catherine herridge has found out information that christopher steele was leaking the contents of the dirty russian dossier to gullible reporters before the election, at the request of fusion gps, during the fall of 2016. the dossier even steele did not believe it, thought it bad when foreigners try to influence our election. it's okay if your name is hillary clinton and you're a democrat. by the way, can you say russian collusion? also, we will kindly remind everyone on the left that the president of the united states has constitutional, broader and absolute authority to remove the security clearance of any american, and yesterday, after years of serious misconduct, the president rightfully stripped obama's ex-cia chief, john brennan, from these top-secret privileges. predictably, your mainstream mediaa is now absolutely apoplectic and outraged, some even claiming that his right to freedom of speech is infringed. in moments, we will help these people try to understand the difference between aon constitutional right in a governmental privilege. plus we'll walk you through a deep dive o

watch this. >> the dossier's author christopher steele, that former british spy was in touch with an ice department, bruce ohr earlier than we thought, they were exchanging emails in january of 2016. what was interesting here is that steele was writing to bruce ohr at the justice department and he was talking about a russian oligarch, mid year 2016, christopher steele says to ohr, we need to talk. i need to talk to you about some other business. but i specifically want to discuss with you informally and separately, and it concerns our favorite business tie couldn't. and now most people who read this believe that's donald trump because that's just a few days before christopher steele actually tells the fbi, gives them the first installment of the dossier which is the famous moscow hotel scene. >> jeanine: meanwhile judicial watch is suing the justice department for communications between bruce ohr, nellie ohr, christopher steele and fusion gps. joining me now with more is judicial watch president tom finton, david avilla and fox news contributor doug schoen. you know we've got this lin

watch this. >> the dossier's author christopher steele, that former british spy was in touch with an t the justice department, bruce ohr earlier than we thought, they were exchanging emails in january of 2016. what was interesting here is that steele was writing to bruce ohr at the justice department and he was talking about a russian oligarch, mid year 2016, christopher steele says to ohr, we need to talk. i need to talk to you about some other business. but i specifically want to discuss with you informally and separately, and it concerns our favorite business tie couldn't. and now most people who read this believe that's donald trump because that's just a few days before christopher steele actually tells the fbi, gives them the first installment of the dossier which is the famous moscow hotel scene. >> jeanine: meanwhile judicial watch is suing the justice department for communications between bruce ohr, nellie ohr, christopher steele and fusion gps. joining me now with more is judicial watch president tom finton, david avilla and fox news contributor doug schoen. you know we've go

we're know christopher steele and simpson were pushing the russian lies. they all knew it was total b.s. by the way, that is why steele wanted the firewall. that is why he is scared to death he will get caught. now in a moment, sara carter and catherine herridge will join us for a full report. but first take a deep dive in president trump's very important security clearance review. and several current and former high-ranking officials. yesterday the president stripped top secret access from john brennan and for good reason. we demonstrated last night how brennan violated the c.i.a. policy. it says, "in the case of former c.i.a. directors, the agency holds that their security clearance and renews it every five years for the rest of their lives. however, that requires former c.i.a. directors to behave like current c.i.a. employees." well, that is not brennan. we also used the security clearance to validate conspiracy theories that he is regularly pushing and getting paid for on msnbc and leaking, of of course, sensitive information about the dossier, through

event christopher steele tries to get on the mueller team.hat it what is it about the mueller team? >> it tells us a lot. they were trying to back channel this information. i would be very concerned about robert mueller. i would want to talkld to him. the problem here, judge jeanine, is there is nobody checking on the people that are actually in charge. a doj that has nobody above it. so unless the inspector general releases the report this year, which i don't expect -- i've actually spoken to people, he is intensely working on russiaon reports. it probably won't come out till next year. >> jeanine: i don't care how intense lee he is. let me ask this, if we have christopher steele, he is trying to get on the campaign. there is nobody looking at this anyway, so are we engaging in unnecessary efforts? >> no, thiss is how coverups work. the truth is slow to emerge. it takes a long time. we know enough now that it was a cesspool of correction corrupt. mr. steele whoho fabricated this dossier, the russia hoax, the collision narrative, this is a gu

