so even though the russia investigation and christopher steele dossier and christopher steele himself are really well trout ground, when jane mayor does that story, she turns up totally new stuff and not one or two things but a bunch of things. here is a few of the embedded scoops from jane mayor's now reporting. number one is the secretary of state issue. jane mayor reports that christopher steele author of the controversial trump russia dossier, she met, and cause mex, he met with the special counsel's office this past september in 2017. quote, one subject that steel is believed to have discussed with mueller's investigators is a memo he wrote in late november 2016 after his contract with fusion had ended. this memo, which did not surface publicly with the others, when buzz feed published the dossier last january, this is shorter than the rest and it's based on one source described as a sen yr russi -- senior russian official and talks circulating the russian ministry of foreign affairs but what he heard was astonishing. people were saying the kremlin intervened to block trump's cho

grassley and graham rightly are asking the doj to investigate christopher steele to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts to the media. remember, steele was shopping the fake news dossier around to everyone in the mainstream media, all the outlets like the "new york times," "washington post," yahoo! news, fake news cnn, oh, and by the way, he was a foreign actor in bed with phony russian sources. even he didn't believe what he printed in the dossier. i thought that was supposed to be bad for america. criminal even that in fact steele would be working as a nonforeign actor with russians to influence an american election. did he ever register with the u.s. government? now, also tonight, brand-new news. fox news reporting disgraced former f.b.i. director andrew mccabe. this is huge! he's now begging top doj officials -- remember, he's a former deputy director of the f.b.i. -- that he not be fired because starting sunday, he

i think christopher steele is a patriot and hero. this is raw intelligence from a credible russian source. you know how it can be, we're so good we killed off the secretary of state. i know there was a lot for the choice but i'm going to wait until the reince priebus memoirs to see, was it trump's plot to treat romney poorly or was it the influence -- he keeps rolling to their geopolitical influence, this is all speculation, but there's no doubt the russians would have been unhappy with romney and they were more comfortable from dealings in the oil industry was rex tillerson. he's been disappointing, in my view in the state department but he's no fool. so this is another mystery swirling around donald trump. it never seems to end. >> betsy, another element talks about christopher steele saying he did not begin his work involving donald trump during the presidential campaign. he said he ran across trump's name almost as soon as he went into private business many years before the 2016 election. two of his earliest cases at steele's fir

engel just tonight reporting that christopher steele, also u.s. investor and whistle blower and at least five other people besides sergei skripal turned up on a hit list three weeks before he was on a park bench suffering from the effects of a rare russian nerve agent. i can tell you for sure richard is going to have more on this story, and you should stay tuned to anything richard engel says over the next couple of days. promise me. sergei skripal was attacked along with his 31-year-old daughter. watch this from itv news from britain tonight. >> this is itv news at ten. >> good evening. there were those who said that no one could recover from the nerve agent poisoning that left the form are russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter critically ill, but there was some remarkable news today. she is improving rapidly and no longer critically ill, though her father still is. if she's well enough to talk and there are suggestions that she is, then this slow-moving investigation may get a new and rapid lease of life. >> it has taken weeks of investiga

christopher steele, former spy, openly doubted his own dossier to his friends. especially one of the biggest pieces of fake news from the dossier, he had no clue if it's true. i'm talking about the completely ridiculous still never verified fabricated story about donald trump and hookers at a ritz carlton in moscow urinating in the bed. so steele didn't think it was true. he included it anyway. hillary brought it. she gave to it the fbi. they didn't do their job. they never verified or corroborated. it's not only protocol but what the fisa law tells them to do. then they used it to secure a fisa warrant, the same thing that christopher steele didn't even believe, to spy on an opposite party candidate in an election year. they never told the fisa judge that the clinton campaign and the dnc paid for these unverified lies and nobody had any clue at all the it was true. the daily caller is identifying a key source behind the ritz carlton claim. turns out it's a foreign business man. the thing is sergei is telling the daily caller that the dossier is "garbage news."

