helen hong, dean, and michael steel. michael, i will start with you. this is your crowd. know what -- what was your excuse for not attending the met this year, michael? >> look, dude, i didn't have a dress. >> oh, okay. you didn't have -- you didn't have -- >> i didn't have a dress. >> seriously, joking aside, what do you make of -- of aoc's statement in this? >> what was her statement, again? >> tax the rich. >> yeah -- oh, that statement. oh. okay. so, not much. look. it's okay. it's a fashion statement. what can you say? it's great. she looked -- she looked great. i hope she had a wonderful time. the -- the political statement on -- on her dress. everyone knows how the congresswoman feels about the rich and what she wants to do to them. um -- you know, if -- if you want to mess up a pretty gown with that, mess up a pretty gown with that. i -- i just think, you know, the reaction by a lot of republicans to the things that congresswoman ocasio-cortez does to me is the more hysterical part of this. um -- and in fact, it's so ridiculous that people now look at those exchan

with joking aside and, michael steele, this is a bit of a serious question.it the word tax the rich that just triggers republicans because they don't like having anyone who is rich pay their fair share of taxes? or should it be -- should it be close the tax loophole so everyone pays taxes? which you probably can't get that on a dress. >> let's -- let's be a little bit honest about this. where this narrative ultimately ends up. it's a great slogan to put on the back of a dress. and it's a great political statement but that's the wrong statement, and that's the wrong approach. it's not about taxing the rich because you can raise the -- the corporate-income tax. you can raise the individual wealth tax to 39, 40% if you want to. >> yeah. >> guess what? the system is already still have built into it ways to avoid paying that tax. >> yeah. >> so, we -- we increase the taxes on the rich. we lower the taxes on the rich. the only thing that really changes marginally is the degree to which they get to pay that because of all the internal structures that are still in pl

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still with us robert gibbs and michael steele.orses at the border. is that just a surface-level fix for what's happening? this is a mess down there. >> it is a mess. i think it's an important component of this policy. the images were horrific. they don't belong in 2021 and they didn't belong centuries ago when we might have been more used to unfortunately seeing them. i think, though, the steps they are taking are important. most importantly probably is getting people into shelters, getting them out from underneath the bridge, 15,000 people living in those conditions under a bridge is not what we want to see. quite frankly, we have to go through the adjudication process of i would presume tens of thousands of people or at least thousands of people seeking some level of asylum. so, look, there's a whole practical policy that has to get put back together, the asylum process came basically to a screeching halt under the trump administration. immigration courts are overloaded. it takes months if not longer to get a case heard. there's

michael steele is back with us. michael steele, we're trying to get the lieutenant governor -- we're having some technical difficulties. this has been on our radar for months. we've spoken to the state's attorney general many times who is confident that maricopa style audit won't happen in pennsylvania, but these moves may have the same animating and radicalizing impact. and you go back to that poll we talked about at the beginning of the hour. 78% of republicans in this country don't believe that president joe biden was legitimately elected. it is the fuel that is burning down faith and trust in our democracy. >> well, i'm a former lieutenant governor, so the one thing we learned, nicolle, is how to pinch-hit when the governor is not there. so i'm happy to stand in for the governor for a short while until we can get his tech worked out. no, i think that's exactly right and that's the point, isn't it? the point is, we know there's no fraud there. but we created enough noise, diversion, get people upset, fired up, di

, former chairman and rnc of the "michael steele podcast." before we get to your run in texas that lit up twitter this morning, i want to talk about the fact we have these new subpoenas that. we're getting closer and closer to finding out the logistics how the insurrection went down. in your mind, what is the significance of this investigation that we're seeing conducted by this special committee? >> well, it shows, i think it shows clearly, which we all knew that this wasn't a spontaneous event. there was causation involved and they conspired to do this and constructed this. it was a planned event that was facilitated by elected officials, which i actually think that's where we're finally are getting to in the course of this, that this was not just 5,000 people or 2,000 that just showed up because they wanted to do something and just spontaneously went to the capitol. that's, i think, the most despicable part of this is that elected officials and we're probably going to learn a lot of people knew this was being organized before it happened a

