ploplosive claims in a new house that they teamed up to push a false story about the murder of democratic national committeetaffer seth rich. the suit was filed against fox by an investigator who had been looking into rich's killing. the suit claims it was part of an effort to discredit intelligence committee findings that russia hacked the dnc. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed a conspiracy was born. caught up in it, this man. >> i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> his name is rod wheeler. he's a former dc homicide detector and fox news contributor and now he's filed a lawsuit against fox news. he claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks leak. all of this despite the fact that police say rich's murder was the result of a botched burglary and that this is key, authorities had already determined that russians hacked the dnc e-mails and gave them to wikileaks. >> what was the goal? >> i think their goal, based on the e-mails and the voice mail messages that i got was to debunk this russian

they have sources an investigator on named sources saying that the staff member of the democratic national committee said rich who was tragically gunned down in july that he was actually in touch with wiki leaks the organization your associates an associate of through government fadge annex you gave his last interview before he died to this this program any comment on the possibility of connections between leaks a d.n.c. stove and presumably the but esther e-mails that. some believe would trump in the way it has the reason we keep keeps on getting leaks and people keep on coming to them because they're completely trusted when it comes to sourcing so you know that i'm not going to say anything about that and then on whistle blowers themselves chelsea burning what does it feel like to see a person at least having their sentence commuted from the thirty seven or eight years justice and well that's part one of the win that's the first win and that's great to see that today she's being set free. but chelsea has she has a lot of. the eagles and she's having an upcoming appeal to get her conviction overtur

. >> the head of the democratic national convention committee, rather, is calling on republicans to disavowsident trump, citing how white supremacists see him as their leader and fiercest defender. ann marie. >> seth, thank you so much. >>> as we reported, the president's response to the violence in charlottesville cost him the support of some of america's top business leaders. the president announced he was ending two business advisory councils. there have been numerous resignations following his comments. one group had already told the white house it had had resolved to disband and condemned mr. trump's comments. jpmorgan adjacent ceo jamie dimon said in a statement, fanningdy veesiveness is not the answer. it is a leader's role in business or government to bring people together, not tear them apart. the events in charlottesville have raised the national debate over what to do with federal monuments. in richmond, virginia, the former capital of the confederacy, the city will examine the removal or relocation o monuments. confederate monuments have already come down the in cities from balt

he was a staffer at the democratic national committee who was shot and killed last summer.reported both online and on-airish pushed particularly hard by host sean hannity, that rich had been murdered because he leaked tens of thousands of dnc e-mails to wikileaks. now, this lawsuit, which was first reported by npr, was filed by rod wheeler. a former detective, a fox on-air contributor alleging that the motivation behind the article was to establish that seth rich provided wikileaks with the dnc e-mails to shift the blame from russia and help put to bed speculation that president trump had colluded with russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election. wheeler says he was asked by a prominent republican donor named ed butowski to investigate that murder and quotes attributed to him were completely made up. wolf? >> so alex, what's the white house connection to all of this? >> reporter: a couple things. whe wheeler says he along with the donor met with former press secretary sean spicer and that spicer, that meeting happened back in may. spicer asked

the story begins last july when democratic national committee staffer seth ridge was murdered in whatobbery gone wrong. his murder was spun into a baseless conspiracy theory alleging he was involved in the wikileaks dnc e-mail dump. this new lawsuit alleges that it was fox news who purposely cooked up that false story, with the white house input. more, that allegedly president trump signed off on. cnn's randi kaye tonight picks up the story from there. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born. caught up in it, this man. >> i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he's a former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he's filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from the democratic national committee. the idea being that rich was murdered by some sort of dnc operative in retaliation for the leaks. all of this despite the fact that

i wonder if we reached that point where nancy pelosi and the democratic national committee is sayingt know where to stop. we saw this last year. this is not a new attack. it culminated last year with hillary saying donald trump voters are deplorable and homophobic and exenophobic -- and xenophobe i can and sexist. two days ago when the piling on began. it is bad enough to accuse the president of something that's not the case. but then they started saying these were his supporters. his poll numbers began to go up. he's up in the rasmussen poll. 24/with these attacks. but i think when people see this and hear this, americans tend to generally be quiet if they are not on the far left or extreme right. but we do in the what's going on and we reject it and they find out in elections. the president should know americans reject the nature of this argument. and americans being called racist by pelosi and others know that it reinforces this is pretty much a lie. david: beyond the shameless mccarthyism, there is the absurdity. you have maxine waters suggesting dr. ben carson, an african-americ

