reporting that the washington freebee condition which is a conservative publication in initially hired fusion gpscondition uncover dirt on the business dealings of then candidate donald trump. when trump became the nam knee the freebee condition no long erring fusion gg and the firm was hired by mark elias a lawyer representing the clinton campaign. that's when fusion hired christopher steele, the former brit it's intelligence officer who made the dossier that were widely discredited. and the fbi also reportedly paid for parts of the dossier though the fbi won't reveal its connections to gps saying it's protecting the integrity of the investigation by the robert mueller. now they're calling for mueller to step away from the investigation probe questioning whether his ten years at the fbi would make it impossible for mueller to remain impartial. then the democratic denials, hillary clinton chair woman debi becauser man schultz told congress al's they had no to pay for opposition research on donald trump. podesta and becauser man schultz made those statements. current party chair says he didn't kno

fusion gps and higher former british intelligence officer christopher steel to write the now infamous docier. here is the law firm quote about it. in its involvement and that fusion reached out to it. now, president trump weighing in and exclusive interview with lou dobbs. >> president trump: hillary clinton totally denied this. she knew nothing and all of a sudden found out what i was amazed at it's almost $6 million they paid and it's totally discredited, i call it fake news it's disgraceful. >> liz: the full interview airs at 7:00 p.m. eastern time here on fox business and lou dobbs is here now to talk about it. good to see you lieu. terrific interview. >> lou: great to see you thank you so much. the president and i are in a mood i must say given all of the challenges he faces, all of the responsibilities. he's a happy man today. >> liz: the clintons have been denying all along about any involvement with the russia russia russia file and now, it's the clinton campaign and the dnc helping to fund it. what are your thoughts? >> lou: my thoughts is the justice, sometimes can be like t

of a sudden well, we find out hillary clinton in the dnc had funded and then we find out about fusion gps. a lot of this is being driven by the house intelligence committee. >> jeanine: you know what, charlie, to them we certainly owe -- they get kudos. on monday, fusion is supposed to be respond to the subpoena. handing over the names of clients. what to think fusion is going to do? >> absolutely. we owe them a total -- gratitude here. democrats aren't circling the wagons around the clintons. when they cosmos like this, the whole party circles around them. now i have the dnc standing back saying hey, man, we didn't know anything about this. talk to them. you even have former seeing cia director -- and where's hillary? she's been hiding out. she's been so talkative and now she has gotten quiet. >> jeanine: what's interesting is once the law firm, perkins coie, once they waive the privilege, i think it will all start crumbling. byron, thanks to you. what can we look forward to next week? >> this is big. the house intel committee has also subpoenaed the fbi for all of its information into t

fusion gps, anti-republicans, clinton dossier. two stories. that was information on the latter from manu. and so jeff tubin, i'm going to start with you again on this. the fact is we heard this week on reporting on the fact that it was ultimately what became this dossier, this now famous dossier, that the dnc and clinton campaign paid for it, right, they wanted this information, this opposition research. podesta, debbie wasserman schults are saying they didn't know anything about it. >> this is very peculiar. first of all, i think big picture people need to know. there is nothing wrong for paying investigators for opposition research. republicans did it with the same firm. then apparently the clinton's campaign did it. what's bizarre here is why the clinton campaign department say that they did. and did john podesta and wasserman not know? and why didn't mark alias just didn't say it? i find the disclosure here peculiar. but the underlying issue is not all that complicated. but just like why didn't they say that they had paid for this research

evening, byron. >> good evening, judge. >> all right, you've got everyone talking about what this fusion gps situation is. you've got the whole thing turned on its head. now, it appears that the original funding for the gps, the fusion gps that we thought began with the clinton campaign and the dnc was funded by the washington free beacon which is a conservative publication. tell us what you know? >> it is, indeed. this week we found out that the whole russia part of the trump dossier, the part alleging collusion with russians was funded by the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee, but we'd always known that earlier than that, several months earlier starting in late 2015, a republican group had funded opposition research, not about russia but opposition research into donald trump and some other candidates and now tonight, i reported who it was. it was the washington free beacon which is a conservative web site kind of with attitude. it's a web site that mixes journalism and activism in some of its top staffers have history in journalism, activism and politics. they'