and christopher steele, fox news tonight, a british court is ordering steele to sit for a videotape depositioninst a part of the legal battle against buzz feed who published the dossier. steele will likely be forced to verify the dossier that he and fusion and fbi never verified or corroborated. and so in other words steele will have to admit whether or not he knew it was full of lies from his phony russian sources and gave it to the fbi anyway. and according to a new book that steele was 50/50 about the salacious part of the dossier. that was the hookiers in the ritz carton and we learned about the steele use of current and former russian sources. breaking right now. new details on the time line for former fbi director andrew mcdiabetes be fired and lose his pension. it could be saturday and we learned the fact that mccabe even in this posigsz is stunning and inexcusable and means he did something drastically and radically wrong. our sources that mccabe could face multiple criminal charge and wills forget about the pension. and just a few months ago mccabe was put on leave after christopher r

former british by christopher steele openly doubted his own dossier to his friends.specially one of the biggest pieces of fake news from a dossier, he had no clue if it was true. kind of 50/50 if it's true. of course i'm talking about the completely ridiculous, still never verified, fabricated story about donald trump and hookers at the ritz carlton in moscow. steele didn't think it was true but hillary bought it. she gave it to the fbi. the fbi didn't do their job. they never verified it, they never corroborated, which is not only protocol but that is what the fisa law tells them to do. then the fbi user to secure a fisa warrant, that same thing christopher steele didn't even believe in, to spy on an opposition party candidate in an election year. of course they never told the fisa judge that the clinton campaign and the dnc pay for these unverified, salacious lies, and nobody had any clue if it was true. "the daily caller" is also highlighting how the book reveals a key source behind this ritz-carlton claim. it turns out that it's a foreign businessman. the thing i

they knew about christopher steele. they had a track record with christopher steele. he had been a trusted source for them on other matters. as he had been for the state department on other matters. he was a serious guy. this is not a political guy. >> martha: absolutely. christopher steele at this point is dismaid that his information was used by the clinton campaign to present it as substantial information that was truthful. he said i did this and gave it to you guys. >> he had heard reports that were disturbing to him not just about carter page but a lot of aspects of the connections between the trump campaign and the kremlin. a lot of which have been confirmed by robert mueller as the special counsel. he brought criminal cases against mr. papadopoulos, a member of the foreign policy advisory team and michael flynn and manafort and others. >> martha: none of which directly tie the campaign to collusion. are you arguing in the book that the link was found? >> take a look at the back. >> martha: i have. i just got it today. not to give away the ending, but do you mak

and just to, if i may add, it was not just christopher steele who handed this report, but in additionree sources independent of steele also went to the fbi with basically the same story about mikhail lesin and about the way -- the manner in which he died. >> i'm going ask you a steele question that i don't think you're going to be able to answer in terms of protecting sources. >> sure. >> but you don't say why christopher steele did a report on this nor who he was being -- who was paying him to do it. are those things you can't talk about? >> correct. but let me just be clear. i'm continuing to do additional reporting on it. >> there is no indication that this reporting that he did on this death in d.c. is directly connected to or paid for by the same people who did the russia trump steele dossier? >> i have no evidence at all. >> okay. so what is not unbelievable about this reporting is that this guy might have been killed because of his connections to russia. it does seem unbelievable that the u.s. government came to this conclusion about his death. >> yeah, i mean, it's crazy. when

and it was during the course of that reporting that we discovered that christopher steele himself hadwritten a report in 2016, had looked at this, that he had sources inside the kremlin who provided him with this information. and then we had additional sources who basically said that mikhail lesin had a professional relationship with an oligarch that he fell out of favor with, and that's ultimately was the catalyst that led to the beating and his demise. >> because of these multiple rounds of reporting you have now done on this subject, and because there were multiple fbi agents who were willing to talk to you about this, is it impossible that this could be reopened as a case and reinvestigated in the idea that putin might have gotten away with something like this on u.s. soil is distressing. >> sure. with regard to reopening it, we asked the metropolitan police department in d.c. they said if additional evidence is presented. >> here is some. >> they'll reopen it. i also want to make it clear that in these documents, right, the documents that were released under foia that the fbi and

