one such foreign actor is christopher steele. he's set to be interviewed by american investigators in coming days. as you know by now, he was the former foreign spy paid by hillary clinton, paid by the dnc, even paid by the fbi at one point to create that dirty russian dossier. the one that "the new york times" is likely russian disinformation from the beginning. we know it was full of lies and propaganda. by the way, he says himself, christopher steele, he has no idea if any of this is true, none whatsoever. this is the same unverifiable information that even its own author won't confirm that that was used by james comey, the fbi director at the time, to secure the first fisa warrant in october 2016 against trump campaign associate carter page but opened a back door to spy on the trump campaign and the entire trump transition team and the entire trump white house when he became president. let's be clear. 99.9% of american intelligence officers, workers in this country performed dangerous and courageous work. they use the best sk

. >> sean: let me ask you couple ofhave a these, when weiner is writing to ginsberg to christopher steele, he's a friend of mine, very high end business service based in london, formerly worked for u.k. government, i spoke to him, it's complicated. at another point in another email about steele, request for contact, specific contracts onrl behalf of the u.s. world bank, international monetary fund. you brief the country team, it would be best this not come in from or through any u.s. official but straight on request in light of the impact on mongolia. i mean, as you have now had more time with these than me, what do you interpret these things to say? >> the steele's relationship with the state department goes back a number of years. he was well-positioned to launder the russia dossier information through this person, jonathan weiner. weiner admitted that he moved some of the information over to the justice department. source steele had this relationship that was long-standing. then comes election time, his contact becomes his vehicle to t launder the information into the justice departmen

newly released documents show the trump dossier office christopher steele was in contact with a seniorrican state department official just before the 2016 election which is odd. according to the deputy assistant of state, when she met with steele he was either tore have this released before the election. why was a state department official meeting with steele at all. we don't know the answer but congressman nunes of california is trying to find out. he requested any information they have about the meeting. congressman nunes join us tonight. thank you very much for coming on? >> i am sitting in your chair. >> tucker: oh, good. you should come to toyko. you have heard back from the fbi? >> not yet but we gave them to friday. if they don't give it to us by friday i will refer it over to the state department. they knew we needed everything to do with christopher steele. this is in that lane without a doubt. >> tucker: you didn't have this information during the whole span of your investigation? any legitimate reason they withhold that from you? >> no legitimate reason. worse than that, tuc

we know they, we know at some point they knew about christopher steele. a long -- early on in the process, probably at least january, february, march of 2016 -- maria: yeah. >> and so think about that. it's banana republic stuff. it's stuff that you only see in countries that we would never want to live in. maria: yeah. >> where the intelligence outer works with a political party and puts the other campaign under investigation -- maria: unbelievable. >> -- for the very thing that they're doing. maria: yeah, unbelievable. it's so extraordinary which is why i agree with you, everybody on both sides of the aisle should be outraged. we'll take a short break. when we come back, i know you were in the situation room last week when top lawmakers received a briefing on iran as new sanctions are going into effect tomorrow. and you're suing get it! get that butterfly! you know those butterflies aren't actually in the room? hey, that baker lady's on tv again. she's not a baker. she wears that apron to sell insurance. nobody knows why. she's the progressive insurance

christopher steele also immediately went in -- but this is important. i think he put forward an excellent example. if people from the trump campaign have gone to russia to investigate the uranium one scandal for instance, that would have counted as opposition research the same way the steele dossier did. that's not something that the clinton campaign could have rejected. >> it looks like you are doing a lot of explaining to get to the basic point. hillary clinton and the dnc paid for information from criminal officials. christopher steele already cited that his sources were criminal officials and as degen pointed out, right now so much of the information was false. the big question is, nancy pelosi went out there yesterday saying it was a concern. we want to make sure we prevent russian disinformation. well guess what, look at the dossier. b3 much of that was this proven in the mueller report. >> harris: of the first three or four pages told us exactly what they were doing and how they could do it again. president trump was also doubling down on accusin