thanks to all of you, leigh ann caldwell, michael steele, jim messina and jonathan lemire. >>> and here in new york the talks aimed at destroying the iran nuclear deal held in vienna have been joined since june. secretary of state tony blinken here for u.n. meetings warned thursday night the u.s. would not wait indefinitely for an agreement saying tehran's nuclear advances could become irreversible. in the first interview iran's new government has done with anyone in the american news media, iran's top diplomat, their foreign minister, responded. sitting down with me here last night taking a firm stance about returning to the nuclear deal known as the gcpoa saying they would return some time soon unless -- they would not return, rather, unless the u.s. first lifts sanctions. your president said iran would return to the talks within weeks. is that a firm commitment? >> translator: we do not have the opportunity nor the time to sit in meetings simply to drink coffee with one another. what is important for us are tangible results. results that guarantee the rights and benefits of the irani

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of the michael steele podcast.uys. so robert, costa laid out and, and we saw our meadows with the president on january six, so is -- for that matter these are the folks who have been part for his inner circle. so they know things. but will they comply or more likely as chairman bennie thompson put it, be recalcitrant. >> well i think that there is no doubt, and you've seen this from the republican party's posture on investigating the entire insurrection is, they want nothing to do with this, they are going to delay, they're going to participate they'll do all these things. but i think your previous guests are likely in some way to be compelled to deliver some testimonies. and while i think steve bannon is maybe the most exciting name there i, to me the most interesting one is the former chief of staff mark meadows. it is unimaginable that mark meadows wouldn't know everything that have been that day. every movement that donald trump made. and every update that was coming in or request from the pentagon, or from the

michael steele, what can you tell us about where this lawsuit is?you can't speak to the specifics of what the "times" is reporting and the internal documents that have been produced, where does this lawsuit stand? >> well, this lawsuit was brought by a former dominion employee eric kumar, and that is a separate effort from my work for dominion voting systems. i think it reminds us, though, that these facts were not just notably false, these claims that the president's supporters were making were not knowingly false, they were easily knowingly false. it seemed to involve a simple google search. it was easy and obvious what they were trying to portray as reality is simply not true. >> harry, i want to come to you and i want to really understand what this former dominion employee is trying to prove and how these internal documents help this case. >> he's trying to prove defamation, and where the case stands exactly where they've come in and said dismiss it, and he said huh-uh, i have evidence. and here is the evidence, he's trying to prove that sydney

obviously is the reverse of what he has said in the past, but if i could also comment on what michael steeletely right. you know, what you're seeing now is a very, very dangerous game of political chicken in washington, and the problem with playing the game of chicken is that if you get it wrong, it can end in a horrific crash and everybody dies democrats may not be in a position to rescue the biden presidency this week, but they are in a position to torpedo it, and i think they need to be very, very serious about all of this, especially when they are on the one inch line when it comes to a bipartisan infrastructure package this was the signature dramatic legislative win by joe biden, he got 69 votes in the senate it would be political malpractice of the highest sort for them to torpedo that because they don't get everything they want and i think this is a dangerous moment in washington where everybody is playing political chicken with massive stakes for the country and obviously for the biden presidency >> and donna, understandably, house democrats don't want to vote for something that's go

return on the fundraising dollar as, as just the republican brand act alone and no offense to michael steele, but nobody misses him. he can have a great life over at m. s. b c, where liz cheney will probably end up look at where the republican party, whether donald trump grew it. he grew the enthusiasm and he grew the voter intensity and even in cities like new york city here, dining number, donald trump, in new york city alone, 120-0000 more voters in the 2020 election cycle than he did even in 2016 and joe biden, even in the liberal stronghold of new york city, got 3 percent less of the vote than hillary clinton did. so there is an intensity that comes with donald trump, that is going to carry the party. the nomination is had to be wants that the only person that could take it is the person that donald trump chooses to endorse for 2024. i think that's the current david, the party. you know, gina. i mean, historically speaking in 2022 that we should expect some kind of republican wave. i mean, historically, that has been the case here. would you attribute that just a history or to donald tr