i didn't know the head of fusion gps.go to europe and tried to help him. this is the response from brian fallon this morning. >> maybe he is known for this entire year about this and the clinton campaign has known and again, this is a firm that was used by russia to smear sergei magnitsky, a victim of human rights abuses of the russian government was congress was passing legislation. hillary clinton used vladimir putin's opposition research firm to try and smear donald trump. that's a scandal of enormous proportion. >> sandra: we're just now getting into all this. the "wall street journal" reporter has been on this saying fusion gps, let's dig deeper and here we are this morning. a developing story. marc thiessen, thanks for joining us. >> bill: you're exactly right. there is a lot to follow. trey gowdy was with us last hour you have to pay attention to everything that's going on right now. you get the sense over the past 24 hours, sandra, they have taken this now to a new level. we'll see where it goes. the trump dossier

campaign hire fusion gps through this lawyer.ot clear to me at what point fusion gps' investigation through chris steele focuses narrowly, most narrowly on russia, but keep in mind that fusion gps was investigating outside of what chris steele was doing a lot of other things related to trump. and also providing that through the lawyer, again, to the clinton campaign and to the dnc. so it wasn't just russia-related material. >> so david chalian, what's your reaction to this? >> well, it is not good news for the dnc and the clinton campaign to be named and attached to the funding of something that you described in part has born out and in part included a lot of uncorroborated stuff to date. that being said, we had previously reported, right, that this opo research process began on the republican side and then democrats took over funding this opposition research operation, see who would those democrats be if not the dnc and clinton campaign the we would expect them to be come the spring of 2016, the people funding opposition researc

by the summer of 2016, fusion gps was already working for russian lawyer. while fusion denies the connection, the lawyer is at the center of the june 2016 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. after her associates promised dirt on hillary clinton. >> wanted to hear it out but really it went nowhere and it was apparent that's not what the meeting was about. >> court records show fusion told steele to brief reporters. by december, steele share the trump dossier with british intelligence. former clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon said he didn't know about steele or the dossier, adding if you'd known, he would've urged reporters to investigate. former dnc chair says she was in the dark. >> i wasn't aware. >> house minority leader went further. >> republicans are going into all these investigations. they just do not want to get the real story of the russian intrusion in the election. >> federal court in washington given td bank until friday to respond to the subpoena. lawyers for fusion gps in the bank are trying to work out a compromise. >> bret: a

fusion gps reported that. this information was paid for. if you look at the flow of information of fusion gps, red flags are being raised. we have kremlin officials who are passing information through into the american media to discreddi discredit a president. this is the real collusion. >> you want all these investigations to continue to come up with final answers on the sensitive issues. you are raising the sensitive issues, the democrats are raising and the president may say as he tweeted this morning and i will read it once again. it is now commonly agreed after many months of costly looking that there was no collusion between russia and trump and there was request hillary clinton. you want all these investigations to coming up with answers so that the american public learns exactly what happened and tries to prevent the russians from engaging in this kind of activity down the road, right? >> i think america deserves to know. to make my first point again, democrats have said there is no evidence of collusion that they have seen between

fusion gps has not answer ad lot of questions about this.ie, the media never answered the key question who paid for this dossier? by the way looking at donald trump. live pictures. he just arrived in dallas. he will survey some of damage in hurricanes this summer. he will make a speech we'll cover later. kimberly strassel of "the wall street journal," howie, saw this coming. she realize in fact the media was not doing due diligence finding out who paid for the trump dossier. here is what she said back in july. what if it was the democratic national committee or hillary clinton campaign? what if that money flowed from a political entity on the left to private law firm, to fusion, to a british speaking and to russian sources. that turns out pretty much the way it happened. >> right there is difference between speculating about the possibility and nailing it down. it may well be there was not much journalistic effort to find this out because so much media firepower was aimed at donald trump and allegations of collusion. i have to credit "the wa