we were never able to interview christopher steele.ink he needs to be intrude by the department of justice and the brits have a lot answers they need to give to the united states. but the bottom line s the guy was being paid by the democrats and that was to do what? that was to dirt up donald trump and make it look like he had ties to russians, and the truth is, the only one that may have had ties to russians would be the democrats themselves. christopher steele was supposedly talking to russians. >> of course, he said it himself. the information came from russians. they always accuse you of what they, themselves are doing. congressman nunes from k. thank you very much for that. hope to keep us posted. well, the death toll in the dominican republic has reached at least 12 western tourists. now, a toxicologist says, he may know the culprit of those those deaths. as we continue live tonight from tokyo, japan. straight ahead. know the culprit straight ahead. ♪get along, on down the road ♪we've got a long long way to go♪ ♪scared to live, s

christopher steele shows up in front of the department of justice and i'm guessing doesn't have terrifiche quality of the information in that steele dossier. i'm telling you, wolf, this is not going to go well. i can't believe he has perfect answers about the onrigins of te steele dossier. i'm not even sure why he's showing up. if i were him, i'd go to disney world. i would not go to the department of justice, because it will not end up well. >> why do you think he is? what's your speculation? >> reputation. he's not -- you know, he's a fairly young man. if i'm looking at him, i'm saying if i ever want to do this business again, his entire business is selling people that he can find inside information. right now i think it's tough for him to do that until he clears his name. >> what do you think? >> yeah, just reputation and also the fact that if he refuses to talk to the doj, it makes it look like he was making up information and i'm sure if you're in christopher steele's position you don't want that information to be out there. >> let's keep in mind, what's important is not whether or

from christopher steele. it's also very thing to highlight the hypocrisy of the clinton camp and democrats when they themselves met with ukrainian officials in the early campaign in 2016, the spring of 2016. they used dirt obtained from ukraine to basically help oust paul manafort. ukrainian officials shared dirt on paul manafort which ultimately led to his resignation. nobody is calling on democrats to call the fbi to report on their own dealings with ukrainian officials. >> tucker: very good point. and lost in much of this conversation. aaron mate, thank you very much for that. much needed. united states says iran is to blame for an incident in the persian gulf. are we moving for conflict with iran and the persian gulf? after the break, we'll let you know. we're the slowskys. we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. snail mail! we were invited to a y2k party... uh, didn't that happen, like, 20 years ago? oh, look, karolyn, we've got a m

, literally paying russian officials that were tied to the kremlin for information via christopher steele, fusion gps, additionally it was routerred that a dnc official had been met with ukraine at the ukrainian embassy seeking information about paul manafort and trying to get ukraine to elicit ukraine's involvement. a top ukrainian prosecutor recently announced an investigation into ukraine's law enforcement for leaking paul manafort's information to try to help hillary clinton and harm the trump campaign. so there is a lot of hypocrisy here. i'm all for equal application, which is why some legislation should be taken up, but let's at least be honest about what went down. >> harris: i see you nodding before i come to you, congressman, senator graham was asked about the comment followed by senator warner here in this clip. let's watch. >> a foreign government comes to you as a public official, and offers to help your campaign, giving you anything of value, whether it be money or information on your opponent, the right answer is no. and i'm hoping some of my democratic colleagues will take

you, we, the american people, we will now get and we deserve the answers from christopher steele, the heart of the biggest abuse of power scandal in american political history. the guy who literally put together the bought and paid for dossier with russian lives and he could blow the entire investigation into the deep state wide open. but as we all know by now, he was the former's five from great britain. paid for by the clinton campaign, the dnc. remember they funneled money, filtered it through a law firm and then they hired fusion gps in the research firm to take up russian dirt on donald trump. simultaneously, of course, compensated by the fbi. at the same time. this salacious lying material which according to "the new york times" was likely russian disinformation. the entire time. and thank christopher steele later testified under perjury that the dossier was unverifiable and he had no idea any of it, any of it was true. now, he was only 50/50 on whether or not the intel was at all reliable. we know payments also for multiple sources for the same russian dossier full of lies. get