i can remember michael steele saying that the tea party was -- the republicans thought they had a tiger by the tail and they thought they could control it, right? that's how they thought when it was back in the tea party days. but at a certain point you can't. you now have their own votes -- 65% of americans want to have mask mandates. their voters don't. their voters are essentially embracing death, literal death and poisoning themselves. their voters are so extreme now the assumption that you can get that somehow back under control with some sort of mitch mcconnell election strategy to me seems insane. i don't understand it, but that seems to be what republicans think that in the end they can control it. i think it's above that now. i don't think they can control these people at all. >> i don't think they believe they can control it. i think they're afraid of it, joy. i think they are afraid of the base, the republican party taking them out in primaries. so they're cowering, they're hiding under their desks, they're remaining silent, they're saying nothing, even when outrageous things

of the narrative came from a now discredit dossier compiled by former british spy christopher steele. michael to the fbi when he allegedly passed on a tip about a possible connection between the trump organization and a russian bank. the top republican on house judiciary says this indictment is a sign durham is getting to the root of the matter. >> that's what i think is the key distinction here. not a lie but the lie. one of the key lies at the beginning that launched this whole crazy investigation that we know was all based on just political operatives making things up. >> there have been two criminal indictments by durham so far. there is no indication if others will be prosecuted or when durham finishes his probe and issues some kind of report or summary of his findings and how and if the biden doj will make them public. bret? >> bret: a lot of questions. we will keep digging. mike, thanks. up next the january 6th sequel that was talked about a lot. touted by some media outlets but then well, fizzled. ♪ ♪ let's open your binders to page 188... uh carl, are there different planning options

hilarious things that has now come out is that one of the, one of the steele memos, the one about the alfa bank, was actually fed to him by michaelsman who was just indicted. everybody thought it came from christopher steele but in fact it was fed to him by michael sussman. so you know, if you can think it, it turns out to be true in this situation. it was very important for the clinton campaign not to be seen as the source of these rumors about donald trump and russian collusion. and so they would feed this information through various cutouts. people like fusion gps, people like michael sussman, then when the investigation was launched they would go to the media to say, hey, this is serious. the fbi is looking at it and too many members of the mainstream media were too comply ant spreading the story. really disgusting. elizabeth: democratic lawyer michael sussman pled not guilty lying to fbi. he got to sit down with general counsel james baker to begin with. he is friends with james baker reportedly. he told congressional investigators that he didn't know who sussman was representing, working with the dnc or clinton. how do you

the steele dossier link to democratic lawyer michael sussman has now been indicted by a grand jury in special counsel probe, accused of making false statements to the fbi. fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett along with investigative reporter john solomon. greg, as you read the indictment, it was very rarely revealing for a lot of reasons. i will let you explain it. >> it was one of the many lies that was conjured up by the dirty tricks department of the hillary clinton campaign. at the helm of that was hillary clinton herself. the defendant in this indictment is one of the minions that was spreading the lie at the behest of hillary clinton and now he's been caught allegedly lying about his lie. the person who should really be indicted as hillary clinton. one of the things i discovered as i poured through thousands of pages of documents as i was writing my book "witch hunt." i kept asking myself, who invented the light, the russia hoax? what was the genesis? i discovered it was hillary clinton. it was drawn from the insidious depths of her imagination. it was magnificently devious and

it is their broader push towards decarbonization, there crackdown on steel production, all of that makes a difference. jonathan: michael join us later. let's set up the price action this friday morning, a bounce back wednesday, thursday into friday. friday a touch softer, down 17. was that the man and my head or lisa abramowicz? what was that? kailey: she's clearly been practicing. lisa: did you cough or say "go to cash"? every talking about 20,000 or 50,000 on the dow? [laughter] did we do it? jonathan: this is bloomberg. ritika: china's central bank says all cryptocurrency related transactions are illegal. it is the strongest move against the industry. the website indicates all cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not fiat currency and cannot be circulated on the market. a statement says crypto related transactions including services provided by offshore companies the residents are listed. india plans to overhaul its military are gaining life. india's move comes as the u.s. and allies strength and allies strengthen defense cooperation against china. apple may have to redesign its iphones to use u.s. d.c. charging p

