they knew something about christopher steele? apparently -- >> they sure did.: -- more than they ever acknowledged. tell us about it. >> yeah, it's very important. i was on your show about a month ago, and i had gotten some documents from london in which christopher steele said, listen, i told the fbi boys the second i i got started that i was working with hillary clinton and the dem fact national committee. and, of course, there's never been ancillary evidence to back that up at the fbi. well, it turns out there are july andth, 2016 -- 13th handwritten note that show that the agent handling christopher steele was telling that supervisor three months before the crisis that they knew hillary clinton was connected to the research project christopher steele was doing. and there's a series of e-mails where a confidential human informant, hey, those people you're dealing with, fusion gps, christopher steele? they're connected to the democratic national committee. so it appears that christopher steele was telling the truth, and the fbi just forgot to look for these r

elizabeth: and so, it was democrats who helped fund the christopher steele dossier. fbi used that opposition research to launch the trump russia probe. senator graham said yesterday he denied access to interview an fbi case agent and fbi intelligence analyst who met and interviewed steele's source in january 2017 saying you know what, there is no there there. still they're stonewalling. still the media is not covering things like the rod rosenstein, second most powerful guy at the justice department, media did not give any coverage of that last week. your reaction? >> that is also predictable. i think rod rosenstein's role in this whole thing will go down as a very bad one. don't forget he is the one who also picked mueller to lead the sham investigation which turned up no evidence of collusion and it was his job in this particularly unusual fisa situation to closely examine a warrant that was being reauthorized after several months from the original authorization. so he totally failed. there is a lot of questions to be asked but mainly the questions are to be asked a

and christopher steele's own source said it was speculation and hearsay and had russian disinformationrom rod rosenstein the second most powerful official in the justice department was not picked up by cnn, msnbc and went from late morning to early afternoon, none of the three broadcast networks, abc, nbc, , it did not air it, maybe some of them live streamed on the website, everybody's okay with the politicization of theni intelligence community to go after a political opponent. >> put in context for a moment, when the russia investigation was going on even before the mueller investigation started media research center compiles the evening newscast is only 22 minutes, it's really hard to get to this number, more than 2200 minutes, 2017 to 2019 on russian collusion in the investigation. if you added into cable news network said to begin with fox, then you're probably getting into the hundreds of thousands of minutes. all of that time for that and then when were following up how this happened, why this happened, no coverage whatsoever and there's no accountability. think about this for

the fbi used the yahoo news story to corroborate christopher steele's work and then found out steele had done an interview with yahoo! news to give them that information. that -- rosenstein does make a point there were misdeeds by the fbi, right? >> great point and he's right about that. there were definitely misdeeds, there was fraud, they lied in the application and i don't expect him to run around and try to secure the investigation himself and verify every comment but he didn't ask to see what had already been uncovered and he did not want to know what was the political campaign that paid for this information, that information was in a footnote in the application which had he read it, any deputy attorney general should have done in the most difficult case in this nation's history and would have potentially found out it was hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc paying for it and then perhaps he would have had some questions about it but instead it was pro forma. he was a rubberstamp and i don't understand how he can sit there smugly testifying yesterday that he had done nothing w

that is when the democrats went on the move, got fusion gps to get christopher steele up and running teele dossier gets planted inside of the fbi. they were it is katy-bar-the-door. here is the trump russia collusion probe. >> that's right. and these footnotes have been useful information that the fbi knew in 2017 that this dossier had russian disinformation. that is what the footnotes said, but i want to know when the intelligence community really know this? when did john brennan find this out? my guess he knew this in the middle of 2016 this dossier was not just internet rumor but the russians were probably behind it. elizabeth: so then he is pushing it, knowing all that still, and then durham apparently is investigating what political pressures were brought to bear in the intelligence community assessment of russian interference. everybody agrees russia meddling is wrong. people know about the mueller report saying that the trump campaign did welcome help as it came in but there was no conspiracy with russia to hack into the dnc. so that's the issue. what was being pushed into the

