it was bruce ohr. it was steele.was ohr who spread steele's phoney dossier throughout the government. to lie to the american people. it was ohr who became a back channel. 70 plus contacts of christophea steele even after he was fired by the fbi for leading anti-trump and leaking it to the press in this country. that means to you. it was bruce ohr whoom knew steele was completely bias, desperate to stop trump at all costs and that ohr wrote that costs and that ohr wrote that donald trump never being president. bruce ohr knew of the dossier was bias, would never hold up in court. he knew it was tainted, he knew it was not verified or corroborated, and yet he pushed that information into the grateful hands of peter strzok and even the people himself, andrew weissmann. start with hillary clinton, her campaign funded it. it gets to a foreign spy, foreignn agent. he hates trump. gets phony russian information. it's disseminated to you, the american people, and it gets worse from there. none of this should happen in america

bruce ohr was one of the u.s. officials in 2006 who figured out a way to ban a powerful putin-linked oligarch named oleg deripaska from entering the united states. they banned him from getting a visa based on his alleged ties to russian organized crime, and based on fears that deripaska might be coming to the u.s. specifically to launder russian mob money into u.s. real estate. that was 2006. that's when they blocked him from coming to the u.s. 2006. around the time that oleg deripaska was doing lots of business with trump campaign chair paul manafort overseas, was right around the time the ap reports that paul manafort entered into a $10 million a year contract with oleg deripaska to promote the interests of russian president vladimir putin and his government. well we have since learned from further "new york times" reporting that almost a decade later, almost a decade after bruce ohr as the senior justice department official working on russian organized crime, nearly a decade after he participated in this u.s. e

. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace. >> and why the president and his allies are trying to destroy bruce ohr. >> bruce and nellie ohr are the bonnie and clyde of collusion. >> so far every indictment is unrelated to the president. >> reporter: foreign money traced to the trump inauguration fund and another guilty plea produced by the mueller probe, and donald trump's emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. >> i call him lying ted. >> "all in" starts right now. >> donald, you're a sniveling cowar coward. >> good evening, i'm chris says. there's a reason the president of the united states has been waging an all out public war against an obscure career civil servant -- because that civil servant reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed "they had trump over a barrel." unless you watch fox news, you probably don't know anything about him. ohr spent a decades long career at doj prosecuting violent gangs and organized crime, developing a special focus on russian organized crime. and for those years since he first became a prosecutor 27 years ago, oh

but also, the investigative work of bruce ohr.en bruce ohr's expertise and his past work in the justice department, are you at all concerned? i certainly am intrigued myself as to why they're singling him out in way that i'm expecting to be designed to destroy his career. >> well, you know, a couple things. number one, there is a reason why police and public officials don't typically talk about what's happening inside an investigation, because inside an investigation, you have law enforcement people, policemen, fbi agents doing things like following hunches and getting to dead ends. until you're actually ready to go to court, nothing's ready so that's why if you just sort of start pell-mell releasing papers you could create an impression that is not true. but i got to tell you, rachel, this is infuriating, right? bruce ohr, by all accounts, and by the way, at some point i hope they release his testimony, because i heard that his testimony last week actually completely rebutted the notion that he was doing anything untoward. but br

it was bruce ohr. it was steele. it was ohr who spread steele's phoney dossier throughout the government. it was ohr who became a back channel. 70 plus contacts of christopher steele even after he was fired for leading anti-trump leaking it to the press in this country. that means to you. it was bruce ohr who knew steele was completely bias, desperate to stop trump at all costs and that ohr wrote that steele was passionate about donald trump never being president. bruce ohr knew of the dossier was bias, would never hold up in court. he knew it was not verified or corroborated, but pushed it into the hands of strzok and even the pit bull himself andrew weissman. start with hillary clinton, her campaign. it gets to a foreign spy, foreign agent. he hates trump. gets phoney russian information. it's disseminated to you, the american people, and it gets worse from there. none of this should happen in america. yet a political campaign, the doj working together coordinating their efforts, literally to stop one candidate ove

. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace. >> and why the president and his allies are trying to destroy bruce ohr. >> bruce and nellie ohr with the bonnie and clyde of collusion. >> so far every indictment is unrelated to the president. >> foreign money traced to the trump inauguration fund, and another guilty plea produced by the mueller probe. and donald trump's emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. >> i call him lyin' ted. >> donald, you're a sniveling coward. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. there is a reason that the president of the united states has been waging an all-out public war against an obscure career civil sevrvant because h reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed, quote, they had trump over a barrel. the civil servant in question is long-time justice department lawyer named bruce ohr. unless you watch a lot of fox news, you probably don't know anything about him. ohr has spent a decades-long career prosecuting violent gangs and organized crime, developing a special focus on russian organized crime. for all those

the civil servant in question is long time justice department lawyer named bruce ohr. unless you watch a lot of fox news, you probably don't know anything about him. he spent a decades long career prosecuting violent gangs and prosecuting crime, focusing on russian crime. for all those years since he first became a prosecutor, ohr was a guy who went to work every day, doing his job, investigating dangerous people on behalf of the u.s. government. until he ended up involved in the russia probe and now despite having been accused of no actual wrong-doing, bruce ohr is public enemy number one to the president and his allies. >> tonight we are blowing this case wide open. i have been on the phone with sources all day and all night. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nelly. for him to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. >> hoar gets informs and passes it to the fbi and that's a basis to spy on the trump campaign. plain and simple. >> that are last part is not true if you follow the investigation, but a couple of days ago the president himself tweeted abo

>> the first guy that bruce ohr talks to after he meets with christopher steele is andy mccabe. called him up and then meets with him an page. all of the key people at the fbi knew what was going on before they take the dossier to the court. they knew ohr's involvement. they knew who paid for the dossier, and they knew the guy who wrote it, christopher steele, had told bruce ohr that he was desperate to stop trump. we don't believe they conveyed any of that critical

>> the first guy that bruce ohr talks to after he meets with christopher steele is andy mccabe. called him up and then meets with him an page. all of the key people at the fbi knew what was going on before they take the dossier to the court. they knew ohr's involvement. they knew the guy who wrote it, christopher steele, had told bruce ohr that was desperate to stop trump. we don't believe they conveyed any of that critical information

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does this shine a light on why the president takes such an interest in bruce ohr? >> the president has attacked people who have spent years focusing on russian organized crime. i don't know whether that's the case here in terms of that's why bruce ohr has become the target of trump. but it is clear that if you discredit bruce ohr and if you discredit chris steele in the mind of donald trump, you can discredit the origins of the mueller investigation. that's why we're seeing these lines of attack being used so frequently. >> eric tucker with that new reporting, ken dilanian, thank you very much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, we're minutes away from rudy giuliani's so-called deadline for the mueller team. what happens next? when "the 11th hour" continues. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year stud

steele and bruce ohr had a number of meetings. we now know that ohr was told by steele that the russians thought they had trump over a barrel. does it surprise you that ohr didn't go back and tell his superiors at the department of justice what he was learning? >> so i don't think we know enough about that exchange right now to make a fair assessment on what bruce ohr was or was not doing. he had a history of being involved and investigating russian organized crime. that's how he first met christopher steele. he was serving as that conduit, possibly for the government to provide this information. what i'm frayed of if we continue to chase these lines from the president where he tries to attack people, undermine their credibility, we're going to lose the forest for the trees here. i think the main focus as we talk about christopher steele is people are trying to make him out to be this boogieman, that he is some partisan who is going to campaign to destroy the president when we stop and think about who he is, this is a former or re

republicans to some extent are looking at bruce ahr and the president attacked bruce ohr as being part of the deep state, if you want to use that expression according to him. why do you think there was that communication between steele and bruce ohr? >> steele and ohr had known each other 10 years at this point. it should be noted ohr has experience in investigating russian organized crime. it's something he did at the justice department and as a prosecutor. they kind of bonded over this connection where steele is an ex "mi 6" agent, had type ties in -- had deep ties in to russia and interested in tracking russian crime. he previously provided information to the justice department they found credible and used in bringing other cases and also passing along to other intelligence agencies. >> so at the time this meeting took place, this meeting between bruce ohr and christopher steele where he relayed that information, what was happening with the russia probe at the time? do we have a sense of where the general intelligence community's assessment was with russia's involvement in american

