now we are hearing things that he didn't talk about in the past. >> we nowe know bruce and nellie ohruse our justice department to influence robert mueller's investigation this is after fusion gps hired the spouse of bruce ohr to be able to have their influence. you have the spouse of a senior justice department official colluding with an agent of a foreign government, christopher steele with the express you had purpose of trying to destabilize the u.s. presidential election. why is this not what we are looking into? rye is robert mueller not looking into this foreign interference around not the hoax of the trump russia which by the way gregg jarrett points out in his book. >> that's a nice plug. when the congressman talked about the fact that nellie was hired by fusion, nellie ohr, do we know when she was hired by fusion g.p.s. >> yes. she was hired by fusion gps in 2016. >> judge jeanine: this is right before the election. >> that's right. with a very specific purpose, judge gentleman gentleo she is fluent in russian. she is also a russia expert this was very well coordinated i agre

ohr is a disgrace. i think i will be taking it away quickly. is he a disgrace are with his wife nellie him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did that is a disgrace. >> asked whether their office has engaged with ohr or used ohr as intermediaryy for steele a spokesman for robert mueller declined to comment. judge? >> judge jeanine: thank you,ne catherine. sara carter has obtained notes from bruce ohr in one of her reporting in one of ohr's notes in 2017 he writes about a call with christopher steele and reveals that steele was, "very concerned about comey's firing of, afraid they will be exposed" joining us with more is sara carter the "new york times" bestselling author of russia hoax fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and florida congressman matt gaetz. all right. good evening, everyone. now, sara, what you have unethed some additional information.fo why don't you tell us what that is. >> i think it's very telling what bruce ohr and his relationship with christopher steele and how concerned christopher steele was that this would be exposed. there was also anoth

now we are hearing things that he didn't talk about in the past. >> we nowe know bruce and nellie ohrour justice department to influence robert mueller's investigation this is after fusion gps hired the spouse of bruce ohr to be able to have their influence. you have the spouse of a senior justice department official colluding with an agent of a foreign government, christopher steele with the express you had purpose of trying to destabilize the u.s. presidential election. why is this not what we are looking into? rye is robert mueller not looking into this foreign interference around not the hoax of the trump russia which by the way gregg jarrett points out in his book. >> that's a nice plug. when the congressman talked about the fact that nellie was hired by fusion, nellie ohr, do we know when she was hired by fusion g.p.s. >> yes. she was hired by fusion gps in 2016. >> judge jeanine: this is right before the election. >> that's right. with a very specific purpose, judge gentleman gentleo she is fluent in russian. she is also a russia expert this was very well coordinated i agree wi

meanwhile judicial watch is suing the justice department for communications between bruce ohr, nellie ohr and fusion gps. joining me now with more is judicial watch president tom finton, david avilla and fox news contributor doug schoen. you know we've got this link between steele, ohr and the russia oligarch. but there seems that there is no way for congress to get information, in their oversight attempts. there is no way the justice department is giving information via freedom of information. the only way we're getting information now is as usual through tom at any time ton and judicial watch. alright? so now tom you get all this information about the oligarch and christopher steele, what is that about? >> well look. christopher steele looks like was working with fusion gps even back then, which we have to remember was representing putin interests in court, here in the united states. trying to target putin's krit sticks. the key putin critic that led to the ma gin ski act that was famously discussed at the trump tower meeting. you putin interests pushing obviously it looks like the just

meanwhile judicial watch is suing the justice department for communications between bruce ohr, nellie ohrher steele and fusion gps. joining me now with more is judicial watch president tom finton, david avilla and fox news contributor doug schoen. you know we've got this link between steele, ohr and the russia oligarch. but there seems that there is no way for congress to get information, in their oversight attempts. there is no way the justice department is giving information via freedom of information. the only way we're getting information now is as usual through tom at any time ton and judicial watch. alright? so now tom you get all this information about the oligarch and christopher steele, what is that about? >> well look. christopher steele looks like was working with fusion gps even back then, which we have to remember was representing putin interests in court, here in the united states. trying to target putin's krit sticks. the key putin critic that led to the ma gin ski act that was famously discussed at the trump tower meeting. you putin interests pushing obviously it looks lik

