly sign off on it does not add up. >> sandra: in the wake of all this hillary clinton has been pretty quiet. earlier this week she is on her book tour still and she was asked about it and she called it a bunch of baloney. there is no truth to it. we really haven't heard much more from her specifically. >> i think you have to imagine because perhaps she knew. why wouldn't that make sense? you have an opposition research firm of yours who comes with these explosive allegations, wouldn't you show the top boss so that she was aware? by the way, i have to think w

. >>> coming up next here from brian fallon, and breaking news, quarter century in the making, government releases documents from the kennedy assassination files. president holding back some of them, question is why and will that fuel conspiracy theories that have been out there for decades? more ahead. your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight. ♪ share the spice of life. ♪ baby, slice it right. from the makers of lantus®, ♪ we're gonna groove tonight. toujeo® provides blood sugar-lowering activity for 24 hours and beyond, proven blood sugar control all day and all night, and significant a1c reduction. toujeo® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. it contains 3 times as much insulin in 1 milliliter as standard insulin. don't use toujeo® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar or if you're allergic to insulin. get medical help right away if you have a serious allergic reaction such as body rash or trouble breathing. don't reuse needles or share insulin pens. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which can b

also breaking minutes ago, hillary clinton's former spokesperson brian fallon -- they are racing, perez is the first. i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring during preelection. if i had, i would have volunteered to go to europe and try to help him. oh, really? joining us now, former deputy assistant to the president, sebastian gorka. fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. what i always love about you it's you always come with research on everything. if you start where you want. uranium one, the dossier. >> the confidential informant cannot be gagged. the u.s. supreme court -- >> sean: but he has been gagged. it's a nondisclosure. >> it does not prevent him from speaking to congress. the u.s. supreme court said so. you cannot gagged a witness when congress wants to talk. >> sean: this is why i love gregg jarrett, for all of you at home. he knows his stuff. keep going keep going. >> the clinton dossier. what strikes me is that christopher steele went to moscow and talk to the kremlin and gathered false evidence. >> sean: he paid for it? >> yeah. the victim is the president of the

brian fallon, hillary's spokesperson, said getting opposition research dirt from foreigners has a good thing. trying to set up a meeting with trump and putin. that got killed by the trump campaign. maybe he's cooperating now. there are some emails going back and forth. the white house provided the investigators with those emails, but now i'm hearing he may have been wearing a wire which i think scares everybody. >> dana: juan, let's get your take. poppel operatives papadopoulos e radon manafort. >> juan: let's talk about manafort. he has an interesting history. he worked on reagan's campaign and then start his own lobbying firm with charlie black and roger stone, another trump intimate. and then goes off and he's representing some reprehensible people around the world. the question becomes, and i think this is an issue you raised. why would donald trump hire paul manafort? it's a real question. you say wow, who are you bringing in? >> dana: that's been known for a while. it was brought up at the time. manafort and his deputy rick gates, who pleaded not guilty, they were able to get the

. >> dana: brian fallon, spokesperson for the clinton campaign, he was asked about edge.e denied any acknowledgment there was some kind of lie that happened but he also said if i had gotten handed it last fall, i would've had no problem passing it along. isn't that exactly what donald trump jr. was saying about his meeting -- basically, doesn't everybody do it? people suggested maybe not. >> jesse: double standard when it came to the don jr. meeting at trump tower. you had a russian woman who came to them and said i might have something on the clintons. what do you have? she had nothing in the meeting ended and no money changed hands. in this case, the clintons actively sought dirt on donald trump, paid for it, and then lied about it. when the clintons do it, it's called opposition research. when trump didn't do it, it's called collusion. it's funny that juan likes to talk about diversion. this story is not about nunes. it's about the clintons. that's they diversion. nice try, juan. i do the same thing. >> juan: what was the large clinton told? >> jesse: they'd had for a

brian fallon, who was cocky 48 hours ago, couldn't come up with an answer. >> just to be clear, brian't spoken to her. >> thank you for clarifying. >> yes. >> shouldn't she know, shouldn't someone so high up in the campaign be inform of this? >> well, i mean she may have known, but, the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. brian: who had withdrawal slip for 5.6 million? i will not follow up on that. ainsley: everyone in washington says they knew about it. all the media outlets knew about it, didn't want to report because it was so salacious. the dossier. what is interesting, everyone in d.c. knew about it. don't you think the lady, running against president trump, she would no something about it. brian: i want to know who the republican was that commissioned the study to begin with. >> we think we know what campaign was. we haven't had that confirmed yet. but it was fusion gps that was briefing journalists a year ago. we didn't know until recently that hillary clinton and her campaign, and the dnc were paying for it. so, if hillary didn't know, and dnc incident know

brian fallon saying maybe hillary clinton knew.urrent dnc says it wasn't us. it was the old one. debbie wasserman-schultz was asked about it. >> when did you learn the dnc and clinton campaign were behind the dossier? >> i wasn't aware of it at all. >> how could you have led the dnc and be in the dark in the dossier? what do you think about new leadership kicking the can back to old leadership, to your leadership saying the new leadership didn't know about it? >> sandra: i wasn't aware of it, she said. >> her lawyer has trained her very well. she has memorized one sentence and repeat that one sentence as long as she can. there is something deeper here. not just about the dnc. you had a very powerful family, a former president of the united states. a current secretary of state who had been the number two candidate for president in 2008 deeply, intimately tied to the russians. you have a campaign manager john podesta whose brother was lobbying for the russians. all these things come together. you have real questions about how the f.b