steele dossier. the democrats did. they paid lawyer michaelng with the university that got federal reserve grants to cook up the trump russia links with the russian bank. the fbi said this was about trump hotel marketing emails. the alfa bank allegation fell apart even before sussman delivered it to the fbi and mueller didn't touch it. that is the other thing. but when you dig deep into the indictment, byron, university researchers themselves said this is bogus, they were told to make up the narrative to even if they didn't have proof. come up with a useful narrative, only thing they had to go on was anti-trump sentiment to go after trump. that is what the indictment says. your word? >> it does, as a matter of fact it says look we don't have any evidence. it all falls apart. what are we going to do when people start asking us questions? being anti-trump isn't quite enough here. it would be nice if we had some evidence here. but this is what michael sussman was allegedly pushing. he managed to get a meeting with a top official, the general coun

michael has spoken about that. what was the same yes, ma curl, addressing the all crew steel and the submarine contract that australia pulled out of for the 1st time publicly. we've not heard from the french president publicly since that whole diplomatic route, iraq to nearly 2 weeks ago. now, in terms of all the pack that was signed between the u. k, the us and australia seemingly in secrets without any consultation with other ally sony note with frauds as far as paris is concerned. well, in terms of that pack, the french president said that it revealed one thing mainly, and that is that europeans must stop being naive. he said he kept using the word naive. he said that europeans must stop being my eve. they must realize that over the last decade the united states has been drifting away if you like, or from it's european pollen is looking after zone interests. microphone. well, the u. s. of course has every right to do that, but we in europe must also do the same cane reinforcing his assertion that the you must do more to bolster its own defense capabilities. he also said that it wasn't just a question of defense is

steele dossier was coming together. hillary clinton and the dnc and michael sussmann is the one that got caught.tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? no one else is going to report on this and does it lead to more from durham? haven't seen much yet. >> lawrence: rick, did get caught or warn all about him when you were in the dni? >> look, i don't even know where to begin this is such a swamp situation. i hope that we have a lot of time to focus on these issues going forward. the media that pushed this, i don't believe that the fbi officials were duped by an outside lawyer working with hillary clinton who lied about his client. >> lawrence: good point. >> michael sussmann, whoever he is and whatever lie he told, we released his transcript when i was acting director of national intelligence along with 63 other transcripts from the house intelligence committee. we released these because john durham wanted them released unredacted. so that's exactly what i did. there is treasure trove of information of people lying under oath in these. but, let's just remember

durham's indictment of michael sussmann exposes what we have known all along the trump russian collusion narrative hoax perpetrated by the clinton campaign via steeleke hillary clinton an asset of the kremlin instead. joining us now is former presidential candidate and representative tulsi gabbard. tulsi. thank you so much for being here. i'm sure you remember better than anyone else when you were accused by hillary clinton of being a russian asset. new revelations confirm what you already knew or all along did you know they were making this up to smear political opponents? >> yeah. it confirms what i knew to be true, which is something bigger than what happened to me. it really points to the fact that we have a situation in our country where the powerful elite, people like hillary clinton and those around her, the deep state, the media, they are all colluding to destroy outsiders who they deem as posing a threat to their power. so essentially what they do is they create this dictatorship those who are outsiders, those who put country first, those who are not afraid to to challenge the establishment they do all they can to silence and censor and th

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michael sussman took those allegations to the fbi general counsel, jim baker. so, you know, but then he's later testifying he didn't know about fusion gps and the steele dossier,spite his significant role in the hillary campaign. he said they didn't do anything with it. they didn't do anything with it? they put it inside the fbi to go after trump, you know what i mean? by the way, will you guys hold hearings on this if you take back control of the congress? >> well, that's the key. we have to have the gavels and take the house back in order to do it. you know the democrats respect going to do it. absolutely, there's going to be a reckoning for a whole host of things when we take the house back in 2022, and all of these people will be investigated to the fullest extent of the law and referrals made to the doj. if they, in fact, lied which, obviously, he had knowledge of things, they should be held accountable. elizabeth: got it. congressman greg steube, good to see you. come back soon. >>> up next, chris bedford. we're going to take on the hunter biden controversy, the latest one. e-mails reportedly show he brazenly demanded $2 million a year to help get the ob