recollected and all the information we found this week indicate there's a connection between bruce ohr, nellie ohr his wife, fusion gps for whom she worked, glenn simpson and christopher steele. explain that to the audience >> this is highly significant because it shows a very contention shows relationship between the way they felt about donald trump which we know christopher steele had said to bruce ohr in the 302's, fbi

four, we know bruce ohr was in close contact with christopher steele and bruce ohr's wife nellie workedith steele on the dirty russian dossier that hillary clinton and company paid for. the ohrs were making money producing the anti-trump dossier while passing its contents on to the fbi even after christophers steele was fired. and disclosing their blatant conflicts of interest. well, only to the fbi but not where he worked with the department of justice. fifth, bruce ohr and the fbi knew that the contents of this dossier were unverified. by the way, based on my sources, they even said bruce ohr admitted it could never be used in a court of law. but it was used for fisa warrants? they knew christopher steele was hell bent on taking president trump down. bruce ohr documented that steele was "desperate" that donald trump not get elected.ha he was passionate about him not being president. sixth, despite steele's bias and lies bought and paid in the dossier for by clinton and the dnc and the fbi, the fbi still used the information as the basis for the trump-russian collusion investigation an

now we have nellie ohr, his wife. she is working for glenn simpson at fusion gps.he is a russian expert. she speaks russian fluently. she is passing information along, t and as you see these emails, they review a tight-knit relationship. i was talking to lawmakers today, and if they were emphatic about the fact that they needed to bring people to depose them. they will bring them to the house judiciary committee, the house oversight committee, so they can question them about this relationship and the information that they were passing to theth fbi. >> jeanine: clearly they are going to be doing that. it goodlatte is going to be doing that. but greg gregg jarrett, i will go to you. you we know it is a russian hoax, you wrote the book. even moret significantly, all of these players, this conspiracy e doj, the fbi, the hillary clinton campaign, fusion gps paid for by the dnc. where does that leave all of these players legally? >> you need a calculator to count all of the regulations and laws that have been violated here. not only did communist confederates that he a n

fact that apparently, from what we can divine, the special counsel robert mueller has not called nellie ohrbruce ohr to talk to him about the situation. if they are investigating collusion, we have to get the transcripts from the hearing, which will go public at some point, why wouldn't mueller reach out to the ohrs? they seem to be central figures. >> number one, bruce ohr and nellie ohr are two different people. nellie ohr can have a -- >> they are husband and wife! >> shannon: i agree with you. it is very sensitive to a lot of people in washington when people are linked together. the problem is that she was working on the dossier that ohr was channeling to the fbi. >> let me continue. a couple more points. bruce ohr documented that he talked to steele, not to mention that he spent ten years investigating russian mobs and this type of russian oligarch, which means he talked to two mobsters and gangsters every day. >> shannon: why wouldn't mueller want to talk to him? >> it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. in the newness memo, the last line says the russian investigation wa

ohr's wife nellie worked for fusion gps for the trump dossier project. based on former british spy christopher steele's research. after the fbi dropped steele as a source, the house committee found that steele maintained contact using ohr as a back channel. in december 2016, 1 month after the election, ohr's notes indicated a connection. in the portfolio, doj did not include russia but a leading house republican said he was a key player in the intermediary. bruce ohr's wife worked for the firm that gave them the dossier. it was never supposed to work that way in the united states of america, but in fact it did. >> and a tweet last night, once again the president highlighted bruce and nellie ohr's relationship with fusion gps and peter strzok confirmed the fbi got records from ohr, attacking the russia probe with quote zero credibility." documents said interesting details on steele's activities before and after election. he wrote that he wasn't very concerned about the firing. >> okay. that was a doozy of a report. >> but they were going back and forth abo