that dossier was prepared by christopher steele who was on the payroll of the democratic party. so there was collusion between parties in russia. it was the democrats were christopher steele was on the payroll who hired a russia to prepare a dossier that's a bunch of crap that was used to get a warrant four times. and here's where it gets really interesting. in january of 2017 they found the russian who worked for steele. they interviewed him for three straight days and he said everything in there is hearsay, i can't stand behind am-touch horowitz, the inspector general found 17 violations of the fisa warrant application process. we're going to dig into that. and here's the question. why did they continue to pursue warrants after they found out that the dossier was unreliable? why did they go to harry reed with the dossier before the election? why did they investigate it as being russian disinformation as two fbi agents said, we think this is a russian disinformation campaign? why did they treat trump so differently than clinton? >> yeah, well that is a question a lot of folks w

documents now declassified related to christopher steele's dossier, the dirty dossier, the russian misinformation dossier. especially after blockbuster testimony from rod rosenstein, that's next, straight ahead. >> sean: and tonight we have even more big breaking developments in our quest to hold those who abused power and those who are corrupt accountable. as the dni chief john ratcliffe declassified infamous intelligence community assessment annexed on russian interference, and we now know that it left out key details and red flags about what they knew about christopher steele. it also proves how mr. super patriot james comey misled president trump about the dirty dossier. it's salacious and unverified. the warrant was using the dossier as the basis of the phis application and he signed three of them. this all comes as the senate judiciary committee has no authorized subpoenas for over 50 officials in the crossfire hurricane investigation. now joining a senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham. senator, you have blockbuster testimony from rod rosenstein. knowing what we know now, we wouldn't ha

the intelligence community was warning that christopher steele was being targeted as early as 2015 byussians for disinformation and russian disinformation the dojig mr. ray ended up in the steele dossier, that fbi used for wiretaps. this sounds like major abuses of power. using intelligence community to go after political opposition. we have never seen it before like this in our country? >> i've never seen anything like this. the critical time to focus on is before and after the meeting in the white house with president obama on january 5th, 2017, and what happened with regard to that investigation immediately before and immediately after that. and that's why all these subpoenas are being issued to find out what those people knew and what they were up to during that time. and again, if it turns out they crossed over the line, including if it is obama administration officials, i hope and expect that those responsible will be brought to justice and that there will in fact be prosecutions. elizabeth: okay. robert ray, thanks for your analysis. come back soon, we love having you on. >> th

saying there was littlenc, collaboration, not enough cooperation actually that the british spy christopher steeleesearch paperwork by the democrats, it was on cooperated by early 2017, now this, i want your reaction to this, the d.o.j. inspector general found that former top fbi officialal and remicade push to include steals reporting into the ica arguing that obama had requested everything that you have relevant to this topic a russian influence. how much was obama involved in this? >> we don't know at this point, but we do know that when mccabe and others wanted to close this upon the transition from the obama administration to the trump administration that we had jim comey himself say that they needed to keep it going and that they needed to have the interview with carter page during the transition in the hopes of catching him and hopefully getting him to lie to investigators without an attorney present and we see the result, we have a judge now who is looking for sentence in the form from another judge evenin though he has stated in previous rulings that prosecutors have absolute discretion o

according to christopher steele, a former british intelligence officer who is reportedly held in highsources tell him that page has also had a secret meeting with the is ceo of the russian gas giant. according to steele's russian sources, the campaign has offered documents damaging to hillary clinton which the russians would publish through an outlet that gives them deniability hike wikileaks. elizabeth: okay. the cia told the fbi the steele dossier was internet rumor. and also steele's own sources were saying it's full of speculation and hearsay, take it with a grape of salt -- grain of salt, it's just talk over beers. but he's reading it like it's an indictment, like it's fact. >> right. first of all, we never should have called it the dossier. sounds bond-like. in 2016 the dossier was pitched to every major publication whether you're talking "the new york times," all the news organizations, broadcasts, i'm sure fox news, and also buzzfield. buzzfeed is the only actual publication that printed it and, therefore, that opened the gates for cnn to run with it as well, and we eventually