mean, the democrats are saying and the republican -- the democratic campaign former spokesman brian fallon was saying look, i didn't know it was happening. if i did i would have offered to go and help. they see this as regular opposition research. and republicans, including the one that you played a clip from earlier, see this as a reason to investigate the clintons as well. >> jon: the "wall street journal" has an editorial entitled democrats, russians and the f.b.i. in that piece the editorial board writes it turns out that russia has sown distrust in the political system aided and abetted by the democratic party and perhaps the f.b.i. this is an about face from the dominant media narrative from the last year and it requires a full investigation. the public deserves a full scope and nature of the meddling in american dossier. do we know, did this surveillance of trump tower that the president has complained about, was that brought about in part by this trump dossier, the steele dossier? >> i don't know the answer to that. some people are raising that question and using that as a reason t

brian fallon said the same thing. so the whole campaign and the law firm have said that the clinton campaign and dnc didn't know anything about it. what does that mean? it means probably that the dnc and clintons had per kins on retainer to do a whole host of things. and one of those things was probably opposition research. so the firm i think on its own hires fusion gps to see if they can find stuff. so the one thing i disagree with manu statement, i don't see it as a cut out. i see them as consultants hired by the campaign to do research and report back to the campaign as they see fit. i think that jeffrey is right that if they knew about this, they should have been a little bit more transparent about it. but i don't see this as cutouts and deceitfulness on the part of the clintons or the dnc. i see it as normal consultants being hired to do work to develop work product, and then give it to their client if relevant. >> so in the world, in the dark world of opposition research, which is key to any campaign, and you k

in fact, a former aide to liberally to back hillary clinton -- brian fallon saying kelly is not as annabler of trump, hugh the believer of him. that makes him as odious as the rest. don't be distracted by the uniform. then he retreated this from the liberal group planned parenthood. this is part of the pattern of the trump administration attacking and undermining black women. it's despicable. we stand with women back wilson and all black women. the congresswoman's going much further charging the white house itself is full of white supremacists adding that some people in the white house are racially biased by saying they are making themselves look like fools. they have no credibility. the congresswoman is also charging general kelly's use of a racist term "empty barrel" when she claimed she tried to hog the credit for an fbi building in her home state of florida. here's what general kelly said. >> the congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding fo

. >> neil: and i don't want to belabor this, but former clinton spokesperson brian fallon said there is nothing unusual going on here. he said on cnn, opposition research goes on all the time. wasn't that the argument that donald trump jr. made and the trump campaign later made for his meeting with some of these russians? >> yeah, you know, look -- it's hard to be shocked about the fact that campaigns engage in negative research on their opponents. that's a reality. this reminds me of the claude reigns quote from casa blanca. he was police chief and gambling all day and said he was shocked to know that there's gambling going on in the back room. in politics, both sides do negative research on their opponents and that's a reality. >> neil: it's interesting the timing of this. because senators corker and flake who have been critics of the president, said that foreign leaders are scared of him. if a lot of this was going on in the prior administration, they should be plenty scared about that, right? >> you know, the fact is, neil, that i've never seen a washington as dysfunctional as it

clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon countered it was standard opposition research. speaking to fox radio, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee questioned whether the dirt digging for the dossier began with his party as anonymous sources claim. >> i don't know that any republican had anything to do with the actual dossier. it's possible republicans paid them for opposition research. but i think it's a stretch to say a republican was involved in the dossier. >> according to court records, td bank and fusion gps have until 6:00 p.m. eastern to reach a compromise on bank records for congress. if they can't reach a deal, td bank must respond to the subpoena friday morning. >> bret: thank you. the long shot republican goal of a major tax reform is one step closer tonight. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is here to tell us about the days vote on the budget and what comes next. >> welcome to the hill. it was close to 16 -- topper book and say some compromise in order to pass tax reform. >> i believe the committee will be working with me

liz: former hillary spokesperson brian fallon is unsure if hillary knew of the anti-trump files saying hillary may have known. >> just to be clear, brian, you said previously in the last 24 hours, you don't believe hillary clinton knew about this either, is that right? >> i don't know. i haven't spoken to her. >> okay, okay, thank you for clarifying. >> yeah. reporter: shouldn't she know, shouldn't you, someone so high up in the campaign be informed of this? >> well, she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. liz: okay, this team at fusion, staffed by former "wall street journal" reporters, they're the ones that did the anti-trump research. they are currently pleading the fifth and using the judicial system, the courts to block information or any findings about operations and funding. it appears that democrats pay for unverified allegations about a u.s. presidential candidate working allegedly with russia to bring down hillary clinton, among other things, when again the fbi as early as september 2015 told the dnc russia was hacking into it. repr

meanwhile, former clinton campaign spokesperson brian fallon tweeted this. "i regret i didn't know about christopher steele's high hiring pre-election bread i would've gone to europe to try to help him." playing the part of the british spy is brian kilmeade. the story has a british spy in it. >> brian: christopher steele, bottom line is when he lost his original benefactor at the rnc, i would find out who that candidate is a ripple looking candidate that started the investigation, very curious to see who that is but hopefully that will emerge soon with these documents get exposed. i just think it's a substantial amount of money. he demanded 5.6 million in legal fees for the clinton campaign and the dnc wrote him a $3.6 million check. that's a lot of spying. >> gillian: you're just jealous because you went into the wrong business. >> brian: 's fusion gps is the one thing i am taking the fifth. >> harris: i just need someone to tell me who is working on the campaign? what exactly is opposition research and i know what it is, but what is it in this context? befo