and by the way, is christopher steele roddick, is he credible to you?he basis of the 2016 2016 faii warrant/warrants against a trump campaign associate, we now knoww the following. it was unverified and on uncorroborated as rod rosenstein stud it must be. it was a document full of russian lies and they all signed off on it. in fact everybody who signed off on this, they propagated lies and in order to knowingly spy on a campaign and regulate presidential election in their favor. the media took this bait and they were led by christopher steele at the behest of that and it was the biggest single scandal in american history and at your media is deaf, blind and dumb, overpaid and lazy. which brings us to carter page. tonight despite extensive surveillance from the federal government, why hasn't page been charged with a crime? despite obama's doj alleging he might be a russian agent, he told the fisa court, why isn't he in jail? he was actually debriefed by the cia and the fbi. cooperating with them, helping his own government. here's what he set on a radio

yes, well, that's a reference to your man mr christopher steele.deed was hired to do political research on donald trump, and his connections to russia. he was hired by the democrats to do that. and president trump and a number of others are claiming essentially that the fbi had misled the court when they applied for the wiretap by not revealing christopher steele's potential bias, given that he was hired why the other political party, the democrats. the difficulty with that claim is that, in fact, the fisa application did reveal christopher steele was hired by trump's political opponents, so the claim that the fbi misled the fisa court is itself quite misleading. so you questioning and denying trump's denial, which is slightly complicated. what about his other allegation that he has been tweeting out, then, that there is a suggestion that his campaign could have been being spied on, possibly illegally? well, that isjust a repackaging of his basic claim that he doesn't like the fact that carter page was wiretapped. but again, if the government met t

ends up much sort of more important role down the road all lives, because christopher steele, dossier about russia christopher steele wants to get to fbi -- because he has -- this relationship with him vetted, with him calls same fbi agent at that point no longer in new york was in rome working in embassy in rome, and gives him -- safe bet, it took success of the case to make it viable credible thing so jim comey was fbi director by the time this case opened 2015, press conference happened jim comey standing in brooklyn announcing it, towering over loretta lynch, and so a lot of -- we think of trump's they call on fifa -- >> one -- yeah. >> you get -- one thing i am thinking about about this timing of this, this russia the cup in russia, and back at england, russia, utterly una qualified to get it perfect place for world cup probably except for -- the next that is ball of wax. but russia didn't have the money the airports, and they say tradition maybe soviet -- so not a lot of good reasons why they should be but they win in, 2010. this is period when obama was president and in

what i on earth was christopher steel doing meeting with state department officials? s the steel dossier that supposedly that the f.b.i. was trying to get their hands on, why was it also going through the state department? so a lot of people had their hands on the steel dossier including many people in the media who knew about the steel dossierel and this is really a collapse. what we're having to do here as the legislative branch of government, we're having to do the work that the media won't do, because there are very few in the media who will actually cover this story try to get to the bottom of it. that's part of what is taking so long.f typically, you would have a free and fair and transparent media trying to get to the truth, but in this case, we haven't had that. >>>> laura: so jonathan, is it weiner? wasn on your list? who was he? and i guess it was several months ago, he said he's being unfairly targetedra by you? >> yeah, yeah, that was quite interesting that he thought we were targeting him because at the time, we weren't sure exactly what t he knew or didn'

the second track is christopher steele.th was christopher steele doing meeting with state department officials and why was this b-17 dossier, at supposedly the fbi was trying to get their hands on, why was it also going to the state department? a lot of people have their hands on the steele dossier including many people in the media who knew about the steele dossier, really, a collapse. what we are having to do as the legislative branch of government, we are having to do the work of the media won't do. there are very few in the media who will actually cover the story try to get to the bottom of it and that is part of what is taking so long. typically, you would have a a e and fair and transparent media trying to get to the truth but in this case we haven't had that. >> laura: so jonathan -- is it weiner -- on your list. who is he and i guess it was several months ago, he said he is being unfairly targeted by you. >> that was quite the interesting --dash he thought we were targeting them because of the time we weren't sure e

, raise your hand if you heard of christopher steele? he wasn't famous then, he retired, he meet it is fbi agent, tells him what he can about this russian mafia and they sort of leave, if you find anything else, you have my phone number, here is my card. christopher steele already had a client at the time that was in the world of soccer, they didn't talk about soccer in the first meeting, it didn't come but the client was english, english bid to win 2018 world cup. english doesn't have the world cup in 2018. he had been hired by english bid, huge deal for them. they held 66 world cup, birthplace of soccer, they want to have the world cup again and they want to cover all of their basis, they hire a bunch of basically exspooks to gather information to them about competitors, about the voters in fifa, anything they could get, they had steele because he knows about russia and he's gather information and he starts getting ominous things from sources about what russia is up to. russia doesn't seem to be playing fair in attempt to win world cup

