whether or not, in other words, this was an actual alibi or whether she had done something false? it was something false. arthel: former saturday night live cast member loran testifying last week in murder trial of millionaire real estate heir robert, accused of murdering newman s friend susan newman in 2000, burman told her she helped after first ally after first wife went missing back in the 80 s, the defense brought up how burman later changed her story. there came a point in time where susan rescinded her story about the alibi, remember that? yes. that means took it back, correct? yes. do you remember telling mr. luin in september of 2015, i felt like i m not sure it s
crooked hillary clinton and the dnc. the fbi failed to disclose the nature of the political hit job to the fisa court. they hid it. they deceived it, and they lied. okay. none of that is true. but i ll start with you first. i don t even know where to begin, but what was the original origin of christopher steele s research on donald trump, and who paid for it? the origin of the research into donald trump was started in september of 2015, and it was financed by the republicans. the first half of our investigation was all paid for by the republicans. the reason that we hired christopher steele was that we did about eight months of research for the republicans which led us ultimately to become very curious about donald trump s connections to the
started this investigation for the republicans in september of 2015, so the entire predicate for what we did when we switched over the democrats was based on information that we gathered from the republicans. right. so there s a flaw in the theory there. when we did switch we were communicating with a lawyer, and we didn t know what was happening with the information from there. it s obvious from the public record that some of the information was getting to the clinton campaign. the distinction is that when christopher steele decided it was necessary to go to fbi that he really thought this was a national emergency and there was going to be an attacker on the united states, we didn t tell anyone because we didn t consider that to be a part of the campaign or the election. the clinton campaign, the crazy thing about 2016, there s an fbi investigation of donald trump and his possible collusion with the russians that
barack obama? that raised a lot of questions in our mind. what about chris steele? to you, glenn, why did you bring christopher steele in? he is a former mi6 intelligence official. what was his expertise? sure. chris is the leading authority on russia worldwide and is well-respected by his colleagues. he served a tour in russia, then rose to become the head of the russia desk for mi6 before retiring in 2009. we had done other work with him, and he lived up to his reputation as a sterling analyst and researcher of information from the former soviet union. so that s why we decided to work with him. the events that led to us hiring him were essentially this long investigation that began, commissioned by the republicans to look into donald trump s business career. and that began in september of
dossier have become these buzz terms. we heard them come up in the impeachment hearing in the open hearings. i want to go back to the beginning of who hired you during the campaign to look into then candidate donald trump in 2015? right. originally we were retained by a conservative up in during the republican primaries. and it was an intra-republican competition. we worked for about seven months looking into donald trump during the republican primaries. that s important to remember and is detailed in length in the book because the republican talking points now is that this is some kind of democratic hoax or conspiracy. that doesn t make logical sense because the republicans paid for half of the investigation. so we re talking about september of 2015 the washington free beacon conservative outlet comes to you at the time like