guessing does not have terrific answers for christopher steele shows up intn front of the department ofin ths justice and i'm guessing does not have terrific answers forot the quality of the informationgo in that steele dossier. i'm telling you, this will not , senator for kentucky is making go well. about >> sean: meanwhile rand paul,ea. senator for kentucky is making this claim about brennan security clearance, and i think he is dead on. take a look. >> people talk about the deep state, now the deep state is protecting their own and not listening to the president's orders. and not listening to the president's i was sitting in the white hous. when president trump said i wane when president trump said his security clearance taken. his security clearance taken. if they are working aga if they are working against the odds of the odds of the president, that that really does disrupt the country really does disrupt the country and the representative of democracy where the president makes a decision if someone is counter manning that, i think ws counter ma need to get to the bottom of that.

everybody knew this at the time, christopher steele said this out loud.ere's a tweet from hillary clinton's press secretary -- "i regret i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring. ifec i had known, i would have volunteered to go to europe and try to help him." he went on to say the hillary campaign was proud to get opposition research from foreigners. "i probably would have volunteered to go to europe myself to try and verify if it would have helped get more of this out there before the election." when he says this, he was referring to salacious dirt from russians, by ted lieu's standards, that's anti-american, that's treason. brian fallon is not behind bars, he's never been charged with treason or anything else. nobody on hillary clinton's campaign has, they are all still walking free despite being and we are quoting msnbc here -- traitors to the pillars of our democracy, whatever that means. some of them have probably moved on, may be lobbying for foreign governments. it's a well-worn pass for political consultants hoping to cash income it's also

but going back to christopher steele, the professor is right about the chronology.e vital and the most important question will be to get christopher steele to nail down the meeting that occurred in the fall of 2016 where the fbi armed with the phony document went back to him and said, we will pay you a bonus of $50,000 if only mr. steele, you can verify this. and he could not, because it was anonymous information based on multiple hearsay. >> sean: and "the new york times" is saying that it was likely russian disinformation from the beginning. >> whether it is phony information that he conjured or whether it is disinformation or both. and i suspect that it is both, it does not matter. it is wrongful, unverified information. the failure to pay the $50,000 bonus in the fall only shows you that when they went to the fisa court, they already knew that it was unverifiable and steele could not on his own verify it to. >> sean: it is a premeditated fraud against the court. listen, two if you are the greatest lawyers, sara, you are the best investigative reporter. you canno

did you interview christopher steele?o you know which russians were feeding dirt to the american electorate via the dnc? do you interview glenn simpson? did you interview jim comey about why he leaked those memos? so there are five categories, bias, the legal issues, what did you find, what did you not find, and importantly, what did you not even bother to look for? >> sean: that's a great point. let's go to these new developments based on the foia request granted the aclj, devin nunes, and that would be samantha power, 350% increase of unmasking in 2016. that seems excessive to me. my understanding of surveillance and unmasking of american citizens, there are very strict guidelines. and when an american is identified in a phone call with perhaps somebody we are to be surveilling, they are not involved in any nefarious activity, we practice something called minimization. if the report is written up, the american is not identified. but we do know, unmasking were rare, and then we had this increase in activity. how does tha

the trump dossier author christopher steele struck a deal to talk to the justice department inspectori. they are conducting an investigation into alleged flies abuse, what could be learned from this questioning? joining me now, they 2020 trump campaign a secretary and chris hahn, the former aide to chuck schumer, welcome to both with you and good to have you here. christopher steele has been elusive, mysterious and all of this and everybody would like to know who his sources were, how he felt about the client in this case which was the clinton campaign ultimately and what he thought they wanted from him in terms of what he was getting paid to do. what questions are in your mind about what we need to know about christopher steele in this fisa abuse issue? >> there is a lot. i want to know did he lie to the fbi? it appears he did about whether he leaked to the media this salacious and unverified dossier that would violate 18 usc 1001, the same statute michael flynn was convicted under. i want to know why he was so nervous under comey's testimony. he sent a text to bruce ohr. there is a

