decisions of bruce ohr in connection with the trump dossier and one of mueller s top investigators. direct knowledge, telling fox news, and the top robert mueller deputy with the controversial anti-trump dossier. and earlier this week sources said ohr contacted fbi officials, at november 2016 election. and the back channel contacts, with parts of the dossier. with two decades of government service, ohr told investigators he never handled evidence about it but the broad circle of contact indicate senior fbi leadership, wiseman and two other senior justice department officials knew about back channel contact with steel and the dossier.
breakfast with a former british spy behind the trump dossier. july 2016 meeting ohr said christopher steele claimed one of his russian contacts unnamed official says russian intelligence believed they had, quote trump over a barrel. also the information was raw intelligence. and like the dossier unverified. ohr had also told the fbi about steele s candidate trump. ohr said he had not gone wrong adding a half dozen fbi justice department officials knew about his back channel contact with steele which included pro-vigd parts of the dossier. in nearly three decades of government service ohr told investigators he had never handle in this way before. he portion but unclear with other officials that his wife worked behind the firm behind the dossier. his wife who atlanta crime division and top deposit toy to robert mueller one of three doj officials kept in the loop about the opposition resovereign though it s not public
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president trump was wrapped up a huge rally in evansville, indiana, he was campaigning for senate candidate mike braun. and a moment we will show you all of the best moments from tonight s rally, but first we have some very important breaking news to cover. today we learned that the great doj official bruce ohr gave lawmakers a list of half a dozen fbi and doj officials who knew about his trump dossier ties. breaking just moments ago, in 2016 bruce ohr kept andrew weissmann in the loop about the trump dossier. of course we now know that wiseman is robert muller s top deputy. joining us now with more reaction is the author of
russia says it disagrees with certain elements of that report. jillian: we are learning the motor doj official bruce ohr was keeping a colleague in the loop on the trump dossier in 2016. that colleague is a top deputy. we are told ohr s outrage before and after the fbi fired its author, by christopher steele. and contact on the dossier sparked concern whether fbi leadership learned about his back channel activities regarding the dossier which helped launch the russia probe. google advertisements, or and hatch and the federal trade commission to reopen an investigation whether the company violated antitrust practices, google decided to remove from its platforms legal businesses the company does not agree with. hatch concerned about privacy,