here's what bruce ohr tells the fbi about christopher steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told ohr that if trump won the elections, steele's source network may be in jeopardy by a new fbi director and new agency heads appointed by trump who would have a higher degree of loyalty to the new president and could decide to take action against steele and his source network. let me tell you about christopher steele. ohr was right. he was on a mission to get donald trump. not only did he provide the dossier that made the difference in getting a warrant, his vices were well known. he was shopping the dossier. do we have it? to anybody and everybody in the media and in politics to see if they would print it. the reason the fbi cut him loose is because they found out he was shopping this thing around to media outlets rather than being a valid source. but after they knew he was shopping it around, they

who is christopher steele? y you thought these other people were bad, wait until you hear about this guy. christopher steele was a former mi-6, is that right? six, five, whatever it is. he was a british agent. retired. he had a new line of business. he was hired by a company called fusion gps to investigate donald trump. okay. you want to look at foreign influence, you're about to find it. fusion gps is on the payroll of the democratic national party. christopher steele is working for a company to find dirt on trump and the money comes from the democratic party. did they tell the court this? no. is that a buiit unnerving? it would be to me. so christopher steele is on the payroll of a company funded by the democratic party. here's what bruce ohr tells the fbi about christopher steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told oregon that if trump won the elections,

who is christopher steele? you thought these other people were bad. wait till you hear about this guy. christopher steele was a former mi-6, is that right? 6, 5, whatever it is. he was a >> he was hired by a company called fusion gps to investigate donald trump. okay. you want to look at foreign influence? you are about to find it. fusion gps is on the payroll of the democratic national party. christopher steele is working for a company to find dirt on trump, and the money comes from the democratic party. did they tell the court this? no. is that a bit unnerving? would be to me. so christopher steele is on the payroll of a company funded by the democratic party. here's what bruce ohr told the fbi about steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told ohr that if trump won the elections steele's source network may be in jeopardy by a new director and new agency heads appointed by trump who would have a hig

bruce orr's wife worked with christopher steele. she was employed by fusion gps, the wife of the number 4 guy at the f.b.i.. christopher steele went all over the united states trying to get media outlets to publish this garbage. the first thing is about the golden shower. encounter thatl president trump supposedly had been a ritz-carlton hotel in russia. you how i come to find out about christopher steele's work product. 2016, john mccain goes to a national security conference in canada and somebody tells him about the dossier, and it's bad, and you need to know about it, and it gets to john mccain. john mccain puts it in his safe. he gives it to me, and i read it. the first thing i thought of was, oh my god. this could be russian disinformation, or they may have something on trump. if you read this document, the first thing you would think of is, they got something on donald trump. it is stunning. it is damning. it is salacious. and it's a bunch of crap! guy thatlly find the repaired all the information. but, a little bit about ste

steele and the people funding christopher steele. can you remind us, who is bruce or mary to? >> bruce ohr's spouse, nellie ohr, had formerly been at the time he started interacting in november 2016 with steele, had been a former independent contractor for fusion gps. >> in other words, bruce ohr decides to insert himself in an investigation after the professional agents involved said mr. steele isn't reputable, isn't credible and has been talking to the media. we are not going to talk to christopher steele. actually bruce ohr meets with these people funding, the employers of christopher steele who is also bruce ohr's wife's source of compensation. >> had been. as of september 2016, she had no longer been an independent contractor. i think it's important to be clear because it's relevant to the significance of some of the inappropriate actions, the fbi was not a reluctant participant in this relationship that was a conduit from bruce ohr to steele. i want to be clear. they are not saying we don't want to deal with him. they are sayin

put together by christopher steele who had only one source. yeah, a guy that was an egomaniac known to live. nothing but outright lies, abuse of corruption, political bias, omission on multiple occasions of exculpatory evidence. it is now, right here, in black-and-white for all to see. 434 pages, 17 identified significant failures that'll make it one single source that steele had and even he said as an unreliable liar and maniac, source said none of this information should be used by anybody and even we on this program, can even mention it, or ensemble cast, everything we told you about hillary clinton's unfair bible bought and paid for dirty russian dossier is untrue and told you without the dossier, without the dirty dossier, no fisa warrants, it was basically all of the application. but for three minor other details to get this one against carter page to backdoor into all things trump campaign transition. then the trump presidency, deep into the trump presidency. as we told you, it was one massive coordinated effort by comey's corrupt fbi -