the clinton campaign paid the campaign for the trump dossier formed by christopher steele. after the f.b.i. dropped steele as a source for lying lyg in november 2016, the intelligence committee found steele maintained contact using ohr as a back channel. >> bruce ohr's wife worked for the firm that clinton hired to put together the decemberier. she has given it to ohr and he has given it to the f.b.i. >> in the closed door testimony last year, glenn simpson claimed no contact with ohr until after the presidential election. but ohr work e-mail conflict with the simpson testimony, showing contact months earlier. in december of 2016, the notes also indicate a meeting in washington, d.c.'s chinatown with ohr writing "glenn gave me memory stick." in recent congressional testimony, now fired f.b.i. agent peter strozk was pressed on ohr whose fort folio did not include russia. >> the f.b.i. received documents and the material from mr. ohr. >> the ohr document shed more light on steele's activity before the presidential election. steele shot the dossier to multiple media outlets he

remember his wife nellie actually worked with christopher steele for fusion gps, and the ones that putogether the clinton bought and paid for russian dirty dossier. as you know the dossier was a campaign up research document put together by steele himself, although he doesn't stand by it, a former russian spy full of misinformation and propaganda. hillary paid for it, the dnc paid for it, all by funneling money through a law firm to fusion gps. according to john solomon's reporting, we have clear evidence that bruce ohr come the fourth most powerful person in the obama justice department was working hand-in-hand with christopher steele and hillary clinton's up research team both before and after the election. clearly, to stop president trump from winning the election. then after he won the election, literally destroy him with the clinton fund and russian lies that nobody ever verified and has now been totally debunked. let's take a look at some of the most evidence. take a look at this, july 21st, 2016. he reaches out and says there was something separate that i wanted to discuss with

so, the fbi had fire fire --ed christopher steele for lying.the election he still is feeding them information about trump? >> yes, this is a very shady arrangement. they had a deal with christopher steele. he was an informant for them. they were going to pay-him to keep up his dossier work. but part of the deal is if you are a confidential human source for the fbi, you don't go tell everything you know to the press. that's not part of the deal. christopher steele was desperate to get this dossier stuff into the press. greg: to damage trump because he was quote-unquote desperate to stop trump. >> the fbi has to cut him off as a source. so i would think it would be that, but it was not. they came up with a back-channel method staying in touch with christopher steele. the method was christopher steele would talk to bruce ohr who happened to be married to nellie ohr, a woman who worked for fusion gps. and bruce ohr would pass on that information to the fbi. the fbi use sad cutout to stay in contact with christopher steele. gregg: they were clever a

they got that information from christopher steele. that's in his dossier. and a trusted guy tells him, it's preposterous. you got it wrong. >> sean: you wrote that russian collusion occurred. steele and the fbi and the doj. tie it all together so everybody understands. >> we talk about any contact with russia must be terrible. the fbi had a lot of contact with russians and got help locating a former information. here's the real problem with collusion, it goes into the fisa warrant. when he tells him you are wrong about manafort, they had an obligation to go to the court steele told us this, but this russian guy is telling us something different. there is no evidence that occurred. >> sean: this is not just any oligarch. this is a friend of putin's. >> if you look at video clips you will see him in many of the clips with putin. very prominent in russia. >> sean: all of these others players, ohr and others, they are meeting with this oligarch who is friends with putin. this is supposed to be about putin and we are talking about taxi medallions and bank loan ap

in other words, the clinton campaign, the dnc, christopher steele, the fbi were all working on one team. now we also know that steele a fired by the fbi in november of 2016 for lying and leaking to the press. 3rd, the fbi broke its own rules and continued collecting evidence from steele using the 4th highest ranked member of the justice department bruce ohr as a back channel. 4, we know bruce ohr was in close contact with christopher steele and bruce ohr's wife nellie worked with steele on the dirty russian collusion that hillary clinton and company paid for. the ohrs were making money producing the anti-trump dossier passing its contents on to the fbi even after christopher steele was fired. and disclosing their blatant conflicts of interest. fifth, bruce ohr and the fbi knew that the contents of this dossier were unverified. based on my sources, they even said bruce ohr admitted it could never be useed in a court of law. but it was used for fisa warrants? they knew christopher steele was hell bent on taking president trump down. bruce ohr documented that steele was desperate that dona