phil, you say this will not go well for christopher steele. u're concerned for the fbi in all of this. how so? >> pretty simple, if you step back, the first question you'd have is, how significant is the steele information in the fbi investigation into the campaign? once we get beyond that, let's say the fbi used his information, for example, to read the emails of carter page. you go to a court, you go to a judge, say, this is some of the basis for our investigation. christopher steele now comes in and the first questions are going to be, what information did you get and how far did you go to affirm that information was accurate? if he's able to say, i've got three sources for every piece of information in that dossier, i'm going to say good. the chances he can say everything i acquired is provable and positive, solid -- i'd question that, john. i don't think so. >> i know you have a different view. why don't you agree with phil here? >> well, i think it's important for this investigation to kind of go to some of the roots of what they think is

christopher steele has agreed to be questioned by u.s. investigators. a day after russia withdrew from venezuela, the trump administration strapping sanctions on travel to cuba. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. joe biden is taking a decidingly pro-china approach to this 2020 presidential bid. it's dangerous for him and rhetoric that could be dangerous for our country. he doubled down on his pro-china references today. >> our workers are literally three times as productive than workers in asia. and they are three times productive. what are we worried about? trish: what are we worried about? keep in mind it comes on the heels of his recent comments in iowa. >> china is going to eat our lunch? come on, man, they can't even figure out how to deal with the fact they have this great division between the china sea and the montanas in the east -- i mean the west. they can't figure out how to deal with the corruption in the system. they are not bad folks. but guess what? they are not competition for us. trish: to make statements like that one and the on

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the only reason they're raising christopher steele is they think the more they talk about the steeleer they can cast more aspersions on the mueller. they think that poisons the tree of the mueller probe. >> you referenced noble in your report, you said paying a foreign national fair market value for opposition research is generally not illegal, noble wrote. it is considered a commercial transaction, which is not a contribution. the clinton campaign paid fusion gps directly, it's a campaign expenditure, not a contribution, since it's not a contribution the fec allows it. larry, you want to talk more about that? >> well, phil has it exactly right. the problem here is receiving something from the northern government that is of value. the reason that we have bans on contributions and contribution limits for individuals is because congress has long recognized and the courts have upheld it that contributions can buy influence and mueller in his report, even though he decides that he's not going to indict anybody for this makes a note that a contribution like this, something of value from a

that dirt became known as the christopher steele dossier. and as "the new york times" suggest, likely, it was russian misinformation from the beginning, full of russian lies, as "the new york times" even admits. content, disinformation, hillary clinton bought, solicited, paid for the russian government lies. and then obama, biden's government, members of the deep state, members of the intel community, members of foreign governments all worked together and it -- let's see -- they spread the russian lies and disinformation throughout the government and leaked to the press -- "the washington post" " david corn, because they wanted the american people to believe the russian lies in an attempt to rig the election. she got away with a rig in the primary. it's like i'm the only person who cares about bernie sanders. no outrage by any of these people. she bought it, she sought it, she paid for it, they spread it, they tried to use it to impact the election. president, let's go back. it's called, i'll listen, if bad, i will call the fbi. fake news cn

christopher steel, guess what he did? he went to the fbi and told them everything that he was finding out. he did the one thing the president of the united states said he may or may not do. that was go to the fbi, based on the information and the contacts he had with a foreign agent. >> it's not just the fox interview with the president. the president in that abc news interview that continues to come out talked about don mcgahn. insisting in contradiction to mcgahn's testimony he did not distri direct him to fire mueller. he was yeah the president directed me to have mueller fired. the president is not under threat of perjury. >> if he was he would have racked up countless perjury charges. don mcgahn sat with mueller under the penalties of perjury and unloaded. he gave up the president hard for 30 hours and said the president told me to fire mueller and when i said no the president told me to lie about it. and create a false document about it. that's both the criminal offense and an impeachable defense. i know we're sayin