>>host: what was christopher steele's reaction in england when this hit the news? >> he packed up the kids and left home immediately and went to stand with it on - - stay with friends and other places. because of his previous work on russia there was an immediate concern he would be in danger and there was some legitimate concern of retaliation and then the harassment of the media with you find yourself in the middle so that was a very uncertain time and we were concerned about all sorts of things from the russians. >>host: during this time there is a lots of opinion reporting and you take on your colleagues from the wall street journal specifically kim. >> take. >> taking on a guess is the right word we find it almost amusing they are so insistent on defaming us and have a long-term campaign of defamation i think it is beneath that paper that has a great tradition for journalism to constantly engage in these attacks against us so it is remarkable for a long time they would have annunciation's of us almost daily all kinds of allegations with no semblance to reality

steele's report and that he/she made statements made statements that christopher steele misstated the statements in multiple sections of the reporting. the primary subsource told the f.b.i. that basically this was rumor and speculation, hearsay, bar talk, and he never believed that steele would use the information provided in any official document. that should have been a red light for the department of justice and the f.b.i. ladies and gentlemen, in january 2015 and thereafter, the primary sub source of the steele dossier was telling the department of justice and the fbi that the russ and -- the russian dossier is not reliable, that it was never meant to be used as an official document, rumor, bar talk, all hearsay and he specifically talks about the episode involving president trump in sexual activity inside was alla and says that rumor and speculation, word of mouth and hear say. what should have happened? once the f.b.i. and the department of justice was told by the primary subsource that the information in the dossier was not reliable, they had a duty in my view to report to the

host: the name christopher steele comes up very often. what did the report have to summarize about his actions? guest: it found his work was unreliable, he had a history of knew unreliable, the fbi his work was unreliable, they had evidence it was unreliable and they kept that from the fisa court, which they are required to submit all kinds of evidence that may contradict -- contradict or run counter to the evidence submitted. lindsey graham compared what the fbi did to a prosecutor withholding dna evidence or withholding fingerprint evidence that may exonerate somebody and i thought that was a good example because that points to how egregious what the fbi did. host: when it comes to what many have focused on in the release of the report, the political motivations of this activity, what was said in the report about that? guest: the report found there was no direct evidence of political bias and that means there was no documentary evidence, no testimonial evidence, but the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. accountingve an

here's what bruce ohr tells the fbi about christopher steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told ohr that if trump won the elections, steele's source network may be in jeopardy by a new fbi director and new agency heads appointed by trump who would have a higher degree of loyalty to the new president and could decide to take action against steele and his source network. let me tell you about christopher steele. ohr was right. he was on a mission to get donald trump. not only did he provide the dossier that made the difference in getting a warrant, his vices were well known. he was shopping the dossier. to anybody and everybody in the media and in politics to see if they would print it. the reason the fbi cut him loose is because they found out he was shopping this thing around to media outlets rather than being a valid source. but after they knew he was shopping around, they kept him around an

here's what bruce ohr tells the fbi about christopher steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told ohr that if trump won the elections, steele's source network may be in jeopardy by a new fbi director and new agency heads appointed by trump who would have a higher degree of loyalty to the new president and could decide to take action against steele and his source network. let me tell you about christopher steele. ohr was right. he was on a mission to get donald trump. not only did he provide the dossier that made the difference in getting a warrant, his vices were well known. he was shopping the dossier. to anybody and everybody in the media and in politics to see if they would print it. the reason the fbi cut him loose is because they found out he was shopping this thing around to media outlets rather than being a valid source. but after they knew he was shopping around, they kept him around an

he knew christopher steele had a serious credibility issues, and lied about that. he knew steele had a sketchy ties with russian oligarchs. he knew steele was being funded by the clinton campaign. they had that fact. why was the fact hillary clinton bought and paid for the dossier front and center right before the fisa judges? they also knew that, and they hit it, just as we have been reporting. and comey would have to be a complete and total moron, and i don't throw that out, not to know that steele was leaking the information to the press. in fact, fbi included sickly reporting. you got hacked like a conspiracy theorist conspiracy theorist michael isikoff, david corn. all, they are fed information, they don't cooperated, they just run with it as if it's gospel. grade reporting, mike is a cost. christopher steele was the lone source for that yahoo news report by michael isikoff. political hack that he is. and steele was ultimately fired as the source by the fbi for leaking.ea he had such credibility. guess what, even as late as april 2018, there is super patriot j

told fbi informant we'll use christopher steele -- they have not told christopher steele what's in there. they goal after him a little bit. >> steve: it had been redacted. brian: now it's. in we will see his name in the report. steele compiled the does yea wdossier.he has a reputation ofg honest but chasing down leads of people said were not leads in the past. ainsley: want to know how was this fisa warrant signed over and over and over when fisa the foreign surveillance act. other in the judiciary committee you talked about the council, steve. the panel is going to hear a presentation from these councils. each of these lawyers, the first one is a democratic staff lawyer. he is going to be talking about adam schiff impeachment report. another staff report, who san aide to jerry nadler is going to explain the democrats' outlook from a constitutional basis. basically released on saturday and basically echos the democratic witness opinion from last week that trump has set himself up as a king. brian: the president decided he is not going to have a presence there buzz words you will hear tod

and even christopher steele under oath when he heard this he should have gone back. i have no idea of any of it is true. that is why he repeatedly denied that it was used with the bulk of information in the fisa applications that we now know also was a lie. that means devin nunes was rig

