mr. van der sloot. mr. van der sloot is supposed to be the obama victim. writer, victim. watch how they handle this on fox. they are so excited they screw the whole thing up. >> it's also something about some romney supporters that i think is significant. this kimberly is coming forward saying that she's been smeared in her life because of her support for mitt romney's campaign. her name down as a donor finds out the super pac's going around in her background to find out what she does and what she does want to do. >> no, no. that's not even close to what you want to be able to say. kimberly isn't the donor. she's the person at rupert murdoch who are has been writing about the donor and his name is frank. kimberly, it's totally, never mind. fox news is very excited about this scandal that they have uncovered. this scandal that as exciting as it may be, you should know is not true. it's false. the way it's unspooling is telling about our politics right now and how the conservative media is working in our politics. the claim from fox news and from mr. van der sloot, the basi

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mr. van der sloot.ceived a letter from his lawyers telling them to take the blog post down within 24 hours or they would find themselves sued. they did take the post. they did fwhoont to be sued. when they posted a copy of the lawyer's letter in order to explain why they had taken down the blog post, mr. van der sloot sued them. sued them for copyright infri e infringement for posting the letter. when we reported on him in february, when he reported op his and his politics and his role, surprise. we got contacted by him and his lawyers. first they requested that we take down the web version of the segment that we did. they asked that we remove it from the internet. no. they also tried to insist their written communications to nbc news about this matter were confidential and not for publication. of course, we didn't enter into any agreement to them. you're writing a letter to a news organization. we can do anything we want with that. that's the whole part of the free part of the free press. ultimately th

van der sloot's hometown and did what? >> hi, megyn. he contacted the courthouse and he was asking for, as you mentioned the divorce records for mr. der sloot. also a case, and he later expanded on his request, a couple of cases that dealt with business disputes, that had to do with mr. van der sloot's company. so i did looking into this guy and i traced him back to a organization in the washington, d.c. called fusion gps. and they promote themselves as people who do private investigation for hire and some people may call this the more polite term, opposition research. and so he seems to be working with them and somebody has clearly hired this group to go and search through the records of mr. van der sloot. this comes only 10 days after he was publicly named by the president's re-election campaign. megyn: michael wolff is affiliated with some campaign? >> it wasn't clear but when i called the private detective firm asked to speak him. they said he wasn't there. would be in on monday. when i reached him on personnal cell phone i asked him connection was with the firm, the answer was no comment. he didn't want to talk about that. meg

frank van der sloot, an investigator with the political opposition research firm, started digging up mrr sloot's old divorce records after he was named on that list by the campaign for the president's re-election. "the wall street journal" started looking into it, and kimberly strassle is the columnist who has been following this from the beginning. thank you very much for being here. so you spoke with mr. van der sloot, but the we're is the other eight who are on the list because these guys have been notoriously quiet since being identified and called out in less than flattering terms. have you found out about any efforts to look into anybody else's background? >> not so far. there's actually seven. although, what's interesting here is at least one of them wrote a letter to our newspaper after the first article about this came out just talking about the list, and he actually said that what was amazing to him is that he had managed to get on giis list even though he had ven money to both republicanses and to democrats. so it's a very curious standard that the obama campaign has chosen f

mr. van der sloot. don't feel bad. they list a bunch of things that you they said you did that were wrong. you said i'm just an honest businessman. what happened to your business in lieu of that? >> well, when i first saw the list i thought this is scary, within hours of that, then all kinds of things started appearing on the internet. suggesting all kinds of accusations against me, rewriting history as it were about all kinds of things i was supposedly guilty of. and. >> bill: did it impact your business directly. >> it did right away. phone calls started coming. in people wanted to cancel. >> bill: you are a mean guy, you are a rat. they wanted to cancel because you are a lousy guy, they read that on the net. >> they hit me first with they said i hated gay people. i was antigay. >> bill: nibbing your products that were gay says i'm not going to buy products from this guy. >> we have loot of people we deal with in the business world. >> bill: they basically slimed you, they smeared you. >> they did. >> bill: your resp

mr. van der sloot. don't feel bad. of things that you they said you did that were wrong. you said i'm just an honest businessman. what happened to your business in lieu of that? >> well, when i first saw the list i thought this is scary, within hours of that, then all kinds of things started appearing on the internet. suggesting all kinds of accusations against me, rewriting history as it were about all kinds of things i was supposedly guilty of. and. >> bill: did it impact your business directly. >> it did right away. phone calls started coming. in people wanted to cancel. >> bill: you are a mean guy, you are a rat. they wanted to cancel because you are a lousy guy, they read that on the net. >> they hit me first with they said i hated gay people. i was antigay. >> bill: nibbing your products that were gay says i'm not going to buy products from this guy. >> we have loot of people we deal with in the business world. >> bill: they basically slimed you, they smeared you. >> they did. >> bill: your response to the smear

we not only used it on him, but deepak and also van der sloot's father. >> but, if mr.tions. >> by his voice and by the rhythms that come up, it's like a tool being used as a polygraph where it's physical and they have to wire you up. we can take any transmission, and i can tell you if you are lying or if you have a illness or what is going on with you. >> you have this as an investigator, but did the new york city police? >> this was brought over by the israelis ten years ago, and the president, lynn robins and i both used this to assist law enforcement and prison systems to identify sexual predators so we could take the interview and look at it and assist the police and identify what this individual's problems are. >> back to the case at hand. what percentage do you give police on ever proving that mr. hernandez had anything at all to do with etan patz' death. >> they can go back and see if he is involved, and if not, then, his defense attorneys are already saying that this would be a case where he would plea insanity if it went forth. it may have been premature as to