chris steele is saying russian intel believes that case. and that what makes this conversation interesting. >> we mentioned the president, donald trump, going after bruce ohr repeatedly in the last couple of weeks. on wednesday the president put this up on twitter, "how the hell is bruce ohr still employed at the justice department? disgraceful witch hunt." 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 fo

. >> so he had this breakfast with chris steele over the summer. didn't do anything. it wasn't until much later. so chris steele has this relationship with the fbi, he's talking to them, feeding them information. the fbi breaks that relationship with chris steele off in october because he goes to the press because he looks at what's happening, he looks at james comey and he's concerned the fbi is doing nothing with this information and the american people need to know about it. the fbi is mad about that. but after the election he continues to talk to bruce ohr and the fbi decides this is still valuable information for us to use. we can't use him as an official source because he broke our rules but we want to know what he has so bruce ohr is a conduit. bruce ohr, all of his meets with chris steele, he talks about the fbi beforehand, he takes the information and funnels it to the fbi. he does what he's supposed to do. the justice department said because he didn't report that to his superiors in the deputy attorney general's office, that was a mistake. you know, i can se

another development just within the last week is that we heard that chris steele the author of that dos career that's been talked about the last two kweye or so, at least in our spaces, telling bruce orr, the lawyer from the doj that president trump does not leak clearly based on his tweets and statements, but evident ally steele telling orr russian intelligence had trump quote over a barrel. so the question, what does over a barrel? we know what it means coloquially you are in trouble or a threat. >> yeah, i think it probably is intended to mean the russians have some sort of compromising information on president trump and, know if you look at what the critics of bruce orr have been saying, saying that he handled this dossier and sent it to his superiors, what justice department official wouldn't alert his bosses when he gets a rocket like that? it seems like he did the appropriate thing to me. >> the result of this, you jeeu this bears investigation, 63% support mueller's russia investigation, according to poll. and this is job approval. 60% approving. i'm alluding to again the muelle

so they turned to chris steele as an intermediary for these approach, and bruce ohr was one of the justices running the program, so there were contacts be e e tween -- between ohr and steele, and now a number of handwritten notes from ohr were handed over to the congress earlier in the year, to republicans in congress, and some of the material was leak ed in the last few week, and now it is the basis for the theory that is spread that, you know, there was this kind of the plot of the deep state, and it is another piece of the evidence in the deep state plot to undermine trump, but we now know that the reason that ohr and steele were talking and the notes and memo s that were leaked is that they were working on a secret program to turn russian oligarchs into sources. >> what became of the effort? >> not much. the one that we know about is oleg veripaskai, and so we believe he reported it back to the kremlin, but this is often low percentage shots they are taking. >> listening to the reporting, it sounded like they believed that they had leverage to use, and he wanted to have a visa to the co

so chris steele has this relationship with the fbi. he's talking with them and feeding them information. the fbi breaks that relationship off with chris steele in october because he goes to the press. he looks and is concerned the fbi is doing nothing with this information. the fbi is mad about that. but after the election he continues to talk to bruce ohr and the fbi decides, you know what, this is still valuable information for us to use. we can't use him as an official source but we still want to know what he has so bruce ohr is a condue it. all of his meetings with chris steele, he talks to the fbi beforehand, he takes the information and funnels it to the fbi. he does exactly what he's supposed to do. now, what the justice department says is because he didn't report that to his superiors in the deputy attorney general's office that was a mistake. you know, i can see that -- a little bit of that argument, but look at what was happening at that time. it was during a transition. there was an outgoing deputy attorney general, sally ya

another is chris steele. they knew each other professionally. when the fbi and justice department wanted to start this outreach with those oligarchs, steele, who had a number of connections is somebody they reached out to as an intermediary. in the telling of trump and has allies, chris steele was working with bruce ohr to get this dossier. steele and ohr had breakfast in washington in july of 2016 when steele passed through town. according to what we are told about that conversation, ohr asked what are you working on and steele told him about the dossier. he wasn't going to ohr to try to get information on the dossier. he had gone to a different fbi agent on that. what exactly ohr's role is still being worked on but it doesn't seem to be clear-cut as some have made it out to be. >> matthew rosenberg breaking the story for the "new york times." thank you. >>> right now, moving on, hurricane watches are all up and down the gulf coast as tropical storm gordon churns off of the florida coast. the storm is expected to strengthen as it closes in on th