christopher steele, we know he was paid by the clintons.istopher steele talked to the reporter, and the story was used, the last one is sidney blumenthal and his friend cody shearer routing information to the state department to get to the fbi. all four propellers of the initialma investigation of the russia collusion, alleged russia collusion that hasn't been proven, all start with someone close to the clintons. that is the picture that now concerns congress. >> sean: sara, you have an interesting piece out. the case for or against a special prosecutor to investigate the investigators. now we do know that the inspectorw general, horwitz, we expect a report that they had been working on a pretty long time to be coming out perhaps maybe even this week, next week, or at least very shortly. but the inspector general has no prosecutorial powers. we know certain facts here. know that in the fisa warrant, there was never -- they knew that in fact hillary had bought and paid for it. they didn't tell in the original application to the judge that in

only at hilton.com >>> now to stunning new revelations about former british intelligence agent christopher steelef that controversial rush ssia dossier about preside trump. the new yorker reports that steele wrote another memo in november 2016, including, according to single source who claimed the kremlin worked to block mitt romney from becoming president trump's secretary of state, opening the door for a candidate well known to vladimir putin from his job in the oil industry, rex tillerson. joining me is the author of that story, jane mayer, author of an incredibly detailed article "the man behind the dossier, how christopher steele compiled his secret report on trump's ties with russia." you have done it again. congratulations. it is an incredible piece of work. first, let's get to this which you acknowledge is single source, a russian source but in this memo from christopher steele who had long roots and a network of sources from mi-6 and was trusted by the fbi. he had single source suggesting that during the transition when trump was meeting over and over with romney and we were hearing romn

but david corn and michael got the text of this memo written by christopher steele. these are christopher steele's words quote speaking on november 29th, 2016 a senior official working at the russian ministry of foreign affairs reported that a rumor is circulating there that u.s. president elect trump's delay and appointing a new secretary of state is the result of an intervention by president putin/the kremlin. quote, the latter meaning the kremlin reportedly asked that trump appoint a russia-friendly figure to this to position prepd to move quickly on lifting ukraine-related sanctions and cooperation in syria. the source assumes the kremlin's intervention was in response to the possibility that mitt romney viewed as hostile to russia might be appointed as secretary of state. this memo from christopher steele makes this somewhat mind-blowing allegation that russia believed it for some reason deserved to have veto power over who is secretary of state as long as donald trump is president. not only do they believe they should, they felt it was their right to ask but th

and also tonight, a significant new development speaking of christopher steele, fox news tonight reportingritish court is now ordering steele to sit for a videotaped deposition as part of an ongoing legal battle against buzzfeed, the website that published the fake news dossier. now, to call this huge is a massive understatement. now, steele will likely be forced to try and verify the dossier that he and fusion gps and the fbi never verified, never corroborated. so, in other words, steele will under oath have to admit whether or not he knew the dossier was full of lies from his phony russian sources. but gave it to the fbi anyway. and according to that you book, steele told friends that it was kind of 50/50 about the most salacious part of the dossier. that's the part that involved the hookers at the ritz carlton urinating on a bed. and we also have learned more about steele's use of current and former russian government sources. we're going to be following this story very closely. but also breaking right now, new details on the time line for former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe to be

is not only interesting, not only those that the fbi relied on and the dossier whether it is christopher steele is just the people participating in the department of justice as employees and officials, and the fbi, i mean, tb is ransid from start to finish. and we know that now, and yet there are so many hurdles that have to be let in the next few months. it is very frustrating and at least it is it under way because of you and judicial watch. we appreciate it. up next, rinno leaders. ryan doing the business of kstriet. we take up the efforts of their effort to slow the president down if not slow him down altogether. stay with us. i'm leaving the track behind, but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ ♪ everything is working, working, just like it should ♪ >> lou: the rino leaders of the house and senate spend more time opposing president trump than almost anything else they do. this time on tariffs and trade. ryan doing the business. >> we want to make sure abusers are held to account and make sure every step

