Election. is someone trying to stoke the fires here in the run-up to the election. we don t know all of these things, and certainly investigators want to try to solve this as soon as possible. all right, evan perez, thanks so much. outfront, art roderick, former assistant director for investigations for the u.s. marshals, pamela brown, bob bayer, and bernard carric, former new york city police commissioner, commissioner during the september 11th terror attacks. i need to give a precursor, pre-warning here that we re expecting a press conference from john brennan, the former cia director to whom the package, the bomb that was sent to cnn in new york was addressed. we re expecting him to speak any moment now live and when that comes i m going to rudely interrupt you. but art, let me start by just asking you, we re learning new details tonight. what is it telling you about who the perpetrator or perpetrators might be. well, as we move through the day and we start looking at these di
Know that over the period of months that followed this meeting in london that christopher steele put together what we now know as the dossier, this series of memos describing different connections between donald trump, people with the trump campaign, and russians close to the kremlin. so it is the beginning, it appears of these allegations becoming part of what became or now what is the russia investigation looming over the presidency of donald trump. evan, thank you so much for that reporting. appreciate it. back here with our panel, julie, i want to start with you. your organization, the associated press, first broke the story. evan has confirmed it as well. also should say that christopher steele is about as controversial a figure in this whole saga as they come. that says a lot because there are a lot of controversial figures. but describe the significance of what bruce ohr said under oath about what christopher steele
Congressional testimony by justice department official bruce ohr. i want to bring in cnn s justice department correspondent evan perez. what more can you tell us about this? reporter: well, bruce ohr went in for an interview with the house earlier this week, dana, and in that interview is when he described what happened in this breakfast in july of 2016. obviously this is right at the beginning of when this russia investigation was being was started by the fbi. he met in london with christopher steele, according to his testimony to the house members, and he described that christopher steele essentially said that the russians he had information that the russians, at least the russian intelligence services, believed they had, quote, donald trump over a barrel. now, we don t know much more about this breakfast, whether christopher steele provided any evidence of this, but we also