glenn simpson, christopher steele, bruce ohr, nellie ohr. the ohrs, by the way, are profiting by this at the same time they are peddling the phony dossier. now we learn today thanks to tom fitton and judicial watch ohr is getting $28,000 bonus for the work he did that resulted in his demotion. only in american government can you profit by malfeasances. >> we paid for it. your tax dollars not hard at work. >> the attorney general should look at the documents. his agency and the f.b.i. give to judicial watch. he can do the prosecutions that he needs to based over that. incredible. it is all there in the public domain already. >> i hope he does. this is a slap in the face that the taxpayer dollars are financing the malfeasances. >> i got to get that job. >> it's not chump change either. democrats are in an impeachment frenzy. plus, trump responds to nancy pelosi's prison comment. we have a debate with austan we have a debate with austan goolsbee and congressman we have a debate with austan compare comcast business to your current provider. my c

glenn simpson, christopher steele, bruce ohr, nellie ohr.he ohrs, by the way, are profiting by this at the same time they are peddling the phony dossier. now, we learn today, thanks too tom fitton and "judicial watch" ohr is getting a $28,000 bonus for the work he did that resulted in his demotion. only in american government can you profit by malfeasances. >> dan: we paid for it. so did you, america. your tax dollars not so hard at work. >> the attorney general should look at the documents. his agency and the f.b.i. give to judicial watch. he can do the prosecutions that he needs to based over that. incredible. it is all there in the publicin domain already. >> dan: i hope he does, because this was a major slap in the face that taxpayer dollars are financing this kind of malfeasance. it is really -- >> i got to get that job. >> dan: not exactly chump change, either. they've got a lot of money. democrats are still letting it impeachment frenzy. plus, president trump's response to nancy pelosi's prison common. we have a debate with austan goo

the line from the white house is two words, christopher steele. we'll hear about that over and over again. they say the democrats were complicit in accepting intelligence from a foreign national who had close ties to the intelligence community in the united kingdom. they're going to try to muddy the waters. they'll continue to talk about the role christopher steele had in the election. if this wasn't wrong what the democrats did, why is it wrong with what the president has admitted to in this abc interview? listen to speaker pelosi there, she almost seems to be running out of superlatives on how outraged she is. president trump doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. back to jack's point, even with that wind up, speaker pelosi didn't seem to inch closer towards impeachment. she still has this just the facts, let's let the process play out. she doesn't want, as she said, to have the partisanship ahead of patriotism. >> stand by for me if you can. i want to bring in congressman swalwe swalwell. another california democrat who is also a

inwill predi i will predict to you, this will be another dead end. >> i want to point out, it's christopher steele you were referring to, not michael steele. >>> up next, the growing republican revolt over president trump's plan for mexico tariffs. he's warning against any move to block him, but do republican slr lawmakers have the votes to do just that? >>> and the justice department agrees to work with house democrats on producing a limited number of documents tied to the mueller report if the house agrees not to go ahead with a contempt vote against the attorney general, william barr. also available in hybrid all-wheel drive. lease the 2019 ux 200 for $329/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. everyone could use a little romance... even your feet.. the (new) amopé pedi perfect with diamond crystals gives you smooth results in just seconds that you'll fall in love with instantly. available at walmart in the foot care aisle. they're america's bpursuing life-changing cures. in a country that fosters innovation here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by a

. >> they hired christopher steele. i find this one to be mind scrambling. one went this way where a campaign or the dnc has a vetted source that they reach out to, another came in this way from a foreign adversary into the trump tower with who knows what agenda, unvetted, don't know the players, and bringing in all sorts of bogus information about it. >> this isn't about the russian trump tower meeting. this is about the top line conclusions of the mueller report that the russians wanted to influence the election on donald trump's behalf and the campaign expected to benefit from that and it was disseminated stolen information disseminated through wikileaks. there is no comparison between what christopher steele did -- >> every day -- >> it's ironically an old soviet technique called what aboutism. it's about distracting, deflecting and making it about something irrelevant. >> christopher steele did call the fbi. >> and john mccain -- >> and lindsey graham was aware of it as well. >> i literally have no time for that argument, which is why i'm going to move