and christopher steele is ultimately fired as an fbi source for lying and leaking, and still in the pfizerarrants after his firing, they claimed to fisa judges, that steel was credible. meanwhile, james comey admitted that he knew the dossier was unverified, and let's not forget, fired fbi director actually denied he told a lie to our own bret baier, that the dossier was in fact playing a major role in the pfizer application. the hardest warrant to ever get. they lied to the judges repeatedly. take a look. >> you called the dossier unverified and salacious, why did you use that to the pfizer court to ask for surveillance for carter page? not only use it but you lead with that. >> that's not my recollection, and it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that relate before the pfizer judge. >> it was a lot more than that dossier? >> and why there was a probable cause to believe. and, what he said was alive. this ally was parroted again and again by democrats. the biggest liar in the country, adam schiff. let's look at him lying to you. >> the information used in part came from a trusted sourc

representatives about its clients how they verify their claims and why they hired christopher steele and they'll also have the opportunity to find out the nature of the firm's interactions with government officials and media outlets now the russian entrepreneur is a lawyer who filed these claims against bosnian still cold at. victory this ruling gave us everything that we had hoped for after a year of trying everything they could think of to avoid being deposed fusion is finally going to have to sit down and answer our questions he was in g.p.s. hasn't revealed any information regarding the dossier claiming that it would violate confidentiality clauses and free speech rights but for some background the firm was hired in april two thousand and sixteen by the clinton campaign and the d.n.c. to investigate trump's allegedly to russia for a fee of about one point eight million dollars then fusion hired a former m i six operative christopher steele and then buzz feed to publish the dossier even though it wasn't verified now fusion g.p.s. will have until august thirty first to sit in for t

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information to christopher steele who was paid by the hillary campaign to get that information.ot accusing anyone of a crime, that's a step farther of what your accusing don jr. of doing. explain how that's very different. >> here's the difference when it comes to don jr. if under your premise what michaelue cohen is saying is tr, donald trump jr.e -- it is also we have to ask the question. if nothing came from it, why are they all lying about it? >> tucker: i stipulated at the outset. this will come as a surprise to clinton defenders, it is a crime that should be taken seriously, if it's shown that anyone lied under oath i think that person should be punished. >> it starts the show with donald trump jr. lied. >> tucker: i don't know anything about what he knew, i don'ten know why trump would hie cohen as his lawyer. the core accusation that somehow it's immoral to meet with a russian source is exactly what the dnc and the hillary campaign successfully did what you are cool with that, it's treason when trump doesn't. >> what the email said was this is how the russian government

they did say they parted ways with him, christopher steele. it's curious if they're going to mention it why not go with it? it's kind of like covering your you know what kind of reference. oblique enough that maybe the judges -- >> it was the essential part of the application. >> laura: how do we know that? >> they talk about carter page's past. he had had run-ins with the fbi because the russians tried to recruit him. that was in the past. for them to get a warrant in october 2016, there had to be something new. the new material with the allegations in the dossier. they could easily have named the clinton campaign. they referred to donald trump as candidate 1 in the application and hillary clinton as candidat. they refer to the g.o.p. as political party 1. they could have referred to the democrats as party 2. the final thing, they say in the footnote there was a u.s. person who wanted, they speculate, who wanted to discredit the trump campaign. that could have been a democratic donor, a progressive activist. the could have been a never trumpe

they fed this information to christopher steele who was paid by the democratic national committee and hillary campaign to get that information. i am not accusing anyone of a crime. that's a step farther than what you accuse don jr. of doing but that's okay because it's different. explain how that is very different, if you would. >> well, here is the difference when it comes to don jr. if what michael cohen is saying true and donald trump sr. knew about the meeting, donald trump jr. [inaudible]. that's a crime. >> tucker: hold, hold on. >> if it's no big deal, why are they all lying about it? >> tucker: okay. i stipulated at the out set, this will come as a surprise to clinton defenders it's a crime we ought to take seriously if anyone lies under oath. we believe in punishing crimes. >> and donald trump jr. lied. >> tucker: i don't know that. i don't know if cohen is telling the truth. i don't know why cohen would hire trump in the first place. the core accusation that it's immoral to meet with the russian source to get dirt on your opponent is what hillary clinton did. but it's treaso