russian intelligence agents were targeting christopher steele for disinformation, urging he be evaluateddn't happen. fbi, doj officials also were told steele had a political motive, that he hated donald trump. to they d knew for five years tt this steele guy was not to be trusted, but they used his dossier paid for by the clinton campaign and democrats basically to launch the trump-russia probe and get wiretaps on the trump campaign. i mean, i don't think a fiction writer could have written this. >> well, the deputy fbi director, andrew mccabe, who went on to become the acting director of the fbi, he testified behind closed doors and said that without that dossier, there would have never been a fisa application. so the court, i think, has not gone far enough to hold the department of justice accountable, and right now i gotta tell you i think lindsey graham and what they're doing in judiciary is the beginning. it's the start of it, but it really is going to come down to attorney general barr and mr. durham as they probe this. i think they're getting closer to the finish line. they need t

russian intelligence agents were targeting christopher steele for russian disinformation, urging he uated as an informant. that didn't happen. fbi and doj officials were told steele had a political motive, he hated donald trump was desperate to defeat him. they knew for five years this steele guy was not to be trusted, used the steele dossier, paid for by the clinton campaign and democrats to basically launch the trump russia probe and get fisa spying warrants on trump campaign. i don't think a fiction writer could have written this. >> deputy fbi director andy mccabe who went on to become acting director of the fbi, he testified behind closed doors said without the dossier there never would have been a fisa application. so the court i think has not gone far enough to hold the department of justice accountable, and right now i got to it will you i think lindsey graham and what they're doing in judiciary is the beginning. it is the right thing to do. it is start of it but it really is going to come down to attorney general barr and mr. durham as they probe this. i think they're gettin

senator lee: were you aware that the information provided by christopher steele, commonly referred to as the steele dossier, was the basis of the assertions in the fisa application? mr. rosenstein: i believe, senator, that some of the assertions in the application are from steele. my understanding is, but only some. senator lee: were you aware of the fact that the steele dossier, which you just acknowledged, was at least the partial basis for this was bought and paid for by the democratic national committee and shared with the hillary clinton campaign? mr. rosenstein: i don't believe i had that detailed information at the time. senator lee: you're being asked to do something significant. you are asked as the deputy attorney general, the acting attorney general in this circumstance, to sign off on something. and yet you don't have a critical piece of information. that's a problem. it seems to me. it's a problem especially given that the foreign intelligence surveillance act can be used, can be manipulated, has been abused and manipulated to spy on a presidential campaign. a campaign th

john durham, zeroing in on christopher steele's receipt, perhaps, of a russian disinformation campaignor two. that's going to be fascinating as well. what are we to expect there? >> well, there's two significants to this. one is, first, if the fbi knew there was russian disinformation and they told the court, which we now know they didn't, that's a problem in the fisa process, right? there's an abuse of the fisa process, an intention aal misleading of the fisa court. but i think there's a second area that john durham's looking at, and that is the intelligence community assessment and whether there was pressure applied and whether people have told the truth about how they came to the assessment that russia was trying to help trump win and hillary lose are. and here's why that might be significant: if steele was being fed disinformation to tarnish the reputation of trump, it undercuts the entire intelligence community assessment that russia was trying to help trump. you wouldn't be undercutting trump if you were trying to help him. there's two very significant angles that he's looking at

the dnc and clinton campaign hired fusion gps, which hired christopher steele. steel rated his dossier which was based on russian sources. some of those sources supported clinton. footnoteseclassified from the inspector general report, the intelligence reports indicate information contained within the dossier was the product of russian disinformation. that takes the question, what did the clinton campaign know about the dossier, and when did they know it? what did hillary clinton know about the dossier and when did she know it? do notcratic colleagues seem interested in finding answers to those questions even though the steele dossier is the only real evidence of russian collusion with presidential campaign, and it happens to be the clinton campaign. i would like to insert into the record a complaint filed by the campaign legal center before the federal elections commission. the complaint states that the dnc and clinton campaign wrongfully reported millions of dollars in payments to law firms and legal services when some of those payments were for fusion steele t

