i'm christopher hill and good to have you with us on september fifteenth two thousand and eight u.s. investment bank lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy the event everyone from u.s. investors to the spanish property owners running for cover twenty five thousand lehman brothers bankers found themselves out of work overnight the number was a dry and but not too big to fail lehman had become so walton mortgage origination that it was basically a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment washington wasn't willing to save the financial institution although it did save others. now in the aftermath of the lehman brothers collapse the then u.s. administration introduced stricter banking regulations known as the dot frank wall street reform and consumer protection act president donald trump has long been a critic of frank back in may you scrap some of the rules for small and medium that many on wall street want the deregulation to go even further critics say racing restrictions on bags could prompt the next financial crisis. so let's go now to the heart of darkness were it all began

two million euros per year back on the square the light show is about to begin and designer christopher hill and makes the final technical checks and then it's all systems go. the cathedrals the extensive history throughout the ages is the subject of the lighting installation. and it seems to have enthralled the audience. as. a snag and yeah you guys are fantastic and i'm a knockout in dome you know of course we see the cathedral every day when you've got another motivation but here we're able to experience it in a new way in all its facets including its history and he just be good because we should deploy and i wasn't aware of its history before even though certain facts are known of course are true and it was simply fantastic for ptosis show i love to somebody i thought the components with fire were quite impressive and will contain just doesn't as if i really enjoyed seeing the. things just move on so quickly as that's what it was worth it who cares about the weather it always rains here none of us is what we said we don't want very well what i thought it was very rewarding working on the

when i first read christopher hill's books, i bought them in east germany, which tells you about his communist predilection. but they believed in limited government, freedom of trade. basically libertarian ideas. you can see down there, that is the title of the essay. to every individual in nature is given a property of nature. for everyone, as he is himself, so he has a self propriety, lc would not be himself. just your identity is a foundation of your right, your property, in your own person. this becomes a very powerful foundation for libertarian ideas. freedom of religion is something people feel passionate about. the eternal. their relationship with god. this idea that we can live together, equally and freely, is a great innovation and a great achievement. i particularly like george washington's formulation. if you go online, you can find his letters, several of them, to the hebrew congregation. he received letters congratulating him on becoming the president and he wrote back exceptionally elegant responses to them. i will read it. it is quite powerful and the subtext is signif

the doj official who had conversation was christopher steele, the former british intel agent who compiled the trump dossier. in closed door hearing on the hills week. christopher said he he believes the russian believed they had trump over a barrel. what's your reaction. >> what it kmonts. and mr. ohr's statements were behind closed doors in front of members of congress this we can. we don't have a transcript. not an open hearing. we don't know exactly what was said. but i think what it indicates and see mr. steele, who was a former british intelligence officer, was gravely concerned about what it was he was discovering through the course of his investigation that was funded privately. he communicated some of that information apparently to mr. ohr, who as a justice department official, a civil servant official, would have had some kind of responsibility to provide that information to the fbi. so i don't -- as a former justice department lawyer, i doend find it particularly out of the realm that mr. ohr would have found some responsibility on his own part to communicate that information to the fbi. how the fbi worked with him on a going forwa

called the levellers, which is a communist rock band, or was, back in the when i first read christopher 1980's. hill's books, i bought them in east germany, which was something that tells about his own cartoonist predilections, werehese levelers believers in property, limited government, freedom of trade, basically libertarian ideas. you can see down there, that is the title of the essay. against all tyrants , it is against the whole thing. to every individual in nature is given a property of nature. for everyone, as he is himself, so he has a self propriety, lc else could you not be himself. just your identity is a foundation of your right, your property, in your own person. this becomes a very powerful foundation for libertarian ideas. i think it is worth in foundation for libertarian this context, talking a bit more about freedom of religion, something that people feel really passionately about. about the eternal. about their relationship with god. this idea that we can live together, equally and freely, is a great innovation and a great achievement. i particularly like george washington's formulat

breaking only minutes ago, the hills at john reporting that christopher steele's phony russian dossieras the basis for the ongoing witch hunt into trump so-called russia collusion after it was pushed by several high ranking deep state officials who all share one thing in common -- a political hatred for donald trump. there is now growing confidence that the pivot from papadopoulos to steel was all driven by officials with serious political baggage. we are talking about andrew mccabe, page, strzok, and of course, christopher steele peered all trump haters. we learned that he was actually attempting to steer the fbi so-called russia collusion investigation toward the phony steele dossier, much earlier than we previously thought. several officials, all with serious political baggage, as he describes them, remember this is the dossier -- with this will all be traced back to hillary. many of the same figures protected her so she could stay in the race by exonerating her after she obviously committed felonies and crimes, and of course, the dnc, clinton, funded this phony, russian steele doss

hill. the see what they're doing. they're not only telling christopher wray, the director of the fbi and dan coats, the director of theional intelligence awches, they'r offe saying, your agency's review and any communication with the white house and the substance of the material should not proceed further until you've briefed the gang of eight in person. who in the hell does chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, mark warner and adam schiff think they are? >> the other half of the gang of eight are the republicans. and this is just absurd. lou: the republicans haven't said a word. >> the gang of eight is a courtesy call. it's not a real power they have. and the bottom line is these people, if they do anything to step up against the president, they should be fired. i'm talking about, it's his team and he basically has an obligation to sit them down and say i want this done -- lou: who has the obligation? >> the president. he should say to these guys, you have the obligation to implement my orders. my orders are to put the documents out there. lou: if you have to tell the head of the fbi, national intelligence, you know what t

