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mr. steele, none. mr. ohr was associate deputy attorney general after all, so a dossier like the one that mr. steele had compiled would certainly be of interest to him. but whatever you think of the doj or the central intelligence agency, either now or through years past, you ought to know that what president trump is doing is simply without precedent. with very rare exception, chief executives do not even get involved in who does or does not have a security clearance. they just don't. but this president has, and every time he talks about it, he underscores his motivation for doing it. you'll remember that the white house has yet to say that john brennan in any way mishandled classified information, and it's hard not to notice that the other former officials under review all have connections, real or in the president's mind to the overall russia probe. and he admitted yesterday that this was for him about russia and punishing perceived critics. and he repeated that himself today. >> look, i say it. i say i

international affairs commentator jonathan steele joins us live to discuss the latest string of attacks mr steele good to have you with us welcome to watch the international an islamic state claim responsibility for wednesday suicide bombing at a couple school how much of a foothold does the terror group have in afghanistan. well they have quite a strong foothold and seem to be growing but they're doing tacky soft targets like to school that you mentioned yesterday and if you mosques and other shere places of worship and learning because most of the people and indeed most of the taliban are sunni of course and they many of them consider the show to be infidels and not true muslims and no one's claimed responsibility for today's attack so far who do you think might be behind this one well it could be as isis or taliban because they have also to try to ban tend to concentrate more on military targets and this is obviously a military target intelligence military intelligence initiative and defense ministry many times in kabul and recent months and years so did you call has become very unsafe city fo

mr. steele had previously provided reliable information to the fbi. hristopher steele to other fbi officials. that's what he did. that's what you expect a law enforcement agent to do. for the president to go ar mr. ohr shows that he is scared of the information he passed along to other fbi officials. >> i want to get your thoughts on the other story developing today. the associate of paul manafort, the convicted former trump campaign chairman, the associate named samuel pat isn't now cooperating with the special counsel robert mueller. and this was referred to initially by the senate intelligence committee to mueller who then referred this entire case to the u.s. attorney here in the district of columbia. what does that tell but this investigation? >> all right. today was another good day for the rule of law. we see the dominos around those close to donald trump keep falling. people get keeping indicted, convicted or plead guilty. and in this case mr. patton's guilty plea is significant for at least two reasons. first, he pled guilty to illegally funne

mr. steele whoho fabricated this dossier, the russia hoax, the collision narrative, this is a guy -- i dughem out out of a british court were proceeding and put it in the book, he basically said that his document wasn't worth the paper it was written on. and he said it is unverifiable, principally because it was based on anonymous sources in triple and quadruple hearsay. the fbi knew this. they didn't care. they wanted so much to stop donald trump that they were willing to break the law to do it to abuse their power to subvert the rule of law and undermine democracy. >> jeanine: sara, do we know where christopher steele is now? is he in the country, is he in the u.k., is he an russia? where is this guy? >> he is in the u.k. according to all of the sources i have spoken with, he is in thf u.k. are not making himself ver. public because he is also being sued. this is the reason why senator chuck bradley with the senate judiciary committee is adamantly about getting the deposition he gave in london to the united states. the problem, judge jeanine, is here. we are christopher steele, a foreign

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mr. steele. le of the clinton-trump campaign the clinton agent for fusion gps, christopher steele, who was talking to russia intelligence about trump supposedly was meeting repeatedly with the fbi. we don't know the details about those meetings though but -- david: this is what, this is what bob mueller was set up to do, was to investigate real russian collusion. this seems to be far more credible as evidence of russian collusion than anything that the trump campaign did? >> well, you know, as disturbingly in november they deemed him not useful as a confidential human source anymore. yet they continued to tell the court his information was reliable in terms of getting those fisa is warrants, spy warrants on carter page and the trump team. real abuse and, i think the fbi -- who at the fbi was meeting with him? we don't know. was it peter strzok? did james comey know the clinton campaign agent was in the fbi at least a dozen times in 2016? that doesn't count the times he was meeting, he and his peop