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does this shine a light on why the president takes such an interest in bruce ohr?> the president has attacked people who have spent years focusing on russian organized crime. i don't know whether that's the case here in terms of that's why bruce ohr has become the target of trump. but it is clear that if you discredit bruce ohr and if you discredit chris steele in the mind of donald trump, you can discredit the origins of the mueller investigation. that's why we're seeing these lines of attack being used so frequently. >> eric tucker with that new reporting, ken dilanian, thank you very much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, we're minutes away from rudy giuliani's so-called deadline for the mueller team. what happens next? when "the 11th hour" continues. does this map show the peninsula trail? you won't find that on a map. i'll take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear the whales. oop. you hear that? (vo) our subaru outback lets us see the world. sometimes in ways we never imagined. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else.

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josh, in terms of bruce ohr, we know steele and bruce ohr had a number of meetings. we know that ohr was told by steele that the russians had trump over a barrel. does this surprise you that ohr did not go back and tell his superior of what he was learning. >> we don't know of that exchange right now to make a fair assessment. he had a history of being involved in investigating russian organized crimes. he was serving for the government to provide the information. what i am afraid that if we continue to chase these lines from the president where he tries to attack team. the main focus as we talk about steele is people are trying to make him out to be this boogy man that he's going to campaign to destroy the president. what i think is important is we stop and think who he is. this is a former and retired officer with the british security service who was retired and was investigating on behalf of the client, whether or not donald trump had connections with the kremlin. he took that information and he was so concerned of what he found that he first took it through the f

does this shine a light on why the president takes such an interest in bruce ohr?dent has attacked people who have spent years focusing on russian organized crime. i don't know whether that's the case here in terms of that's why bruce ohr has become the target of trump. but it is clear that if you discredit bruce ohr and if you discredit chris steele in the min mind of donald trump, you can discredit the origins of the mueller investigation. that's why we're seeing these lines of attack being used so frequently. >> eric tucker with that new reporting, ken dilanian, thank you very much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, we're minutes away from rudy giuliani's so-called deadline for the mueller team. what happens next? when "the 11th hour" continues. sometimes, bipolar i disorder can make you feel unstoppable. ♪ but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by talking to your doctor. ask about vraylar. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disor

david: bruce ohr, a lot of us suspected that we weren't going to hear much.e is telling us a lot about andrew weissmann who is now a member of the mueller team. gregg: he's the lead attorney on the mueller probe. his tentacles are on every aspect of that case. which means the entire case has been corrupted and tainted by his actions. because weissmann was in on the russia hoax, using false intelligence and a phoney document to try to frame donald trump. he knew and the fbi and the doj knew the document was inherently suspect because they never verified or corroborated it. they knew christopher steele who composed it was not credible and had been fired for lying. and he also knew the ohr's wife had worked on the dossier, and they were both getting paid for peddling this document, which by the way is three different felonies. david: apparently the one thing bruce ohr was honest about was by informing people at the fbi that his wife was working for fusion gps. should they not have been aware of the political orientation of that organization? gregg: it should hav

were talking about this reporting, especially when it comes to the associated press that claims from bruce ohr he was told that the russian intelligence had trump over a barrel, according to multiple people familiar with that encounter and what do you take away from that encounter. >> this was not in the dossier, something that christopher steele told bruce ohr over breakfast that a russian intelligence officer had said and one of his sources inside of russia had picked up in his conversations with members of russian intel, and that is significant because that means that members of the gru and the fsu were discussing the fact -- or the notion that they had compromising information about the president that was causing trump to act in certain ways. that was essentially blackmail. and it is something that we had not heard before.

