cookie to deal with? they said absolutely none. they were in fact surprised at how weak the legal representation was. what did nixon say to you when you were advising him early on that he needed to get an attorney? didn t want to hear it. did not want to hear it. it is did not bring anybody in with that experience. it is baffling there s no iconic washington defense attorney eager to take on mueller on behalf of the president of the united states. it s not a town short on attorneys. i think it s one of the real issues for some of the firms is that they won t get paid. that s the rumbling i have been picking up in talking to washington lawyers i know. i think he will probably find somebody in washington that will step forward. he s got the word out there now so i think some republican lawyer probably will come forward. thanks very much. coming up, first his parents sued. now the brother of seth rich has also filed a lawsuit against right wing activist and media
including providing them with all of the information he had about seth and testifying in front of a grand jury, and he s being accused of being complicit in his brother s murder and covering it up. it is just outrageous. has the rich family received an apology from anyone involved in spreading these lies? i think the parents have received certain apologies. fox news obviously retracted the story, as mentioned in the piece from before. aaron rich hasn t received apologies from anyone, even though he s reached out separately to each of these defendants privately. he reached out to batowski privately, to matt couch and america first media privately, telling them how much pain this was causing, he asked them to stop spreading lies about him. he told them this was false. they not only doubled down on the lies they were telling, they spread them far and wide, then worked to place them in an op-ed in the washington times. michael, appreciate your time. we will continue to follow it. t
they were dragging your client, seth s brother into this. thanks for having me. the introduction that you showed the viewers at the start of this piece was about the prelude of the suit which is the story that existed about the seth rich conspiracy. after that, these defendants that are named in the lawsuit today decided to make seth s brother the target of the conspiracy theory and also somebody who took money from wikileaks into his personal bank account and the allegations grew more grotesque from there. they made up a meeting that reportedly occurred at the dnc where aaron through a chair at donna brazil and all of this is made up. it began on a peri scope.
rich s brother aaron is against the washington times, an online activist and his media company and texas businessman. joining me is michael gotleib. attorney for aaron rich. thanks for being with us. the defendant named in today s lawsuit, can you explain how they were dragging your client, seth s brother, into this? thanks for having me. the introduction that you showed the viewers at the start of this piece was sort of about the prelude to this suit, the story that existed about the seth rich conspiracy from around january until may. after that, these defendants that are named in the lawsuit today decided to make aaron rich, seth s brother, the target of the conspiracy theory and sort of named him as the technical mastermind behind the leak and also somebody who took money from wikileaks into his personal bank account. that started around the summer of 2017 and the allegations grew more grotesque from there. they started to allege that aaron rich warned seth s girlfriend to break u
police say probably a robbery gone wrong. that didn t stop some trying to promote unfounded claims from trying to tie rich to dnc hacking. his brother aaron is now suing, accusing the washington times and others of acting with reckless disregard for the truth. his lawsuit comes weeks after his parents filed a separate lawsuit against fox news and others for their role in pushing the conspiracy theory, an effort in which one figure looms particularly large. gary tuchman tonight reports. another massive breaking news story. explosive developments in the mysterious murder of former dnc staffer seth rich. reporter: sean hannity of fox news hyping a conspiracy theory about the murder of a young man named seth rich. this issue is so big now that the entire russia collusion narrative is hanging by a thread. reporter: the conspiracy theory concocted by right wing commentators was this. the 26-year-old rich who worked for the democratic national committee had leaked dnc e-mails to wikil