mr. steele. none. he was associate deputy attorney general so a dossier like the he compiled would be of interest to him, but whaufr think of thetev the doj or in years past, you ought to know what president trump is doing is without precedent. the very rare exceptions. the chief executives do not get involved in who does or doesn't have security clearance. this president has and every time he talks about it, he underscores motivation for doing it. you will remember the white house is yet to say that john brennan mishandled classified information and hard not to notice the other former officials have connections, real or in the president's mind with the overall russia probe. he admitted this was for him about russia and punishing perceived critics and he repe repeated that himself today. >> i say it and i say it again. the whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a rigged deal and they should be looking at the other side and the people that got fired by them. all of the people that got fired, they

mr. steele after the fbi terminated the relationship. >> did mr. ohr break the law when he took actions that financially benefited his wife who he worked for fusion gps? >> i don't know, but the fundamentals don't change the fact that department just as officials as working on the firm. if the fbi uses the dossier that they're getting from bruce ohr, peter strzok told us that to go get a warrant to spy on the trim campaign. so that's a big concern. did sally yates know what was going on? i don't know. we have lots of questions for him. >> thank you, congressman. so that's live on the fly with congressman jim jordan, 1 of 4 republicans will be asking questions along with staffers today. again, the main point is that bruce ohr acted as a back channel with the former british spy christopher steele who was the author of the dossier and that contact continued with the fbi in the fall of 2016 even after the fbi had fired a steele because he had lied about his contacts with the media and in those contacts, using the dossier. >> eric: a way to go, that is

mr. steele is worried might. >> here is 60 pages of communications with bruce ohr with the department ofsteve: they want it to be a secret. >> oh, right. because here is what chris steele did. he created a phony document, false intelligence. he hated trump. >> is he on record saying he would do anything to stop trump. so what he did was he created this false intelligence document peddles it to james comey and his confederates and john brennan and is he doing it a lot of it through bruce ohr, the guy thered in the middle of the screen he realizes is he going to get busted. is he going to get exposed. one text message is senator grassley has a letter and is he going to implicate him, christopher steele. another one he writes to bruce ohr scom about to testify and is he worried he will be exposed. steve: because then it would expose the fact that democrats funded it and hillary was involved and that would have happened almost two years earlier than right now. talking about the dossier though and you just mentioned mr. brennan. brennan got his security clearance yanked yesterday. one of the

mr. steele as well as his own potential personal interest in the matter.questions are being asked but there are many unanswered questions that remain to be filled in. >> sandra: democrats are using this as an opportunity to say republicans look desperate, they are bashing this as it continues. you just saw that fired-up jim jordan saying look, you wouldn't be making that case if you were looking at the facts. what are they missing? >> well, i think from the congressman's perspective what they're missing is the fact there apparently were a number of fairly senior leaders, agency officials, who were privy in some way, shape or form to this material as it was being circulated within the agency. there is also the question about mr. ohr's own personal interest in it, whether or not it's a scenario where based on his involvement, his interest, his personal beliefs, he should have just extricated himself from the situation and stepped aside. i'm not sure we've seen a smoking gun at this point. again, the information is coming out in bits and pieces. it was closed

mr. brennan told congress that the intelligence community did not make use of the so-called steele dossier. it is contradicted by at least two other officials. additionally, mr. brennan has recently leverage his status as a former high-ranking official to make a series of unfounded allegations about this administration. conduct is's inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secret. of mr.oadly, the issue --nnan's security clearance such access is inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into highly to validateitions political attack. any access to our nations torets -- i have begin review the access of classified information of government officials. comey,lapper, james michael hayden, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page and bruce orff. the security clearances may be revoked and those who have already lost theirs may not be .ble to have it reinstated i will direct appropriate staff to make the necessary arrangements. but that, i will take your questions. reporter: it seems like everyone thementioned is a critic of president. is he going after his

