in the hacking of systems. also information on the clinton email system was found to be classified. but it is not necessarily a crime to reach out to see if that type of information is going to be publicly available or available otherwise. but there is still these allegations that have to be addressed over whether this was an appropriate action to take. given that very few people view wikileaks as endangering national security. martha: jonathan turley, always good to get your thoughts on all of this, and i have a feeling we re going to have to keep revisiting as we keep going through the russia, prussia, russia. good to see her tonight. coming up next, we spent a lot of time covering this story, and tonight, it s finally getting somewhere. i am a born-free american woman, wife, mother, and citizen, and i am telling my government that you have forgotten your place. martha: mm.
lobbyist, was approached to be a part of some of these russian lobbying campaigns, and he realized immediately this was not on the up and up. to his credit, he went immediately to the fbi and became a confidential informant for them in 2009 and did that for a number of years. so he wanted to tell his story, he feels the story needs to be told, but he was concerned about the gag order because last year he wanted to litigate some claims against the fbi and the justice department told him, you are under this gag order, if you expose things that are covered by that, then there will be reprisals against you. obviously he didn t want to do that, and his attorney, being a good attorney, is going to tell them to make sure that is taken care of. now that it is taken care of, he is going through what i understand to be a lot of documents that he accumulated over those many years. he s going to produce those documents for congress, then obviously, he s going to talk to congress. most likely it wi
to that russian dossier to former british intelligence officer christopher steele. i should clarify that when i reported last night republicans and democrats paid for the dossier, that was not precise. a republican donor did, in fact, paid the firm, fusion gps, for dirt on then having candidate donald trump related to his businesses. then in the spring of 2016, the dnc and the clinton campaign. that same firm, fusion gps, to get the more salacious, unverified information that was included in the dossier. today, speaker paul ryan insisting he is going to keep the heat on the fbi to figure out exactly what they knew and when they knew it. martha? martha: fascinating stuff. ed, thank you so much. what has this informant told congressional leaders are what they expect to hear from him? the florida congressman has been leading that charge on a house oversight committees probe into this deal. so i have been in contact almost on a daily basis with his attorney, and he is very interested i
to display at their 9/11 monument at the texas state cemetery. trenton, new jersey, received a piece of the south tower for their museum. there were hundreds of applications. one city in china, military bases in afghanistan. at least one city or one facility in every single state in the country wanted that honor. and it was hard to get. one group in canada who had hoped to obtain a piece of the buildings ultimately withdrew their application because the application process had been so lengthy and so onerous so they took their name out of contention. but that process was one way that people got to take a little piece of that day for themselves. to remember and to grieve. if they proved to the port authority of new york and new jersey that they should be allowed to have one of these precious, somber remnants from the terrible moment in history that killed so many people. that was one way. but according to a front. page story in today s the new york times there was another way as well.
their museum. there were hundreds of applications. one city in china, military bases in afghanistan. at least one city or one facility in every single state in the country wanted that honor. and it was hard to get. one group in canada who had hoped to obtain a piece of the buildings ultimately withdrew their application because the application process had been so lengthy and so onerous so they took their name out of contention. but that process was one way that people got to take a little piece of that day for themselves. to remember and to grieve. if they proved to the port authority of new york and new jersey that they should be alieualieu lowed to have one of these precious, somber remnants from the terrible moment in history that killed so many people. that was one way. but oraccording to a front. page story in today s the new york times there was another way as well. this is bill baroni, port authority of new york and new