determined that russians hacked the dnc e-mails and gab them to wiki leaks. what was the goal? i think their goal, based on the e-mails and the voice mail messages that i got from ed butowsky was to debunk this russian hacking narrative. reporter: ed butowsky is a gop supporter and fox commentator. the alleged goal to detract from the russia investigation was not only pushed by butowsky but according to the lawsuit, it was done in coordination with the trump white house. with butowsky even arranging wheeler to meet with then press secretary sean spicer. spicer has acknowledged meeting them but said he was unaware of any contact involving the president. still, just two days before the article was published on fox s website, butowsky left this voice mail for wheeler. hey, rod, it s ed. so a couple minutes ago i got a note that we have the full attention of the white house on
sort of a follow-up on what you were talking about. our obsession with russia and responsibility there s a report out today based on a lawsuit that was filed that says that sean spice r was pushing around this story perhaps the one responsible for wiki leaks. sean put out a statement, he said it was just a meeting. he said the guy didn t know the president. the lawsuit alleges the president knew about it and had an influence on the story. did the president know about the story prepublication. the president had no knowledge of the story and it s completely untrue that he or the white house had involvement in the story. beyond that, this is on going litigation, and i d refer you to the parties involved which aren t the white house. does it disturb you that the press secretary for the president of the united states gave this incredibly passionate push back on focusing on russia.
trying to destroy these computers. arrested trying to flee the country. what were they trying to destroy. what was debbie putting pressure on capital police to get her computers back? we know? that one of the big scandals is that her emails were leaked. emails that showed she and the dnc favored bernie sanders over hillary clinton. wiki-leaks published those. what was wikileaks source? everyone had assumed that it was the russians who hacked the dnc and gave wikileaks the information. sean: he told me it was not russia. wiki-leaks hasn t been proven wrong in 11 years. now you have a possible
suspect. the corrupt it guy arrested at the airport trying to leave. charged with stealing million dollars. what if he was the source to wiki leaks. sean: i think it s deeper than that. my theory is maybe debbie schultz didn t want to be exposed so they smashed the hard drives. of course. sean: she knows she colluded against bernie sanders. that s the easy part. what if they were the source for wiki leaks? what if the whole of russia-gate hingeses on this investigation. this guy whose passport has been seized and he has an ankle monitor on. what if this investigation really shows who is the source of that leak?
wiki-leaks hasn t been proven wrong in 11 years. now you have a possible suspect. the corrupt it guy arrested at the airport trying to leave. charged with stealing million dollars. what he was the source to wiki leaks. sean: i think it s deeper than that. my theory is maybe debbie schultz didn t want to be exposed so they smashed the hard drives. of course. sean: she knows she colluded against bernie sanders. that s the easy part. what if they were the source for wiki leaks? what is the whole of russia-gate hingeses on this investigation. this guy whose passport has been seized and he has an ankle