russia had hacked the dnc. the story was later retracked from the fox news website, but the story was also far from over. let s get more now from cnn s randi kaye. reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born, caught up in it, this man. i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he s a former dc homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he s filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from the democratic national committee. the idea being that rich was murdered by some sort of dnc operative in retaliation for the leaks. all of this despite the fact that police say rich s murder was the result of a botched burglary and that this is key, authorities had already
the whole situation wasn t over but that introduction was. i understand it. what you don t know is they asked me to make donation for the son s memorial. they asked me to come up for a concert in his name. they asked me to find out who this jack burkeman guy was, riches asked me. i have a text message or an e-mail. they also said this guy brad bowman just showed up one day and said he was assigned to them from the dnc. they asked me, why? okay. let s remember something. i m a republican. seth rich is a huge bernie sanders supporter. the riches are big democrats. i don t care what somebody s political party is. i care about human beings and i heard something and i felt inside that i needed to share this with a family. i didn t go there there to upset this family. i went there to help them. they were already upset because the dc police wasn t telling them anything. they were upset because their son was killed.
to have a democratic operative e-mailing people what they should be talking about. seems highly unethical. a lot of this about fox seems highly unethical. the trump pieces, trump white house pieces, they need more reporting. it is clear sean spicer was there meeting with these guys in the white house so at least there was some talk about this conspiracy theory in the white house. we know the president has promoted other conspiracy theories like wiretapping claims, things like that s. he s never brought up seth rich, however. i think fundamentally, anderson, this is about two competing realities, two alternative universes. we talk about it all the time. hereto think the russia story is a big deal that needs investigation or it s a hoax. similar on climate change. you either believe it s a pressing issue or buy into the denialism. the two alternative universes idea is coming through in this story. these are allegations being made, a lawsuit, people make allegations in lawsuits any
suggested his death was retribution for his supposed leak. the private investigator enlisted to develop the story now claims it was all designed to discredit u.s. intelligence which, of course determined that russia had hacked the dnc. the story was later retracked from the fox news website, but the story was also far from over. let s get more now from cnn s randi kaye. reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born, caught up in it, this man. i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he s a former dc homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he s filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from the democratic national committee.
for relief is as effective at hour 24 as hour one. so be wise all take new xyzal®. all right. ex- ploplosive claims in a new house that they teamed up to push a false story about the murder of democratic national committee staffer seth rich. the suit was filed against fox by an investigator who had been looking into rich s killing. the suit claims it was part of an effort to discredit intelligence committee findings that russia hacked the dnc. reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed a conspiracy was born. caught up in it, this man. i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. his name is rod wheeler. he s a former dc homicide