fact that apparently from what we can divine the special counsel, robert mueller has not called nelly ohro talk about this. if they are investigating collusion. why wouldn't mueller reach out to the ohrs. >> bruce ohr and nelly ohr two different people, nelligan have a career without her husband. >> they are husband and wife. shannon: i agree with you. it is very offensive to people in washington when people are linked together. she was working on the dossier. >> let me continue. point number 2, bruce ohr, not to mention the fact he spent ten years investigating russian mobs and this type of russian oligarchs, he talked to mobsters and gangsters. it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. the russia investigation -- it had nothing to do with carter page. shannon: they found a lot of information that leads to questions about what triggered this. >> what this exposes is a deep state attack on donald trump and it is not just the justice department, not just the fbi but the mainstream media as well. let me finish talking, you have been talking the whole session. the president underst

they hired d14 and ohr's wife, nellie. mark meadows took part in the interview today saying that he believes 99% of the doj workers are patriots but the actions of some officials would raise alarm bells. watch. >> i think really our republic in the integrity of the fbi and doj is at stake. we have several that took things into their own hands and so with the credibility of legal justice that should have a blindfold and yet we are seeing that they were peaking and trying to tilt justice one way or the other based on their own political bias. >> so christian, we will go to your first and get your take on this as an employee of the government. it's probably not a good thing that he's getting hauled up from his perspective to answer the questions. and we will find out what happened with the congressman answering questions about what's your perspective? >> christian: it's never good if you are a bureaucrat to be on the front of newspapers. this is part of the 99% of the fbi being patriots i think is a great statistic because of

attorney for utah has not talked to not only bruce ohr or nellie ohr, but my client doug campbell and uranium one. there's so much coming out. fall of 2017, republican members of congress were demanding special counsel, federal issues and uranium one the fisa wiretap. in november, the assistant attorney general rights to the congressman and says we are in charge, but a senior prosecutors on it and we are going to evaluate your accusation very quickly. not investigate, which is what i used to do at the department of justice. but evaluate in the highest standard of justice. march 2018, jeff sessions comes out and says guess who i have in charge of all of this. i had john huber whose the u.s. attorney. in charge of looking at all of these issues are uranium one and surveillance. and now, nine months later, not only has bruce or nellie ohr been interviewed, but my client says to send his regards has not been introduced. how can you even evaluate those two issues about talking in those three people? how? is a sham. lou: it's a cover-up from start to finish. >> i'm appalled. lou: it is your

of course we want to talk to bruce ohr and nelly ohr who was working for fusion gps and the firm hired christopher steele to dig up dirt on donald trump. shannon: the list is bruce ohr, nelly ohr, glenn simpson and other officials, will they be subpoenaed? when would you hope to hear from them? >> those that work for government now, we should not have to subpoena them. they should do what bob and i did weeks ago which is in the lists to the department of justice, these are your employees we want to talk to. that has fallen on deaf ears. chairman goodlatte is a patient man but we have run out of patience. i talked to him at length. they need to set this writer there will be a subpoena issued, the speaker will back off, goodlatte will back it up, there is no reason not to make him available. shannon: a lot of folks would like to know what it means, are you still able to help us and i went to get to other questions about the mueller investigation because there is back and forth about agreement for the president to sit down, he seems jonesing for the chance to do it and everyone is telling

>> i don't want to give you bad information because i haven't had any indication that nellie ohr will be called to testify and will appear, but the important thing for folks at home is that bruce ohr's wife worked for the group that put the dossier together and she did research that was part of the dossier in the set of questions i just put the congressman jordan is whether bruce ohr may have a violation of federal law here because government officials are not allowed to take action in their official capacity that financially benefit members of their family and nellie ohr was receiving what i understand to be a significant income from the firm fusion gps that was behind the dossier. so that's another important issue to watch here. >> eric: certainly a lot of questions about those reported contacts between mr. ohr and christopher steele. if >> if i could just say one more thing, it's more than just a contact with christopher steele and the fbi. what the text messages obtained and reviewed by fox news show is that christopher steele, the british spy try to use bruce ohr as his go-betwee

