followers. okay, betsy, you first on the gop witness wish list, if you will, by republicans. what s your reaction? you know, this list reads like it s essentially corralling the characters who congressman devin nunes has been focused on over the last couple of years. you know, while mueller was investigating russian interference in the 2016 election, nunes, who was the chairman of the house intelligence committee and is now its top republican member, spent years sort of going after this alternative narrative, trying to unearth, for instance, trying to prove allegations of ukrainian collusion, which have not in any meaningful way then corroborated, trying to push this notion that the real story was an opposition research dossier that fusion gps put together. in fact, he pressed ambassador gordon sondland on fusion gps when sondland was being deposed in one of his impeachment
sean: the amount of contract there was internal analysis by your own catherine herridge, who s also been doing some terrific work on all of this. she rightly points out undermines as that the amount of contract was so frequent after, in fact fact, christopher steele was fired, and that bruce ohr was the conduit, they used whatsapp, an application to shield their communications, and then the fbi began debriefing ohr after steele was fired but steele was still feeding information to ohr. he is the conduit even into the special counsel s office. sara, how are we to interpret that? why would ohr, by the way, his wife is responsible for a lot of these lies that fusion gps put out. why would he be a conduit to the special counsel s office? who was involved in that? why were they taking information from a known liar and leaker? why was ohr entertaining any
real victims were, the american public. the amount of contacts that was internal analysis by our own catherine herridge, but it she rightly points out and reminds us that the amount of contact was so frequent after, in fact, christopher steele was fired and that ohr was the conduit, they used watts avenue, which is an application to shield their communications, and then the fbi began the briefing after steele was fired but steele is still feeding information ohr. he is the conduit even into the special counsel s office. sarah, how are we to interpret that? why would ohr by the way, his wife is responsible for a lot of these lies that fusion gps put out. why would he be a conduit to the special counsel s office who was involved in that? why weren t they taking information from a known liar
glenn simpson, the former reporter who founded fusion gps put that money from the dnc on the hillary clinton campaign, we now know, in order to create the dossier. the dossier of course was full of salacious but still unproven gossip, and it was used in theie end to justify a far-reaching federal investigation that has turned washington upside down and basically stopped all productive work here. kim strassel, she has written extensively on this. recently she called the trump dossier one of the dirtiest political tricks in history, she joins us. thanks for coming on. thanks for having me, tucker. tucker: you called it a dirty trick. it was obviously opposition research. was it, do you think, qualitatively different from conventional opposition research?ar that s a great place to start. calling it a dossier gives it too much mystique. this is an opponent research, but an even lower quality than those research documents.
trump dossier is ready to testify before the congress. one simpson, the former reporter who founded fusion gps put that money from the dnc on the hillary clinton campaign, we now know, in order to create the dossier. the dossier of course was full of salacious but still unproven gossip, and it was used in the end to justify a far-reaching federal investigation that has turned washington upside down and basically stopped all productive work here. kim stressful, she has written extensively on this. it recently she the trump dossier one of the dirtiest political tricks in history, she joins us. thanks for coming on. thanks for having me, tucker. tucker: you called it a dirty trick. it was obviously opposition research. was it, do you think qualitatively different from conventional opposition researc research? that s a great place to start. calling it a dossier gives it too much mystique. this is an opponent research,