his big endorsement. sanders versus trump in the florida governor s race. sean: ed henry, big news. we solve the desantis rise and it was connected directly to the trump endorsement and he is well-liked in florida. he ll be a good governor, rick scott will be a great senator. today, disgraced doj official bruce or testifying behind closed doors. fox news correspond catherine herridge s has the latest. catherine? good evening. the closed-door deposition lasted seven hours but the consensus among republican lawmakers the justice department official bruce ohr told the fbi there were issues with the trump dossier and its author christopher steele. the evidence shows that the national security advisor court was kept in the dark when it granted a surveillance warrant for a trump campaign aide just two weeks before the 2016 election. one lawmaker says ohr s answers for the timing and handling of the dossier do not line up with other witnesses, including former fbi lawyer lisa page, who se
we can find out. speak to max because republicans ate today s testimony only heightened their concerns that l authorities abused surveillance powers during the 2016 election. they say that bruce ohr, who is still a high-ranking official of the justice department, told his contacts at the fbi that there were credibility issues with the trump dossier and its author, former burgess by christopher steele. yet when it came to time to house republicans say that the i did not include those issues on the application. not only to the fbi know that the dossier was verified, they also knew that there was real credibility issues where it would never end up in a courtroom because of the inherent way that it was collected and the bias that was associated with that. congressman mark meadows also claims his office s information suggesting that the fbi leaked
trip told me that officials at mi-6, mi-5, and gchq were wary of entertaining nunes out of fear that he was trying to stir up a controversy. natasha bertrand, staff writer at the atlantic, joins us now. also with us david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and co-author of the book russian roulette. both are msnbc contributors. and natasha, i want to go to your exclusive reporting on what devin nunes was up to on his summer break. and big surprise, people in london were a little suspicious of him. exactly. so he went over there with the intention of trying to get more information about christopher steele, the author of the trump dossier, from mi-6court mi-5 and gchq. of course mi-6 is the agency christopher steele worked for for a number of decades and mi-5 is the uk s domestic intelligence service and what he was trying to glean from mi-5 is actually particularly interesting. i m told that he was trying to
and big surprise, people in london were a little suspicious of him. exactly. so he went over there with the intention of trying to get more information about christopher steele, the author of the trump dossier, from mi-6court mi-5 and gchq. of course mi-6 is the agency christopher steele worked for for a number of decades and mi-5 is the uk s domestic intelligence service and what he was trying to glean from mi-5 is actually particularly interesting. i m told that he was trying to kind of figure out what they knew about christopher steele s relationship with bruce ohr, the top justice department official who of course was grilled today by house republicans and who was speaking to chris steele throughout 2016 and 2017, kind of debriefing him on additional intelligence he may have gotten from the trump russia project that he was doing. so go ahead.
only as a matter of law but as a matter of optics because i think they think it would be beneficial for mueller to appear to be pushing his power to the max and pressing his case in front of the supreme court. so, no, i don t think they have any intention unless the supreme court rules against them. perhaps testing trump s new appointee, presumably if it is brett kavanaugh, and he has some experience on past special counsel investigations. thanks very much. coming up on outfront, breaking news. polls beginning to close in a number of races that could determine the balance of power in washington. we are standing by to break down those results. and one of the president s favorite punching bags called capitol hill to testify behind closed door. what did the justice department official with tries to the trump dossier have to say today? if you have moderate to severe