mayor, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> sean: got ohr, steel, nellie ohr.an lies. >> can it get any worse? what do we need to know that this is a totally illegitimate investigation based on a report, a dossier that was paid for by hillary clinton and the democrats. probably the biggest illegality so far, the biggest delusion s. far. >> sean: or conspiracy. >> completely made up. led to nothing except several fraudulent fisa wires. and now we have mueller, who doesn't seem to care that he's sitting on top of a totally illegitimate investigation. >> sean: nothing about the dossier that she paid for in the fact that the fbi paid steele, it was designed to misinform the american people with russian lies to influence the election. there's a great irony here. >> maybe if mueller and his band of whatever they are, democrats, right, or fair-minded, maybe they would investigate -- maybe that's the collusion. be that's they collusion. >> sean: did you ever hear the adam schiff tape that we played? just dying to get naked pictures of trump with a a russian on tape. th

i think that bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nellie. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. jon: so in short, there is a lot more still to be learned about bruce ohr and his role in all of this? >> essentially, yes. it is still unclear whether the fbi even knew about the relationship and the connection that they had known that he was in communication with christopher steele. and also, if it had any effect on the current russia investigation. right now it is unclear to really say what happened and to make any real determinations, but it is definitely intriguing story line. jon: we will talk to you again in a few minutes. thank you. >> thank you. jon: national security advisor john bolton on a three-nation trip to discuss u.s. foreign policy. later this week, bolton heads to geneva where he will meet with his russian counterpart. when asked how the u.s. will handle russia and its denial of election meddling, bolton says he expects it to come up in their meeting. >> i'm sure we will have a d

tweeting the big story is low life christopher steele's many meetings with deputy ag bruce ohr and his beautiful wife nellied steele to write the phony and discredited dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc. congressional republicans picked up on trump's attacks, promised to probe ohr for answers behind closed doors. no democratic lawmakers attended the hearing. >> i think it's really important for us to establish a timeline regarding bruce ohr's activities and nellie's activities. we don't know when his wife learned he is working with a foreign government to destabilize a election and potentially a presidency. >> bruce hohr was recently demoted but for years he led the racketeering section. he focused on russia organized crime, and according to "the new york times," he first met christopher steele in 2007. republicans are seedsing on his meetings with steele in 2016 after the fbi stopped working with steele because of his contacts with members of the media. conservatives contend the timing of their condolence is suspicious since they argue the two spoke often around crucial milestones in the russi

bruce ohr's wife, nellie ohr, she worked with christopher steele at fusion gps, a massive detail thatruce ohr failed to report to the justice department he worked for while some of his colleagues used the contents of clinton's dirty dossier as the basis for criminal investigations and of course lying in pfizer court applications. the ohr-steele relationship was so seedy that in 2017 christopher steele expressed his concern over james comey's upcoming testimony writing to bruce ohr, just wondering if you had any news. obviously we are a bit apprehensive given scheduled appearance at congress on monday. that would be comey's, hoping that important firewalls, plural, will hold. many thanks. meanwhile, according to bruce ohr's handwritten memos christopher steele was "very concerned" about the combing hearing and afraid they will be exposed. other communications show steele's efforts to reach the special counsel investigation, including robert mueller. november of 2017, ohr wrote to steele "i have passed on the questions apparently to the special counsel mueller but haven't gotten an answ

. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nelly, for him to be in the justice department andt he did, that is a disgrace. jillian: what questions does ohr need to answer today? commentary writer at the washington times, thank you for joining us this morning, you say there are two big questions, what are they and do you anticipate getting answers? >> an entire universe of things you can ask this man. the forest gump of the russia investigation. he was at the department of justice and involved in the russia investigation. his wife nelly ohr was a fusion gps, he did not disclose he was financially benefiting from an active federal matter he was involved with and finally he happens to be friends with christopher steele. republicans are going to be chomping at the bit. it is going to be up to him to decide whether or not to play ball. rob: let's read a statement from mark meadows, republican looking into this quite a bit. bruce ohr's wife worked for clinton campaign to write the campaign. the fbi use the dossier to spy on a trump campaign. while working at the ohr has b, and what

