published the story to help distract from coverage of the russia collusion issue is completely erroneous. the retraction of this story is still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that rod wheeler was misquoted. now, wheeler also claims in his lawsuit that he and ba to you ski met with then white house spokesman sean spicer and provided him with a copy of mr. wheeler s investigative notes. here is how white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders responded yesterday. did the president know about the story prepublication, and did he have an influence on way the story the president had no knowledge of the story and it s completely untrue that he or the white house had involvement in the story. okay. joining me now is the man we just talked a lot about, he had ba to you ski. he s the chief equity strategist at chap wood investments. i ve known ed for years and ed is a friend. good to have you here. thank you for being with me. i want to start with the obviou
deflect suspicion that its campaign had been involved in the russian backed wikileaks operation. it all started in may when fox news published an online article alleging that the young dnc staffer who was killed for leaking he was killed for leaking internal dnc e-mails to wikileaks. though d.c. police say this poor young man was killed in a completely unrelated botched random robbery. fox news retracted the piece a week later saying it did not meet the network s editorial standards. at issue is whether president trump was aware of the article after sean spicer met with some of the people involved, including a long trump supporter. spicer said he met with the men but denied that the president or other white house officials were also involved. yesterday s press briefing, glen thrush pressed sarah huckabee sanders about the lawsuit. take a listen. did the president know about the story prepublication and did he have an influence on the way
sort of a follow-up on what you were talking about. our obsession with russia and responsibility there s a report out today based on a lawsuit that was filed that says that sean spice r was pushing around this story perhaps the one responsible for wiki leaks. sean put out a statement, he said it was just a meeting. he said the guy didn t know the president. the lawsuit alleges the president knew about it and had an influence on the story. did the president know about the story prepublication. the president had no knowledge of the story and it s completely untrue that he or the white house had involvement in the story. beyond that, this is on going litigation, and i d refer you to the parties involved which aren t the white house. does it disturb you that the press secretary for the president of the united states gave this incredibly passionate push back on focusing on russia.