and you have bruce ohr bruce ohr, once the fourth highest ranking official in the doj, feeding the dirtyussian dossier to the man that would then go on to be mueller's pitbull. and remember the exchanges between steele and bruce ohr. i hope the firewall holds. oh, and yeah, did the special counsel get your messages? so was andrew weissmann colluding? was he conspiring? why didn't robert mueller tell the american people about the context with bruce ohr and christopher steele, and why do we have to figure it out? catherine herridge did and we also know that and unearthed handwritten note from bruce ohr after the election, let's see, listing peter strzok, lisa page, and other fbi agent, reading no prosecution yet, push the case ahead on m, which is paul manafort, go back to chris, which is steele. and that's what they believe it means, paul manafort is m, christopher steele is christopher steele. and against what is unfolding here. taxes and et cetera, finally tonight, one sign, the molar investigation could be drawing to a right. we will will talk to jay sekulow. the special counsel will r

with bruce ohr. he iss head of the crime fraud division.e knows everything that's going on and he's relaying that information obviously to somebody else.ha this is why congress wants an investigation. this is why congressman meadows sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions demanding that john huber, the prosecuting attorney and inspector general michael horowitz investigate bruce ohr and his connections with his wife, that conflict of interest and his communications with andrew weissmann. >> sean: what about the classifying these documents? >> this is even bigger. according to a number of sources and president trump himself actually told this. in an interview yesterday, he said that they are seriously considering the classifying the 20 places of a foreign intelligence surveillance act warrants that have been redacted by the doj. i called these at rosenstein's bicep. why? because he signed off on the last fisa, and that is critical. these are 20 pages of the carter page fisa that they do not want to come out. why? because there is inf

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of particular interest, bruce orr who handled the trump dossier and russia related texts from former fbi officials, james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok. an effort to build an obstruction case against the president as director comey was fired in may 2017. and the so-called insurance policy discussed by peter strzok and lawyer lisa page three months before the presidential election. lou? lou: thank you very much. well hillary clinton lashing out at president trump this morning during an unhinged tweet storm. the former presidential hopeful saying, quote, donald trump refuses to be subject to the law. the legitimacy of the elections is in doubt. the president is waging war she says on the truth. the administration undermining the national unity that makes democracy possible. and then there's the breath-taking corruption. apparently she doesn't like openness and transparency in government. she never had to get used to it when she was in office. joining us tonight, congressman louis gomert. it's great to have you with us. it is great to be able to ask you about the fisa court documen

ohr, when we look at where bruce ohr is, yet, this is another story lean we are learning he is a part process of understanding how russians may be involved in influencing our election or our, our, our very structures. >> let's think about the profile for recruiting someone with the intent of helping russian intelligence move money. >> that i will look for something potentially sole pro p sole proprietor that takes cash. it would not be surprising russia would have targeted someone like donald trump. the early donald trump, he was a hospitality and business. there is nothing illegal. understanding what the relationship is, how money was moved, would give us an interpretation of where he is going i have a strong suspicion he is looking at perhaps money laundering and perhaps donald trump. >> what is clear as we move on to jeff sessions as we move into this very segment is the president at this moment telling bloomberg news, he doesn't plan to fire sessions before the mid-terms, but it is definitely taking up a lot of mind space still. >> absolutely. you know the president has been very

all of the associated footnotes, all the so-called 302s, the reports that say bruce orr writing about christopher steele in context and terms of what they are talking about, this declassification could happen any time.an now, i have not seen them. but according to my sources, the information will be explosive. we'll ask carter paige about that in a moment considering it's about him. why hasn't he been charged with anything? joining us is the russian hoax, the scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump, fox news investigative reporter and contributor, sarah carter. sarah, we'll start with the news, then we'll get greg's analysis. we have the fbi and doj colluding to leak phony russian lies to damage the president, the same doj that hired mueller and h the same mueller team, or, steele. >> these are some of the most important text messages to come out yet. what they show is that the doj and fbi were working hand in hand together to leak information on a counter intelligence investigation. >> sean: ongoing investigation. >> that'sti right. in an ongoing investigation on carte