democrats didn't have it. let's get your take about it. the republican national committee raised about $75 million in 2017 compared to the democrats $38 million, almost a 2-1 margin. >> i think there are a couple of issues here, enthusiasm is very important but related to that article things. first of all, coherence of a message, is there a message people find appealing enough to want to give money to and secondly, are there candidates that are appealing enough that people want to give money and i think on both of those accounts democrats are having a difficult time, there is no coherence of message, no sense that democrats stand for anything except being against president trump and secondly the candidates they are putting out there just are not compelling to the small dollar donors who want to give money. i think those are to go challenges democrats fundamentally are going to have to deal with going into 2018 and beyond. >> jon: the flip of the perception, it used to be that the republican party was perceived to be the money of fat cats and millionaires, most of this mone

let's get more now from cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer sethrich was killed, a conspiracy was born, caught up in it, this man. >> i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he's a former dc homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he's filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from the democratic national committee. the idea being that rich was murdered by some sort of dnc operative in retaliation for the leaks. all of this despite the fact that police say rich's murder was the result of a botched burglary and that this is key, authorities had already determined that russians hacked the dnc e-mails and gab them to wiki leaks. >> what was the goal? >> i think their goal, based on the e-mails and the voice mail messages that i got from ed butowsky was to debunk this russian hacking narrative. >> reporter: ed butowsky is a gop supporter and fox commentator. t

should have done and so if we don't have other groups doing platforms besides just the democratic national committee than how was the democratic national committee going to look at how this policy might play out? it might actually inspire and inform us for when they get together on another platform and say hey that was actually great idea let's look at it so the budget out there's a good thing but there a lot of things that are good about it. let me tell you nowadays we take it as a given that most of us have a 15-dollar minimal wage but then it was people in the streets demanding it. we got it on that platform. also ending the death penalty. the democratic party is on record as ending the death penalty. that's good. [applause] we also are on for demilitarizing the police and requiring body cameras. also ending racial profiling expanding security and enacting a tax. modernizing glass-steagall and moving our country to 100% clean energy by 2050 and universal health care which we believe a single-payer and also and we have a very, so we had a big fight over the transpacific partnership. many of you mi

that's the question posing to my next guest michael blake, vice chair of the democratic national committee, thanks very much for coming in. a lot of criticism you and fellow democrats you're not doing enough to take advantage of republicans' problems right fou. fund-raising, for example, what, at an eight-year flow july. you're not really exploiting this political situation. your reaction? >> first, what's going on in charleston and hoping everyone is safe down there. in the republicans party, congressing organizations and success this year. look at the races we've won across the country and focusing on this as womas well. >> you lost some districts as well. >> let's talk about the wins. two races in oklahoma. special races happened in large put part, new york, iowa, district trump won by 20 points in november we won by a 30-point swing. >> and why is it not meeting, the rnc, doing a lot better? >> they have the white house. they have senate, the house. reality is, even with the three houses can raise money but can't pass a bill. >> what do you have to do, democrats? a lot of democrats are

ellison ran for democrat national committee chair, losing to tom perez. we will finish up our net roots nation coverage of the day as how movements are changing democratic principles. president trump commenting again on tensions with north korea. the president retweeted this message from the u.s. pacific command. standds, "bombers on guam ready to fulfill the fight tonight mission if called upon to do so." we will continue to monitor the situation and bring you the updates and latest tweets on the matter unwarranted. -- when warranted. >> every week in the clinton white house, there was something in gauge. it was a very tense environment. had a special prosecutor -- i don't know if you remember a guy named ken starr. he was like a bogeyman back then. i spent more time in that white house responding to foia requests the doing anything else. and going those through a three document trying to find that thing that ken starr wanted that week. now, i actually get to do my job. >> watch our interview with omarosa manigault on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span o.or

. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he's a former dc homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he's filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from are the democratic national committee. the idea being that rich was murdered by some sort of dnc operative in retaliation for the leaks. all of this despite the fact that police say rich's murder was the result of a botched burglary and that this is key, authorities had already determined that russians hacked the dnc e-mail nzs and gave them to wikileaks. what was the goal? >> i think their goal based on the e-mails and the voice mail messages that i got from the ed bukowski was to dedunk this russian hacking it narrative. >> reporter: butowsky is a financial news commentator. the alleged goal to detract from the russia investigation was not only

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government, democratic national committee, or clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going fo anything, heard anything, just come forward. >> reporter: the conspiracy theories have shaken rich's family, and a spokesman says they are hoping this is the end of it. >> for a family that's just desperately seeking to be able to grieve, to have to go through that over and over and over again has just torn their hearts out. >> reporter: d.c. police detectives think that seth rich was killed in a botched robbery. while he was walking home late at night. they are still hunting for his killer. in d.c., bruce luchene, wusa9. >> that dallas investor and trump reporter now insists to npr he was just joking about the president pushing the story. >>> it may be summer, but it's a first day for fall sports in the area's largest school district. despite concerns over concussions, seeing steady rt football. their football program has seen a 40% drop in the number of concussions over the past three years. other sports, also seeing fewer concussions. school leaders point to greater awaren