>> she met with them early they are month and made a similar case, asked if dnc had ties to fusion gps. she said she had no knowledge of that either. first time learning met with investigators or saying no dnc connection. but now that we know there is some, there's a good chance she could come back for further questions. it wasn't a bulk of the interview but could be if investigators want to do further questioning. >>> coming up next here from brian fallon, and breaking news, quarter century in the making, government releases documents from the kennedy assassination files. president holding back some of them, question is why and will that fuel conspiracy theories that have been out there for decades? more ahead. your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight. ♪ share the spice of life. ♪ baby, slice it right. from the makers of lantus®, ♪ we're gonna groove tonight. toujeo® provides blood sugar-lowering activity for 24 hours and beyond, proven blood sugar control all day and all night, and significant a1c reduction. toujeo® is used to control high blood sugar in adul

they hired fusion gps to look into mr. trump. and then they fired him right when they figured out that trump was going to get the domination. democrats at this particular law firm hired mr. steele -- excuse me, hired fusion gps. then, mr. steele was hired way after that and he was also hired after the fbi had already opened up their probe into russian -- >> are you channeling juan williams? >> i want to get to the gag order, friends. >> the fbi probe was already open prior to this to the dossier. >> what point at fusion gps, did it used to be "wall street journal" reporters? >> i think they realized being reporters for a population that doesn't pay for their articles, isn't it interesting? targeting your talents. specific wealthy customer, they are essentially writing in-depth investigative reporting for people who will pay for it. if i want to do a piece on jesse watters, i hired fusion gps. >> i know. >> just an analogy. don't get any ideas. >> tread moment for -- a gag order has been reached on the uranium one deal brokered by

lou: we go back to tuneo and fusion gps and other firms. they disappear.hering back into the high grass. are we ever going to see the banging record of this firm? a judge blocks access to that evidence of what this firm is doing as fit has some first amendment rights? it's a peculiar thing. it's a smear machine. ed: it w for those who know -- it works for those who know how to play it well. they have to get the records from fusion. they have find out who paid money into that. lou: is congress scared to death to get records? ed: yes, it will. some of them will be involved tonight. and other supporters will be involved in it? lou: should we get a declaration from them? are you pro transparency or a swamp creature. ed: the democrats aren't going to do anything to hurt their party. lou: they sure hurt their party this time. ed: that's right. lou: up next, special counsel mueller unveiling his first indictments. they have nothing to do with president trump or his campaign or russia. i'll take up the empty claims of collusion. lou: in our online poll last week w

a lawyer did not address its associates with fusion gps. claims to congress are without merit, they say. >> bret: thank you. of the next, trey gowdy on how then fbi director james comey made up his mind long before the conclusion of the hillary clinton email investigation. here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 11 in los angeles. crews are working in steep terrain to battle an out-of-control fire near an historic observatory. huge plume of smoke visible after the blaze broke out. 25 acres of brush were charred as flames turned down the mountainside. fox 51 in gainesville. florida governor rick scott declares a state of emergency in advance of thursday speech by white nationalist richard spencer at the university of florida. governor scott warning in an executive order monday that a threat of potential emergencies in it. the order allows local law enforcement authorities to partner with state and other agencies to provide security. live look at new york from our affiliate fox 5 looking at times square. talks betwee

she was asked directly about whether or not the dnc had these similar ties to fusion gps. she said she had no knowledge of that either. she said pretty clearly that she did not. first time we're learning that she even met with the investigators let alone saying that there was no dnc connection. but i can tell you now that we do there is some, there's a very good chance that she could come back for further questions because at that point that was not a big bulk of the interview but it could be if investigators want to call her back for further questioning. >> appreciate that. coming up next we'll hear directly from the former -- breaking news that's a quarter century in the making. the government releasing documents from the kennedy assassination files. the the president holding back some of them. the question is why and will that fuel conspiracy theories that have been out there for decades? more on that ahead. is helpink rise higher than ever. as the world leader in unmanned aerial systems, we're attracting the world's best talent to central new york. and turning the airp