doubling of previously announced tariff on aluminum and steel to ten and fifty percent respectively on turkish imports of those key industrial metals mr trump's tweet also referenced the turkish lira slide the lear is a value on currency trading markets fell over eighteen percent as measured against the dollar after president said quote we are facing economic attacks today and we need to defend our country prompting mr trump's tariff raising tweet bloomberg reported this morning that the turkish lira is now the worst performing currency of twenty eight team edging out the argentine peso and it may have farther to fall as the end of the easy credit era continues to deflate the turkish economy mr trius latest international confrontation was prompted by the white house imposition of sanctions on turkish officials over the case of a u.s. pastor who has been charged with complicity in a coup attempt against mr heir to watch. and other currency and sanctions news in the region next door to turkey the value of the russian ruble is seguing has hit

mr. sharif: true and similar for steel, some steel workers and some in the u.s. fited, but anyone who puts deal into the product, not benefiting. vonnie: on nafta, do you see a conclusion today? mr. sharif: it may drag on for a few more days. what -- with what you heard from me canadian minister. vonnie: thank you to omair sharif. this is bloomberg. ♪ amnie: live from new york, i vonnie quinn and this is the european close on bloomberg markets. the canadian dollar has been ,eakening as headlines on trade weaker to the u.s. dollars 5.8% -- by .8%. justin trudeau has been clear on nafta red lines. minister speaking to reporters saying that robert lighthizer and herself understand and know the position of the other very well and we will see if they can come to an agreement on any deal. time for the bloomberg business flash. coca-cola expanding into hot drinks by buying a global brand, the british changed -- a british chain. both coke and pepsico have been seeking alternatives on the market in sugar drinks declines. the founder of pop and john suing bp to change ceo a

mr. trump's tweets and the increase in steel and aluminum tariffs.but turkish -- they will hurt the turkish steel sector. construction will go into a tailspin, but is it all out comic war? no. it reflects the fact that mr. trump is someone who has said it doesn't rates nato highly and then as perception, turkey is somehow protected by being a member of nato is obviously not the case. but i would say that if the central bank in turkey was truly would be raising interest rates now and rapidly. haidi: it feels like this is the summer of discontent. you have u.s. relationships, diplomatic or economic with china to russia to iran, now turkey, brexit negotiations going nowhere. does it feel like we are setting up for a ratcheting up of global risk at the moment? jacob: there is certainly that risk. there is a rather unprecedented degree of unpredictability at the core of the global financial system, whether you are talking brexit or the actions of the trump administration. at the same time, we should not get too far ahead of ourselves because we did just h

mr. brennan told congress the intelligence community did not make use of the so-called steele dossier in an assessment regarding the 2016 election. an assertion contradicted by at least two other senior officials in the intelligence community and all of the facts. additionally, mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations while on the internet and television about the ministration. mr. brennan's lying and recent conduct with increasing commentary and consistent with access to the nations most closely held secrets. and facilities. the very him of our adversaries, which is to so division and chaos. the larger question about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our nations most sensitive secrets long after their time in government has ended. such access is particularly inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into highly partisan positions and ct is real or perceived access to sensitive information to validate their political a

false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember m i six involved in meddling in the election not the russians you know it's really and then those ukrainian oligarchy that gave money to the clinton foundation i mean you could say that's a layer that that's how donald trump sees fulcrum policy that you get when he's slighted he's got it written down in a back of an envelope check that person's done that person's done i'm to i'm i'm making light of this a little bit but obviously there's personal issues that. views the world here go ahead peter. young i think.