>> the head of fusion gps testified he hired christopher steel to get dirt on trump. dossier with the product. 17 memos. i read them all and i laugh every time. it's absurd, fabricated, anonymous, quadruple hearsay. the use of the dossier, paid for by the clinton campaign and not properly accounted for could be at a minimum, civil violation of the federal campaign election act. at worst, it could be money laundering. >> martha: here is jake tapper talking about the topic. let's listen. i want to ask about this. >> the bottom line, the united states is attacked by russia. it wasn't like pearl harbor. it was a cyber attack. there are a bunch of people in washington trying to prevent the investigation going forward. imagine if somebody tried to prevent the investigation into how pearl harbor happened going forward. you would say that person is not being patriotic. >> martha: if that's true, then it's also unpatriotic to not understand the dossier side of the equation where they clearly had sources in russia trying to dig up dirt and sell it as part of the campaign. corre

at that pint the fbi dumped christopher steele as a source. he documents state, subsequently the fbi close source number one is an fbi source. while the renewal application doesn't indicate that the dossier was verified, the fbi said that steele was reliable based on his eaves work. carter page maintains he did nothing wrong. anwith this latest release of documents he tells fox news in a statement i'm having trouble having any small bit of this document that rises above ignorance or sanity. house democrats have been quick to say these documents bolster their thought that the fbi had legitimate concerns. >> i have few things to say this morning. i have one thing to say. zoom in on camera one. source number one. christopher steele and the dossier were source number one for the fisa application. and the fbi admits that they were likely looking for information that could discredit candidate number one, donald trs candidate number one and hillary clinton was candidate number two on election night. source number one. you don't start with source numbe

. >> reporter: the dossierer compiled by christopher steele is not described as a political document as democrats have asserted. the fbi theorizes it was commissioned to damage candidate donald trump. the fbi speculates the fisa court was looking for information to discredit the candidate's campaign. the cofounder of fusion gps is a us person. fisa record so september 2016 news article about carter page and allegations he was working with the russians is a significant part of the application but s republicans s the news report was not a separate stream of intelligence but at the same source as the unverified dossier. democrats defend the fbi's >> a ich lot of detail is redac. just why the fbi was so concerned carter page might be asking as an agent of a foreign power.r. >> reporter: the republican head of the intelligence can be spoke with laurie ingram. >> the dossier was used in this application and even with the rejections you can see that is the case. if i were the president i would focus his efforts on declassify the rest of the fisa. >> there is real-time pressure as the house

he has known christopher steele for years.wo-page summary of the dossier contents, sharing it with state department officials, including john kerry. thanks for coming in. >> glad to be here. >> you heard lindsey graham. he calls the substance of the dossier garbage. what do you say? >> i would say an awful lot of material in the dossier has been corroborated by events and information that we have come to see since. other parts are still unknown whether they're going to be corroborated or not. major elements of the dossier -- i don't know any that have been disproven. >> you have known christopher steele for years. you wrote very publically in an op-ed, the relationship, how you came about the information in the dossier and so on and so forth. do you trust his information over the years? >> well, while i was at the state department, he provided me some 120 documents about russia and ukraine, entirely unrelated to the u.s. political system. it wasn't about democrats or republicans or anything partisan. it was about russia -- abo

september of 2016, so before the election, winer prepared a two-page summary of the content of christopher steele's intel. and he gave that little summary of what steele had found to senior leadership at the state department who have since said that they too like mccain then handed that information over to the fbi. so they are certainly not central figures in the russia scandal and the expose of the russia scandal that was related to the christopher steele memos. but they do have a role to play in that part of the scandal. they both had small key roles to play and they were on russia's list this week, too. we learned today, finally, thursday afternoon that the united states will not be handing over any americans to russia. the fact they even considered it, which they did for days, just, don't let that get down played. the fact they considered it for days is mind-boggling. even to the appointment that it eclipsed partisanship in washington which is in itself quite something. will vladimir putin be mad at our president for rejecting that request? to hand over americans so putin can interrogate them?

that information, he knew that christopher steele did not like trump and did not want trump to win.bi had that. >> sean: and put it together. >> that's right. >> sean: what you did is to help this democratic republic survive, i actually worry about this abuse of power, i worry about a corrupt media, we are not going to stop on this program. thank you for all you have done, mr. chairman. thank you. when we come back we have breaking news, the trump audio is out. i will give you a hint. a huge dud. solid dud straight ahead. ♪ little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if yo

, but not only investigation from christopher steele, on fisa renewals assert that you're an agent of an foreign power, and then it was signed off, the fisa application and then three renewals, by four judges all of them appointed by republicans. this isn't just christopher steel or james comey, this is many, many people over four administrations, over and over believing that you were an agent of a foreign power. how do you respond to that? >> actually it would be a good question for them, jake, is whether they believe that what they did was appropriate now. you know, again, they were misled and if people are giving them typically when the department of justice is giving a court information, i think it's reasonable for a judge to believe that that's true. i'm hoping that the judge will -- the fisa is just the first part, let's see what they do in southern district of new york to try to correct the record. >> most of the material has been redact redacted. but some of the information in there says carter page has been the subject of recruitment by the russian government. in violation