they had no connection between them and who the fusion gps. not actual likely actually. they paid more than $9 million to the law firm perkins koie and it seems likely that fusion was receiving the lion's share of that. they've resisted having their financial records let out. wasserman schultz and podesta so detached from the campaigns they were running in a presidential year they had no idea where millions of dollars went? that seems absurd. less than an hour another great mystery has been solved. the identity of the fundser of the original fusion gps opposition research on the trump campaign p we've known for a long time it was an anti trump republican. now according to byron york we know it was the washington free beacon. a website funded by hedge fund billionaire paul singer and founded by bill chris stole. that's where it all began. we think promise you not a single person in washington is surprised by that. >> a former state department official joins us tonight. david, thank you. i'm glad you're here. we've had many conversations about russia over the past year, you

between fusion gps, between uranium one, we have evidence of real russian collusion. america tonight is at a crisis point. will we have equal justice under the law or will america be a banana republic, corrupt at its core? the media is part of the corruption as the sewer, that is the swamp that is washington, d.c. so the tonight america has a choice. we can have equal justice for everyone or we can live in a country where if you have the right politics, you stand for the right left wing positions you can sell out your country and get away with it? guess what? this program is dedicated to the truth. we'll get to the bottom of all of this. joining us now is the chief counsel for the american center for law and justice. tonight jay sekulow. let me start with a simple question. your take on all of this? >> well you know it's not surprising that there was an indictment that came down in paul manafort's situation because that had been anticipated for a number of weeks. it's been speculated in the press. you had the no knock search of his house which raises a whole host of c

fusion gps may have some liability here on that point. what makes this so controversial is that fusion gps, these guys used to work at the "wall street journal." they have deep contacts within the reporting circles in washington. they got the spy to brief reporters on the dossier in september and october right before the election. the "new york times," "the washington post." the new yorker. and others. they didn't bite on the story then. but ultimately the information started leaking out. when you look at the dossier, it was an information plant by a company being paid on behalf of the democrats. that's not how it was portrayed in the reporting at the time. kennedy: how are the "new york times" and the post and yahoo feeling now that they were essentially duped when they were sold this line about the information? catherine: the post did a straight report last night when they broke the story about who paid for the dossier, and it was about a 6-8 month period from april and october of last year, and how much money the campaign gave the law

that's when we know clinton's campaign and the dnc, they took fusion gps up on this offer.this research well through the election. now, we've heard from clinton's spokesman at the time, brian fallon, he said he wasn't aware of this until this past weekend. and here's what he had to say about his boss, hillary clinton, and what she knew. >> she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. for instance, it could have been that a decision was made to authorize perkins to do some kind of commission, some kind of research, but then decisions about, you know, going out and finding fusion gps, finding christopher steele, you know, she may or may not have been awar aware of that level of detail. i don't know. >> reporter: and more information about this dossier is yet to come, kate. house intelligence chair devin nunes, he's issued a subpoena for fusion gps' bank records. that could potentially pinpoint who funded this dossier. on the republican side, it could lead to other information, as well. but of course, as you can imagine, fusion gps is fig

disclosing they hired fusion gps. howie: there is nothing wrong with hiring a pollster to help with reporting. when you are hiring a firm whose job it is to dig up dirt and you don't disclose that to readers, how is that not a conflict? joe: it is a conflict. we do this for a living, right? but i any the thanks is -- but i think if you are trying to hunt these things down, you go to where they are. if the fact are leading you to something trump until russia. that's where the oppo research firm in russia is going to go. the question is, fist any of it true. from the campaign point of view, that's what you want. that's what we are hunting down. howie: cnn went wall to wall that robert mueller brought his first indictment except this little detail that we don't know, who is it. the next morning. politico, "washington post" didn't have a story. is it hard to stay away from a story that isn't confirmed when it's all over cable networks? palm there arnetworks. howie: it could be another person. let me move to the republican

they described him as a fusion gps subcontractor. so the sources from whom you got this story are characterizing this not as the clinton campaign and the dnc telling steele, you know, go write this down for us, go tell us this particular story, they were paying him to find out what he could find out and it was -- it was self-directed. >> right. i think -- i think part of what happens is there is an evolution here and it starts out -- you know, when a republican donor hires fusion gps at first, our understanding is they're not really looking at russia that closely. it's only later in the election process, you know, roundabout the summer time when steele and the issue of issue really come to the forefront of what fusion gps is doing. so yes, that becomes more of an issue as time goes on, and, you know, what we're told is that, you know, the clinton campaign didn't have a ton of interaction with this stuff, however, you know, just as an example of that, a former spokesman for the campaign says that he didn't know about it at the time. i

