yesterday. we do think it is important. we first learned this in the deposition when we had mr. baker in a few months ago for the deposition in front of the task force on the house judiciary and oversight committee. bill: benghazi is back in the news. a judge has ordered susan rice and ben rhodes to give written answers in some sort of testimony that relates to hillary clinton. why all these years later democrats would argue let it go. what are you looking for? reporter: i am glad they are doing this. here is what i know. i served on the benghazi committee. four brave americans gave their life for our country. the night of the attack, before the attack was over, the state department sent out a statement, some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory information posted on the internet. they are fighting for their lives and the secretary of state makes the official statement blaming a video.
confidence? him? no comment. see you all. shepard: that s the former fbi director, james comey, testifying before the house judiciary and oversight committee in a closed session. that s his second appearance this month. republicans who will no longer lead that committee in a few weeks wanting to call him in and ask him more about hillary clinton s e-mails. the news continues next. when my mother first began to forget things, we didn t really know what that meant or where to turn for more information. looking back i wish we d asked for help sooner. that s why i recommend a place for mom. it s a free service that pairs you with a local senior living advisor who understands memory care and can help you find the right place for your mom or dad. our advisors have helped thousands of families and can help answer key questions like:
christopher steele who did the research on dossier, the justice department official who helped get some of that information to the fbi in the fall of 2016. the fbi was also getting dossier important to note whether channels and then also this issue of the funding. it was funded by dnc in clinton campaign with. but director comey says in line of questioning to one of the in thes on committee that he didn t feel that that information about which political party was funding it was really that germane or irrelevant to surveillance court but they knew it was some kind of political document, with john. that brings us to the russia investigation, what have you learned about that based on these transcripts? well going through the transcripts, one of the key headlines at least to us here at fox based on a reporting is that he documents that in the summer of 2016 when they opened the russia counterintelligence investigation that was looking at alleged contacts between trump campaign offi
about his interactions with a consultant who had ties to russia. and about his interactions with with trump administration officials, even after he was indicted. jared penny is live in washington with more on that. jared. prosecutors say paul manafort lied repeatedly about a number of issues and we with still don t have a lot of details about those allegations. because so much of this court filing was redacted but prosecutors lay out five leading issues. they say manafort lied about including a 125,000 payment through a political action committee to cover it. debt videoed his contacts with a russian consultant who has ties to the russian intelligence agencies his attempts to work with him to obstruct justice by trying to persuade witnesses to lie to mueller s team about their business dealings in ukraine, significantly, though, prosecutors claim manafort lieded about his contacts with trump administration officials after telling them he did not have any contact with the white house a
welcome back to the fox report i m jon scott if you re just joining us leaders of the house judiciary and oversight committee released transcript from the closed door interview with with former fbi director james comey let s bring in melanie congressional reporter for the hill. mr. comey insisted that if he was going to testify behind closed door, that the transcript had to be released publicly. but now that it is out i m not clear on how it makes him look all of that, all that good. he didn t remember a lot of the, you know, the key investigations that the fbi was conducting at the time. that s exactly right. and that s why a lot of republicans on capitol hill are left incredibly from frustratedt now they said i don t know or