why don't you investigate james comey or peter strzok or andrew mccabe or bruce ohr and his wife nellyhis wife had a job with feution gps, the company hillary funneled her money to to get the take dossier to get dirt on donald trump. here we have bruce ohr not even disclosing that his wife is work for the agency paying for the dossier. bruce, are you side? your position as the government cleaner are etched in the record. after four americans are murder in benghazi, why would you say the fbi couldn't get to benghazi in time. it could two or three weeks? they needed someone who would say the fbi couldn't get to benghazi since it was way too dangerous. bob, you look and sound like a fool. cnn and just about every newspaper in the country, in the world got there. they made there it, but the fbi couldn't? i get, a good cleaner wants a crime scene as trampled as possible. but you know, bob, we are all getting tired of this and this comes down to your effort to get donald trump indicted and you are panicking. you got nothing. talk of subpoenaing him is ridiculous. and bob you should know bett

he was working with bruce ohr's wife, nellie ohr, the ohrs were literally profiting out their relationshipith christopher steele. ohr said today that he disclosed that the fbi. really? the fbi was okay with that? now at the end, this is where we are. we now know for a fact that in four separate fisa court applications, fisa court judges were repeatedly lied to. knowingly lied to. the american people, you come over all lied to, all in an effy high-ranking government bureaucrats to steal, sway, rob, and election and at all cops, costs stop donald trump from winning and to store his presidency. communications between ohr and christopher steele, 60 some odd pages of it. it shows that steele was extremely concerned about being exposed for this and for good reason because this level of corruption and abuse should make every single american citizen sick. a printed example of what i've been telling you, a two tiered justice system. hillary clinton gets a free pass. trump is literally targeted by our government with her salacious phony campaign oppo research put together by a foreign national using

i think bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nellie. >> we know bruce and nellie ohr like. >> securitylearance is a very, very important debate. i have ha tremendous response for having done that if anything, i'm giving him a bigger voice. many people don't even know who he is. >> two days of deliberations, still no verdict in the paul manafort fraud trial. >> i think whole manafort trial is very sad. when you look at what's going on there, it's a very sad day for our country. he happens to be a very good person. >> expression i used the other day is of course america is great. of course america has always been great. >> he is going to walk away from this experience sorry for being so bad at politics ♪ party rocking in the house tonight ♪ everybody just have a good time ♪ and we going to make you lose your mind ♪ we just want to see you ♪ shake that. ed: take the weekend off get todd piro dancing on the couch. todd: it's what we do in the state of knowledge. like the turkey call i made on the roller coaster overunder on the audio is play it i'm going with five. ed: we should do it a lo

steele met bruce and nellie ohr for breakfast.e said quote great to see you and nellie this morning, let's keep in touch on substantive issues. glenn simpson, founder of gps, is happy to speak with you on this if it would help. now, just one day later, and trump fbi investigator peter strzok opened up the investigation into the phony claims of trump russia collusion. did you see how this is all coming together? and after the election ended, and, just want to check. they are locally discussing along with your bureau colleagues. feeding the fbi, lies, misinformation, and propaganda. and they have been barred from working with the fbi in november of 2016 because of his leaking to the news media. let's also keep in mind the major role that this steele clinton paid for dirty dossier played in the fisa applications against carter page. we now have proof. bruce ohr likely funneled the dossier to the fbi, a document, he knew was op research bought and paid for by the political party in an election year. remember just yesterday on this pro

the method was christopher steele would talk to bruce ohr who happened to be married to nellie ohr, ad for fusion gps. and bruce ohr would pass on that information to the fbi. the fbi use sad cutout to stay in contact with christopher steele. gregg: they were clever and devious by the. did the fbi continue to work with christopher steele after the election because quite simply they wanted to undo the election results and destroy trump. >> if you look at it, there were a dozen meetings between the fbi and bruce ohr. the purpose of those meetings was to have bruce ohr pass on to the fbi what he had been told by christopher steele. going all the way to may 2017, there is a couple of reasons. one, the fbi was look for new information, apparently trying to pursue this trump-russia thing. and, two, they were trying to get some confirmation for the dossier information steel had given them and they used in a fisa court to get a warrant against carter page. once they were out on the limb, they were trying to find out, gee, is this stuff true? gregg: in the fbi regulations it says you may not u