inspector general michael horowitz reported that the fbi thought this alfa bank story was so fake that the fbi supervisors on the trump-russia probe used it in assessment how bad christopher steele was with the anti-trump opposition research. hillary's campaign, dnc funded steele. here is the issue. so they used this information to get fisa wiretaps. the fisa court is meant for terrorists. this fisa wiretap is putterful. it is one hop, two hop. it can look at people listening to the devices. democrats used opposition research. the fbi used it to get fisa wiretaps. that is perjury. where do we see that charge? >> liz, you're 100% right. what happened here falsely and corruptly the dnc, the campaign for clinton, weaponized, weaponized the fbi. so you do have people in the fbi the heads should roll after reading the indictment, asking questions, who in the clinton campaign, how high did it go, who was funding and paying for this, it was clear in the indictment tech people and other people were cooperating. they have the billing records of the law firm and the corrupt lawyer, and i'm telling you this thing is in its infancy right now in terms of who is going to be held to account. e

terms of the false steel dossier that has contained russian disinformation, which fbi knew about no later than january 2017. you worked at the justice department. did you know michael susman? >> to my knowledge, i've never met the man. >> did you know him by reputation? >> not particularly. >> what did you think james baker knew michael susman? >> i can't speak to whom james baker knew. >> do you think it's credible that james bacon, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page, these individuals had no idea who michael suszman was and who his clients might be? >> i certainly understand why you're asking the question but if i could just finish. given this isongoing criminal case being brought by the special counsel with whom we're actively cooperating -- >> that's fine. i won't get an answer. let me make the final point here. either the fbi was completely clueless or corrupt that they didn't check into whether michael sussman might have been working for the hillary clinton campaign before they opened the investigation to leak to the press which put this nation through three, four years of political turmoil. there needs to be a political accountability. i hope john durham

michael sussman he used a u.s. university funded with the government research grant to do data mining they dig up internet traffic and computers with the russian bank then the democrats and hillary campaign fund christopher steeleunked information, anti-trump and plant all of that at the fbi and the justice department, your reaction. >> opposition research is a slimy gross thing the politicians get involved in but this is not that, this is concocting and peddling false stories, it is a totally different level what was going on with sussman he would get the false information into his darndest to justify it even though the people at the university were telling them this is not conclusive or worse it's not perfect anything but he tried to dress it up and he goes to the fbi in the media and when he goes to the media he says this must be real the fbi is investigating it's a circular creation of a false narrative were sussman and others with use the media and fbi and the big question is not clear from this indictment whether or not the fbi was all too happy to jump on false information we got a flavor of that with the russian dossier story. were they victims of a false statement or were they saying thank you for the

steel, cars, all of that was when a tax rate was 99%, fdr, brought down to eisenhower and jfk, 76%. there was incredible prosperity! host: michaell take your point. michael, seth hanlon, the progress guy, we will let you start. guest 1: i totally agree. i think we absolutely should be looking at american history, the decades, the 1950's and the 1960's with the decades of both the strongest growth and the most shared prosperity, where all americans were growing together. now, obviously our country had problems with racism and discrimination, so we don't want to go back to those days, but, you know, we want to move forward with shared prosperity. i think it is exactly right, that the decades of recent american history, when we have the strongest growth, we had much, much higher tax rates on high income individuals and corporations. host: and we started with that, seth hanlon, so we will end with akash chougule, give you the final minute or two here. guest 2: i think i would just go back to, you know, what the american people really admire about this country, it is the land of opportunity, it is the land of american dreams, it is t

terms of the false steel dossier that has contained russian disinformation, which fbi knew about no later than january 2017. you worked at the justice department. did you know michael susman? >> to my knowledge, i've never met the man. >> did you know him by reputation? >> not particularly. >> what did you think james baker knew michael susman? >> i can't speak to whom james baker knew. >> do you think it's credible that james bacon, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page, these individuals had no idea who michael suszman was and who his clients might be? >> i certainly understand why you're asking the question but if i could just finish. given this isongoing criminal case being brought by the special counsel with whom we're actively cooperating -- >> that's fine. i won't get an answer. let me make the final point here. either the fbi was completely clueless or corrupt that they didn't check into whether michael sussman might have been working for the hillary clinton campaign before they opened the investigation to leak to the press which put this nation through three, four years of political turmoil. there needs to be a political accountability. i hope john durham