they got it from christopher steele. that's in the dossier. ripaska says, it's wrong. >> sean: you wrote that collusion occurred. you tell a tale of ohr, steele, deripaska, the fbi and doj. tired altogether so everybody understands completely. >> we talk about any contact with russia must be terrible. the fbi had lots of contact with russians at many said many times that got benefit. health and trying to locate a former agent, information weaving them off bad intelligence. here's the problem with collusion, goes into the fisa warrant. when deripaska tells them, you are wrong about manafort, they had an obligation a month later to go to the court and say, steele is telling us this, but the russian guy is saying something else. >> sean: by the way, deripaska, not just any oligarch. a friend of putin, a guy that appeared with putin. >> you will see him in many of the clips. >> sean: it's interesting that all of these other players, bruce ohr, others, they are all meeting with deripaska, who is friends with putin, this is supposed to be read collus

revelation that a justice department official told house lawmakers of a conversation he had with christopher steele candidate trump over a barrel. let's bring back the congressman lue. yesterday, congressman, the president called the entire russia investigation an illegal investigation. do you think he will use this news to continuous efforts to basically undermine as much as possible the entire mueller probe? >> i think donald trump will try to do that. but it's not working. a new "washington post" poll today said not only is donald trump's disapproval at a 60% high, but also nearly two thirds of americans want the investigation to continue. when you look at the president's tweets and statements. it's clear the president is not acting as someone who is innocent. he is showing consciousness of guilt and it's highly disturbing for president to act in this manner >> two days ago the president tweeted this. i'll put it up on the screen. how the hell is bruce ohr still employed at the justice department. disgraceful. that's his tweet. does the new information we're learning today explain why the presid

we have seen the notes of bruce ohr his wife nellie is working for fusion and paying christopher steele dossier and then they are trying to peddle it around bruce ohr is trying to get steele back on mueller's team. they are like a pack of wolves going after donald trump. they must all hang out together because they -- i will leave it at that what do you think? >> oh, wow, there you go. also, let's add to that we're about to see some of these pack of wolves as you say starting to go after each other. as more and more questions come out about strzok and now ohr and all of them have to defend themselves, you will start to see these wolves going after each other they act like a security clearance is a lifetime perk that you get forever. and most americans get the concept that when you are not in government, and you don't need to have a security clearance, you don't have to keep it. and the third thing which may be the most important with brennan is this is a guy who left the cia under a cloud of investigation as to whether he used the cia to the senate intelligence agency as they were tryin

new information.ce he actually used bruce ohr's connections to christopher steele. this is so much worse than we have known up to this point. we will explain all of that coming up and new developments surrounding wikileaks founder julian assigns. will he finally be interviewed here in the u.s.. about the 206 election hacking, and what evidence might have? all of that, plus we cover the president's tough new sanctions against russia.. i thought he was compromised. and the mayor of new york city has a beef apparently with us here at fox news, and it's day seven of paul manafort's trialw of the century and a bizarre, horrifying story about a recently arrested islamic extremist in new mexico, another story out of pennsylvania. busy night, busy news night. a lot to get into. stay tuned, it's time for our breaking news opening monologue. we are going to start, we are going to go very slow tonight because a lot of new information. robert mueller and his team of partisan investigators, they want to face off with the president of the united states number but today president

it's also notable because both christopher steele and bruce ohr are becoming the targets for president as not credible, as someone who's politically motivated. it's important to note what we don't know about this. we don't know why christopher steele said this. we don't know if russian intelligence told him this directly. we don't know if he learned this from another source, but he was pretty plain spoken based on what our sources have told us in telling bruce ohr that russian intelligence believed they had donald trump over a barrel. that was the assessment of russian intelligence at the time. given the context of this whole investigation, it is quite a significant assessment. >> real quick, abby, this goes to the heart of what was the initial reason for this investigation. the question of not just collusion but whether or not there was something deeper going on that we don't know the answer to. there's no evidence the answer to that is yes. yet we have this testimony. >> i think at the time what the fbi was dealing with was someone in christopher steele who while he's controversial n