the fbi knew about his relationship to chris steele.uite open about that before they issued the fisa warrant, something they should have put in the fisa warrants, no? >> yes. they left out a lot of information that should have been included. in fact since the entire thing was made up. there should never have been any fisa warrant applications to begin with. i think nellie ohr had a greater role in this than we know now. it wouldn't surprise me to find out she had as much a role in writing the steele dossier and mr. steele did. gps fusion was one of the private contractors comey gave access to the data base in 2015. david: a lot of people have been pressuring the president to declassify everything. however, there is a hangover, an executive order hangover from the previous administration which might make it so it's not that easy for the president to declassify, no? >> there are a lot of considerations that go into declassifying something, the main being national security and the presence of sources or methods that need to be protected. b

chris steele has this relationship with the fbi and feeding them information. the fbi breaks that relationship off in october because he goes to the press and looks at what happened with jim comby and he is concerned they are doing nothing. the fbi is mad about that, but after the election, he talks to bruce ohr and the fbi decides this is valuable for us to use. we can't use him as an official source, but we want to know what he has. bruce ohr, all of his meetings, he talks about them beforehand and takes the information and funnels it to the fbi to use in the investigation. he does exactly what he's supposed to do. because he doesn't report that to superiors, that was a mistake. i can see that a little bit that was argument, but look at what was happening at that time. there was an out going attorney general, sally yates. he wouldn't want to bring this information to her when she was leaving. you had a new ag and attorney general coming in looking like they might have their own ek posure. jeff sessions in his confirmation didn't tell the truth. you can see wh

. >> bruce ohr told key people at the fbi that chris steele, the author of the comet was desperate totop trump from getting elected. they knew both of their involvement but didn't tell the court that. and andy mccabe knew, peter strzok knew and andrew weissman knew as well. be one that was mark meadows calling for the declassification of russian documents that could reveal big-time corruption at the doj. joining me now, the aforementioned congressman themselves. welcome to both of you. congressman jordan, the more we learn about bruce ohr's contact with christopher steele that predates what we believe -- we talked about months ago. now the time line has been pushed earlier. and yet, and his wife worked for the fusion gps firm. did they not know this at the justice department? >> they did. >> laura: why is this conflict not blaring across every media outlet tonight given what we learned? >> it should be but you have a top justice official hired to work for the firm, and everyone at the fbi knew about it. andy mccabe, peter strzok and now we know that andrew weissman, the key player on

chris steele was among them. 016 in washington, steele was passing through town. they were having breakfast. what we hear is ohr apparently asked hey, what are your working on? he told him about the dossier. they kept in touch about this. i'm hearing this from steele, but they also know that independently of that entire connection, steele was trying to get that dossier into the hands of overs in the fbi, that he had been hired to do this work. what he found he thought was incredibly alarming and that law enforcement needed to see it. and so totally independent of bruce ohr, chris was going through other contacts he had to try to get this formally to investigators. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> up next, a blistering pushback from the father of slain college student molly tibbets, directed at politicians who he says are using her murder for their agendas. ♪ this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing

a lot of the application relates to the interview they did with chris steele, the information he supplied. others around the world and around the country are going to look at this and say why would i come and cooperate with american law enforcement services. they always tell me they will protect me. they say we will protect you. we will protect your confidentiality. we will never let this information become public. now you see not just leaking out. it's one thing when this information leaks out. that is enough of a problem when it happens. the president of the united states ordering that publicly released just to attack the intelligence community bae because because he sees it in his best interest. think about what that does to the morale people inside the justice department to see career officials retaliated against just because they did their job. >> if it were not for the justice kavanaugh story, this will be the lead story on every newspaper and news program in america. we will look at these unredacted text messages. we will read them here in the united states with a different kind of

reading no prosecution yet, push the case ahead on m, which is paul manafort, go back to chris, which is steeleand 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 respect written answers from president trump to some questions regarding the russia probe, we will ask him his attorney jay sekulow about that in a few moments, but joining us now, it is now the number one best-selling book in the country, the russian hoax, the elicits games, clearing hillary clinton, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and fox news contributor sara carter, welcome both of you. i want to get to the mueller issue, let's get to the latest news. so christopher steele and bruce ohr are communicating some 70 communications, sarah, between the two of them and we have to fear that steele will be exposed, the desire to keep the firewall up, and he exposes that he expects ohr to delive