wow, nelly ohr, bruce ohr's wife, is a russia expert who is fluent in russian.sion gps where she was paid a lot. collusion, bruce was the boss at the department of justice and is unbelievably still there. that is remarkable, tom. >> it is. i can't think of too many other instances in which the president has targeted a single employee with an agency for termination. we'll see how that plays out. a classic situation. when i was at the justice department one thing i would drill home to people you need to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. if it's a situation where your motives could be questioned, is safest and best course is usually just to step aside and let people who wouldn't be similarly conflicted make these determinations. even if you weren't affected it can create the appearance of favoritism. that's what we're seeing play out here. a lot of tough questions are being asked and we'll see where it ends up. >> sandra: firing back at democrats like jerry nadler from others in new york and others, the f.b.i. knew but didn't tell the court. he lays out the

ohr was working behind the scenes with his wife nellie at fusion gps.g unfettered access to raw fisa data that was impermissible. there was a decision of the fisa court half live redacted but disclosed that indicates comey's fbi gave several private contractors raw access to the fisa information. i think one of those people or entities will be fusion gps. so you have ohr working with weissmann who always stays in' touch with robert mueller. they go back 20 years at least. david: his wife was working for fusion gps which apparently he did not disguise. which makes it even more extraordinary that andrew weissmann is still working on the mueller team, and i wonder if there are others work for 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 steele is being paid by the russian oligarch 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 talk

bruce ohr is instrumental and wife nelly ohr are instrumental in the investigation and what we need toserve to know what bruce ohr was doing, who at dnc, clinton campaign, the obama administration, did anyone in those three organizations recommend nelly ohr, recommend that nelly ohr go to work for fusion, why didn't bruce ohr, another very important question, why didn't bruce ohr disclose his wife's work on financial disclosure form, why didn't he say she worked at fusion and didn't talk about her income, we know that he was instrumental in helping her so why was he so vague on his financial disclosure? brian: give you an idea of how significant this is, fusion gps hired by dnc and hillary clinton to dig up dirt on president trump, he has to hire people to do it, when he gets intelligence he takes it and push it back to fusion gps, so when sally yates gets fired and james comey is in trouble, guess what happens? christopher steele needs to reach out to somebody, he needs to reach to somebody in doj that's involved in narcotics, why would you do that? why were you texting back and forth

his wife, nelly ohr, worked for fusion gps which will dissemble the trump garcia, those unproven allegationsnvolving then candidate donald trump. ohr had a number of communications with former british spy christopher steele. many democrats discounted this have a conspiracy theory many republicans believe this may be evidence ohr was actively seeking to target trump. >> 60 texts between bruce ohr and christopher steele, some of them after he was dismissed for wrong behavior as an operative. you look at that and say wait a second, we have him as another link, another partisan, as close to this as hillary clinton herself. rob: many republicans believe officials like ohr had it out for trump and other officials sought to protect hillary clinton during the investigation into her use of classified emails. rob: thank you so much. the gunman who opened fire in a videogame tournament was hospitalized twice for psychiatric treatment, his parents divorce papers, he was described as on antidepressant medication as early at the age of 12, the doctors say he struggled in college after enrolling in 2014, n

republican lawmakers are expected to grill ohr about his connections to christopher steele, as well as his wife nellie who worked for opposition research firm fusion gps during the 2016 campaign. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge catherine herridge joins us now live in washington >> good afternoon. tuesday's definition will ohr's decision to protocol and bypass doj leadership to share information with the fbi from former british spy christopher steele who's behind of the anti-trump dossier. whether the fbi about his hatred of candid trumpet as well as 2016 contracts, and the fbi still use the dossier to secure a surveillance warrant for trump campaign aide in late october october 2016. it's important to note that ohr oversaw activity that wasn't part of his portfolio. they are also probing into his relationship with glenn simpson's firm, fusion gps, was paid for the dossier project. it's also important to note that since an employed his wife, nellie, this part of the research. the house republicans explained their strategy today on fox. >> want him to confirm what we already know fro