we have seen the notes of bruce ohr his wife nellie is working for fusion and paying christopher steele and then they are trying to peddle it around bruce ohr is trying to get steele back on mueller's team. they are like a pack of wolves going after donald trump. they must all hang out together because they -- i will leave it at that what do you think? >> oh, wow, there you go. also, let's add to that we're about to see some of these pack of wolves as you say starting to go after each other. as more and more questions come out about strzok and now ohr and all of them have to defend themselves, you will start to see these wolves going after each other they act like a security clearance is a lifetime perk that you get forever. and most americans get the concept that when you are not in government, and you don't need to have a security clearance, you don't have to keep it. and the third thing which may be the most important with brennan is this is a guy who left the cia under a cloud of investigation as to whether he used the cia to the senate intelligence agency as they were trying to add

at the time has feigned ignorance about who is paying christopher steele so that's interesting and number two it acknowledges that steele's contract was terminated because he had been the source for an article by michael isikoff which was specifically designed to get the word out about this deal dossier so it could be dropped after trump's election apology so many people of color who are cold cliff of course how do you expect tell me the president trying to react to this release he's been claiming this was a political hit job against his come pain from day one. yeah i mean this is. well despite the complete redaction it it does confirm part of trump's narrative that the f.b.i. was colluding with the clinton campaign because we also know that christopher steele had been employed through fusion g.p.s. the opposition research firm in the contract was taken out by perkins koyo which was the law firm of hillary clinton's campaign so this shows a clear case of collusion between the f.b.i. directed by james komi and the clinton campaign and another thing we know is that christopher steele contin

very contention shows relationship between the way they felt about donald trump which we know christopher steele had said to bruce ohr in the 302's, fbi

they did in the month after the election, up to at least may 2017 was have bruce ohr talk to christopher steele to the fbi until the fbi what steele told him. >> bruce ohr was demoted from associate attorney general in january. . >> the gunman opened fire to videogame terminal is hospitalized twice for psychiatric treatment. he was prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medication as early as 12 years old. doctors say he struggled in college after enrolling in 2014 and there is no record of him graduating as we learn shooting victim eli clayton was playing with one and to earn money for college, the other victim, kelly robertson, was going to support his family. he leaves behind a wife and young son. rob: john mccain's final words to the american public revealed a heartfelt letter read by his longtime aide. >> i lived and died a proud american. we are citizens of the world's greatest republic. americans never quit, we never surrender, we never hide from history. we make history. farewell, fellow americans. god bless you and god bless america. rob: tough for him to get through that. after b

i want to pull up some of these medications between christopher steele and bruce. is is who they are perceived to be between.this is before operation crossfire gets underway. christopher still wanted to give bruce urgent info - - you are looking at genuine 31st. but let me tell you one thing first. before that happened, they communicated on our favorite business tycoon. we don't know necessarily with that is point but you can surmise with that might be . that was on july first. he had urgent information he wanted to give to bruce on our favorite business tycoon. then flashforward to july 31. bruce is talking to christopher steele according to these reports, and he is talking about checking to see if he is okay. let's put the january 31 one back up on the screen. the reason why he wants to know if he's okay is because sally yates has just been fired that day. so he's trying to figure out if his connection, this is after the fbi has fired vista for steel. he no longer works for the federal government. he says, just want to check that you're okay. still in situation ab

it starts with the dossier from a foreign spy basically, christopher steele. he was an intelligence officer from great britain. he puts together this dossier on behalf of who? fusion gps and the dnc. okay. another interesting fact and now we are getting a lot more information on that. bruce ohr's wife is work for fusion gps with christopher steele putting together this dossier. that's how this investigation commenced. so as you know in the law there is the doctrine of the fruit of the poisonous tree and i think anything going forward here has to keep all of that in context and in mind before we agree to do anything. and right now the fact is, and i've said this and rudy has said it and other lawyers that have commented have said it. if you lined up 100 lawyers, there are 100 who will say don't sit for an interview and there's a reason for that. not just the perjury issue but the fact that you would ask questions potential of the president regarding article two powers, you are a constitutional lawyer. the answer to that is no. >> laura: they want more informati

