i asked because christopher steel, jim trusty, christopher steele testified to a british court he was hillary clinton's team to big up dirt on donald trump in order to overturn the 2016 election that hillary lost. the fbi guys said this is politicized. why did they go with it? >> because they were politicized. look, steele was clearly a political actor. bruce ohr even warned the fbi, hey, chris is obsessed with seeing trump lose. they dequalify him as informant because he joins media, mr. steele and still use information through bruce ohr. they were determined to get there no matter how many rules they broke. that is what durham has to focus on, the focal points not validating ongoing informability by christopher steele, that was struck down by strzok. not updating fisa court. a lot of red flags for him to look at. elizabeth: okay, jim trusty, thanks so much for joining us, really appreciate it. >> sure. see ya. elizabeth: up next this big fight, the media is now debating whether or not to do what democrats want, a quote, new congressional commission called truth and reconciliation to

that's pretty deep and why are we trying to expedite christopher steele to the u.s. and wasting time on a guy in the media? joining us with the latest, john solomon, investigative reporter, chief editor. this is big. >> it is. i've been through all the documents at least one time and i'll give you some of the highlights from the early stuff. most important of all the documents is what i call the september 2017 confessional year after he was fired, terminated by the fbi, christopher steele sat back down by the agents and described his motives and what he did and there were some bombshell revelations. first off as you just reported, his motive for going for the news media and trading the false russian collusion narrative during the 2016 election because of the email scandal had reared its head against hillary clinton. he was concerned it would hurt hillary clinton's chances, so he put the russia story out there to help distract from her scandal. secondly, he admits another one of his motives was he considered donald trump to be his main opponent. he considered donald t

senate that without a doubt christopher steele's material was politically motivated.nt said, it was completely obvious that this information intended to be used by one of the parties against the other. wow. that didn't stop the fbi agents from coordinating with steele even after he was removed as an official fbist source. according to this transcript, they continued to communicate with steele by using doj official bruce ohr as an intermediary. his wife worked for fusion gps, where steel worked with the dossier. joining us now to unpack all of this and to help us preview what we expect all of thesese excluse documents to show coming from the white house and elsewhere, john solomon, let's break this down completely. there's a lot here, you've been trying, i've been trying, many of us have been trying out for years to get a lot of this information. now in the final moments were going to get it? >> we are going to get it, it's going to drop our jaw, even though we've seen many revelations over the years. one example that is certain to be in the documents, the fbi into wor

why aren't we tryingtt to expede christopher steele to the u.s. time on a guy in the media called julian a sans. joining us now, john solomon, investigative reporter, chief editor. okay, this is big. >> yeah, it is, sean. i've been through all of the documents at least one time now, and i will give highlights. the most important of all of the documents is what i call the september 2017 confessional. a year after he was fired, terminated by the fbi, christopher steele sat back down with the agents and described his motives and tactics, what he did come and there are some bombshell revelations. first off, as you just reported, his motive for going to theep ns media and trading the false russia collusion narrative in the 2016 election was the email scandal had reared its head again against hillary clinton. he was concerned it was going to hurt hillary clinton's chances, so he put the russia story out there to help kind of distract from her scandal. secondly, he admits -- another one of his motives was that he m considered donald trump to be his main

we didn't know that witness had this connection to christopher steele. public thanks to the and his declassification decision. lou: absolutely. and history, as the radical dems wanted it to be written even by their fellow travelers, it has just, it has just exploded. the truth is about to be presented to the american people. and when it is, there will be quite a different view of a number of, number of actors who worked against the interest of the nation and this president for over four years. john solomon if, we look forward to seeing you again soon, hopefully tomorrow evening, with more on the revelations on obamagate as the president has, has declassified those documents. >>> up next, rinos in georgia punishing legislators for supporting president trump. what in the world are they doing in georgia? a state lawmaker and an unabashed trump supporter, georgia's vernon jordan, joins me here next. me here next. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam® is clinically proven to shorten colds! highly recommend it! zifans love zic

and among the bombshell revelations, an admission by former mi-6 agent christopher steele, the authorthe fraudulent trump dossier, that he leaked information to the u.s. media from his dirty trump dossier in an effort to distract from hillary clinton's ongoing e-mail scandal and the reopening of the fbi investigation into that scandal. that admission made in the fall of 2017, the documents promise to further expose the radical left and the deep state's plot hatched by none other than hillary clinton, then-candidate donald trump's opponent, to overthrow the trump presidency later on. a plot that has been underway since the summer of 2016. in fact, on june 13, 2016, president obama's former campaign manager laid it all out for everyone to see. david plouffe tweeted this, quote: it is not enough to simply beat trump. he must be destroyed thoroughly. his kind must not rise again. that tweet coming just weeks before james comey initially closed the fbi's investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail server scandal. just before. and it was that same summer in which the clinton campaign construc