i wonder about fusion gps. i know we are going to be talking about this later, but there is fusion gps, there is uranium one, a whole lot of russia gay issues about which moeller should be looking into it. his main interest is looking into russia is affecting our russia campaign on both sides, he's got to look at both sides and so far, there is no indication been doing that. >> harris: one thing that's come up that i'm kind of furious about. our team has been reporting this morning that paul manafort was caught off guard by this, completely shocked that anything like this was coming down. it do you remember the raid? it got really he must've known. >> kennedy: his financial documents, tax information. i feel like we need to broaden this out and asked the question what does this mean, how does this affect the trump agenda? >> katie: there is no evidence of them investigating uranium one, there is evidence of them investigating john podesta's brother because he is investigating things that we are not made aware o

the firm, fusion gps. then hired to write the dossier. devin nunes on special report last night saying he is now seeking the baking records of the research firm. >> we believe we are going to have this matter fixed within the next week or so and we believe we will receive the financial records of fusion gps ps chairman of the committee, it is my job to enforce subpoenas. lauren: fusion gps says the subpoena has no legitimate purposes. cheryl: that's a big story overnight. also, the white house saying arizona republican senator jeff flake's decision not to seek reelection is probably a good move. senator flake's decision to a month after bob corker said he will not be running for reelection as well. >> i think we support the american people on this one. the people both in tennessee and arizona supported this president and i don't think that the numbers are in favor of either of those two senators in their faith that this is probably the right decision. true to senate majority leader chuck schumer@jeff flake is one of the finest i've met in

tom cotton questioned the firm's resistance. >> fusion gps has gone to the greatest lengths possible to try to conceal who paid them. probably a democratic political operative. >> in march, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee relied on the dossiers unverified claims when he read a dramatic statement. allege inclusion between from campaign associates and russia. >> is a possible all of these events and reports are completely unrelated? yes. it is possible. it's also possible, may be more than possible, that they are not coincidental. >> eight months later, senate intelligence committee leaders said they were no closer to knowing the facts after the former british spy who gathered the information refused to cooperate. >> as it relates to the steele dossier, the committee has hit a wall. >> a obama era deal in which a russian backed company bought a uranium firm with ties in the u.s. is under fresh scrutiny by the house oversight committee. hillary clinton dismissed the story. >> it is the same baloney they have been peddling for years. there's been no credible evid

they ire fusion gps. this fellow is very upset, because he said fusion gps essentially tried to destroy him, calling him some of the most horrific names you could possibly call anyone. he said none of it founded on anything. completely baseless. this is what this hit job company apparently does? >> well, what is sad about this, trish, anyone can say anything and in this moment in which we live, virtually anytime. just look at twitter. then you put some actual resources behind it what we're talking about here with fusion and it is very, it is very troubling to think how quickly you can take down someone's reputation. now ultimately yes, there are slanderous laws, laws that prevent this sort of thing but that means you have to take someone to court. takes a long time to clear your name. trish: they can do a lot of damage in the meantime, yes? >> can completely undermine somebody in the meantime. trish: up fortunately what politics is b you're trying to undermine the opponent. you don't have tremendous amoun

meanwhile, let's talk about fusion gps. steve: that's right.rday the president launched on twitter, a tweet storm, trying to shift the spotlight to hillary clinton, essentially saying that her funding' that operation -- opposition research firm, fution g.p.s. brian: right. steve: why aren't people looking at that so he started diveeght this. ainsley: the president said, this never seen such republican anger and unity as i have concerning the lack of investigation on clinton made fake dossier now $12 million. the yiewrm russia deal the 33,000 plus deleted emails and the comey fix and so much more. instead, they look at phony trump/russia collusion which does not exist. the democrats are using this terrible and bad for country witch-hunt for evil politics but the republicans are fighting back like never before. there is so much guilt by the democrats and clinton and now the facts are pouring out. do something. brian: who is fusion gps and why are they pushing so hard to hold on to their financial records? well, this week, evidently, over the week