. >> really important for us to establish a time line regarding bruce ohr's activities and nellie ohr's activities. there's a lot we don't know when he learned his wife was working with an agent of a foreign government to destabilize the presidential election and potentially a presidency. >> he went on to question rod rosenstein's leadership. as deputy attorney general, rosenstein has been a target of conservatives. those conservatives want to know when justice department officials became aware of ohr's meetings with christopher steele. because they want to know whether any of the meetings may have played any role in the russia investigation. we heard from the chairman of the committee, meadows. he said he has at least 60 questions for bruce ohr. this likely to stretch long into the day. and it probably will get quite heated behind the closed doors. >> we can imagine that it will. also just want to quickly check in on this, "the wall street journal" reporting paul manafort's lawyers had been talking about a possible plea deal for this second trial set to start next month. those discussi

he's married to nelly ohr. the dossier had damaging information of 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? >>

i think bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nellie. >> we know bruce and nellie ohr like. >> securitynt debate. i have ha tremendous response for having done that if anything, i'm giving him a bigger voice. many people don't even know who he is. >> two days of deliberations, still no verdict in the paul m

i think that bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nelly, for him to be in the justice department, andbe doing what he did, that is a disgrace. maria: now, ohr will go before congress nine days from now for a closed-door interview. my next guest is the lawmaker who will lead the questioning joining me right now is congressman john ratcliffe member of the house judiciary and also a former federal prosecutor congressman a pleasure to have you thanks for joining us. >> always good to see you maria maria: let's talk about bruce ohr why he is at the center of this situation now and in your target, you're going to be leading the questioning what do you want to hear from bruce ohr? >> so remember, maria, how bad it was when we all found out there was this unverified dossier that was used as a basis to gain a warrant to surveil someone associated with the trump campaign, carter page, and it got worse when we found out that that dossier was paid for by hillary clinton and the dnc, but little did we know that some of that money that hillary clinton and the dnc used to pay for the dossier ultimat

congressman let me switch gears and move forward and ask you about this ongoing saga of bruce and nellie ohr, and of course bruce ohr was the number four official at the department of justice, he will be in front of your committee in the next week. the judiciary committee as he testifies. what are you looking to get from bruce ohr this upcoming week, sir? >> well you know what the question always is, the infamous question, what did you know and when did you know it? it's clear that we know some things. he knew that christopher steele had been dismissed. he knew that the information in that fake dossier shouldn't go forward. he knew that in fact that he had it go forward, he of course also knew that his wife was actively involved in it, and as an attorney, there are things you disclose or recuse yourself. he did neither so the questions will be about the things he clearly knew and did wrong. remember that this is us saying there's a problem with ohr. he's been demoted from being the highest-ranking non-political appointee, highest-ranking non- political if you will. he's been demoted twice an

the hill that republican chairman bob goodlatte is preparing subpoenas for bruce ohr, his wife nellie ohrs. according to the hill, bruce ohr has come under republican scrutiny for his contacts with simpson and former british spy steele during the 2016 campaign, a revelation that sparked demands from trump allies for a special counsel investigation into the doj and fbi last december. simpson hired steele to help compile the controversial dossier that made salacious allegations against president trump's ties to wife. ohr's wife worked for fusion gps during the 2016 election which republicans seized on as a possible connection that links the opposition research firm and the justice department. >>> kansas city of state kris kobach has announced he will recuse himself from recounting the votes in the republican primary for the state's governor as his lead dwindles. yesterday he reversed course, saying he would recuse himself from a potential recount after saying the day before he would not. it comes amid growing pressure from his opponent who sent a letter that kobach reframe from instructing