so sidney blumenthal has been a very long friend of hillary clinton.n officials. they didn't want him there but nonetheless i think he was drawing 10,000-dollar a month salary from the clinton foundation. >> correct. steve: why would they want to talk to him about the dossier? >> i think this is the most intriguing part of the whole story. why would they want to talk with him? did he in some way corroborate information inside of that dossier or play a role in that? we don't know. was he somehow connected to the dossier? his close relationship with hillary clinton may have played a role in that. these are pieces of the puzzle we're uncovering we don't know yet. you're right about this, sidney blumenthal was paid roughly according to an investigation by "politico," $10,000 a month while working at clinton foundation. at the same time in 2015 emails revealed released by the state department that he was, that hillary clinton herself was soliciting intelligence information and talking about foreign policy issues with relation to libya to blumenthal who she

longtime hillary clinton aid in connection to the bogus report and that is not all, also used to sidney blumenthal'ste the trump campaign, the fbi declined to comment. newt gingrich demanding to know where is the outrage, former speaker of the house as it is time for accountability over what he calls the media's deliberate omission of uranium one coverage. >> how can the washington post or the new york times get up in the morning and look at themselves and not cover this? there is something almost pathological because as you point out, week after week, more and more things are coming out. not just hearsay, not just investigative reporting. i talked to some businesspeople a while ago who said to me how do you think this will play out? they are clearly thinking only of trump, i think the 11 count indictment on your anyone doesn't bode well for hillary, they knew nothing about it. you see the pieces come together in what i think is going to be an unbelievably big scandal and it makes me feel that the defeat of hillary even more important than electing trump defeating hillary so the corruption couldn't

i would like to know how sidney blumenthal plays into all of this because i think that is goingg to be a very telling revelation when all of this comes out. >> sean: can you give us any information, not giving us details, congressman jordan, about a comey, mueller, and i am very interested in rod rosenstein and all of this. >> there are certain people who can sign a fisa application. only certain people can at the justice department. we don't know who did. after you read this material -- >> sean: we can eliminate this quickly. it wasn't jeff sessions, who was recused. it was either rosenstein or one other person has the ability -- >>bi only a handful of people at fbi and just as you can sign off on one. who did that, we don't know. what we do know is what we've been talking about. this should go public. also we know there is more to come because the investigation at the intelligence committee is not complete. thank goodness for whatever newness and this committee are the push they did on thee justice department to get these documents in the first place. is more information. their inves

conversation about the dossier some of them long-time clinton operatives including signed knee -- sidney blumenthalbill: the story of the week. president trump about to deliver his first state of the union address on tuesday night. do we expect a major focus -- we do, a major focus to be on immigration? with less than two weeks to go before the next deadline for a government shutdown. top republicans were on the sunday talk shows asking democrats to come to the table and negotiate. >> listen, my democratic friends will calm down. it is hard to deal with president trump. >> there is urgency to get this done. the government was shut down by schumer. they thought they wanted to take it hostage. that stopped the meetings that we were having in my office every day on a bipartisan basis where we were making great progress. let's get back to the table. >> bill: what are key republicans saying about getting a deal as we head into tomorrow night's state of the union message? >> good morning. many republicans say they're sympathetic about the dreamers, young people brought to the country illegally but any de