there was evidence of that, i think the press would have gotten it by way. trish: so let s go back to the trump dossier for a moment because this was put together as everyone knows by now by a firm, hired sort of hit job kind of firm to dig up dirt on someone is fusion gps and they were brought in and eventually down the road, employed in part by folks close to clinton, hillary clinton and bank rolled by the democrats. i guess the big question that we have to ask is was russia deliberately trying to mess with us, with the united states of america and our whole election process and did they deliberately feed false information to christopher steel , the british spy that was hired to compile this dossier? i think that s, there s a lot of answers and the scary thought is that possibly the fbi used this to get fisa warrants.
documents related to that trump dossier, and he wants them by january 3rd. nuñes ends the letter by saying, quote: at this point it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. for weeks now republicans have criticized top officials at the fbi and doj. at least three house republicans say special counsel robert mueller needs to lose his job. south carolina senator lindsey graham is not in that camp. he says mueller is the right guy for the job, but he has other concerns. i believe he s the right guy to have been chosen. he s going to give analysis of what happened and a fair-minded way. but he s not looking at the dossier, that s not part of his charter.ç i m very disturbed about what the department of justice did with this dossier, and we need a special counsel to look into that. reporter: democrats say attacks on the fbi and doj are a distraction, and republicans are not interested in facts or the truth but instead want to
is going to happen, he s going to do his work and we ll find out what he has found out. i lot of this noise i think is for the president s base, attempt to precondition the public for when this comes out. but in the end it matters very little. what matters is what robert mueller will find out. just today, the washington examiner was told he wants a special counsel to investigate this trump dossier. it can still happen. i don t think this is necessarily going to push the republican congress in a different direction. i would add they re the focus of both of these different story lines. and the republican congress has been pretty loyal to the president. in reese ejnt weeks some member have joined this campaign to discredit the investigation. i don t think this story meeran senator graham will necessarily move away from trying to launch investigation. i suppose that could be part
television. this is about real letters and real demands that carry the weight of one branch of the us government. right, fox news obtained a letter that came from the house intelligence committee from chairman nunez addressed to rod rosenstein. it begins by saying the house intelligence committee quote - rights and responsibility department of justice, doj and the federal bureau of investigations failure to produce responsive documents and provide the requested witnesses in compliance with subpoenas issued four months ago. nunez is requesting more documents related to that trump dossier. he says there were a number of delays in discrepancy as they sent subpoena request. any says the fbi against doj have until january 3 to turn over all outstanding documents related to august 24 subpoenas. weeks now, republicans have criticized the top doj officials and fbi officials.