what's remarkable about these documents in sara's reporting exactly right, on the one hand, christopher steele trying to communicate to the fbi through bruce ohr after steele is fired for being a liar. also trying to get a contact with robert mueller in his special council team. at the same time, he is frantic and worried that he is going to get busted for all of the illegal things he has been doing. from one text message, he is concerned that grassley's letter will implicate him, and worried in another text that comey is going to expose him in congress. in another, he's worried about questions from the senate intelligence committee that are being sent to him. judges worried about getting busted for all of his wrongdoing. >> sean: he's worried about grassley, the senate intel community, worried about comey, also worried about texts about the media. let me go back to this, the 70 contacts. but more importantly, ohr and steele are talking about getting his pony dossier that he didn't stand up for under oath in great britain to the special counsel mueller. that too is a big piece of this coming t

we have more major breaking news surrounding bruce ohr and christopher steele and now christopher steele's boss, fusion gps founder glenn simpson. "the hill"'s john solomon has now uncovered additional disturbing communications and for the first time, we have them, handwritten notes from bruce ohr, detailing how he coordinated with clinton's team of op researchers, all in the lead up to the election. we need to get to the bottom of it. we have new details surrounding just how deep state christopher steele's russian ties are. by the way, we have found more actual real russian collusion that you might want to investigate, if you care about truth and equal justice under the law. also tonight, we will bring you the unusual case of what looks like a chinese spy and senator dianne feinstein, it fits perfectly and highlights our two-tiered system of justice. this went on for over 20 years.e coming up. don't expect, by the way,r to hear this over at conspiracy tv msnbc where their top left of mouth, their words, conspiracy theories, rachel maddow, is pushing, and busy pushing, more bizarre anti-tr

information out in summer 2016 to multiple media outlets, disseminating disinformation because christopher steele said he cannot verify the information in his dossier, so the fbi continues to use steele through bruce ohr, the question is, the most important question, when did the fbi find out that christopher steele of actually shopping this information around? if it was before first fisa warrant on carter page this is a huge problem. lou: along with hillary campaign. and who was managing that benefactors to steele. and one has to wonder, is it an accident so many people were involved in the uk, and working on the behalf for example perhaps another intelligence agency, a foreign intelligence agency, whether russia or uk or another. against this administration? >> i think there were a number of intelligence agencies involved in this, christopher steele we call him a former british spy, he is in communication with people at mi6 and others, they gather overseas intelligence, we know he was delivering information to mi6 and gathering -- >> i apologize we're coming up against called a hard out. great

what the christopher steele have to hide? what was bruce ohr trying to cover up?hy was monday so important, as we said?d? that's the day james comey is set to testify before congress. steele was afraid -- we know of the intel committee and their scrutiny, afraid of media scrutiny, he wanted a firewall to hold, firewalls plural? we now know the context. meanwhile steele was desperate to get his dossier to the hands of robert mueller. we know that christopher steele couldn't stand by his own fake claimsms in his coat and bought and paid for dese. he said, it's just raw intelligence, i don't know if it'ss true. why is bruce ohr still working there? thatat his wife worked for the fusion gps? we just discovered they had another client beside clinton. we learned a kremlin, a thai lawyer, a russian oligarch, so fusion gps is being paid by them and the clintons? what about glenn simpson from fusion gps meeting with that kremlin lawyer both before and after the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting? that doesn't sound fishy to you? mark it down for your calendar. these que

christopher steele, before, during and after the election.t to pull up some of these communications between christopher steele and bruce ohr. this is who they are perceived to be between. this is july 1st. this is just before operation cross fire gets underway. steel wanted to give him urgent info -- you are looking at january 31st. but let me tell you one thing first. before that happened they communicated on our favorite business tycoon. we don't knows that necessarily who that is what you can surmise perhaps who that might be based on this. that was on july 1st that he had urgent information he wanted to give to bruce ohr on our favorite business tycoon. then, flash forward to july 31st. at this point bruce ohr is talking to christopher steele according to these reports and he is talking about checking to see if he is okay. let's put the january 31st 1 back up on the screen now. the reason he wants to know if bruce ohr is okay is because sally yates has just been fired that day. he's trying to figure out if his connection -- this is after