. >> there is a new book out by two of the journalists who were briefed by christopher steele, two of those journalists have written a book, and as far as we know that steele continues to maintain what he calls the broad assertions of his dossier are correct. but on specifically on one that was salacious and got an enormous amount much attention, this allegations of kinky sex in a moscow hotel room, even christopher steele said he thought the likelihood that being true was maybe 50-50. if you look at circumstantial evidence around that night in moscow you will probably con collided's a lot less than 50-50. david: it was on the basis of that dossier the fisa court ruled it was okay to spy on an american. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you have any confidence the corrupt fbi leadership will clear out the deep state colluders at the bureau? cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. object wall street, stocks closing higher. the s & p up 5. vol on the big board heavy at 5.billion shares. for the week losses of 1% each. consumer confidence hitting the highest level since 2004. coming up

is not only interesting, not only those that the fbi relied on and the dossier whether it is christopher steele or downer. this is just the people participating in the department of justice as employees and officials, and the fbi, i mean, tb is ransid from start to finish. and we know that now, and yet there are so many hurdles that have to be let in the next few months. it is very frustrating and at least it is it under way because of you and judicial watch. we appreciate it. up next, rinno leaders. ryan doing the business of kstriet. we take up the efforts of their effort to slow the president down if not slow him down altogether. stay with us. more and more people have discovered something stronger... more dependable... longer lasting. in a chevy truck. and now, you can too. see why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand the last four years overall. current competitive owners can get a total value of over eleven thousand dollars on this silverado all star when you finance with gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. money managers are pretty much the same. a

they are unredacted and graham-cassidyly and graham rightly are asking the doj to investigate christopher steeleng to the fbi about his contacts with the media. remember, steele was shopping the fake news dossier around to everybody in the mainstream media, all these outlets like the "new york times," "the washington post," yahoo news, fake news cnn, oh, and by the way, steele is a foreign actor in bed with phony russian sources. even he didn't believe what he printed in the dossier. i thought that was supposed to be bad for america. criminal even, that, in fact, steele would be working as a non-foreign actor with russians to influence an american election. did he ever register with the u.s. government? now also tonight, brand new news. fox news reporting disgraced former fbi director andrew mccabe, this is huge, is now begging top doj officials. remember, is he a former deputy director of the fbi, that he not be fired because starting sunday he would begin to get his lucrative government pension. he is set to retire on sunday. but he is likely going to be fired tomorrow. now, the fact that mcca

is not only interesting, not only those that the fbi relied on and the dossier whether it is christopher steelewner. this is just the people participating in the department of justice as employees and officials, and the fbi, i mean, tb is ransid from start to finish. and we know that now, and yet there are so many hurdles that have to be let in the next few months. it is very frustrating and at least it is it under way because of you and judicial watch. we appreciate it. up next, rinno leaders. ryan doing the business of kstriet. we take up the efforts of their effort to slow the president down if not slow him down altogether. stay with us. today, smart planning is helping the new new york rise higher than ever. as the world leader in unmanned aerial systems, we're attracting the world's best talent to central new york. and turning the airport into a first-class transportation hub. all while growing urban areas into vibrant places to live and work. across new york state, we're building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov. to grow your business wit

