him to do that until he clears his name. what do you think? yeah, just reputation and also the fact that if he refuses to talk to the doj, it makes it look like he was making up information and i m sure if you re in christopher steele s position you don t want that information to be out there. let s keep in mind, what s important is not whether or not christopher steele had good or bad information. what s important is what the fbi did with that information. people give tips to the fbi all the time sometimes anonymously, sometimes from disreputable sources, sometimes from highly credible sources, and so a little bit i think some of the president s supporters are attempting to hope that if steele can t come up with answers sort of defending his information that that s going to sort of impeach the fbi generally. well, and wouldn t you rather if you were christopher steele and maybe this is for phil, wouldn t you rather talk to the inspector general s folks than you would to, say,
donaldson s notes. donaldson was his chief of staff. she took meticulously detailed notes of conversations, meetings, what occurred in the white house. the notes have been compared to the nixon tapes. this are a way for congress to get real insight into what occurred in the white house, specifically the president s interactions with don mcgahn at really critical periods. that s a significant development if they get their hands on that. phil, as the attorney general investigates has ordered this new investigation of the origins of the entire russia probe, we re learning from the times the british newspaper that christopher steele, author of that dossier has agreed to speak with investigators about his work, his cooperation with the fbi. how significant is that? if you go to car races looking for car wrecks, this is significant. this will be a car wreck. look, this isn t about the mueller investigation per se. it s about the origins of the investigation and how the
this as an infamous figure related to the russia probe reportedly has agreed to be questioned by the justice department. that would be the former british spy behind the trump/russia dossier christopher steele. cnn s sarah marie is joining us now. why would steele agree to talk to u.s. officials? you know, the dossier publicly certainly has gotten plenty of criticism already. there s an indication that the inspector general s report looking into the origins of the russia investigation could also be critical of the way the justice department relied on christopher steele s work in the dossier for some of sort of the early inklings of the russia probe. we also have attorney general william barr looking into how this investigation initially got started, so this is an opportunity for christopher stee steele, essentially to defend his work, and i think that s the reason that after so long he s willing to talk to officials because he wants to make sure his side of the story is told and that
christopher steele to make trump look bad. the democrats right now judge are pushing the big guest blame shift or blame the victim strategy that we have ever seen in political history. most americans don t know who steele, ohr, this russian oligarch, are. yet a convincing number of them now the realize there were people working for hillary clinton who would say or do anything to keep donald trump from being president. it only underscores why hillary clinton had the lowest approval rating of any candidate in presidential history. jeanine: you know judicial watch, doug, we find out, found out after steele had been fired by the fbi, that bruce ohr met with him. sure. jeanine: to loun der information to get back to the fbi. but it gets even better. ohr was trying to get steele
department for communications between bruce ohr, nellie ohr, christopher 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