two clinton acolytes close to the clinton world having similar information close to christopher steeleose are names that show up on the roll of subpoenas. and they will answer questions for the first time. they will be interesting. judge jeanine: we thank you both of you. of you. john solomon, are you sick and tired of looking and feeling heavy? probioslim promotes healthy digestion and helps you lose weight. patented probiotics ease constipation, gas, and bloating, while powerful egcg burns fat and calories. unleash your potential with probioslim, the #1 probiotic fat burner at walmart. we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. when you thin

two clinton acolytes close to the clinton world having similar information close to christopher steeleose are names that show up on the roll of subpoenas. and they will answer questions for the first time. they will be interesting. judge jeanine: we thank you both of you. john solomon, corey lewandowski, we'll be right back. him . >> that is it. thank you for watching advocating for truth and justice and the american way. t10 coming up next i will see you next saturday night. if we are lucky same time, same place. greg: last week was a victory for mayhem disguised as justice and media gets the assist i remember dystopian science fiction with that would watch as a child showing greed the omega man and chitty chitty bang bang to wonder how could that happen of overpopulation cocoa pebbles? the society that is too rich in resource for everything to happen i was wrong to say these are weird times

graham yesterday said the fbi has denied his interview request for the agents who interviewed christopher steele'surce. graham praised attorney general barr and former acting dni richard grenell for their transparency, but he wouldn't even say wray's name. he shouldn't even be thinking that name in connection with anything involving grenell or barr. they're in quite a different league. joining us tonight, tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. and, tom, it's good to have you here. >> thank you. lou: my god, let's, let's start with the homeland security committee in the senate. ron johnson has been doing, i think, a tremendous job. now has subpoena power, and you've -- i meaning we've got, we've got romney saying let's not do this, this is unseemly, you've got rob portman, i mean, he voted for the subpoena power but hopes that johnson won't use it. i mean, this is getting sickening to watch these rino republicans. your thoughts. >> well, romney, he's a lost cause in many respects. he's from the adam schiff wing of the republican party. he's obviously going to be protecting the fbi abuse of pr

>> i can only imagine what they would be saying if the republican party had hired christopher steeledig up dirt on hillary clinton and the republican party paid him, and he wound up getting a rush in to give dirt against hillary clinton that was a bunch of garbage and used by the fbi o get a warrant against a clinton operative. this is hypocrisy run a monk again, i supported the mueller investigation. but i can guarantee if the shoe was on the other foot, they would be yelling trees and right now paid i will not be deterred by this. i'm doing nothing wrong. and they refuted the fbi and the strongest terms i have ever known. i want you to understand that it matters to me that the fbi knowingly used fraudulent material to get a warrant against an american citizen that they destroyed general flynn's life january the 4th and wanted to dismiss flynn from the costs crossfire hurricane investigation, but the seventh floor continued it. they destroyed this man's life, and are going to pay a price. >> martha: senator lindsey graham. we will be watching. good to see you here tonight, sir. >> t

today as part of the investigation, his wife worked for fusion gps and sent information to christopher steele wrote that infamous dossier used by the fbi. one of dozens of officials subpoenaed by the judiciary committee earlier this month. as a goal former vice president joe biden hit the campaign trail today traveling a short distance from his home to tout how he would respond to the coronavirus pandemic but his plan was overshadowed as he finally took questions from the media today for the first time in months. doug mckelway was there and reports from wilmington, delaware. >> joe biden jogged to the microphones and took reporter questions for the first time in three months. furthethe 77-year-old is also st of widespread speculation among political opponents that he's experiencing some degree of cognitive decline. >> look, i've got to do is watch me and i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man i'm running against. >> today's appearance may have marked his return to a more active campaign. he said he would request access to classified briefin