to have to be made out of steel, and when it is, if manufacturers can't afford to purchase that new equipment, they're not putting up new buildings. >> thank you, tony. chrisikes of the steel workers. over the last several -- iron workers, excuse me. it's also the likes of whether it be the dairy farmers and the cheese producers, cranberries have been tariffed. this is the highest producing kren berry state in the country. you have tissue companies that have been tariffed. there's the question when you look at the lines of impact of businesses, it goes to harley davidson who is going to increase production overseas as opposed to in wisconsin. they're estimating about $55 million in losses because of the increased price of steel and aluminum here. >> thank you, vaughn at the parade in milwaukee. back with me chris wilson and chris kofenas. chris wilson, as i listen to the iron workers, and we've been talking to a lot of folks who feel the same way about the president's trade policies. could this be a recipe for democrats winning black blue collar voters? >> time will tell. first, i am a free trader. i have a little bit of discomfort in terms of what is pres

chris: evacuation warnings remain in place as families steel themselvesor another night of wind, rain, and damage here on cape fear. , the winds were not as fierce as predicted, but the rain is causing a huge problem judging by where you are. what is happening in wilmington? ,e ra: that's right, rajini hurricorence has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but that is misleading in the see that she still poses a huge threat because she is so huge and sprawling, as wide as e carolinas, and so slocum ongoing and practically a walking pace at five miles an utur, dumping this rainfall over north carolina, carolina, aeating a threat that go the way from virginia potentially to georgia. i'm talking to you next to the cape fear river, which h broken its banks. we are told it won't even the river until tuesday. there is a risk of catastrophic flooding to people's homes well intoext week, rajini. report: we saw in chris' some of the rescue efforts across the state. how challenging are the rains to people trying to rescue others? laur well, it is challenging, and the cajun navy has come here. th

i'm steel getting over learning that bruce was a go between for chris seal that was fired while his wifesclosed relationship for people paying for the dossier and working on it. the potential rosenstein allegations as mccabe probably fired back at rosenstein because once you divide the people and put them under pressure you will find incredible revelations here about what they were doing and what i would have to say was a mirage. >> we have stayed on this story every single week. now we have a date for to testify. >> the documents they will subpoena and shed light on that this must be very confusing for kids too read about article two section one saying the executive power should be invested in the president of the united states suggesting that the justice department is independent of the president or inappropriate for him to exercise this executive authority. what we need to find out is what was done by people we have seen demonstrate or have a bias against the president to interfere with his election. >> the mainstream media is driving the bus on this. this will go down as the most sha

chris baron and tom shillue. i would love to see what bruce ohr was saying to christopher steele and about christopher steele. the people from the freedom caucus have a pretty good idea of what's in them. democrats created this fantasy, the russia collusion thing that is completely and totally based on faulty original intel, and they have hitched their wagon to it, and i would love nothing more than for them to be embarrassed to have it revealed exactly what happened. this is a great precedence. i can't believe we have gotten to the point in this country where the liberals are telling us we should be trusting the fbi and the cia without any question. they are always the good guys. we only have decades of experience that says that's not the case. kennedy: people that talk about the deep state they say are crazy, nutty weirdoes. but whenever you have the department of justice and the fbi withholding information it lends credence to that. >> transparency, we should see more of it with respect to the fisa courts. what is bizarre about all of this, it's not just the folks in the freedom caucus, the president almos

evacuation warnings remain in place, as families steel themselves for another night of wind, rain and damage here on cape fear. and that is my colleague, chrisrting from here in wilmington north carolina. now, president trump at the white house has said that he will visit the scene of this natural disaster sometime next week. meanwhile his secretary of state mike pompeo has been speaking about the hurricane, here is what he had to say. been speaking about the hurricane, here is what he had to sayli been speaking about the hurricane, here is what he had to say. i want to let our fellow americans know, who are affected by hurricane florence, that our prayers are with them, i understand it might have beena them, i understand it might have been a loss of life, our heart goes out to them, and thank you to the first responders, military, civilians and the like, doing such good work, that our government is around and we encourage every american in the threatened path to listen to government officials and ta ke listen to government officials and take heed to their words. and that was the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, speaking a little earlier.