christopher steele was sued by somebody, a wealthy gentleman in london. i hear what was revealed was incredible, a total phony deal. and yet they didn't look into any of that. one of the things that amazes me because it's so simple, when you get right down to it, the whole thing is very simple what happened. they were spying on my campaign, using agencies, intelligence agencies to do it. going after page and george papadopoulos, we will have to find out if they were listening on my calls, that would be the ultimate. if it happened we will probably find out. we have a great attorney general who was working very hard and we will see what happens. i like to stay uninvolved. a lot of things are going to come out. if they spied on my campaign and they may have, it will be one of the great revelations in history of this country. i will tell you, it's going to be very interesting, i think we are going to find out. can you imagine if it were the other way around and i spied on president obama's campaign? can you imagine what the repercussions would be? or i spied

even through christopher steele.ink that he has the one dossier no, the state department sending his own material separate to congress. if the ag bill barr is going to look at the scene is not only look at doj, fbi, nsa, cia, state department is the middle of a storm when it comes to this. lou: he want to look at the senate intelligence committee. he will need as well to look at how the john mccain got his hands on the steele dossier. and how is it that he is sitting there working with a former agent of michigan six i security conference who is the person designated for him to hand over the dossier to the fbi.which he does. ray little discussion about that path through the intelligence agencies of our so-called allies. it's pretty stunning stuff for there not to have been any significant public discussion of all of this. at this late date! >> and it explains why have the sort of desperate activity by the house democrats to harass the presidents team even further with this ridiculous consideration of trying to bypass

her campaign, her apparatus, christopher steele launched an fbi investigate, her campaign flooded thetel, and no one's ever asked her the questions. lou: and i think the essence of in the outrage is contained in one paragraph, certainly, and if i may share this with the audience. never before in history until 2016, if we could put that up, had the apparatus of u.s. presidential candidate managed to sic the full weight of the fbi and u.s. intelligence committee on his or her rival nominee during an election and by using a foreign fed uncorroborated, to be kind, political opposition research document. i mean, that is the essence of the political outrage and what we still don't know much about. >> this was a giant political dirty trick, and the fbi and cia and other intelligence apparatus were used to carry it out. we now know two and a half years later there was no collusion, but someone created the illusion of collusion for two years, the fbi in the lead and mrs. clinton's political opposition research team in the rear feeding it. it's absolutely remarkable that she hasn't been asked a

of doj bruce ohr worked at fusion and met with trump dossier author and former british spy christopher steele the day before the fbi launch. so, where was congressman nadler's outrage? >> i don't know what any of this means, it may be public relations, i don't know. >> laura: and why no nancy pelosi press conference, demanding to know what obama officials knew and when they knew it. >> i don't know what that is, what are you referencing? >> laura: this was russia making salacious claims about an american presidential candidate in the heat of a very contentious campaign. now, i would argue that donald trump has always been very open about his desire to play hardball politics to win, you saw that on camera, but the clinton team was always in concealment mode. they were aided and abetted by an obama doj deep state that was desperate to see to it that trump was defeated. then after he won, that he was removed from office. all the feigned outrage from democrats over foreign interference, it also made me think of something else. when was the last time you heard democrats complain about what the chi

admitted to fusion gps was complicit in paying for russian lies and propaganda, they hired christopher steele on behalf of hillary clinton, that some of the tip of the iceberg and how could they not investigate the phony russian dossier if you're investigating russian interference in 2016? congressman devin nunes probably delivered the best speech of his career, he will join us in a minute -- watch this. >> eventually the democrats became convinced that the mueller report would finally rid them of their sinister president who had the audacity to defeat hillary clinton. the democrats assembled us today to analyze the shoddy political hit piece known as the mueller report. it's written in the same spirit in the same purpose as the steele dossier which was once championed by the democrats on this committee but which they barely mentioned after it was exposed as another democrat created hoax. unfortunately for the democrats, the mueller dossier debunked their conspiracy theories or they didn't find it worth discussing. >> sean: coming up, it's likely author developed trump pater andrew weissmann,