christopher steele, former intelligence officer from the united kingdom, was hired by fusion g.p.s. to do opposition research against the trump campaign for the hillary clinton campaign. yet at the same time he was considered by the f.b.i. as a confidential human source. inspector general horowitz's report makes clear mr. steel and his f.b.i. handler didn't even agree on the terms of their arrangement steel said i'm a businessman collecting information. the f.b.i. said this is just between us, and you can't talk to the public, which he clearly did. and he did so at the same time he was supposed to be a confidential human source. well, the f.b.i. background check into christopher steele was so sloppy, they didn't even get, they didn't even understand that his loyalties were not with the f.b.i. and the u.s. government. they were with his paymaster, fusion g.p.s., his employer. well, that's one reason why there was such inaccuracies throughout this investigation, including the fisa applications. so we need answers and we need accountability. based on what i've seen so far, one conclusi

that is christopher steele dossier. his own sources were telling the fbi, he is not accurate.internet rumor in the the bib if fbi. steele's own sources said this was hearsay over beers, take it as a grain of salt. a fisa court is supposed to be used to go after terrorist. >> that's right. elizabeth: this secret court was used and misled by the obama administration to go after the trump campaign and the team there. your final word on that? >> fbi ignored exculpatory information about an american citizen. in fact manipulated and doctored evidence against carter page. they claim he was not a source to the ci. when in fact he was when they went to the court. these are lies built upon lies, designed to go after the civil liberties of american citizens. we need answers and you think we need indictments. >> vince coglianese, come back soon. thanks for coming on. vince coglianese of "the daily caller." >> thank you. elizabeth: we're staying on the story, reports coming in, at least, 70, seven, zero, covid-19 testing sites destroyed in the protests. government officials warning the nat

of 2017 that the dossier was garbage and the guy from russia who brought them the dossier to christopher steeleo disavowed the dossier and yet they still used it to continue getting rewarrants, re-upped warrants for carter page then that was fraud and that -- you think that could mean jail time, if you can prove that they knew it and they used it anyway? >> well, durham's -- what did horowitz tell us? he found a memo in the file where the intel analyst who interviewed the subsource said that subsource denied the details in the dossier. that he didn't provide all this. he doesn't know where some of it came from. and a lot of it was just hearsay, bar talk, not accurate. so you would have to believe that one of the most important investigations in the history of the fbi, a sitting president, that the system was denied information about a three-day interview with a subsource disavowed the primary document. i find that hard to believe but that's what we're going to be looking at. and again, if the case agent, intel agent told higher ups that this whole case is falling apart and they kept going forwa

despite all this, rosenstein still, remember we already had debunked starting january 21st, christopher steelely got around to verify hillary's misinformation russian paid for. they found the sub source didn't backup still, still didn't backup steel pier that mean he appointed this guy for no reason putting the country and the president and his administration and all the people that work for him to and a half years to which he says he wouldn't do now. joining us with reaction leading the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham. i can't believe what i heard today. i can't believe that him by the way those people that say where is lindsay? you talking about not getting it done but you are talking and it's only the beginning. >> yes a first step in journey that will end in october to try to explain to the american people how the hell did this happen. how is it possible the fbi and the department of justice defrauded the fisa court many times and nobody knew about it. what did rod rosenstein say? if i knew then what i know now, i would not have signed the warrant. you know what he said that? if

we talked about the steele dossier, but as you know, at the time christopher steele wasn't on the oppositionearch, and he was also retained as a confidential source for the fbi. is that correct? >> i don't know all the details but, what was the basis for reit and that was incredible. the inspector general suggests that they misstated that or overstated their basis for believing he was credible. >> they noted that, they may pass some information useful to the fbi, do you remember that? >> so at the same time it was a confidential human source, on the payroll, and he was ultimately terminated by the fbi for violating, and that was bruce ohr. >> that is my understanding. generally i believe that's correct. if we could put footnote 350 on the vaccine, i asked attorney general barr back in may of 2019, can we state with any confidence that this was not part of the russian misinformation campaign? >> that's one of the areas that i am reviewing, and i don't think it's entirely speculative. well, we know who is in charge of the counterintelligence commission, that they were a part of a russian disin