interested in that collusion, we have also found to fill any leaks, nobody seems to be interested in getting to the bottom of the felony leaks, so it is about what the house intelligence committee led by the republicans are trying to get to the bottom of despite what we are up against a lot of odds. we are not getting help from the democrats in the house and also not getting any help from the mainstream media. tucker: and you are being lied to. here s an example of the line going on, john brennan, the cia director comes before congress and testifies under oath that he had no idea who wrote the trump dossier and that that dossier faces no conclusion by the intel community. it seems very much like a lie, because the fbi knew exactly who wrote to the dossier, he lied to congress under oath, will he face perjury for that? why not if not? we sent out a questionnaire today command we are asking several former and current officials to answer ten sinful simple questions.
down. sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. senators chuck grassley and lindsey graham have launched a probe into former national security advisor susan rice. in the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on inauguration day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. in it she describes a meeting she had attended just two weeks before on january 5th. at that meeting were president obama, vice president joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy a.g. sally yates and susan rice herself. according to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider withholding national intelligence from the incoming trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. in other words, almost two months after the presidential election, barack obama viewed trump not as his democratically elected s
highlighted sections of concerned and used red boxes to show where the release of national security information would cost the most severe damage. bill: the leading democrat laid into a senior republican. chuck grassley, direct oversight of the justice department and f.b.i. asked them along with senate republican lindsey graham to investigate whether the former british spy who compiled the trump dossier lied to f.b.i. agents about his contacts with the media and distribution of the controversial research. steele said he briefed the trump dossier a dozen times to major american media outlets and offering it to the state department and f.b.i. the criminal refefral is targeting the russia special counsel robert mueller. it is part of the same effort along with the chairman of our committee to try to put the f.b.i. and bob mueller s investigation on trial. it is a well-known defense
of jonathan wiener. what is significant about his job or his role in this? we have been hearing for a while about state department involvement in the trump dossier, that they knew about it at the time and now we have an article in a state department official s own words, mr. weiner wrote an op-ed for the washington post . in the summer and fall of 2016 he met with christopher steele. he read the trump dossier as it existed at that time. he wrote a summary of the dossier s allegations for top state department officials including john kerry, the secretary of state and discussed it with sidney blumenthal, a long-time clinton operative and actually received some information from cody sheerer, another clinton operative and passed that along. so now we have in the person of weiner some more information about what the state department
that was the argument of the 19th century slave owner that said we need people from africa to pick cotton in 100-degree weather. it s not a good argument for it is not ethically on the right side of history. tucker: our ruling class has not updated perceptions in a few decades. thank you for joining us tonight come professor. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. tucker: a fox news alert. democratic senator mark warner of virginia, fox news has learned, texted with a russian oligarch lobbyist in an effort to contact the author of the trump dossier, christopher steele, because you can t make this up fox news ed henry has a story and he joins us. good to see you. these texts obtained by fox news, they show, you can see them right here, senator mark warner, a democrat who s been leading one of the investigations of president trump s ties to russia, had extensive contact with that lobbyist for an oligarch who offered him access to steele, who wrote the dossier. warner text