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best thing i've seen written been christopher steele, at the center of all this. thanks for being with me. >> great to be with you. >> even more breaking news tonight. this happened five minutes before we went on air. stormy daniels is suing the president of the united states. that story is next. it's a long-distance run and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record of being prescribed for over ten years. it's the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. more than 250,000 patients have chosen humira to fight their psoriasis. and they're not backing down. for most patients clearer skin is the proof. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma have happened, as have blood, liver and nervous system problems. serious allergic reactions and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to i

and i don't know that he knows christopher steele personally, john. but i think it is likely he did hear from leadership of other intelligence agencies that are closely allied with the united states. saying these reports are circulating, we believe they're credible, you should take them seriously. >> jeremy, thank you. >>> coming up, some extra executive time for donald trump today with all that snow and highs using hugh he's using twitter. the president has stepped in every trap he set. is donald trump helping his accusers build a case against him? we'll be right back with all of that. ♪ gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense. >>> once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, donald trump heeded his attorney's advice to leave bob mueller alone on twitter. in this brave new world when trump trusts his own gut more than the experts that surround

and christopher steele is a patriot. a patriot for his country and a friend of america. the smears launched against him, lindsey graham's lowest moment in the united states senate, his unconscionable referral that he should be investigated criminally along with grassley, just terrible. and that's so laid bare in this new yorker story. >> there seems to be a synthesis between the steele dossier and the performance of nunberg today, and it's this there are a lot of people in the trump orbit with very questionable judgment. and you have reported on the trump business empire in precisely those kind of terms that, like, if story coming together here is an orbit full of people with questionable judgment and an adversary in russia who wants to try to get to them, you start to look like -- i can see how those two things can go together. >> and the president who rather famously spends hours every day talking to all sorts of friends and who will do whatever the last friend told him to do. so what jane reported was at least the rumor or the report was not that trump -- putin called

best thing i've seen written been christopher steele, at the center of all this. thanks for being with me. >> great to be with you. >> even more breaking news tonight. this happened five minutes before we went on air. stormy daniels is suing the president of the united states. that story is next. i'm leaving the track behind, but i'm not standing still... and with godaddy, i've made my ideas real. ♪ i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working, just like it should ♪ >>> breaking news this very hour. nbc news reporting tonight adult film actress stormy daniels is suing is the president of the united states, donald trump, saying the hush agreement she signed is invalid because trump never signed it. the civil suit alleges her agreement not to disclose her intimate relationship with trump is not valid because while both daniels and michael cohen signed, trump never did. clifford and trump clifford being her given name had an intimate relationship that lasted from the summer of 2006 well into 2007. that affair allegedly began while trump was

is not only interesting, not only those that the fbi relied on and the dossier whether it is christopher steele or downer. this is just the people participating in the department of justice as employees and officials, and the fbi, i mean, tb is ransid from start to finish. and we know that now, and yet there are so many hurdles that have to be let in the next few months. it is very frustrating and at least it is it under way because of you and judicial watch. we appreciate it. up next, rinno leaders. ryan doing the business of kstriet. we take up the efforts of their effort to slow the president down if not slow him down altogether. stay with us. with expedia one click gives you access to discounts on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like level furnished living suites for 45% off. everything you need to go. expedia say carl, we have a question about your brokerage fees. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh. and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy.

much later, christopher steele would say he believed 70 to 90% of the broad assertions in his reporting were true. as for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urinated in trump's presence, however, steele would say to colleagues, it's 50/50. he would later wonder if there was a connection between trump's 2013 visit with emin agalarov. he didn't know. now, that reference to the appearance at the act night club,s that in the very first chapter of their book. they were in las vegas, they wept went to a night club called "the act" in las vegas. the group included trump and emin, rob goldstone, the reigning miss universe and outgoing miss usa. the owners discussed whether they should prepare a special performance for trump, perhaps a domina dom inatrix that would tie him up on stage. since isikoff and corn released an excerpt of their book making those claims, at least one photo of trump inside that night club that night has emerged. so the reason everybody calls the steele dossier a salacious thing is because there is this sexual activity allegation in the dossier. it's importan