you have all of these trump-hating deep state actors, peter strzok, lisa page, bruce ohr, nellie ohr, andrew mccabe, christopher steele, they have one thing in common, they all hate president trump. this was about a month before andrew weissmann's boss, robert mueller, started the phony witch hunt. he's still working for mueller, weissmann is. this comes as president trump looks poised to declassify important sections of carter page's fisa documents, everything that was shown to the gang of eight, specifically the pages 10 through 12, 17 through 34, potentially we're told exculpatory information on carter page. now, all of the associated footnotes, the so-called 302s, the reports that say bruce ohr talking about christopher steele in the context, terms of what they talk were. this -- talk about. this declassification can happen any time. i haven't seen them but according to my sources the information will be explosive. we'll ask carter page about that in a moment considering it's about him. and if he's such a danger why hasn't he been charged? joining us you ator of number one "new yo

according to the times, two players in the program effort to bring bruce ohr and president slammed ohr to discredit him for contact with steele to compile the dossier on trump. the "times" met they met with deripaska in 2015 and again in 2016, when fbi agents showed up at deripaska's door investigating ties between russia and the trump campaign and mr. paul manafort was the link for the trump campaign. and joining me is a natasha bertrand and from bloomberg news, kevin cirilli and from the daily beast, francis fluid. so we have a lot of people. manafort and russia. and how are we connecting this dot based on the reporting. >> this underscores how important deripaska is to the entire manafort story. he did business with paul manafort between 2006 and 2015 and he would have been very useful in telling the fbi, for example, what manafort was doing overseas what his connections to oligarchs was. and deripaska and manafort had a falling out and he was in debt by the time he joined the trump campaign so it makes sense that the fbi, especially in september of 2016, would have wanted to ask de

but first we have to cover a new story surrounding bruce ohr. the doj and inspector general investigate his cd ties to christopher steele, right into robert mueller's office and other fbi investigators. big news tonight, catherine herridge we now know and steele and his phony dossier was fed it to andrew muller's pit bull, and we know bruce ohr, once the fourth ranking official, the doj maintained contact with steele even after the fbi fired him for lying and leaking. and his wife nellie, she worked at fusion gps and she they are the ones i got the money. and that he fought failed to disclose any of this. meanwhile according to a breaking report from judicial watch it appears that fbi agent peter strzok author of the first draft of the fbi's letter to congress about the clinton emails found on anthony weiner's laptop which proves his critical role. we will have more on that in just a moment. new reports, sara carter and president trump may classify 20 plus pages of pfizer documents that have been begging to be released. they shouldst shine a ver

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actually record when bruce ohr sat down with the f.b.i.er the mueller investigation began and he was still meeting with christopher steele. i think that is valuable information and scheduled to be released as well. i want that as soon as possible. >> lou: that the president ordered to be provided in unredacted form that will be a fascinating few days to an uncertain point in the future. congressman jim jordan as always. it's great to have you with us. thank you so much. >> good to be with you. >> lou: up next the rad dal dimms continue the push -- radical dimms continue the push to reobserve investigation into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> i would like to see an investigation done. the f.b.i. is equipped to do it. >> they need to have the facts. she has a right to have the facts be developed by a nonpartisan source like the f.b.i. >> i think you can't avoid the appearance of insult if you don't have an investigation. >> guess who is perpeching all the action? it's -- perpeching all the action? it's the men in the country. i wan

