david kramer testified -- >> david kramer is someone john mccain knew.mccain -- >> he was an associate working with john mccain. >> no. >> as you know, as i said because i did not criticize john mccain. i said i truly believe having worked with john mccain on national security issues for a decade that if he had been told crist fear steele when he met with david kramer the dossier was paid for by hillary clinton and the democratic national committee and steele would later testify i didn't verify any of this -- >> congressman, none of this gets to my question. john mccain was given the dossier. he gave it to the fbi. >> under false pretenses. >> doesn't matter. he gave it to the fbi. i don't understand -- >> false pretenses matter, john. >> does it justify, congressman, the president of the united states at a white house-funded event in ohio, in your home state talking about the funeral of a human being, let alone a war hero like john mccain who passed away in august? >> ing tethe people in the room incredibly surprised and i was personally saddened that t

today in these deposition that has we need to look out beyond christopher steele but also with david kramer in what we've been reporting on for several years that this dossier that was filled with lies was being shopped around by david kramer who worked with john mccain and then christopher steele who by the way should not have been sharing any of the information with anyone was obviously set up sharing with the f.b.i. and then shopping it around himself throughout washington d.c. remember, christopher steele was also shopping this around and glenn simpson was pushing both of them to push this out through state department, through journalists like "the washington post," cnn, everybody else, and now we know that andrew wiesemann who was a lead prosecutor in robert mueller's team would also informed by bruce orr that the dossier was full of lies! so here we have a dossier that the f.b.i. basically told -- basically told the fisa courts they have verified all the information that they supplied to the fisa court to get the warrant on carter paige and it was nothing but lies. >> you know, congre

we don't know what david kramer would say. he pleaed the fifth. >> sean: you've seen it all.pect the mueller reportn: maybe even as early as this week. we know that all of these documents, all of these interviews, we know all of this will eventually become public. you are convinced that mueller can't possibly have anything on collusion at all because there llwas none? >> well, there was no collusion. the only collusion occurred between the democrats and the russians. that we're still trying to get to the bottom of. there's the construction route. we don't know what mueller is going to say on that. if you look at the mueller indictment, they read like russian supply novel -- spy novels. they don't have anything. >> sean: we look forward to it. congressman devin nunes, thank you for the update. finally things are happening. when we come back, new segment called the closing argument. plus related to the villain of the day. you need to hear this as we continue. at midas, with every oil change you get a free tire rotation. makes you feel like a king! king for a day! well, maybe no

out today in these depositions that we need to look at beyond christopher steele but also with david kramer and what we've been reporting on for several years that this dossier that was filled with lies was being shopped around by david cramer who worked with john mccain and christopher steele who, by the way, should not have been sharing any of this information with anyone. it was obviously set up. sharing it with the f.b.i., and then shopping it around himself throughout washington, d.c. i mean, christopher steel was also shopping this around and glen simpson was pushing both of them to push this out through the state department, journalists, like the "washington post," cnn, everybody else, and now we know andrew weisman, who was a lead prosecutor on robert mueller's team was also informed by bruce orr that the dossier was full of lies. so here we have a dossier that the f.b.i. basically told, they basically told the fiser courts -- it was nothing but lies. >> sean: let me bring up a point. steele is getting paid by four people. steele doesn't stand by his own dossier and here's the fasci

we now know tonight that christopher steele gave the associate to a mccain associate david kramer. sometimes at the direction of steele himself who hated donald trump spread of the dossiers unverified, uncorroborated contents to 12 journalists at nine different news outlets. two state to prevent officials, including one connected to cojohn kerry. why? to use the hillary clinton bought and paid for russian lies to influence you, we, the people. before the elections, to influence the outcome of that election and worse. here's the bottom line. according to bruce ohr, christopher steele hated donald trump, desperate to malign him. as was hillary clinton. asau was the popular ashkelon. doj, not rank-and-file. as well as the corrupt news media in this country that ran with these lies, never verified a thing. unverifiable because it wasn't true.ri even though they all knew, all were told that this is unverified, uncorroborated, hillary paid for it, and steele hated trump, a pack of lies, they tried to get it out to the general public. propagandizing, you, me, theha american people. top do

to james comey and david kramer.ot verified in salacious, the president is angry at mccain over this. the reason he started tweeting about it which is where all this started in the press asked about it today, it came up over the weekend because of a deposition that was unveiled where we learned more details about how mccain was involved in the dossier and that clearly got under trump's skin. he is not over it yet. >> bret: they built that into that speech, somebody is advising that, what is your thought process? >> since 2015, the president has been on this tirade against john mccain. when i was little girl growing up in louisiana, my parents said you don't talk ill of the dead because the bible says the living will die at some point. john mccain leaves a legacy of service and sacrifice, more importantly, donald trump use to this location at a military construction site, a union site, he goes there and criticizes the one guy in the united states senate who fought for these type of tanks. it's an odd thing to do. i ge

