catherine herridge haas more. neil, we ve had a decision from one of the courts that they will unseal the deposition of christopher steele. he was a spy for the anti-trump dossier funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign through there opposition research firm fusion gps. it matter us because it was a foundational piece for securing the warrant for the trump campaign aide. when we expect when they re unsealed, we ll get a road map as to how the dossier got to the fbi through multiple different channels. we know christopher steele provided parts of the dossier to the fbi directly. we know once his contact was cut off with the fbi, he used a back channel through a senior justice department official. we also know through transcripts of interviews here on congress that one journalist provided
bought and paid. our own catherine herridge in washington. great work. congressional transcripts confirmed by fox reveal that andrew weissmann, a top deputy in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation, was briefed in august 2016 on the opposition research behind the anti-trump dossier, highlighting how early and widely the democratic funded research was shared among senior fbi and justice department officials. during his closed door testimony last august, justice department l official bruce ohr confirmed he met with weissmann and five other fbi and justice department officials. immediately after a july 30th 2016 breakfast meeting in washington, d.c. that breakfast was with former british spy christopher steele who authored the anti-trump dossier. tone of steele s business associates and ohr s wife nellie who also worked for the opposition research firm fusion gps.. ohr told congressional investigators that steele shared specific allegations about the trump campaign and c
bought and paid for with our own catherine herridge in washington. great work. congressional transcripts confirmed by fox reveal that andrew weissmann a top deputy and special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation was briefed in august 2016 on the opposition research behind the anti-trump dossier highlighting how early and widely the democratic funded research was shared among senior fbi and justice department officials. during his closed door testimony last august, justice department official bruce ohr confirmed he met with weissmann and five other fbi and duive department officials. immediately after a july 30th 2016 breakfast meeting in washington, d.c. that breaftd was with former british spy christopher steele who authored the anti-trump dossier. one of steele s business associates and ohr s wife nellie who also worked for the opposition research firm fusion gps. ohr told congressional investigators that steele shared specific allegations about the trump campaign and col
the interview of michael flynn. as well as justice department official andrew wiseman who was then chief of the fraud division and now assigned as a lead prosecutor to the russia special counsel robert mueller s team. fox news is told wiseman was kept in the loop on the dossier, its author steele and the opposition research firm fusion gps. darrell issa has first-hand knowledge of ohr s testimony. one of the things that ohr said to us. it took a little work to get it was he clearly knew this was opposition research paid for by quote, opponents to donald trump. he said he didn t know it was the dnc at the time nor did he need to. his wife was happily doing op research and turning it over as evidence. fox news contacted all of the parties that were identified to us and they declined to comment or they did not respond. a democrat in the house are