Philadelphias. We begin tonight with the new details of the contact between officials at the highest level of the obama era Justice Department and that former british spy. Long after the fbi cut ties with this Christopher Steele character and the Trump Dossier Author well what happened . Bruce ohr, who was at the time a senior Justice Department official continued to maintain extensive contact with steele. He wasnt supposed to. This according to new emails fox news has obtained. Bruce ohrs new connection to this whole sword i did affair is made worse when you consider his wife nellie. Fox news has confirmed she worked for the Outfit Fusion Gps during the 2016 election. Explicitly hired to help Investigate Trump and russia related subjects. If you think the Trump Legal Team isnt following all of
information. Christopher steele was not to have contact with the fbi after they had to disassociate themselves from him when he, against policy, was leaking information to the press. Right. Now
Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. A very close relationship. So harry talked about the kind of legal ramifications here. What does this mean emotionally for the president. He feels a sense of the world closing in. Someone just plead guilty to federal crimes and said i committed this federal crime at the direction of the president of the United States. Didnt name donald trump, but donald trump is who he was talking about. Theres no way donald trump isnt feeling this emotionally in a very raw way. Well see that come out in the rally in West Virginia. The president speaking in just moments. Were obviously monitoring it closely. April, youve covered the white house day in and day out. The people the president works most closely with and the president himself repeatedly denied knowing anything about these payments to Stormy Daniels. Lets j
[cheers] lights come on everybodys singing from the floor to the ceiling. Did you see that game last night. Lights coming on. Lots havent turned theirs on yet. Game going on. Watching fox friends first. Im heather childers. I hope you had a great weekend. Top story for you right now. At this hour speculation is swirling as we await the first indictment in special counsel Robert Muellers russian probably. Announcement could be made today. Top republicans are calling into question the whole investigation over alleged leaks by muellers team. Griff jenkins is live for us in d. C. With the very latest. Good morning, griff. Good morning, heather. Its going to be a busy monday if multiple reports are accurate as have you suggested that federal grand jury has approved first charges in muellers investigation we could see those indictments and possibly individuals taken into custody this morning. Now, we dont know who will be charged or what those charges are. They were sealed under federal judg
Former deputy spokesperson for the state Department Fox news analyst and host marie harf. And in the center seat, former White House Press secretary for President Trump sean spicer is outnumbered today with your fancy socks on. A lot for you to weigh in on, this new cycle is fierce. Sean i dont know if there are too many that have not been fierce. This is pretty normal. Harris lets get to normal, shall we. As we await the remarks on the president , more reaction to the decision is coming into revoke john brennan security clearance, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders says that the president is upholding his duty to safeguard the nations secrets. Watch this. Speak of the president has constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. And that is what he is doing paid for filling that responsibility. This is actually specific to mr. Brennan and the others are under review. Harris brennan responding in a New York Times oped accusing the presid
Three defense lawyers working for the president s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, and Paul Manafort himself, and Paul Manafort himself whos in the courtroom too. So they started with an arraignment. You remember that Paul Manafort was justed charge ad few days ago with new felony charges. An arraignment is where you stand up in court and face the charges against you and say whether you are pleading guilty or not guilty. Thats what they did first, the arraignment. Courtroom deputy, are you paul j. Manafort jr. . Defendant Paul Manafort, i am. Courtroom deputy, are you the person named in the superseding indictment . Defendant Paul Manafort, i am. Courtroom deputy, you are charged in criminal case 172011 in a sevencount superseding indictment charging you with the following. Count number 1, conspiracy against the United States. Count number 2, conspiracy to launder money. Count number 3, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal. Country number 4 false and misleading statemen