we do know that the major funder of the washington free begin, the new york hedge fund paul singers, was that never trump leader and very much opposed at that time to donald trump. bill kristol, another never trump leader, was one of the founding board members of the leaders of the washington free begin. this comes out of the never trump feeling. remember to 2015 and donald trump has been leading the race and all the smart people in politics say he will implode and people will get tired of him and there will be a big gap and he will be over but what happened was at that time some people began thinking what if he doesn t implode and what is he keeps leaving the race, maybe we can help them along. they created this opposition research is a trying to bring trump down. abby: the take away from this is when we talk about the dossier
lives. pete: you want to be like your parents? funny stuff. abby: i do want to bring you to other headlines, a multistate manhunt is intensifying, police say is armed and dangerous, the man you can see right there. took officials two days before realizing 43-year-old todd was missing from west virginia jail. somehow he was able to find different clothing and pose as civilian. he was, due, on friday after 20 years in prison of possession in stolen car. pete: they didn t do roll in two days. abby: it could make people feel uncomfortable. the washington times reporting that christchurch in virginia is putting down a plaque memorializing washington and taking down a robert e. lee plaque, many feel stronger need
5% right away. we have an aging population. this is a problem all over the world. more people retiring. that s something that s a natural weight on economic growth, to get to 3% and sustain it i think would be a big accomplishment in itself. abby: that would be, jon hilsenrath, great to have you this morning. still coming on the show, president george washington was the first members of this historic church, why is it taking down a memorial in his honor in pete: washington, we will see. our next get left democratic comfort zone to spend a year living amongst republicans. he was shocked at what he found out. he will share the story next.
are now in the question of where do you draw the line and at what point do you say will live in a country where we have no history. we don t have statues to president anything from where we originate. robert e lee memorial is also coming down. pete: this is the logic goes. if christopher columbus isn t good enough for anyone who owned slaves, then our country had passed since and we know that but. abby: and it told us. we will continue to evolve as a nation. pete: but we appeal to those founding was to get better. it doesn t mean everything was perfect but this is why president trump was right to raise it. where does it end? if they go for jefferson, though go for washington and america ultimately. that is why when people hear fundamental transformation of america by barack obama they wonder what does that mean? does it mean turning away from our past when you erased your past you can t learn from it. that is when the washington monument will come down, no way, hang on a second. pe
and clinton campaign funding of the dossier, a publication in washington was the first to actually provide funding for that, there s a lot of but not for dossier. opposition. pete: opposition research to include president trump, that research stopped when donald trump became the presumptive nominee and ultimately the fusion gps went to democrats said, we have done all this research, would you be interested and that s the point where they continued the funding. that s when christopher steel got involved. abby: the spy over in the uk. brings it to unverified allegations about donald trump. abby: byron york broke the story and he breaks down the timeline of how everything played out. watch this. this effort starts in the fall of 2015 and it s a conventional operation that s