that alleges president trump personally approved a false news story about the death of a democratic national committee staffer. that's where gabe sherman comes in. you've been looking into this. give us the thumbnail sketch. what is this story? >> this is a federal lawsuit filed against a surrogate, a very high-profile trump surrogate, on behalf of a private investigator who was enlisted to help try to get to the bottom of this conspiracy. what this lawsuit alleges is that donald trump was made aware of this story that aired on fox news and that he personally approved it in advance of its publication, which is a major breach of journalistic ethics. the take-away is if these allegations are true, it shows how the trump white house was willing to use fox news to change the narrative, to create fake news, essentially, and create a conspiracy theory to distract from the russia scandal, that they would try to blame the wikileaks hack on this murdered dnc staffer, seth rich, rather than russian government who intelligence agencies and publicly have said were behind the hack of the dnc material. >> okay. thi

and were produced at that june 9 meeting were the documents that were stolen from the democratic national committeei'd even go further to say that donald trump knew about it, because on june 7, when he made a speech at the end of the new jersey primary, when he got off the teleprompter and said, i'm going to have all kinds of -- to paraphrase -- all kinds of goodies for you on hillary clinton next monday at a press conference that never occurred. >> but you're connecting a lot of dots that we're not sure. >> we're not there yet. >> one thing -- >> i'll give you a couple -- >> wait a minute. one thing we don't know is that the documents exist or were left after that meeting. i mean, we only know don junior's story about that meeting, jared kushner's story about that meeting. i go back again to the need for the special counsel, to find out about what was left, if anything, at that meeting, so you're presuming something that we don't really know. >> but wait a minute. donald junior, the e-mail said that he was going to send the documents to donald trump's secretary but staaid instead i' going to bring

was looking into the murder of a young man named seth rich. 27-year-old staffer at the democratic national committee was shot and killed in july of 2016 during the height of the campaign and a couple of weeks before those damaging e-mails about hillary clinton hacked from the dnc began pouring out into the public. wheeler's lawsuit claims that a fox news reporter made up quotes from him for a story that essentially said that seth rich, not russia, was responsible for releasing those controversial dnc e-mails and that somehow his murder was connected to all that. according to the suit, it was a fake news story conjured up to quote, help put to bed speculation that president trump colluded with russia in an attempt to fix the outcome of the election. here's where the white house and president trump allegedly get involved. wheeler the investigator was being paid by a trump supporter and fellow fox news contributor named ed bufowsky. to investigate the seth rich murder. he said he wanted to help the young man's parents solve the case. wheeler's lawsuit claims the president knew about the article and but

intelligence agencies have determined russian hackers were behind electronic break-ins at the democratic national committee. vanished,online donna a person has emerged, a fearful man the ukrainian police said turned himself in early this year and has become a witness for the fbi. happen,know what will he wrote in one of his last sentences posted on a .estricted-access website it won't be pleasant, but i am still alive. you can read that piece in "the new york times" this morning. an independent. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. is theshington journal" best programming on television, period. now, my comment. i am retired. my retired friends and i get together and obviously we are talking about the events over the past weekend. there were some that were donald trump supporters and some that were hillary supporters. one of the donald trump supporters said, how can this administration support illegals like this? we used a nascar analogy, because we are all nascar fans. the way i put it was, you get this guy that wins everything. now, he wants to win the daytona 500. he has no experience. she

russia's election meddling the russian government was behind the mail hacked into the democratic national committee russia act but the election they tried to interfere the russian attack on our election. or they made heath ledger's joker look like a meditation tape of ocean sounds. a lot of bad inside a sleeping baby bird. they furiously use gallons of ink and i are to talk about the supposed source of the leak rather than talk about the actual proven corruption it would be like if your house were on fire and rather than talk about how to put it out how to save the people inside how to prevent the. fires you stood there going right. good bye but dude you're at your house the perfect day out i mean. ok ok just take a breath or i will go get a drink will stored all those to rise as far. out here are the main three points put forward by the intelligence and computer analysts who are not me number one there was no hack of the d.n.c. system on july fifth last year not by the russians not by anyone else hard science now demonstrates it was a leak a download executed locally with a portable data storage d

where is the democratic national committee. jesse: you lose so much credibility when the leadership of the democratic party does not speak out when something like this happens on their side. i wanted to ask you. so you left cnn, now you are at the rnc. were they nice to you at cnn? was anderson cooper mean to you? >> he's a very nice guy. i love anderson. but there is no doubt about it that there is a different perspective there. jesse: . >> i believe we crossed paths when i was in the between -- wae trenches of d.c. jesse: my hometown is where the democrats nominated hillary clinton. last week in real news we told you about officer quincy smith, the south carolina cop shot four times and nearly killed while responding to a call on new year's day in 2016. the shooting captureed the knewley released video capturing smith's availant. >> stop! take your hands out of your pocket. if you don't stop, i'm going to tase you. take your hands out of your pockets. jesse: officer quincy smith is alive and well and he joins me for his first

