is his work started funded by oppo research, funded by republicans -- >> sean: "the free beacon" so that they had glenn simpsonnd fusion gps on a retainer but they did not fund the christopher steele memo or the dossier. that was initiated by democrats. >> my understanding was the activity was begun, he was hired to look into it, first hired by republicans, then -- picked up by democrats opposed to donald trump. >> sean: this is mind-blowing. they never verify it. he didn't know who funded it. really? christopher steele was not brought in until hillary took over. the fusion gps deep dive into donald trump. earlier today, the president called into "fox & friends" and sounded off rightly so on james comey. listen to the president. >> comey is a leaguer and he's a liar! not only on this stuff, he's been leaking for years. he's probably been using his friend, the so-called professor who now turns out to have fbi clearance, which he never said, he even lied about that because he never said that in congress, he said he gave it to a friend. he gave it to a friend to leak. classified information. it's all classified.