lou: breaking tonight, newly-declassified and released documents show that christopher steele confessed the fbi that he leaked the false russian collusion narrative in order to try to help hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign against donald trump. the document states, quote: steele and burrows -- who was steele's partner -- described president trump as their main opponent and indicated they were fearful that trump's presidency might negatively affect the historic u.s. alliance with the u.k. and their special relationship. well, among the documents secured by "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon now, christopher steele's admission that he chose his allegiance to hillary clinton over his work with the fbi. the fbi notes further revealing, quote: steele explained that as the election season went on they, as a company, were riding two horses; their client, hillary clinton, and the fbi. and after fbi director james comey's reopening of the hillary clinton investigation as the election approached, they had to pick one horse and choose the business/client relationship over the

that new york agent in, an agent in the fbi bureau said definitely, it was obvious that christopher steele's political. another source, fbi agent said he is totally untrustworthy. steele's russia source said zero corroboration. we can't corroborate anything he is telling you guys. and that is a russian source was not even in russia, inside the u.s. working for the brook kings institution. >> yes. elizabeth: james comey said this is salacious unverified material but you see it in the footnotes for the fisa court wiretap applications. how did that all of that happen? again you and i talked about this. fisa court wiretaps were meant to stop another 9/11. not supposed to be used in political opposition probes. >> yes. how did it happen? it is really simple. they took the legal counsel division of the fbi out of the process. every time i signed a fisa warrant my legal counsel division vetted it. they actually go through an interrogation process where they go back to the agent doing the affiant, how do you know this? what is the reliability of this individual? because when you go to the court you

christopher steel talks about his potential motive for leaking to the media, the collusion narrative,el testified in court in england that he was hired by the hillary clinton campaign and financed by democrats to dig up dirt on trump to challenge the 2016 election that hillary lost what it looks like thatt information was used to challenge the 2016 election because it ended up getting in court, in the fbi to do the russia probe. what you say? >> how terrible is that? first of all, the fbi should be more sophisticated and not subcontract after probable cause. that's not right.i i don't know what happened to cause him to do it now but if that did happen, durham needs to address that. i blame the fbi for that. we are not supposed to be duped by people coming in and we were we were duped, not only duped but we use the information provided, knowing it was false. we get the pfizer court application. that is troubling to me. the relationship state courts and mislead them purposely, that's about as bad as i have ever heard. elizabeth: here's what the pfizer court w apparently did nt hear, ask

where are we finding christopher steele? he's in the press business. it makes no sense to me. it's all to protect hillary, that's coming up tomorrow. lastly, we will get to this in a second. what do we know about about the preplanned, premeditated attacks on the capitol. this is why you cannot have a snap impeachment. apparently a lot of people knew and did nothing. >> yes, as early as monday, january -- two days before the attack, the fbi had intelligence that they felt credible enough that there were multiple people planning an attack, talking about killing police officers at the capitol. they briefed it to the joint terrorism tax course in -- task force in washington, the capitol police were alerted and the metropolitan police were alerted. here's something i confirm today. none of the intelligence got the president trump. they learned the effort to breach the capital started before the president's speech started and we now tonight have evidence from the fbi. an affidavit that one of the instigators charged and the involvement as a liberal anarchist activist named john sull

carried out hillary clinton's dirty trick after learning she was behind it, after learning christopher steelet was part of his notice to do this, they will no longer be a question that that occurred and no longer a question that the fbi did specific intent specifically target the campaign, not just carter page they had a plot for how they were going to target spy on the campaign going back to august of 16, a lot of the misstatements and lies that the fbi leadership of that era told us get debunked by these documents and i think for history sake that is important is up to john durham to see if he can bring accountability to people who clearly intentionally misled the court in the congress. lou: i think we've all been misled about what mr. durham is actually doing and when he might conclude his pitiful efforts. gina has resigned the head of the cia. what took so long and why now and don't you think she is singularly responsible for making certain that the cia assessment of chinese involvement in our elections was blocked? >> the entire intelligence committee tried to block its release until aft