both think that the debbie wassermann schultz and one brother scandal can destroy the democratic national committee in context you have the odd ones getting paid five million dollars but also reports are that they stored congressional data of around thirty house democrats on the outside servers when you combine the fact that the all on stored congressional data from house democrats and outside servers and then you look at hillary clinton using platte river and outside tech firms to manage her server which and then platte river van used a cloud storage company to manage their e-mails from clinton server so you have you have platte river you have dado you have the ons with an outside server then you have the d.n.c. using crowd strike which is what sanctions were based on a third party texas tech firms assessment of d.n.c. never gave its computer service to the f.b.i. and then you have fusion g.p.s. another firm that democrats have used. in terms of trust us a story so there's all these outside techno tech firms there's this penchant for storing classified information in congressional data outside u.s

a little boy of nothing saying that the democrat the reap the russians hacked into the democratic national committee show me some proof if you go into court and you say well it's my assessment my belief my thought the judge is going to say show me some proof and they say to us in the media. we don't have to show you any proof all we have to do is lie now when you take the bigger picture if the russians had anything to do with hillary losing the election. and obama campaigning more than any sitting president for a candidate going into office folks my legacy depends on whether or not you read what you elect ms clinton. how come you lost the senate how come you got creamed in the house how come you democrats scots lord it in state houses around the country russians i didn't didn't have anything to do it that maybe because the people don't like you and now when you look at the polls what do people think about the democrats and republicans they got a ten percent approval rating ninety percent negative so that shows you where the country is with being run by morons and losers on both sides and people will

it claimed that a murdered democratic national committee staffer named rich was responsible for releasing the party's emails to wikileaks in 2016, and that it was not russian hackers. the president's goal, the lawsuit says, was to help lift the cloud of the russia investigation. fox news host sean hannity, who admits to being one of the president's biggest fans, ran with the story. >> this blows the whole russia collusion narrative completely out of the water. >> reporter: but fox retracted the story after just a week, admitting it did not meet its journalistic standards. >> well, perhaps there were some email communications between seth and wikileaks. >> reporter: the lawsuit was filed by former d.c. police detective rod wheeler, a fox news contributor. he investigated the case but now claims that the network inaccurately reported his findings as implicating rich because "that is the way the president wanted the article." the suit also claims that ed butowski, a wealthy trump supporter and also a fox commentator, coordinated want effort by the president and fox to publish the story. the

national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where e-mails were supposedly hacked by russia wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these e-mails expose. the d.n.c. and the hillary can claim maine colluded to. break their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what this is all about and since the scene of the crime was never investigated there can't possibly be any evidence but i think a lot of mayor is absolutely right that this is the russian government even referred to it said that this is an internal domestic strife in the united states and that. donald trump is an effective captive in the white house and the way the foreign policy has outraged it made it in the headlines what we've been talking about on the show for months the war over who controls us foreign policy has begun and that's elizabeth rosenberg you know what's interesting and you know you you have you live in the swamp if i can say that but what's really interesting to me is that like weapons of mass destruction in ir

if we do not have other groups doing platforms besides just the democratic national committee then how is it going to look at how this policy may play out? us whenactually inspire we find another platform. we can look at other things. just to have a bunch of them out there is a good thing. there are a lot of things i feel very good about. we take it as a given that for a $15 minimum federal wage. it was not, then there were people in the streets demanding it. party is onic record against the death penalty. that is good. [applause] also are forth demilitarize in the police and issuing body cameras. and did racial profiling and enacting a social transaction tax regulation. country to 100% clean energy and having universal health care. also we have a -- we had a big fight over the transpacific partnership. many of you may remember the debate. wanted to take a position that is 180 degrees against the president. a basically put together number of things we put together with a new trade platform and did everything except for being against the tpp. we did everything else including the stuff a

democratic ohio state senator who rose to national prominence as an outspoken backer of bernie sanders during last year's presidential primaries she's gone on to denounce donald trump and the democratic national committee she's also president of our revolution described as the next step for bernie sanders movement i spoke to her earlier about that movement and the aftermath of the deadly violence in charlottesville here's that interview watch you said nina that the system is trying to drive a wedge between progressive people of color and progressive whites were kind of words wouldn't they be aligned. well we should be but you know there's a lot of talk about identity politics within the democratic party itself and in that frame it does drive away it's between progressive whites and progressive the washy say a stablish mitt establishment those in the democratic establishment are trying to use identity politics to drive away is what i do believe that the majority the conscious majority of people of color and whites make up the one majority of the electorate is how do you bring those two synergies together with understanding and with respect for one another pushing towards a progressive agenda for this co