mr. ohr . >> the documents shed more light on steele's activities before the presidential election he also asked ohr for help with a russian gol dark oligarch. >> and steel of the concerned about comey's firing, afraid they will be exposed, today justice deputy declined to comment or a chance to tell his story on august 28 when a closed-door committee is scheduled. during the presidential election. lou: thank you. >> catherine herridge. >> joining us chris farrell, director of investigation and research for judicial watch, great to have you with us, how deeply do you believe ohr on be connected to christopher steele? former mi6 spy, to the entire effort to discredit first president's campaign, then his administration? >> first, that is eye that is ag piece of journalism by ca cathee herridge, it pounds out ohr is the lynch pin in all this, with his wife's connection at fusion gps, and him taking information and funneling it back to fbi and doj away outside of scoich his s authority, abusing his position in was o offers. this shows the subject matter, and all of it, circles around ohr at this poi

false flag like like peter was referring to the script will thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but i don't you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember him isaacson vote meddling in the election not the russians you know it's really and then those ukrainian oligarchy that gave money to the clinton foundation i mean you could say that's a layer that that's how donald trump sees fulcrum policy that you get when he slighted he's got it written down in a back of an envelope check that person's done that person's done i'm to i'm i'm making light of it's a little bit but obviously there's personal issues that. views the world here go ahead peter. young i thi

steel dossier itself boo a huge scandal. it is against one serving justice department official. because bruce ohr's wife worked at fusion gps. mr. ohr appears to have contact himself with christopher steel during the campaign. so house republicans have gone along with the attacks on the dossier, the attacks on anybody associated with the dossier, and they are now going i know what the attacks on the justice department official who the justice department has singled out as being connected to the dossier. house republicans have summoned bruce ohr. they threatened a subpoena but he will appear voluntarily. so there is been all this drama around the steele dossier. the other threatening action related to the steele dossier has been lawsuits. these lawsuits, like the one, filed by herman khan. today a judge dismissed the defamation lawsuits against christopher steele and orbis business intelligence. it was dismissed with prejudice which means the plaintiffs cannot bring it up again. so alpha bank. we still don't know if there was anything operational when it came to efforts to interfere in the 2016 election or any potential trump ca

steel. and while on a conference call with mr trump yesterday the mexican president suggested can a stay inthe nafta renegotiating writing process mr trump largely ignored questions from reporters offering only sort of a we will see response to that then canadian foreign minister chrystia freeland is in washington today for talks on including canada in the nafta rewrite while mr trump is position the u.s. to leave canada out relevant congressional committee chairs and says that mr trump is not legally authorized under this so-called trade promotion authority or t.p.a. to negotiate an agreement that excludes canada will talk more about this tomorrow. and for the second time in as many weeks the german foreign minister heikal moscow has called for the european union to move away from the so-called swift system of international financial payments swift is an acronym for the society for worldwide financial telecommunications the system has been used over the years to guard against money laundering and particularly to guard against terrorist group financial transactions more than eleven thousand

mr. trump authorized the doubling of existing steel and aluminum duties on imports from turkey. adding inconspicuously that our relations with turkey are not good at this time. the president's dollar diplomacy has sent both the russian ruble and turkish lear are a plummeting with the russian currency down 7% for the week. worst week in over three years. the lear are a battled in international markets today is off a whopping 40% for the year. >> turkey is going to feel a lot of pain. what happens they should back down. donald trump is using tariffs extremely effectively and too good purpose. >> united states government sanctions can somebody a very effective tool in bringing various governments to the table with us or encourage countries to comply or to better set of behaviors. >> the administration's willingness to use economic sanctions to influence behaviors across the global has roiled markets, allies and alike. beijing unfair trade practices this week dropped new tariff demands on u.s. crude. and pyongyang is balking at what it's called gangster like negotiating tactics by t