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evidence they paid for the creation of a false dossier fabricated by the washington smear machine fusion gps. all of the lies by the dnc, the clinton campaign. their paid character assassins suddenly boom aranged. and now growing calls for a new special counsel and an old one, robert mueller toned his russia witch hunt with gop lawmakers angry it's an open-ended waste of taxpayer dollars after more than a year and a half. the "wall street journal" editorial board calling for mule tore step down from his role in investigating alleged russian meddling in the 2016 election. they say he lacks what they call the critical distance to analyze recent revelations about the fbi role in all of the controversies. it's also clear the clintons have become the focus of congressional investigators. the clinton campaign and the dnc paid $9 million for that discredited dossier about donald trump and russia. but no one at the top of the democratic party will admit they knew anything about it. hillary clinton is silent on these latest revelations. her campaign chairman, john podesta, and former democratic natio

democratic national committee did pay $9 million to the firm and in turn that money was paid to fusion gpsat's when fusion hired christopher steele, the former british intel officer who wrote the now infamous dossier, a document filled with lurid allegations about donald trump that had been widely discredite discredited. meantime, the washington free beacon is trying to get as far away from the dossier as possible. the free beacon does the knowledge initially hiring fusion gps to get dirt on them-candidate donald trump during the g.o.p. primaries, but the conservative publication goes on to say "the free beacon has no knowledge of, or connection to the dossier provided payment for any work performed by christopher steele." if no connection the dossier does not mean they are back in the president's good gracious. in fact, former white house strategist chief steve bannon e off the chain to destroy -- he's the man who finances washington free beacon. >> martha: going off the chain he said. thank you very much. there with mark, jason chaffetz, former house oversight committee chairman. and mat

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they had hired fusion gps. i think that was problematic. but overall the explanation was good. >> that is a really important point. there is nothing wrong with hiring some outside form to help you. firm who is doing this and you explore that hell is not a big conflict? >> it is. there are things that are conflicts going on here. but >> we do this for a living, right? but i think what's happening is that if you're trying to find these things, trying to hunt them down, go to where they are. so if the facts are leading you to something with trump and russia, that is where the research form will go. if it is in the bahamas and that's where the research firm will go. the question, because this is been an internal document, they could go after negative information. the question is if any of it is true. because from the campaign points of view, that is what you want. >>. [multiple speakers] >> cnn went wall-to-wall starting flooding occurred msnbc as well. they reported that romulans brought the first indictment, exce

as no knowledge that the dns and fusion gps. this races the stakes and it's the first time we're learning about them, telling staff members of a key congressional committee and they have to tell the truth when they speak to these members and members now want to learn more about this because it's now been revealed that the clinton campaign and the dnc did in fact pay for at least part of this effort by fusion gps. now, this comes as across the capitol, wolf. devin nunes has been going after fusion gps trying to get more information about their funding source and all of his activities are ruffling feathers on an investigation that has been stymied by partisan fighting. partisan tensions are growing on the house intelligence committee with key republicans asserting it's almost time to bring the russia investigation to a close. but the top democrat on the committee, adam schiff, contends that republicans are rushing key witnesses through the panel and they need to continue methodically, even if that means through next year. republic

collusion scandal as we've said several times before has everything to do with the clinton campaign, fusion gps and russia. we've been saying from day one, there's been no evidence of trump-russia collusion and nothing in the indictment today change is not at all. >> all of the activities they were indicted former long before he ever met donald trump or had any association with the campaign. i think the reaction of the administration is to let the justice system works, everyone is innocent until presumed innocent. >> sandra: the democrats say this is just the beginning. >> no surprise, look, from the day director mueller was appointed to get into this investigation, i knew he would get to the bottom of it. more and more evidence is coming to the table, bottom line is mueller will get to the bottom of it. >> what it reveals is there is a lot more we can expect, it's the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end. >> sandra: this is a fox news alert, we want to show the white house live right now because the white house has scheduled a meeting with the president. they're calling it a tax

