she mentioned jack berkman, an associate of jack berkman, was offering the money.are uninitiated, i pray you are uninitiated, is a conspiracy theorist, self-promoting republican lobbyist troll. he latches onto random causes in hopes of getting himself in front of a camera. he has put sexual assault allegations against other people before only to have them blow up in his face because it turns out to not be true. one remarkable instance that i remember, my first interaction with jack berkman was -- and this guy is a lobbyist, okay? he introduced legislation around the time that michael sand, first openly gay nfl player to be drafted, h he introduced legislation at the time that would ban openly gay men from playing in the nfl. this a lobbyist, not a lawmaker introducing a bill. it was absurd and more absurd the fact i ended up finding out jack berkman's brother was gay. i called up jack berkman's brother about, it said i'm ashamed of what my brother is doing. that's where we are in this robert mueller saga. >> we're talking about this, it's the kind of accusation tha

jack berkman is a right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist.arsons hasn't been willing to speak directly to reporters, but today a second woman also said that she was contacted by this group that calls itself surefire intelligence with an offer to pay her to discuss encounters with robert mueller. at the same time those women were contacted, jack berkman posted a video to facebook where he claimed without evidence at all that robert mueller has a history of harassing women. surefire intelligence has been tied to a pro-trump conspiracy here's the named jacob wall. today jacob wall told nbc news that he was not involved in a plot to discredit robert mueller, but then he stopped answering questions about his involvement with surefire intelligence. nbc news discovered that the phone number for surefire intelligence redirects to jacob wall's mother's voicemail. jacob wall is about 20 years old. we're not sure if he lives with his mother. but one of the lessons of the day is do not, and, i mean, do not try to frame robert mueller if your phone number

heidi, what can you tell us, though, about jack berkman? right. the middle of a story that jack berkman was trying to plant against representative bobby scott. when i started to look into it, i found that there was a long history not only of jack berkman, but also of the woman that he was trying to use to make allegations against bobby scott. jack berkman was also behind the seth rich conspiracy theory that was splashed all over fox news. jack berkman was trying to arrange a similar situation here with mueller, actually at the same holiday inn in rosalyn where he brought before us a woman who was making allegations against representative bobby scott. when i looked into it further, i found that she had a long record, that she had filed a lawsuit under a different name in chicago. and that jack berkman may have been putting him on her payroll. it was uncorroborated and it was especially troubling because it was at the time when a lot of members of the congressional-backed caucus were worried that there was going to be an attempt to try and bring dow

now, despite all of that, the press conference set by jack berkman still scheduled for thursday, and guys, we'll continue to follow it. >> thank you very much, scott. >>> new at 11:00, unwanted robocalls. we've all gotten them. now two debt collection companies are paying millions to settle a lawsuit over illegal phone calling practices. it was filed by the santa clara district attorney and 17 other county prosecutors. according to the suit, allied interstate and icure holdings made call for months on end, even when no money was owed. together, the companies will pay $9 million and both must provide new employee training as part of that settlement. >>> coming up, much more for you, including president trump sending thousands of troops to the border. this is in response to the migrant caravan heading north. the troops roll once they get at the border. >>> a frightening sight on a b.a.r.t. train. a man with not just one but two chainsaws. the charges he's now facing. maybe you could save energy by weaving your own shoes... out of flax. or, simply adjust your thermostat. do your thing w

one of those women says she was approached by someone representing right-wing conspiracy peddler jack berkmanen who claim they were contacted say they never either met mueller or never saw him act inappropriately. >>> the fiance of murdered "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi speaking out for the first time. she's calling and hoping that justice is served for khashoggi's death and in her first american tv interview, she tells abc news about their final days together. here is abc's ian pannell. >> reporter: "washington post" writer jamal khashoggi was living in exile when he met a young woman from turkey and fell in love. this video shows the happy couple going to get paperwork for their wedding. this was september 28, four days before he was killed, and he was afraid. so he didn't want to go into the saudi consulate that day? yes, she says. he was worried he could be captured and sent back to saudi arabia. but instead, he was greeted warmly that day. so when he went back four days later, his guard was lowered. she waited outside, but the man she was to marry the following day never re

. >> jack berkman is a republican lobbyist and all-around conspiracy theorist.e's famous recently for peddling the conspiracy theory that seth rich was murdered due to his role in the leaking of democratic e-mails during the 2016 election. he's going to host a press conference at his usual location at a hotel in northern virginia tomorrow. that will be an interesting event to cover. the other person is a young gentleman by the name of jacob wall, who made a name for himself as a pro-trump twitter personality, who is very bombastic and caustic and wildly inaccurate in things he says publicly. he's banned from trading, was a former hedge fund trader, was banned from the national trading association. jack hired a company called surefire intelligence to help them with these alleged misdeeds by robert mueller. and in that company is jacob mall. it appears to be this very elaborate facade of fake people and fake clients and so on created by this wall character. in fact, he seems to be the only person behind it. he won't admit that after being presented with facts pret