activity. he says the fake dossier started the campaign probe, again that s absolutely false, it was foreign policy aid george papadopoulos russia had dirt on hillary clinton that twigerred all of this. he said the steele dossier led to my campaign and that is also. he calls the probe a witch hunt. well, it s one that produced guilty pleas from three top trump campaign aids, including mike flynn, rick gates and george pap bop lus. for more i am joined by bobby saccone, an fbi special agent and gentleman, it s great to have both of you with us. robert, let s begin if we can with president trump. he doesn t have the power to fire mueller as pointed out earlier in the program. it seems what he is doing now at least on twitter is trying to publicly discredit him. is that the strategy he s going after here? it s hard to know what the specific strategy, i think what
somebody without completely and 100% trusting that individual. because what happened is he went and reported him to the rest of the australian government immediately afterward. it does raise questions about who hired the guy, papadopoulos, and who had him on their team. but legally speaking, it totally changes everything that we previously believed, which was that the dossier led to the investigation and that, in fact, there may have been other reasons, new reasons that we never knew about, that raised the spector warranting an investigation. and i think it is a good lesson, a teachable moment, that whatever we think we know at this point, several months in, maybe we don t know as much as we think. katon dawson, let me ask you about the way the campaign operated. i mentioned the coffee boy comment that was made about george papadopoulos. what members of that campaign had said, that he wasn t a paid member of the campaign, he was working in an advisory capacity. but what have you lear
to pay russians to lie about the president. that s the real evidence of collusion in this case. molly: one of the theories that is out there and that s partially why this investigation is ongoing and my nuñes why nuñes has been calling for answers is that the dossier potentially could have been used to get these fisa warrants that were used to look into the communications of the trump campaign. do you think that s the case, that the dossier led to this investigation and some of the investigative tactics that may have been taken by the fbi? well, i m deeply troubled that as a member of the judiciary committee with oversight respondent to answer -$=juuháhat question, i donlity know it. and the reason why is because when we had the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and the fbi director before our committee, they told us we weren t allowed to know the answer. that is totally unacceptable. the american people have a right to know whether their money was used to go and cur
way to a final vote next week after congressional republicans reached a deal. it could have significant changes for businesses and families. team coverage tonight on capitol hill. doug mckelway is here on details on what s in and what s out. first, rod rosenstein s on capitol hill. ed henry joins us. it sounds like things are really heating up. that s right, shannon. this new court document confirms our original parting that the wife of a senior justice department official helped fusion gps dig up that dirt on then candidate donald trump. tonight, republicans are demanding answers on whether the unverified information in that trump dossier led to the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. fusion gps cofounder glenn simpson acknowledging his court document, his company last year hired nelly ohr, the wife of bruce ohr, demoted for concealing his meetings with fusion gps. it commissioned the dossier containing salacious
allegations. that is raising more questions about the obama justice department s objectivity or lack thereof, since simpson now says he met personally with bruce ohr. at his request, after the november 2016 election to discuss our findings regarding russia and the election. that was after ohr had met during the 2016 campaign with christopher steele, the former british spy who authored the dossier, which is why republicans today demanded answers from the deputy attorney general, ron rosenstei rosenstein. the fbi paper, the dossier? i m not in position to answer that question. do you have the answer to the question? i believe i know the answer. but he did not answer that. he also did not answer whether or not the dossier led to surveillance of trump campaign officials that obviously then lead to robert mueller and the investigation. one of the president s personal attorney, jay sekulow, said the conflicts of interest within the fbi and justice department over fusion gps is b