also remind you, laura, that we are going to have a deposition from both christopher steele and david kramerese are two witnesses that either pled the fifth or wouldn't come to present before the congress. >> laura: okay, well, we are waiting with baited breath because this is just a joke. you're always trying to lay out the facts for us and we really appre s aleft-w ca week there comie sm>> w look double l spoke at por p st this mornw current jackals onngngeentthhari >> i would guess sometime in the next two, three, four weeks. we'd like to see what's in the mueller report. i would also remind you, laura, that we are going to have a deposition from both christopher steele and david kramer. these are two witnesses that either pled the fifth or wouldn't come to present before the congress. >> laura: okay, well, we are waiting with baited breath because this is just a joke. you're always trying to lay out the facts for us and we really appreciate it, congressman. a lot more to get to tonight. updates on the storyt, out of portland state that we brought you last week where a conservative speake

the anti-trump dossier was circulated before and after the 2016 election, court records confirm david kramer aide to john mcclain, give the dossier to both the news and a dozen reporters. kramer told the court he was singled out by the dossier's are there, christopher steel, to lend credibility to the democrat funded opposition research. the project was run by glenn simpson's fusion gps, quote, i think a senior republican was a better recipient than democrats because he is a democrat in the deal would have been dismissed as a political attack. the former counterintelligence chief also filed a declaration that the fbi got the dossier's first 33 pages in december 2013 but the fbi was receiving memos from other sources. president obama was briefed on the dossier by senior intelligence officials including james clapper ten days before the inauguration, the same time buzz feed published it online. shannon: do they have to turn over the information senator graham requested? we talk about it with the new website, welcome to you both. a broader quote from chairman graham's letter, the committee is d

also revealed in court documents that an associate of mccann, david kramer, was spreading the dossier around to media outlets here in washington, d.c. but cramer's said he did that at the request of christopher steele who wrote the dossier and not senator mccain. bret? >> bret: john roberts come alive on the north lawn. a good day on wall street. the dow was up 200 points, s&p 500 finished ahead 31. nasdaq closed 110. several midwestern states prepare for flooding from the missouri river, word has it that this spring could be one of the wettest on record, putting 48 states at risk for potential flooding. here correspondent mike tobin has details. >> a swollen missouri river reaching a levy, with rapid ice waters approaching homes, the order for the evacuation. >> i've been with the district since '93 and we've never had water like this. seems like we get a 100 year flood a few years anymore. >> watson missouri was inundated. >> i don't know if watson is going to be a town anymore for there is like, four houses that happen to be higher than the rest of the town. everybody else has got

the court records confirm that david kramer in the late senator john mckay gave dossier a buzzfeed newse court he was singled out by the author, former british -- british spy and to lay the democrats have opposition research and the gps. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than democrats because if it were a democrats, the deal was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi former counterintelligence chief bill priestap filed with the course with fbi dossier for 33 pages for mccain december 2016. the fbi already receiving the memos from other sources. he also come from president obama on dossier by senior intelligence officials including then the ni james clapper ten days before inauguration and the same time buzzfeed published online, shannon. catherine herridge, thank you very much. does that doj have to turn over information senator graham has requested? let's talk about it with the new podcast terry littman and law professor at john, welcome to you both. >> thank you shannon. >> shannon: to read a broader quote, t

the court records confirm that david kramer then an aid to the late senator john mccain gave the dossier to beefebuzzfeed wells a dozen reporters. he was singled out by christopher steele to lay credibility to the research. the project was run by glenn simpson's fusion gps. quote i think they felt the senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat, the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi's former counter-terrorism intelligence chief bill priestap also filed a declaration confirming the fbi got the dossier first 33 pages from mccain in december 2016. the fbi was already receiving the memos from other sources. prestep also confirmed president obama was briefed on the unverified dossier by senior intelligence officials including then dni james clapper 10 days before the inauguration, bret. >> bret: thank you. >> you are welcome. >> bret: one of the pilots that crashed sunday reportedly requested permission to return to the airport shortly after takeoff. the "new york times" writes thought pi

also remind you, laura, that we are going to have a deposition from both christopher steele and david kramerese are two witnesses that either play the fifth or wouldn't come to present before the congress. we do okay, well, we are waiting with baited breath because this is just a joke. you're always trying to lay out the facts for us and we really appreciate it, congressman. a lot more to get to tonight. updates on the story out of portland state that we brought you last week where a conservative speaker was shut down, the most disgusting display of rudeness and just left-wing usual wednesday eight tactics. new details on the jussie smollett case. plus as president trump is attacked for questioning climate change, let's speak to a man who has spent his entire life dispelling certain climate myths. stay there. ur brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. chicken! that's right, chicken?! candace-- new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a po

david kramer then an aide to the late senator john mccain gave the dossier to buzzfeed news as well as reporters. he was singled out by christopher steele to lend credibility to the democrat-funded opposition research. steele admitted under oath that he tried to verify the dossier using a cnn eye report story. it was verified why glenn simpson of fusion gps. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat, i think that the view was it that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi's former counterintelligence chief bill priestap also filed this declaration confirming the fbi got the dossier first 33 pages from mccain in december 2016. now the fbi was already receiving the memos from other sources. prestep also confirmed president obama was briefed on the up verified dossier by senior intelligence officials including then dni james clapper 10 days before the nation. that's the same time buzzfeed published the dossier online, tucker. >> tucker: an amazing story. catherine herridge, thank y

