jeanine: freedom of information, the only way we are gettinget information now is, as usual, through tom fentontch. all right, now tom, you have all of this information about the oligarch and christopher steele, what is it about? >> look, christopher steele it looks like i was working with fusion gps, even back then, which we have to remember was representing putin's interest in court here in the united states, trying to target putin's critics and they keep putting critic that led to the magnitsky act that was famously discussed at the trump tower meeting. see you have these interests pushing, obviously the justice department pushing it on the trump campaign, this approach to removing the magnitsky act that was curtailing the right's oligarchs in russia inn terms of a sanctions regime. i the irony here is that fusion gps was working for the clinton campaign to target trump. working for the putin camp to target government generally in terms of the magnitsky act. >> jeanine: that it suggests, david, that the russians would be colluding with christopher steele to make trump look bad.ig >> the demo

gregg jarrett and tom fenton. we just heard from ellison barber, and i will start with you, tom. can you please tell me why robert mueller and the special counsel is prosecuting the case where an account is talking about falsified records having nothing to do with donald trump or russia? >> the special counsel doesn't need to be prosecuting that case. the u.s. attorney could have -- >> janine: it then why is he? >> he's trying to justify his existence so he can continue to be around the operation generally to target president trump. the question about whether he has been interviewed by him robert mueller is answered by the report we just heard that he is fishing around with this madam in new york. what an outrage. this is not what anyone signed up for. and it's an egregious abuse of justice and the rule of law. >> it was him on that land of original special counsel order and a few weeks ago i set i was sick of talking about them. why are they doing this? >> it's completely abusive by both. and you can't be a witness and a prosecutor simultaneously. but this just underscores that

gregg jarrett and tom fenton. we just heard from ellison barber, and i will start with you, tom. can you please tell me why robert mueller and the special counsel is prosecuting the case where an account is talking about falsified records having nothing to do with donald trump or russia? >> the special counsel doesn't need to be prosecuting that case. the u.s. attorney could have -- >> janine: it then why is he? >> he's trying to justify his existence so he can continue to be around the operation generally to target president trump. the question about whether he has been interviewed by him robert mueller is answered by the report we just heard that he is fishing around with this madam in new york. what an outrage. this is not what anyone signed up for. and it's an egregious abuse of justice and the rule of law. >> it was him on that land of original special counsel order and a few weeks ago i set i was sick of talking about them. why are they doing this? >> it's completely abusive by both. and you can't be a witness and a prosecutor simultaneously. but this just underscores that

now tom fenton. great to have you here. let's start with the reemergenc as a centerpiece, if you will, in the comparison the, the corrupt conspiracy of the department of justice to absolutely subvert the presidency of the presidency a president trump. we show that the fbi had cut of steele supposedly in november o 2016. that was no impediment to ohr continue to work with steele an as correctly, the fbi still taking still information from steele and ohr, pretending that they were cutting them off and not telling the courts any of this. and the corrupt relationship he had with the result up the conflict as a result of his wif working there and you had that conflict with the conflict of interest that was potentially criminal and user to get trump for political purposes. i don't understand why this operation is allowed to continue , given it is built on sand and corruption. i don't think there is any question in the minds of most o the public about the conflicts that mueller represent them being named special counsel and accept

for more on this, let's bring in the president of judicial watch, tom fenton's organization has played a role in requesting documents in the russia investigation. let me get straight off the bat your impression. >> tom: it's long overdue and a body blow to the mueller investigation. peter strzok is an architect to the russia collusion theory which we know is fraudulently based and there would be no mueller investigation without peter strzok. he was instrumental as the lead investigator and was certainly behind of the collision with fusion gps. the fisa court documents and all that, is a senior official in the fbi. the ig concluded that maybe some of his activity was impacted by his animus to president trump or, then candidate trump. he should have been nowhere near either the clinton or the trump investigations and the president tweeted, we have to reopen the investigation because of people like peter peter strzok, and we to shut down the mall or investigation. >> you are the one who gets up documents before other people and you heard bret baier's talk about lisa page's testimony not m

mainstream media has not been reporting accurately, they have been underreporting the truth. , tom fenton and other reporters are going out and making these other reports the dossier and everything. the top story then, is this the response from the editorial page of this week? is that is what is spurring this? it's an ongoing situation because if i had not been watching fox news, if we relied upon cnn and others, you are not going to get the truth. host: james is the last call for week in story of the washington. i appreciate all of you who are participating. coming up two guests joining us, talking about different things. we will be joined by cheryl chumley from the washington times, getting a take on her stories from -- on news stories from this week. and joining us later is lawrence lessig, who is joining in a lawsuit designed in part to challenge the electoral college. we will talk about that lawsuit and the progress he has been making on that. we had seen earlier about president trump's response to the death of a writ -- aretha franklin. here is a portion of aretha franklin performin

tom mackenzie in shanghai. , a's bring in sean fenton portfolio manager. talks and for one side to blink, but it is escalating quickly. >> it is looking like a risk to markets. definitely not a good thing in terms of confidence and risk. it is unclear what it does to economies in terms of, does the u.s. do more domestic production or invest more? does china look to stimulate other parts of the economy? this draws inflation globally, not good for bond markets. the fed is running its own course. the fed is gradually tightening policy. you have inflation and unemployment, and i don't think impact ofscount the that turn in global monetary policy, what that is doing to the yuan and impacting capital flows out of china and the domestic market and the economy and confidence. it is a volatile time, and investor confidence, with the volatility. haidi: what does it look like in this context, given everything we don't know? small u.s., we have seen stocks outperform. does that continue? >> markets have been very strong. you want to maintain areas where you can get go