that turned out to be demonstrably false according to a draft contract obtained by the new york times, one of lewandowski s clients community choice financial offered him a $20,000 a month retainer to explicitly further their agenda. consider this one. here is what sean spicer told reporters back on may 16th when fox news posted a story that ended up being restraktd later that attempted to link the death of a dnc staff to wikileaks. scene, can we get a white house reaction or the president s reaction to the report that seth rich was e-mailing wikileaks before his murder? i don t i m not aware of generally i don t get updates on dnc, former dnc staffers. i m not aware of that. at the time we thought that was innocuous answer. turned out spicer was aware at that time. in fact, he ended up acknowledging in an n pr story yesterday after allegations were made in federal court that he personally met with the sources of that fox news story in april.
case for getting a job himself. i m paraphrasing, that s not something you do the first time that you meet somebody. there are some people. to give people a sense, there conspiracy theory is massively hurtful to the rich family. they have a family member who was murdered. it is still unsolved. the idea that people have in this sort of as a result you are like way, peace of turn coat against dnc because it suits their purposes. to promote that night after night, like sean hannity, it was hell for that family and attracted quite a bit of attention when fox was pushing this story. and inside fox, there were certain pockets of deep consternation that this story was being, that the rich tragedy was being political football to help trump and to what length it
would the story have to review a statement are involving a murder in d.c. why would the president be involved? it was rather obvious to me that they lured me into this investigation. they meaning this fox news reporter and ed butowsky to debunk the narrative when they told me i was really getting involved just to solve a murder. i m joined now by gabe sherman, special correspondent for vanity fair. gabe, let me start with you. i want to be cautious. anyone can file a lawsuit. it doesn t 19 claims are true. and there are some reasons to be skeptical about the credibility of all the figures involved. that said, this is a shockingly explosive set of allegations. on multiple levels. it is shocking and fascinating. what i find interesting, on one level it is an autopsy on how a
they were that he had to get the story on the air because the president wanted it on the air and in fact the president had reviewed drafts of the fox news story in advance. normally you d hear this the press secretary of the president of the united states saying he didn t get this. of course it didn t happen. well, so many things have been undermined, the enact that we have this videotape of sean spicer saying i don t get briefed on what happened to a young democratic aide where i have confirmed through sean spicer and the two other participants that he was briefed on april 20th about an investigation in that very fact means that it s much harder to take this at face value. i said this yesterday. there is some segment of the population that is, you know, watching, you know, what the politicians are saying, watching the press and thinks i don t know what to believe, and i don t know who to believe. and they sort of throw up their hands and say i give up. and i ve had that conversati
i m joined now by gabe sherman, special correspondent for vanity fair. gabe, let me start with you. i want to be cautious. anyone can file a lawsuit. it doesn t 19 claims are true. and there are some reasons to be skeptical about the credibility of all the figures involved. that said, this is a shockingly explosive set of allegations. on multiple levels. it is shocking and fascinating. what i find interesting, on one level it is an autopsy on how a fake news story gets created and how the trump white house worked in favor, that there is any other explanation other than the ties to the hacking operation that led to the clinton e-mails. here s one thing that s key to zoom in on. this is spicer on may 16th being