hill for his confirmation hearing this week. >>> to flip an oligarch. the "new york times" reports blues orr and christopherto turn a russian oligarch into an informant for the feds. is this why the president has been attacking them both on twitter? >>> and equal opportunity, elizabeth warren releases a treasure trove of personal papers to the "boston globe" in an effort to silence critics who claims she advanced her career by identifying herself as a native american. it's the clearest signal yet that the massachusetts senator is seriously considering a 2020

hill for his confirmation hearing this week. >>> to flip an oligarch. the "new york times" reports blues orr and christopher steele tried to turn a russian oligarch into an informant for the feds. is this why the president has been attacking them both on twitter? >>> and equal opportunity, elizabeth warren releases a treasure trove of personal papers to the "boston globe" in an effort to silence critics who claims she advanced her career by identifying herself as a native american. it's the clearest signal yet that the massachusetts senator is seriously considering a 2020 presidential run. >>> but first, just days ahead of a high-stakes week on capitol hill, a major document block. the trump administration is refusing to release more than 100,000 bush era documents pertaining to supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh, with his confirmation hearing set to begin tuesday. if confirmed, he would succeed justice anthony kennedy, whose swing vote sometimes surprised both conservatives and liberals alike. now in addition to assuming the swing vote position, there is concern of how kavanaugh and his confirmation co

week on capitol hill, two sources with direct knowledge tell fox news ohr told investigators at least half a dozen fbi and doj officials knew about his back channel contact with christopher steele, who compiled the controversial dossier on candidate trump, and about the origins of the dossier as a piece of democrat funded opposition research. house republicans have criticized fbi officials for not disclosing those details in their applications for the surveillance warrants and are once again asking the president to declassify the bureau's records about ohr and the warrant applications. >> for more on this, let's bring in breaking news editor for "the daily caller." good to see you. let's start with what garrett was talking about, the potential for a bombshell from special counsel robert mueller around labor day. there was an anchor on another network, i forget the name of it, that said show up for work on friday, journalists, there's going to be a big one that might be coming. never came. >> that's right. that was the prevailing wisdom from the other news networks, as you said. unfortunately, it looks like their wishes did not come true. i highly doubt mueller is going t

week on capitol hill, two sources with direct knowledge tell fox news or told investigators at least half a dozen fbi and doj officials knew about his back channel contacts with christophere, who compiled the controversial dossier on candidate trump and about the origins of the dossier as a piece of democrat funded opposition research. the house republicans have criticized fbi officials for not disclosing those details in their applications for the warrants and are once again asking the president to declassify the bureau's records about ohr and the warrant applications. jon? jon: thanks. let's bring in white house correspondent for the daily caller for more on this. we have known for some time fox news reported you have reported i believe that there were contacts, these e-mails between bruce ohr and christopher steele. we knew that. what appears to be new about this new york times piece is the depth of the contacts that bruce ohr had with a russian oligarch and that the fbi was trying to get on its side. >> yeah, it is a very interesting report out from the new york times, but it demonstrates the depth of the contact between christopher steele and bruce ohr dating back t

week on capitol hill, two sources with direct knowledge tell fox news ohr told investigators at least half a dozen fbi and doj officials knew about his back channel contact with christopher steele, who compiled the controversial dossier on candidate trump, and about the origins of the dossier as a piece of democratic-funded opposition research. house republicans criticized fbi officials for not disclosing those details in their applications for their surveillance warrants and are once again asking the president to declassify the bureau's records about ohr and the warrant applications. mike? mike: thank you. eboni? eboni: president trump decides not to attend two major summits in asia this fall. the white house says the president will not travel to singapore for a meeting hosted by the association of southeast asia nations, as well as an asian pacific economic cooperation gathering, sending vice president mike pence instead. a former campaign policy adviser joins us. thanks for being here, david. we really shouldn't read too much into the fact president trump himself is not going to attend these two summits in asia, but that we have to consider the timing of it. i'm going

christopher wray has to be okay with it. for the audience you don't just tell him what to do. he has to want to do it. >> correct. >> one week -- everybody says, well, anita hill, that was one thing. it was just going on. there was a limited scope of people that they could talk to. here you could slice this a lot of different ways. so how do you decide -- let's put up the statement for the audience about what this is being called, this supplemental fbi background investigation. it's not a new investigation. it's not a criminal investigation. current, credible allegations which are those and whom do they reach out to? what do you know? >> well, chris, let me be clear, as you know the fbi does not take direction from me. they take direction from chris wray, the fbi director, and the white house. it is an executive branch agency. i can talk about what i hope they will do, what i think would be reasonable for them to do but i am not able to direct them in any way. >> understood. >> i would think if they take up a supplemental background investigation they would test the allegations made by dr. ford. >> just ford? >> they would question some of the folks -- and the

i'm christopher hill and good to have you with us on september fifteenth two thousand and eight u.s. investment bank lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy the events and everyone from u.s. investors to the spanish property owners running for cover twenty five thousand lehman brothers bankers found themselves out of work overnight the number was a dry end but not too big to fail lehman had become so walt and mortgage origination that it was basically a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment washington wasn't willing to save the financial institution although it did save other.