it could get a clear sense and help the american people understand. that is what this is about at the end of the day. but last week the special counsel told reporters in his only public statement he doesn t want to testify and he won t go beyond the four corner of the russia report and he considers the 448-page report his testimony. also, these records were released today after judicial watch sued the federal government over a key player who handled the anti-trump dossier. the record show justice department official bruce ohr got a $28,000 performance bonus while the russia case was ongoing. our reporting found that ohr acted as a back channel between the dossier author and the f.b.i. records show nellie ohr deleting e-mail from her husband s government account. she did russia investigations for the same research firm fusion g.p.s. behind the dossier. i tried to get ohr s side of
believes mueller would testify without a subpoena and that testimony would help the democrats push for impeachment. it could get a clear sense and help the american people understand. that is what this is about at the end of the day.ca but last week, the special counsel told reporters in his only public statement that he doesn t want to testify and he won t go beyond the four corners of the russia report and he considers the 448-page report his testimony. also, these records were released today after judicial watch sued the federal government over a key playerhe who handled the anti-trump dossier. the record show justice department official bruce ohr got a $28,000 performance bonus while the russia case was ongoing. our reporting found that ohr acted as a back channel between the dossier author and the f.b.i. records show nellie ohr deleting e-mail from her husband s government account. she did russia investigations for the same research firm fusion g.p.s. behind the dossier. i tri
funding the dossier put together by research firm fusion gps. now, it was fusion gps who then hired christopher steele, the former british spy. hillary clinton and democrats then later continued the funding of that project. nunes also claims permission to spy on former trump campaign aide carter page was granted after presentation of the steele dossier as factual without disclosing the political funding to the fisa court. but democrat intel committee member eric swalwell says that s not true. that fact was disclosed, it was disclosed to the fisa court that part of the evidence was from a politically motivated source. and now then today just within the last couple of hours nbc s ken delanian citing a democratic congressional source claims fbi deputy director
releasing 312 pages of testimony by the co-founder of the research firm fusion gps. that was responsible for the trucker/russia dossier. manu raju poured through it all and gives us all the pertinent information. reporter: alisyn, senator feinstein released that despite the furious chuck grassley who warned of it. steele was so alarmed that he felt obligated to alert the fbi in the summer of 2016. now, this is what simpson said according to the transcript. chris said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and said he wanted to he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in your government about this information. he thought from his perspective
about feinstein s actions, saying, quote, it undermines the integrity of the committee s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses. fusion gps hired steele, this veteran investigator, to look into donald trump s background during the 2016 campaign. according to the committee testimony, christopher steele approached the fbi in the summer of 2016 because he was extremely troubled by his findings and, quote, said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government, about this information. he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. when steele finally did make contact with the fbi a few months later, it turned out he was not the first person to do so.