steele. earlier today ohr ignored my questions. >> mr. ohr, who authorized your contact with the fbi? were you acting alone? or did you have authority from a justice department official? how did your wife benefit? did you have a conflict of interest? will you take your questions. lawmakers said ohr had a conflict because his wife worked with fusion gps and worked with russian people. >> sean: thanks. more reaction to today's breaking news. the author of the 3 weeks in a row "new york times" best seller, the russia hoax. fox news legal analyst greg jarrett and sarah carter. sarah carter let's stay on this and then get the background from greg. oh, he never testified? never called to testify before robert mueller? robert mueller cares more about loan elections and taxicab medallions and we have evidence that fisa courts were lied to? this blows it out of the water. the courts were the lied to. anybody who signed the warrants signed on to a knowing lie. comey and yates and rod rosenstein. put a fraud on the court 4 times using phoney clinton bought and paid for russian lies. >> the sourc

mr. ohr. >> the ohr document shed more light on steele's activity before the presidential election. steele shot the dossier to multiple media outlets he asked ohr for help with the russian oligarch after rumors that the u.s. might impose sanctions. when the f.b.i. director james comey was fired by president trump, ohr wrote that steele was, "very concerned about comey's firing. afraid they will be exposed." today the justice department declined to comment. ohr has a chance to tell his side of the story on august 28 when a closed door interview is scheduled scheduled with thee oversight and judiciary committees. as part of the joint investigation in the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. conduct in the presidential election. lou? >> lou: thank you very much. catherine herridge. joining us tonight, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. it's great to have you with us. how deeply do you believe ohr to be connected to christopher steele, the former mi-6 spy? and to the entire effort to discredit, first the president's campaign, and then his administration? >> well

exemptions from tariffs on steel and aluminum is still very much up in the air mr trump is supposed to make his decision until june first now there is a threat of. secondary sanctions we are talking about very very large chunk of the economy do you think all these economic issues and i'm trying to phrase it very carefully not to be accused of russian bias but still do you think these economic issues are going to be featured in the political discussions on the run sure i mean the first thing you need to say about this is that from your from europe's perspective iran does not matter economically so whatever decisions europe makes these are the the g c p u a are going to be national security could decisions and political decisions if they want iran to stay in the j.c.b. way they're going to have to offer some additional economic benefits but that's not because europe is deeply in amort of the possibility of trade with iran i do think though to. question dear broader question europe is perceiving all of these things as a piece of the steel and aluminum tariffs the recent sanctions on russi

mr. ohr. >> the documents shed more light on steele's activities before the election. christopher steele shopped the dossier to multiple outlets, he asked ohr with a russian oligarch after rumors the u.s. might impose sanctions. when fbi director james comey was fired by president trump, ohr wrote that steel was "very concerned about comey's firing, afraid they will be exposed." today the justice department client to comment. ohr has a chance to tell his story on august 28 and the closed-door interview was scheduled with the house or oversight judiciary committee. >> bret: catherine, thank you. president trump reportedly cutting through some of the red tape on how the u.s. government can launch cyber attacks. correspondent gillian turner reports tonight on the good and bad of easing the obama era rules. >> the area we have been most hamstrung in has been our ability to actually go out and go after the bad guys as soon as we figure out what they're up to. >> officials say the biggest challenge for the u.s. when it comes to fighting cyber warfare is the ability to go on

mr. mueller who were just as much a part of this cabal. >> i would suspect that's true. they were running the back channel between the fbi and doj while christopher steeleoligarch who was trying to get mr. ohr to approve his reentry into the country, and being paid by the fbi and being paid by fusion gps. david: one part giuliani was talking about, the other part is talking about the russian collusion story. if there is russian collusion, what we know is there were russian -- there was russian misinformation, a term we hadn't thought about since the cold war being used to discredit donald trump, not hillary clinton, paid for by the hillary clinton team and offered around the fbi and the doj and possibly the ci tax by a man, bruce ohr whose wife was work for fusion gps. >> and christopher steele and nellie ohr were hired by the fbi and fusion gps. and they were trying to get a story about donald trump early in this russia collusion lie. david: the rudy giuliani team has put a package together discrediting the mueller investigation. do they present it to the public at large or another special investigator? >> i guess we'll have to wait and see what they i