lou: they have created a fiction, and it turned into the dossier authored by christopher steele.inally, apparently, conceived by hillary clinton. donald trump's opponent in the 206 election. and the -- 2016 election. and the fbi and the entire power of the federal government turned behind that piece of fiction and assailed a legitimately-elected, legally-elected president of the united states. it is horrific. and we deserve to know not just -- we deserve more than these scraps that come from some dusty file hidden away in the recesses of the cia, the state department, whichever -- the department of justice. john, is it not reasonable to presume that the fbi, the department of justice, all of these intelligence agencies knew about the george kent memorandum? >> oh, there's no doubt they knew about it. i've within in contact -- i've been in contact with several government officials over the last 24 hours as i tracked this down. they've knowned about it, and they -- they've known about it, they tried to play keepaway, and they would play dumb and say do you really want this? why wou

the plot against the president or the acts against the president, the fbi's misconduct with christopher steelethers is going to be laid bare by these documents. it will be the ultimate historical collection showing just how bad the bureaucracy and other political leaders in washington treated this president. lou: it will also, that release of those documents, will show as we already know that the fbi for some time has been basically a paramilitary police working for the democratic party. even taking the plot conjured by hillary clinton, the opponent of donald trump in 2016, and giving it life and energy and using it as a, as a bludgeon to take up against him personally and his candidacy. >> yeah. lou: there has been no accounting. will there be as a result of these documents in your best judgment? >> well, they certainly will allow the american people to see that the fbi knowingly and willfully carried out hillary clinton's political dirty trick after learning she was behind it, after learning that christopher steele thought it was part of his motive to do this. and that will no longer be in q

three key allegations that were part of the christopher steele dossier.ld have followed their plan. at that point they should have shut down. instead they proceeded with the fisa warrant knowing that they were misleading the fisa judges, they were keeping exculpatory information from them. this is the clearest ed of a knowing and -- evidence of a knowing and willful violation of a law that we've had so far released to the american public. lou: and, john, tell the audience how the fbi actually coached stefan halper to support all of the corrupt acts that they were engaged in against the campaign. >> yeah. it's such an important point because remember what james comey said to chris wallace back in december 2019, we didn't do spying. i'm sorry, when you read these control documents from stefan halper, he was spying. they instructed him how to wear a wire on his body, who to target, they gave him a false cover story. pretend you're interested in going to work for the trump campaign, and use that to target the mike flynn and george papadopoulos and carter page

christopher steele finally describes his motive in september 2017.ember, he was fired in november for leaking to the media, november 16. they bring him back in september, said here are my two motives. first motive was james comey reopened the clinton e-mail case. i leaked to the news media to create a different story line. secondly, i considered donald trump to be my main opponent. i didn't want him to be president because i think he would hurt the great britain, u.s. relationship. he's a foreigner. he's a former agent. this is the clearest evidence that a foreigner intervened in the election. we started the russia collusion investigation thinking donald trump and russia were colluding together. we ended it knowing that hillary clinton's mi6 investigator intervened if our election because he didn't like donald trump and wanted to help hillary clinton. what a role reversal. maria: unbelievable. we want to take a short break. i want to get into china. while we were looking at this wild goose chase for three years over russia, russia, russia, congress c

and it was christopher steele.e's the one that gave the document, he's the one they all relied on. and yet now it turns out that he was using, you know, he was working one degree of separation for the hillary clinton campaign. so this is the justice department, the fbi, the people who are supposed to be nonpartisan, protect the nation, and they were taking a really serious political stand. so it's rotten. it's rotten to the core. elizabeth: okay. we're reading through it. a new york bureau official, an agent in the fbi, said -- told -- said this these declassified tock yules, quote -- documents, it was completely obvious from the get go this was political, that someone was paid, that a political party was paying for this information. kt, this agent said that in the new york bureau in july 2016, but then that investigation got moved to the d.c. bureau. here's the issue to what you're saying. hillary clinton was basically getting hit with an e-mail server scandal. the cia warned the fbi and president obama that the h

that's what christopher steele testified in court. they used that the justify fisa wiretaps.rceses in the fbi and intelligence keep telling us they're way more powerful than normal wiretaps. you can listen to carter page's phone and anybody else that he's talking to. and he addressed the court today as a victim. he's received death threats after the fbi probe into him was leaked. he's a victim here. >> oh, he's a total victim. and i thought actually, i must say, i thought it was a very -- i mean, turning the other cheek that carter page, he spoke today at ther hearing and he said, you know, i've been destroyed by this whole process, and yet i don't recommend jail time for mr. clinesmith. you know, nobody in washington is going to be that generous and decent about it as carter page has been. carter page, yeah, he's been destroyed. his career was destroyed. he's a naval academy graduate. whatever you may think of him, this guy has been wrongfully accused of something, he's been, first, forced into bankruptcy. his entire career is finished, and he's been made a laughingstock. he