evacuation warnings remain in place, as families steel themselves for another night of wind, rain and damage here on cape fear. chriskler with the situation in the united states. the world's strongest storm this year, super typhoon mangkhut, is blasting the northern coast of the philippines with strong winds and heavy rain. more than four million people are directly in the path of the storm. our correspondent howard johnson has been travelling through the provinces of cagayan and northern isabela, two of the areas which are expected to be hardest hit. earlier he sent us this report. typhoon mankhut has made landfall on the northern tip of the main island of luzon. five million people are thought to be in the path of this potentially deadly storm. authorities had already urged thousands of people to move inland from vulnerable coastal areas. in nearby santa ana, local officials aren't taking any chances. this village school has been turned into an emergency shelter. translation: there is a tendency for landslides in this area in the past, so a village council has advised them to get out early. the philippines endures

evacuation warnings remain in place, as families steel themselves for another night of wind, rain and damage here on cape fear. chriser reporting from wilmington. in the past few hours the us national hurricane centre has warned that the combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters. myrtle beach in south carolina is one of the areas likely to hit. our colleague don dahler from cbs news is there. it apparently happens that the storm, it looks like it's heading just north of myrtle beach. the high tide happened at midnight, coupled with is 18 inches of rain which could lead to devastating flooding to this tourist mecca. now the focus is more on inland flooding west of here. most of north carolina's rivers flow down into south carolina or the coast and there is worry that those flood swollen rivers are dumping it, which could lead to devastation of the infrastructure, businesses and farms. it could cost south carolina billions of dollars of damage. so that's the situation in the us. the world's strongest storm this year, super typhoon ma

chris team. >> number three, the salesforce transit center is expected to remain closed until the end of next week. two steeleams are now cracked. will both support the roof and bus deck level above fremont street. >>> because of that, fremont remains closed between mission and howard, and part of the off-ramp on fremont street. no significant delays taking the bay bridge into san francisco. >>> number five, accuweather. still hanging on to warmth. warmest spots in the 90s. much cooler weather moves in tomorrow. >> number six, a break in the bay area apple thefts. police have arrested six >> happy 20th pwrbirthday, goog. to mark the indication, they have posted the this video. >>> a dog name luna may be happy and free but it's been a rough week. >> the rescue pup got stuck in her he family's backyard. the curious canine wedged her head through a hole. she couldn't get out. her human mom said she tried to put soap and water around her neck. when that didn't work, she called for help. firefighters say they have seen just about everything. traditional cat stuck in a tree, the ducklings in a drain. >> i thought,

chris wray. not that they need any more tests, but christopher wray has said he has steel in his spine. i believe in an interview with lester holt. and the deputy attorney general has talked about not being extorted under fierce questioning from some of the president's most fringey allies, if you will, on the house intel committee. how important is this test for mr. rosenstein and mr. wray? >> it's important to them for two reasons. one, just for the -- to protect the information that's contained in this fisa application to make sure it doesn't expose ongoing investigations, expose any sources and methods and send a message to future agents or operatives or others the u.s. might try to recruit. it's also important to the people that work in those buildings to know that the fbi director and the acting a.g., which is what rosenstein in this case, are going to go to bat for them. so ultimately, they may lose. the president can overrule them, can order everything in this fisa application released publicly, but they need to show that they're going to go to the white house and fight, that the

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steel company. >> i'm being patient with nucor. i think they should have had a better outlook recently. they have to stop having one-time problems or we'll have to change our view to chris florida. chris. >> caller: hey, cramer boo-yah from west palm beach, baby >> man, i wish i were there. what's going on? >> caller: well, i have international paper like you told me a while ago but i'm thinking in the future like, you know, plastic straws and plastic going down. >> it makes sons of sense but i have to tell you not translated to earnings. why? because people feel there's so much capacity coming on. a lot of types when you can't see the capacity coming on like with micron that's what happened to micron stock. you end up being in a situation where you say, wow, what is the hidden problem here? it's capacity. let's go to tom in illinois. tom. >> caller: hey, jim, how are you doing? >> i am good how about you, tom >> caller: good. i'm just calling to see what you think and what your opinion on nokia. >> i don't have a catalyst i don't know why i should recommend it other than a 4% yield and that's not enough to pull the trigger for let's go to l.t. in washington, d.c. l.t.