that they had discontinued their relationship with christopher steele. because he violated a fundamental principle. he went to the press and told them he was working with the fbi. the fbi did not disclose that to the court. but continued to use his work product. this dossier. so of course, attorney general sessions should investigate this. if he doesn't want to, at least name a second special council, which we have all called for. at least do that so we can get to the bottom of it. >> lou dobbs: it is extraordinary. the clock is running out. chairman devon nunez of the house intelligence committee demanding answers from the three principle leaders of the obama intelligence apparatus. what's going to happen here? >> devon has been tough on this. i appreciate the work of the chairman. he sent 10 key questions. when did you get the dossier. who did you share it with? did you talk to the president? did you talk to the press? 10 important questions to dozen people. most of them in the obama administration. some probably still at the fbi. so, those 10 question

and they didn't tell them that they had discontinued their relationship with christopher steele because he violated a fundamental principle. he went to the press and told them he was working with the fbi. the fbi didn't discloses that to the court but continued to use his work product, this lo dossi. if jeff sessions doesn't want to investigate this, at least name a special counsel that we've called for so we can get to the bottom of it. lou: it's extraordinary. the clock is where you knowing out. chairman devin nunes of the house intelligence committee demanding answers from the three principle leaders of the obama intelligence apparatus. what's going to happen here? >> well, devin has been tough on this and i appreciate the work of the chairman. he said ten question questions like when did you get the dossier, who did you share it with, who did you get it from, did you talk to the press, who did you talk to, ten important questions to two dozen people, most of nem i them in the obama administration, most of them at the fbi, so those ten questions and the answers is due this friday. an

that they got this information, received this information, we're dealing with christopher steele, iter dossier that they got to the appropriate authorities. telling you what they said after we announced we were looking at the state department. and never named this person by the way. the next person was this guy named liner who went to the "washington post" and wrote an op-ed a week later and said this is why devin nunes is investigating me, which i find hilarious because we never started to investigate him. in fact, was senator grassley who had mentioned his name who had an interest in him. but i was glad he volunteered for me to investigate him because he made many of the same comments about mr. blumenthal and mr. sheer, we are preparing that piece of our investigation because we want to find out was the state department giving information on american citizens and feeding that over into the justice department? mark: it conceivable sidney blumenthal would know something and hillary clinton and campaign wouldn't continue? >> he was a close confidant to clinton and involved with sendin

that's a claim in the christopher steele dossier about alleged russian dirt on candidate donald trump. obama turned to rice and said quote, why am i hearing this? he was incredulous. they had no idea if this golden showers story was true but ocho bop -- obama needed to be aware. you don't hear golden showers in a presidents' daily brief or that the guy that's going to become president may be a candidate. so in that two paragraphs of reporting, we get the president's response to that piece of information. why am i hearing this? and news that a senior official operating at that level of clearance believed that trump may be a candidate. also, we learned joe biden learned if these allegations were true, that would be treason. on the subject of the alleged golden showers, i just leave my body, i'll be back in a minute. david corn and michael's book knocks down the odds that that particular thing ever happened but i mean, you can read this however you want but they have lots of new detail about that allegation. first, in moscow, they do report out that the night mr. trump stayed in moscow d

so that is why the fbi stressed that christopher steel was so reliable. truth is, the fbi had already fired christopher steel for lying, so i don't quite know how they can say that he is reliable. >> sandra: he then brought up another point that has been something many others have been asking in the wake of all this. the judges, they deserve more scrutiny too. saying that this a fisa judge was misdirected. they have the power to hold people accountable for contempt. >> right, but apparently, it is not just one judge, it is for judges. and these are very experienced judges. nobody previously has said oh, gosh, these judges are somehow crushed. i have never heard that. so to me, this is an expanding effort, by trump supporters to undermine it the credibility of the fbi, the justice department, and ultimately, the mueller provo. just a moment ago, hugo was talking about the dossier, according to the memo, much of that had the parts that they were using to apply for the surveillance of credit page, had been independently verified. >> sandra: so i'm glad you b