did any of those can contain information from ohr's work with christopher steele?as he working with his wife? and what role did nellie ohr play in this phony dossier? these are just the tip of the iceberg. new article in the federalist outlined several important topics that also must be addressed. this has nothing to do with taxi medallions or bank loans or tax returns but we will update you on this real case of collusion tomorrow after the hearing. also tonight have another breaking report that exposes potential corruption again at the highest levels of your government. according to sara carter, this is an interesting story, a defense analyst named adam avenger was targeted and stripped of his security clearance, gone. it why? because he exposed what is a bizarre and strange million-dollar contract between the department of defense and staff on helper? who is that? you might remember he was the guy that the fbi used as the undercover important, otherwise known as spy against the trump campaign. in the lead up to the 2016 election. it gets deeper and according to s

all this, this, justice department official bruce ohr was in close contact with british spy christopher steele, alleged that the president's team was colluding with the russians but as you noticed the new correspondence shows steel himself was lobbying ohr to lobby to get a visa. in february of 2016 before the election, steele emailed a ohr that the oligarch had gotten a visa, it would be helpful if you can monitor it and let me know if any comparable complication. it's a significant part because under questioning from a republican senator tom cotton earlier this year, the fbi director christopher wray testified he could only discuss that connection in a classified setting. >> do you know if christopher steele worked for him? >> that's not something i can answer. >> remember as well that ohr's wife was on the payroll of fusion gps. he and his wife met on july july 30th, he finished different pieces of that dossier on july 19th and 26th right before breakfast. he had pressing business with bruce ohr emailing if you are in washington today i have something quite urgent i would like to discuss wi

christopher steele now no longer works for the federal government. e says to ohr just want to check with you that you are okay. still in situation able to help locally as discussed along with your bureau colleagues. martha: then move forward to this cryptic message: martha: they are trying to investigate who our guy and where back home may be in all of this, but charlie, let me start with you, your thoughts here. >> christopher steele he keeps coming back. what these messages reveal is that he was coming back, even after president trump had been sworn in, and then he's worried about bruce ohr being removed and then where will he -- who will be his contact person at that point? it just -- you know, it undermines the credibility of the fbi and the doj, obviously. but it feeds all of the questions that we've had all along about the -- about how both the launch of the investigation, originally, into trump collusion -- alleged collusion with russia, but also whether or not there was sort of a vendetta or something. i mean, at all levels of the department,

he cares about christopher steele, bruce ohr, and all these, you know, wacka-doodle conspiracy theories that would somehow protect donald trump. as a guy who were first about steele and the dossier, i can -- i'd love to sit down with devin and tell him that you're completely wrong, you're out to lunch, stop wasting your time and do what needs to be done, which is to protect our elections from further russian intervention when we have evidence that it's still continuing. it's just gotten to be absurd. >> david, you met with christopher steele. what would you tell devin nunes about him if he wanted to talk to you about him? >> i'm sure what the mi-6 and mi-5 guys would say if they thought it was worth speaking to devin nunes, would say. he is a respected professional. he's worked 20 years with british intel and then he worked with the fbi and other u.s. agencies on sort of a contractor basis. so people who have worked with him speak tremendously highly of him. it doesn't matter what my impression of him is. he has an established track record. and if he doesn't like what he did with the me

raise your hand if you have heard of christopher steele. christopher steele wasn't famous then. he meets the fbi agent, tells what he can about this russian mafia boss, and you got the phone number, here is the car. i had a client at the time, didn't talk about soccer but the client, in the 2018 world cup. and there is a huge deal for that, the world cup again to cover their basis. and to gather information, and he is gathering information. people getting involved, he disdains the sport of soccer. they call an fbi agent up again. and and they had not heard of it. he finds this prosecutor, and that is how that opened. not just a star name in steel but that is essential first step building the relationship between the fbi and christopher steele that plays a more important role. christopher steele developed a dossier about trump and russia, christopher steele -- the fbi gets crazy tips from people all the time that are ignored but because he had a track record with them because he had a relationship with them he was a proven, vetted person. he called the same fbi agent who was no l