infamous dossier that revealed trump s connections to russia. the washington post broke this story. we ve known for some time the firm behind the dossier, fussing gps was first funded by anti-trump republicans and then democrats. now for the first time we have an idea who those democrats were and how far up this reached. white house press secretary sarah sanders responded to the story tweeting the real russia scandal, clinton campaign paid for the fake russia dossier then lied about it and covered it up. today in the press briefing room, sanders berated our jeff zeleny. adam, the clinton campaign and the dow dnc helped fund this dossier? what do we know? they were working through a lawyer who was helping hire research firms. as all these campaigns are doing, they need research firms. they hire at home dig into the opponents and find out what is
scandal, clinton campaign paid for the fake russia dossier then lied about it and covered it up. today in the press briefing room, sanders berated our jeff zeleny. adam, the clinton campaign and the dow dnc helped nufund this dossier? they were hiring research firms. as all these campaigns are doing, they need research firms. they hire at home dig into the opponents and find out what is available about their own candidate. this is a very common practice for them to engage with lawyers to act as middle men who then go out and hire research firms. that s what happened in this case. in march, the discussions begin between this lawyer representing the clinton campaign and the dnc