the start of the russia investigation, ambassador downer s information that he had overheard a conversation with george papadopoulos in the london bar, he reported two months later, that became the genesis of this whole investigation. one of the things we didn t know the last few years we were talking about it, a $25 million donor to the clinton foundation, arranged foreign aid in the matter 25 million from the australian taxpayers. a noble project, project to but it s another connection of a friendly clintons horse who s at the front end of this investigation, and we are learning about it so late in the process.g it frustrates congress. we talked to jim jordan today in the first thing he said is why do we keep finding out the stuff after the fact? what can the fbi tell the stuff up front? is a question a lot of people in congressjo will be asking. sean: the prior connection to the clinton foundation wast. never disclosed. again, everything always goes back to the clintons. who the
providing all of this, feeding this information, including hillary paying for the dossier. they areto all clinton cronies. the public information we have, there s only four sources of information that the fbi used to predicate or start its investigation. ambassador downer, we know he has a friendly relationship with the clintons. christopher steele, we know he was paid by the clintons. christopher steele talked to the reporter, and the story was used, the last one is sidney blumenthal and his friend cody shearer routing information to the state department to get to the fbi. all four propellers of the initialma investigation of the russia collusion, alleged russia collusion that hasn t been proven, all start with someone close to the clintons. that is the picture that now concerns congress. sean: sara, you have an interesting piece out. the case for or against a special prosecutor to investigate the investigators. now we do know that the inspectorw general, horwitz, we expect a repo
time. there are a few people who have asked for an additional week, which we have granted that time. there are a few people go, that are not responding. they seem to have went dark. however, if they do not respond shortly, they will be getting subpoenaed to appear before congress to be treated with a deposition. sean: finding out about these obama officials knew about the dossier, when they knew it is key. we ve been following these developments closely and we will continue. joining us now with reaction, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. former trump campaign associate become a guy who was spied on for a year based on hillary s dossier, no dossier no dossier, no application to spy on you, and through you, the entire trump campaign. great to be in the middle of it? completely out of control. sean: you on the list of people that mueller is asking for the emails, texts, et cetera. you know who the individual is there talking about? is it a guy that s been melting
investigation has deep connections to bill and hillary clinton. according to the new york times, well, the owner is the person from a former trump campaign associate, that george papadopoulos got drunk without that london nightclub and started talking about russia having dirt on hillary clinton. two months later, he told australian officials about the conversation who then told american intelligence. focal way hearsay as my friend gregg jarrett says. solomon is reporting tonight that alexander downer, he helped secure $25 million for funding for the clinton foundation starting back in 2006. bipartisan lawmakers are telling solomon tonight that downer s ties to the clintons were never previously disclosed to congress. shocking. solomon is also reporting that downer met with bill clinton in 06 and with hillary clinton when she was secretary of state in 09. we reached out to hillary clinton for comment. shocking, she never got back to us. her spokesperson replied to