luckily, someone sued him, and a guy named i think david kramer who was also involved in the creationhe dossier. maria: right. >> so he plead the fifth to us so between christopher steele and kramer, we really want to know what did they tell the court so this is going to be fascinating information. maria: what about the mueller report? are you expecting it to drop soon? what's going on there? >> you know, you're going to interview ken starr a little later. i don't understand if mueller doesn't have any crimes that he's going to prosecute on, then i don't know what report we'd be looking for, because as far as i can tell, the mueller investigation was stood up for one reason and one reason only, and that was based on the dossier. and remember, we've never seen the scope and the start that we've talked about many times on your show, i hope people understand this, there's a classified scope memo of what mueller is supposed to be doing, and then hidden from congress, hidden from the american people. my guess is all it is is the information from the dossier. maria: real quick, adam schiff

the president got a bee in his bonnet over the weekend that show an associate of john mccain's david kramer steele dossier to several media outlets in and around the washington area. the president ripped mccain in a tweet that was sent at 4:46 in the afternoon on saturday and then again sunday morning and brought it up again out of the blue at that tank plant in lima, ohio. severely criticizing john mccain in all three instances but insisting to fox business channel's maria bartiromo yesterday he was only responding to reporter's questions about it and he also chided maria for bringing it up at all. listen here. >> president trump: i didn't bring it up. i didn't mention john mccain until you asked me a question about john mccain. i could say i have comments. that's not me. i thought you weren't supposed to bring it up. that's okay. fake news. >> it is not fake news. you told me why you have an issue with him. >> i have a serious issue. he handed something to the f.b.i. on me. he knew it was a fake. he handed it to the f.b.i. that's an issue. repeal and replace of obamacare. he campaigned fo

for nearly two years david kramer one time at the state department refused interviews with fox news andver his handling of the dossier which came to his attention during a canadian security conference. it was funded by fusion gps. kramer told the court he believed he was singled out by its author christopher steele to lend credibility to the democratic opposition research. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat i think the view was it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the former head of the f.b.i.'s counter intelligence division also gave this declaration to the court. that confirms the f.b.i. got the first 33 pages of the dossier from senator john mccain in december of 2016. this declaration also confirms that president obama was briefed on the contents of the dossier in january of 2017 about a week and a half before the inauguration, sandra. >> sandra: wow. >> that is a wow. >> >> bill: -- pyongyang is considering suspending nuclear talks with washington mike pompeo was asked abou

david kramer, expert on russia and involved in the mccain on 2017e was disposed as part of a legal battleaged by a russian businessman over buzz feed's publication of the dossier. that was a couple of days ago in the arizona public if you -- republic if you want to read that. let's go to frank, independent line, identifies as a veteran. hello. 100%r: yes, i am a disabled veteran. i am approaching 70. i am -- i was in vietnam. i agree with president trump. false disseminated this associatesough his to the various media outlets, about a dozen of them and trump he known this since before was inaugurated and the media has been after him now since it what it's -- it was revealed mccain gave the dossier to the fbi, the media has been hounding him for comments on mccain, so he cleared the air. host: you are saying the comments made about senator mccain in light of what you said are appropriate? caller: i believe so. i feel glad that he cleared the say.nd said what he had to mccain was a republican in name .nly in the latter years beforehand, i don't know much about him. i watched him for the las

they wanted it sealed, both david kramer and christopher steele have fought this and these will be releaseduld be nothing in there, but it should be the first time we actually see in their own words what they were up to in 2016 as it relates to the dossier. >> bill: another topic lisa page. there is a question under the texas republican john ratcliffe whether or not the justice department wanted the email matter on hillary clinton shut down. she apparently admitted that under oath. how significant is that now? >> i think it's very significant. this never made any sense. if anyone in the military or anybody in the intelligence community, including people within the f.b.i., if they were to leak like that, they would be fired. they would be in prison. they would be prosecuted. there were dozens and dozens of classified emails that were put onto an illegal server that was then destroyed, that was likely picked up by foreign intelligence, god knows what countries have these classified emails that clinton was sending. she should have been held accountable and she wasn't. there was a conspiracy to

kramer. mr. cramer: thank you for all the witnesses to be here, thanks for inviting david to testify today. dave has an exceptional story to tell regarding the subject of today's hearing, i'm looking forward to your testimony. i can't think of anybody better prepared than dave to testify on this topic. dave is a native north dakotan. he received both his bachelor's degree in biology and his master's degree in environmental engineering from north dakota state university, famous for lots of thingsering not least of which is the last eight gnash football championships and we celebrated that with the president in the white house yesterday, a great day. thanks for being here, dave. dave spent 35 years to this point, i think, at least, at the north dakota department of health. he has been chief of environmental health section for the department for the last 16 years. he has over the course of 35 years obviously has worked with lots of administrations, different political stripes, different relationships, different philosophies and all the while dave, i can assure you, has had north dakota's air,