raise your hand if you have heard christopher steel who wasn't famous banditry tiger to the mia six and he needs the fbi agent, tells them what they can about the russian mafia and the sort of leave off saying if you find anything else interesting you've got my phone number, here's my card. he already had a client at the time, they didn't talk about it in the first meeting, but the client was two when the world cup and england doesn't have the world cup. they were spending enough small amount of money to win and this was a yield for them. they want to cover all their bases so they hire a bunch of different students to gather information about the competitors and voters and they know he knows about russia. he starts getting ominous things from th the sources about what russia is up to and they don't seem to be playing fair. he's hearing rumors about potential clients and people getting involved that normally should have been oligarchs and the fact that he is a hockey fan suddenly he is obsessed with soccer and all of this is troubling to him so he calls the agent up again and says you sh

again, the christopher steele dossier is super controversial. but the former director of national intelligence during the time that the dossier was written, james clapper told us here this show not long ago, as far as he's aware, nothing in the dossier has ever been disproven despite the political controversy around it. michael cohen is all over the dossier named as a key player in the collusion between russian government and the trump campaign. for his part he has vociferously dwhaenld it says about him and at one point he put his money where his mouth is about it. he filed a lawsuit against buzz feed for publishing the steel dossier. specifyingly the parts that mention him. he dropped that lawsuit several months ago and i hesitate to to say we've hit peak michael cohen weirdness. if there is one thing we've learn, it can always get even weirder. with the president's personal lawyer, this fixer who worked with him and worked at his business for more than a decade, we are in a weird moment when it feels like something big is happening. michael c

that included senior doj official, bruce ohr, whose wife was working with christopher steele, i fusionps, she was helpingel to make up all these lies. the cia director, turn msnbc hack, john brennan, also reportedly leaked the contents of the dossier to then senator harry reid. also john brennan was involved in this, he went public with the information. of course, also the director of national intelligence, james clapper, brennan was talking about it before. copper allegedly leaked it to cnn, fake news. let's not forget the major world of only dossier played with the fisa warrant application against trump. the trump campaign associate carter page, during and after the campaign, forgo separate warrants, the bulk of information coming from the phony russian dossier that hillary paid for. where's the investigation into this collusion? mr. mueller, where are you? the clinton campaign paid a c former spy and used russian lies to lie to the american people, steal an election, get a warrant to spy on americans, using an unverified, uncorroborated hillary clinton bought and paid for political

that information, he knew that christopher steele did not like trump and did not want trump to win.n. had that. >> sean: and put it together. >> that's right. >> sean: what you did is to help this democratic republic survive, i actually worry about this abuse of power, i worry about a corrupt media, we are not going to stop on thiser program. thank you for all you have done mr. chairman.ia thank you. when we come back we have breaking news, the cohen-trump audio is out.k i will give you a hint. a huge dud. thud dud straight ahead. ♪ ♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert. michael cohen's recording of donald trump was never made public, this would obtained by cnn, given to them by cohen's attorney, fox news has not verified the tape. here's a clip, take a lesson. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. i'm going to do that right away. i have spoken to alan about how to set the whole thing up. with funding, yes. and it is all the stuff, all the stuff, because you never know where that company or what he is going to do, correct, so i a

news article by michael isikoff that was planted by christopher steele. the yahoo! news article cited four times in the first 30 pages of the fisa application. >> shannon: why do you think the left is looking at the same information and claiming victory question right >> it's pretty bizarre to me because i think unfortunately were at a place where brett a place in the country worry we can only view things through the lens of trauma. if you are 4, you think one way and if you are against him, you can get away. i know adam schiff believes the same thing because he filed the bills do it but now he will back his own legislation. very bizarre. >> shannon: i would say the byron york piece is a very good read. if you want to go, paragraph by paragraph, the chairman nunes memo and compared against what we see, it is a town that's redacted. we don't know whether we get more of that. >> i think we will. i think the presidents wanted to see full transparency and i think you're going to see more information declassify. we wouldn't have this information at present on patent decl

one little bombshell was that in addition to the dossier of christopher steele's memos that buzzfeed published last january, there was also a previously unknown previously unreported additional memo that christopher steele wrote after the election. one subject steele is believed to have discussed with mueller's investigators is a memo after his contract with fusion had ended. this memo is shorter than the rest based on one source described as a senior russian official. that official said he was merely relaying talks circulating in the russian min administrative foreign affairs. he heard people were saying that the kremlin had intervened to block trump's initial choice for secretary of state, mitt romney. a couple days later, "the wall street journal" showed in during that same period right after the election, russian-backed online trolls flooded social media to try to block mitt romney from getting the secretary of state job. several of the most popular accounts slammed the forrer massachusetts governor encouraging tens of thousands of followers to take action. we all know how the st