republicans want to turn the attention of the hearings to the biden family and alleged efforts by democrats in 2016 to dig up dirt on candidate trump via ukraine. and the biggest you mentioned, emerging as a central figure due to business dealings. and the ukrainian american who served the dnc and another familiar name, nelly ohr who worked on the opposition fusion gps which produce the trump dossier. republicans are requesting several officials who were questions behind closed doors including tim morrison, former ukraine envoy kurt voelker and state department official david hail. and the whistleblower along with anonymous sources referenced in their complaint also on that witness wish list
is a good governance activist in washington who is a respected figure and had provided this name. a were toker clinton lawyer? he did at one point, i understand, do work for williams and connolly. if we are talking about credibility. right. i understand it s relevant background. in this case it was very short mention and we only talked in brief terms about what he is doing right now. so we didn t see all of that context to be necessary. but, i understand why you are bringing it up and i think it s fair. tucker: um-huh. just a short mention. of course it s the critical claim in the story/book. we left out some context it. turns out some people think it s relevant when a character destroying smear comes from political activists rather than from, say, ordinary citizens. you ought to be able to know that when you are reading the piece. the times disagrees though. they don t think you don t have a right to that context. of course these are also the people who took the trump doss
activist in washington who is a respected figure and had provided this name. he did at one point, i understand, do work for williams and connolly. if we are talking about credibility. right. i understand it s relevant background. in this case it was very short mention and we only talked in brief terms about what he is doing right now. so we didn t see all of that context to be necessary. but, i understand why you are bringing it up and i think it s fair. tucker: um-huh. just a short mention. of course it s the critical claim in the story/book. we left out some context. turns out some people think it s relevant when a character destroying smear comes from political activists rather than from, say, ordinary citizens. you ought to be able to know that when you are reading the piece. the times disagrees though. they don t think you don t have a right to that context. of course these are also the people who took the trump dossier seriously and buried the context in that. you know
unmasked as a hoax. last night, lawrence o donnell. here s part of it. deutsche bank is in possession of documents that show that donald trump has obtained loans with cosigners. he would not have been able to obtain those loans without cosigners. the cosigners of his loans are russian billionaires close to vladimir putin. if true, that would explain every kind of word donald has ever said about russia and vladimir putin, if true. tucker: you. that man has a harvard educatio education. the source, if true. yeah. a single unverified source to vacate wild accusation. basically, it s the same standard that the trump dossier has faced.
discussed by congress and passed into law. we on the campaigns i do not make policies. i will never go beyond what the president has said. you heard them today. right now it seems we focus on background checks. also, the voters who are with president trump, the supporters who elected them in 2016, they know him to be a strong, strong advocate of the second minute. he is very firmly in favor of protecting people s constitutional rights. he also wants to protect people and prevent these mass shootings in the first place. we can get that done with common sense background checks, then he will want to do that. melissa: thank you for being here, we appreciate your time. the fbi releasing its interview notes on top doj official bruce ohr revealing how far the agency went, pushing the trump dossier, raising startling new questions about the bureau s actions in the run-up to the mueller probe. judicial watch president tom fitton joins us next. let me ask you something.