we will also bring your breaking new developments, you will not get anywhere, bruce ohr, christopher steele, and yes, a connection a robert mueller and robert mueller's pit bull, andrew weissman. in other words, it is like one big long was chain of connections. and we have a story that will make your blood boil, warrior colin kaepernick is now the brand-new face of a nike ad campaign. so sit tight, buckle up. it is time for tonight's breaking news opening monologue. it is one of the most important decisions that a sitting president can make. and that is the nomination of a u.s. supreme court justice that can shape this country for generations and decades to come. and senate hearings for judge kavanaugh are now underway. he is a strong, constitutional candidate and an originalist a long, serious intellectual track record as a federal judge. he deserves a deliberate to robust hearing, but sadly, as we predicted on the show, senate democrats are making a mockery out of what has been a very important process. and what is a coordinated show, a political grandstanding, democrats tried and

we have news tonight on bruce ohr, the anonymous column. unnamed sources and michael wolf's book.hings that turned out to be false, what cnn published about an unnamed source. all of it is a slow rolling attempt to undermine a duly elected president. meanwhile, anonymous says the president is anti-them anti-de. i don't get that and i think he pointed that out. impeach what? the 4.2% gdp? firemen? >> on on them is also said that president trump is making the country safer and more prosperous. now on the impeachment thing we do see democratic leaders trying to walk on egg shells on this that they focused focus group at this and talked about holding him accountable for the base does appear to want to consider impeachment. we had a number of polls where 70 or 80% of self identified democrats say they want to see president trump impeached. democratic leaders will not be able to engage ignore that. >> laura: i respect maxine waters for at least saying what she really thinks. if that's what you want, why are you not campaigning on it? >> what that's exactly what the democrats don't want

>> thank you, bruce. approaeciate the introduction. one correction, i don't have a title for the japan initiative for japan reconstruction. maybe that's one correction. >> maybe after today you will. >> i'm very happy to be back in washington, d.c. i keep coming back to washington, d.c. in my ten years, '95 to 2005, people don't often see each other so some people are very wise still in washington, d.c. i keep coming back to washington, d.c. already this time i come back to the washington, d.c. this year so i may come back november. that's my second hometown. appreciate the heritage foundation, that's always the -- to give opportunity to discuss this issues. i tried contacting bruce, what's going on with the u.s. policy toward north korea? share your insights. let's do some confidence and why not. there's more inside, too. appreciate my old friend and mentor actually because i used to work there when he was a japan chair and also sheila was the forum when i was working the there. my memory is so bad. so let me start with the very good

donald trump could declassify bruce ohr and carter page documents. is this the right move?ains why after the break. ♪ heather: donald trump could declassify documents related to bruce ohr and carter page. the document expected to prove bias and shattered the initial reason for starting the russia probe. david bruno is here to explain why it matters. >> there was a battle about the fisa applications, the data was released at that point. subsequently there was an open records request that requires disclosure. heather: there are pages of it on the entire page. >> there has always been a dispute about how much information was provided to the court. finally if something was declassified and open, we make our own decisions who is right or wrong. heather: which was supposed to be the reason it was released to begin with. >> the point the president is trying to make is transparency. not only the fisa applications but bruce ohr, things about him, a conduit with the fbi and christopher steele. heather: fusion gps works for fusion gps -- >> bruce ohr with the government, the company t

bruce ohr's contacts, the peter strzok and lisa page text messages all seem to confirm the president's tweets that this is a witch hunt against him. >> last question. this morning on "fox & friends" greg jarrett, who has "the russia hoax" out there, broke news and said he's hearing that by the end of this coming week, the president's going to declassify more intel, more information maybe related to those fisa warrants that tie back to the dossier. maybe there's a collision coming at the end of this week, maybe as you say we will hear from robert mueller but maybe we will hear from the president as well. >> it's highly possible. i think the president is weighing whether that's going to be politically advantageous for him. on one hand he's going to be hammered for getting involved in the investigation by democrats and the media. on the other hand, declassifying those documents could further prove his point about bias, especially with regard to the fisa warrants, considering that we know that the dossier was used to renew those warrants on several occasions despite the fact that they were