republicans turning up the heat on democrats demanding answers in the uranium one deal and the fusion gps scandal. we are following the money to find out who paid for the anti- trump dossier and the indictment is putting pressure on the trump agenda in just two days republicans will reveal their plan to overhaul the nation's tax code what will it mean for your family's bottom line? we're going to ask congressman tom reed, a member of the tax writing house and ways committee that's the only thing that matters. >> david: you got to ask somebody in the house ways and means. back to the markets the dow taking a hit following a new report republicans are considering phasing in corporate tax cuts. why? laurie rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we'll deal with the why in a moment but how did that affect stocks, laurie? >> already it: we had all kinds of messages coming from the stock market today david and just a few minutes ago the market caught a bid so we'll close off the lows to the session and the word on the street here is that people are pretty confident that jerome powe

although the fusion gps, the investigating company, was initially paid by the free beacon, and i thinkt there is an argument to be made that that crossed the line from journalism into political activism, they were not -- under the free beacon they were not looking at any russian connections. they certainly had not got the british spy, the former british spy, christopher steele, involved. so it was only after the free beacon and its financial backers dropped the investigation that gps went shopping this, their program to the hillary clinton campaign -- rick: right. >> -- and to the dnc. so it was only after the democrats and hillary clinton became involved that the russia connection was made. so you have to be somewhat suspicious. rick: meanwhileing mueller may have begun with one agenda or one purpose, but he could take this investigation in a lot of directions depending on what he uncovers. >> he absolutely could. and that's, again, where his conflicts of interest really come up. it's very difficult for him not to have a look at those sorts of leads. and yet mr. comey, in testimony to

but now he personally, alone, has issued subpoenas in the investigation to fusion gps.s news was first reported by cnn tonight. it was subsequently confirmed by nbc news. but although this wasn't totally clear in those initial reports, we can confirm that these subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from fusion gps, these subpoenas were oirnd unilaterally by devin nunes himself with nobody else signature on them and without any even notification to any democrats on the committee that the subpoenas were going out. now, that's weird. congressman nun he is, of course, was amen of the trump transition team. he was an early trump supporter. he was forced to step aside from his role supposedly leading the russia investigation. he came under pressure in april because he paid that weird secret nighttime visit to the white house and nen repeated these false claims that the president had been wire-tapped at trump tower by the obama administration. he stepped aside after the house ethics committee launched an investigation into whether or not he disclosed classified information

you had the fusion gps payments via from that law firm.hat basically had a dnc counsel, a guy known in democrat circles who ran that law firm. the sad irony, issue here, democrats were as willing to work with russians to get information and they were slicker about it and used middlemen and now hid the payments. it is coming to the surface now. go ahead, governor? >> you made a very important point. the the per -- perkins cois law firm. this is important point i hope mueller was going after. was the fake dossier, a totally false document. was that the basis for even looking into phone calls of manafort and other election people, campaign people, in the trump campaign? if it was, then i think somebody has got to answer for having created a false basis for surveillance. because that might get all of these people off the hook, if the basis opinion which they were surveiled turns out to be utterly phony and bogus and dishonest and illegal. liz: governor, we just had alan dershowitz on. he was talking about how robert mueller are trying to get m

the idea that he funded fusion gps and got ball rolling. should bannon be this offended or is it part of opposition research. >> many people finds it unconscionable that they would have hired an oh-research firm for this. it does bring into questions the "free beacon's" journalistic standards. there are people that were early up against him and don't care for him. now they are saying we may help with you your tax preform effort. i think president trump won't look that gift horse in the mouth. but when steve bannon says he's going off the chain, he's going off the chain against many people in the mid-terms and i think it will be quite successful. charles: we saw that in alabama. steve bannon is on a roll. he's trying to protect the trump idea. somebody like paul singer could put millions behind tax cuts and the president would lay off but bannon won't. >> it's like it's the same issue and same problem that evolved, only with different people. representative leadership, smaller government. it's an internal struggle between the assistant and a