peter strzok, andy mccabe and others at the fbi knew christopher steele's dossier was not credible, thatcome out because there's a cover-up that happened within certain realms at the fbi. >> kennedy: that was republican congressman mark meadows suggesting there was wrongdoing by obama era officials who launched the russia probe. the investigation into government surveillance, in addition to the allegations of a cover-up. congressman matos is saying people should be punished, watc watch. >> bill barr is serious about making sure we reset and reestablish the reputation and the fbi and department of justice and i can tell you that unless someone actually goes to jail, most of the people will think accountability didn't happen but i believe based on the documents i've seen that crimes were committed and people need to go to jail. >> kennedy: do people need to go to jail? >> david: certainly if they broke the law, they do. what meadows is saying is that the fbi had evidence that the information they used was false, they knew they were essentially swearing to the fisa court that all the inform

what about christopher steele? that's a different situation, obviously. there is plenty to argue about with regard to the steele dossier. christopher steele wasn't working for a hostile government, the russians, and he did turn his dossier over to the fbi. it's a different kind of circumstance. the question is what the fbi then did with it to justify, you know, its investigation. so i think the republicans are very uncomfortable with this today. they did not want to see the president revive this. remember, just a couple of weeks ago with the mueller report, it seemed like he had put the russia part of this thing behind him the issue was about obstruction of justice and these subpoenas, but not about russia. now he's put that question, his relationship with moscow, right back in the center of the american debate. >> jeremy bash, what have we done in the meantime to strengthen our elections to fortify them, what have our fine patriotic members of congress done in that interest? >> well, unfortunately not enough, brian. if you look at the efforts that are acr

by the way we should mention once again as congressman nunez has recently, in october 2016, christopher steeled the trump dossier met with a deputy assistant secretary of state and he came out with information that even she, although she obviously was not pro trump said was completely false information. like there was a miami division of the russian consulate which does not exist. she passed the information onto the fbi and the fbi still went ahead and full throttle with christopher steele and using his so-called documentation which she told him was bad, for the fisa warrant. >> none of that stopped the state department from other documents we have with colluding with continuing to collude with christopher steele and sent his information along also to the top leadership of the house democratic party. and again, going back to your first story, you bet william barr nice look at that hit job i see assessment on president trump. no new president trump is going to win. i don't even know if president trump knew that. the only reason that trumps wanted him to win it was absurd. the thought hillary cl

he's talking about the so-called steele dossier which is a series of memos prepared by christopher steele, a former british intel agent who at the time was working for fusion gps which is a washington-based opposition research firm, and the washington free beacon, a conservative organization financed some of this and as it moved into the general elects clinton campaign hired fusion gps and contained and continued this opposition research against president trump, then candidate trump. it's worth noting that after election day the late senator john mccain came into possession of this information, of the steele dossier and under the advice of his friend and colleague lindsey graham he turned it over to the fbi. let's bring in sunlen serfaty on the hill. lindsey graham thought this information was concerning enough to loop in law enforcement is making some of his criticism and this equivalency with the steele dossier today pretty curious. tell us about how republicans are struggling to defend the president's comments. >> they really are struggling, brianna. it's very clear in a very short amo

christopher steele was hired -- steele himself went to the fbi to discuss what he was learning, and the actual effort of trying to hack into foreign -- the dnc servers and get podesta emails and leak those out, that's much different than what was happening with the steele situation, with the steele dossier. nevertheless, you're hearing republicans make that case as a lot of them try to defend what the president is doing, but lindsey graham making that opposite case just moments ago. >> right, but -- but these two things, the dossier and what trump is talking about here, these things are not the same. and lindsey graham, he knows it. lindsey graham has said as much. he's set that he is the one who told john mccain when john mccain received the steele dossier, lindsey graham says -- has said he's the one that told john mccain to take the dossier to the fbi. i've talked to him about that. you've talked to him about that. he knows that's not the same thing, manu. >> reporter: that's right. in fact, he said that after the president had criticized the late senator mccain for going to the fbi