he joins donna edwards, michael steele, former rnc chair. welcome all. mr. caputo, wow. man, oh, man, you delivered the final major primary night of the season and florida delivers the big shocker. is it fair to say that both parties picked candidates that the other party says is unelectable? >> yeah, both sides are high fiving and they think the other guy will be easy meat. i suggest that we're really in uncharted territory here. not only did donald trump upend conventional wisdom but florida voters did it again by picking andrew gillum. you have the deepest blue progressive against the reddest trump conservative. forecasting what's going to happen in this race is really difficult. depending on who you talk to, republicans either elated because they think that gillum is just going to fall and be easy meat. and the democrats think that desantis is kind of a bit of a paper tiger, that he doesn't have much substance behind him. really if you scratch the surface, there's a tremendous amount of republican enthusiasm that we saw in the primary yesterday. they had kind of reco

mr trump has also previously threatened to levy about 10% of those chinese imports, including all sorts of things from steelds, dog food, furniture, tyres, et cetera. but with talks at a standstill, sources say this move will pressure china to return to the negotiating table. thank you very much indeed. india's central bank will be announcing its latest monetary policy decision today. injune, the bank had raised its key lending rate by 0.25%, the first hike in more than four years. so what could it do today? the bbc‘s yogita limaye reports from mumbai. are prices of vegetables, fruit, food grain and fuel rising rapidly? in short, is inflation growing at a fast pace? well, that is one of the main things the central bank considers when making its monetary policy decision, and it has got a mixed bag of numbers to look at this time. the latest government data we have is for the month ofjune, which came out in latejuly. it showed that consumer price inflation had risen to 5%, the highest in five months. but it is the details that are more interesting. it showed that food prices are not soaring, although the cost

exemptions from tariffs on steel and aluminum is still very much up in the air mr trump is supposed to make his decision until june first now there is a threat of. secondary sanctions we are talking about very very large chunk of the economy do you think all these economic issues and i'm trying to phrase it very carefully not to be accused of russian bias but still do you think these economic issues are going to be featured in the political discussions on the run sure i mean the first thing you need to say about this is that from your from europe's perspective iran does not matter economically so whatever decisions you're going to be national security could decisions and political decisions if they want iran to stay in the j.c. peel away they're going to have to offer some additional economic benefits but that's not because europe is you know deeply in amort of the possibility of. with iran i do think though to your questions your broader question europe is perceiving all of these things as a piece of the steel and aluminum tariffs the recent sanctions on russia the resumption of sanct

mr. congress that the intelligence community did not make use of the steele dossier in an assessment regarding the 2016 election. contradicted by two other senior officials in the community. additionally, mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations on the internet and television about this administration. his recent conduct characterized by infringing commentary inconsistent with access to the nations most closely held secret. more broadly, the issue of mr. brennan security clearance raises larger questions about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our nations most sensitive secrets long after their time in government has ended. such access is inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into positions that information. any access granted to our reasons secrets -- this i have begun to review the more general question of the access to classified information by government officials. as part of this review, i am evaluating action with

mr. trump's candidacy. we know that donald trump hates that steele dossier. bruce ohr found himself of the right wing conspiracy theory of russia's 2016 attack on the elections. may the president add more name to this list? we know the white house has a list and the president which we should say is headed to his private golf resort where he's going to spend the weekend. he'll be without the kind of guard rails that sometimes, sometimes rain in on his i impulses. >> geoff, thank you. >> our ktim dilanian and john mclaughlin, it is always good to have you. ken, let me start with you. i want to read you something that jeremy bash wrote. he's a former chief of staff of the cia. this is what he wrote. my concern this morning is trump will strip the clearances of bob mueller and the investigation team. it is critical that congress protect the mueller investigation now by passing a law that makes it impossible for trump to restrict the special counsel's access classified information. can the president do that? >> the president is the king when it comes to classified