republican senators like lindsey graham and chuck grassley running with it and saying that you helped show that crimes were committed. watch. the steel dossier was paid for by the democratic party, fusion gps, mr. steele had associates that could have easily compromised him, and we believe the fisa warrant process was abused, and the reason we want to special counsel, i believe a crime has been committed. ed: a crime committed? a similar statement to the letter i sent to the attorney general a few weeks ago. i will tell you this, senator grassley and his team have done a great job. i am glad to see the other three senators coming in and helping senator grassley. he deserves to be commended for this. ed: yet most of the media has said, mr. chairman, that your republican memo was a dead end it proved nothing. here you have two big republicn senators putting their reputations on the line and
potentially have been hurt. ed: a lot of unanswered questions. phil keating, thank you for the report. meanwhile, the washington post reporting that president trump has decided to remove h.r. mcmaster as the national security advisor. post says that trump wants to make sure the three-star general finds a soft landing. fox news chief white house correspondent john roberts is saying his sources saying there is cold water on the reports, saying the president appreciates mcmaster. meanwhile, a freak of political nature, going to be tough to beat. that is what former advisor of hillary clinton is saying about president trump. the message, it needs to toughen up. and another defined move, the state of california hires an illegal immigrant for a statewide government job. trace is all over the story. and this one is really rich. nancy pelosi is taking offense
oakland businesses. it appears cnn thinks deporting illegal immigrants is the equivalent to hitler rounding up jew in nazi germinate, talks about an unnamed jewish woman who was harboring illegal aliens, mcmillan, who is no connection or family connection to the holocaust says, what was done just cannot happen to other people, the article makes note mention of the difference between enforcing immigration laws, which nearly every country does, and rounding up and killing legal citizens. ed? ed: trace gallagher, thank you. time for a real news roundup. start with the lebanese have an american businessman named george nader, reportedly convicted by prague s court of sexually abusing boys, unclear if mueller s team knows about
ed: democrats feeling good about their performance in pennsylvania looking to 2020 and how they will take on president trump. serving as top advisor to hillary clinton offered some interesting advice to fellow democrats, writing in the washington post about clinton s shocking loss, if you think it was a missed lab, you will learn the hard way it was a this time he, as in president trump, no seek and win. philippe joins me in washington. your fellow democrats seem to, as part of the movement, dismiss his ability to get reelected. you are saying this guy can win. absolutely paid for a few reasons. first off, the minute he won, you think he has got two terms in him, you look at the last 5 out of 7 presidents, sought a second term going back to nixon, they have won. it is harder to win the office then to lose the office, you have built-in advantages, and,
before that generate for the oval office meeting, barack obama did hear about the dossier? no, there is no evidence that until early january that then-president obama knew anything about the dossier, but susan rice was saying it should be told for the same reason that the intelligence community leaders and the fbi director thought it should be told to then-president-elect trump who is being the very next day, and for the reasons cited, this is something circulating, people in the media had heard about it, there were concerns that it was going to pop and people would start writing about it, and the belief was that, in the case of trump, he should be tipped of, you should know. ed: 30 seconds, michael, i know we re short on time, but bottom line, christopher still, the guy who put together the dossier, he told colleagues, it is 50/50 whether these salacious allegations in the dossier are true. 50/50 when this is basically what helped launch the whole