today, there s late-breaking news that apparently the information that comprise the now-famous dossier that busby printed, that information was paid for by the dnc and hillary clinton presidential campaign. i m not even sure how to respond to this. it striking, that dossier, even as it appeared at the time, was pretty widely recognized even among media unsympathetic to donald trump as curlers and a lot of it was demonstrably false. this is a pretty shabby piece of business here and if it turns out that, as we now believe, that it was paid for in considerable measure by the clinton campaign and the democratic party this contained within it, allegations about from collusion with the russians. that tends to soil that whole allegation even further. the tide may be no turning in all this in political terms, and
state now a cnn global affairs analyst says the end result is a weakened state department unable to shape and execute foreign policy. if you look at two things, one, the budget. show me the money and i will tell you what your priorities are. clearly the state department is not their priority. second is personnel. you have to have people to run the place. in the absence of both the state department plays a diminished role. reporter: critics say president trump s loyalty test is slowing down the nomination. the president is ruling out many candidates who criticized him during the campaign. tillerson s aides say a confirmation of a deputy john sullivan have sped up nominations and now everyone s concerns are in the open and expect the process to run much smoother now. coming up, the white house is on the defense tonight as president trump comes under bipartisan fire for a stunning twitter attack. howl
meanwhile the investigation into russian entire fierce into the presidential election are heating up. the house intelligence committee is threatening to sum the white house for information about recordings president trump suggested he had of his conversations with former fbi director james comey. and on the senate side, investigators are looking at possible obstruction of justice related to comey s firing, as well as potential financial ties between trump associates and russia. at the same time, the white house is confirming that president trump will meet with russian president vladimir putin at the g20 summit in germany next week. it will be their first face-to-face encounter since mr. trump took office. we re covering all of that. much more this hour with our gefrt including the former chair of the hillary clinton presidential campaign john podesta whose e-mails were hacked by russia. our correspondents and special efforts are all standing by. but let s begin with the controversy ove
chaotic. and i think it starts at the top. you know, during the campaign, and you were the campaign chair for the hillary clinton campaign, he said all sorts of strange things. tweeted all sorts of strange things as you well know. there was that access hollywood video that came out near the end. you guys put out an ad, a commercial going after him with all of those statements. let me play a little bit of that. putting a wife to work say very dangerous thing. when i come home and dinner s not ready, i go through the roof. grab him by the [ bleep ]. when you re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. more accusers coming forward to say they were sexually assaulted by donald trump. i ll go backstage before a show. yes. and everyone is getting dressed. donald trump walked into the dressing room while contestants some as young as 15 were
quote, proposed fisa applications that the fbi and justice department submitted to the foreign intelligence surveillance court, as well as the applications. i want to know was there ever a warrant issued by anybody it s in trump world? was there probable cause found by a judge that would allow a warrant to be issued? and if that person was surveilled did anything come of it? and meanwhile, sources tell cnn that daniel levin, the former chief of staff to special counsel roberts mueller who is investigating possible collusion between trump associates and russia is in talks to possibly join president trump s legal team. wolf. interesting. pamela brown, thanks very much. we re back with john podesta that was the chair for hillary for america presidential campaign. up testified before the house intelligence committee earlier this week. what did they want to know from you particularly? because we all know all of your personal e-mails were hacked by the russians and then released