about christopher steele. he was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. this is the guy that gave them the work product to get the warrant. steele told ohr if trump won the elections, steele's source network may be in jeopardy by a new f.b.i. director and new agency heads appointed by trump who would have a higher degree of loyalty to the new president and decide to take action against steele and his source network. let me tell you about christopher steele. ohr was right. he was on a mission to get donald trump. not only did he provide the dossier that made the difference in getting a warrant, his biases were well-known. he was shopping the dossier. do we have it? to anybody and everybody in the media and in politics to see if they would print it. the reason the f.b.i. cut him loose is because they found out he was shopping this thing around to media outlets rather than being a valid source. but after they knew he was shopping it around they kept

officials gave christopher steele information that they said was from a turkish businessman who had been visiting with a russian member of the f.s.b. that was derogatory to president trump, and they were encouraging steele to take that back and then use it before the election. the irony of the day today for me is while the house is impeaching the president, at the same time that's being debated, michael horowitz, the inspector general, is giving testimony about individuals in the obama-era state department getting information from foreign individuals, slipping it to individuals working on the clinton campaign, and literally using foreign sources to fight against canada trump from hillary clinton's staff -- candidate trump from hillary clinton's staff at the state department. sometimes the world feels more upside down than others. this is one of those weeks. i think about a year ago today, a year ago today the senate was working in a bipartisan fashion to be able to pass the criminal justice reform bill called the first step act. it was a landmark piece of legislation dealing with he

christopher steele. and as such, the horowitz report says failing to advice his direct supervisors that he was in communication with steele. it goes on to say no one informed the fbi that steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the u.s. president. so you have got a biased spy paid by clinton's team bigging up unverified dirt fed to him by the russians and the fbi runs with it? that's what we know. that's what was confirmed. you can call it an error in judgment, mr. horowitz. but it's a whole lot worse than that. it reeks of bias. not a single person bothered to question steele's intel. question his sources, question the motive. the fbi just ran with this whole thing and used this dossier to get a fisa warrant to spy on an innocent american, carter page. attorney general bill barr has some significant issues with the up g. findings and he should. i realize horowitz, an obama hold year may not want to take down the whole fbi, so he leaves it to lapses i

of christopher steele, i think that's a terrible thing to do. i think christopher steele who did a patriotic duty in alerting the fbi that a presidential campaign may be compromised by the russians. >> so it is now the author of the best seller paragraph, along with author of the best seller witch hunt. fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and also fox news investigative reporter lisa carter. he told me you trusted horowitz. he did work in a bubble but what he said today was devastating on top of his report. >> is somebody who read these things for a living for eight years, that's as devastating as it absolutely gets. five reports and more than a thousand pages, untold number of people referred to. it bears out exactly what devin nunes was telling us, it was the truth. and what adam schiff was saying was a lie lie, lie. >> mark meadows, jim jordan and gates and all of them. >> i think durham will go after the layers and it's a horse race between james comey and adam schiff. you did a wonderful job identifying call means lies. >> they start on pa

the fbi knew christopher steele was giving biased opposition research on trump paid for by hillary clinton campaign in the dnc. the fbi knew steel sources said he was not to be believed, and knew the justice department was raising red flags about that before they got the fisa warrant but cozy in the fbi team used still democrat funded opposition to launch spying on the trump campaign, not telling the fisa court about indium that. we find this in the footnotes. attorney john durham is going after cia director john brennan and we are firing up the questions on that one. thank you for joining us "the evening edit" start right now. ♪. liz: welcome to the show. you are watching the fox business network. congress heading home for the christmas recess not back until january 7. that will feel like a year in the life of d.c. the timing of the impeachment trial still in limbo. mike has more in washington. >> good evening california congressman was asked if impeachment could hurt democrats on election day. >> this is more important than politics. you do what the constitution requires and then you b

and even christopher steele under oath when he heard this he should have gone back. i have no idea of any of it is true. that is why he repeatedly denied that it was used with the bulk of information in the fisa applications that we now know also was a lie. that means devin nunes was rig right, and that means graham was right and the schiff show, he lied repeatedly too. take a look. >> you call the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that for the fisa court for carter page? no one used it but you lead with it, bulk of the fisa application deals with the dossier. why? >> that is not my recollection, brett. i don't know if the fisa application was released. my recollection was it was part of mosaic facts that were laid before the fisa judge to obtain a fisa warrant. >> there was a lot more than the dossier and fisa application? >> meant additional material about page and why an age in a foreign power. and the dossier was part of that, but was not a lipid or a critical part of it to my recollection. >> sean: a critical part, basically it was everything. anoth

christopher steele is that former british agent that did the dossier, worked for that outfit in part paid by the dnc to do this investigation for trump with his sources. the president has bashed this guy as pro-clinton again and again and again. we learned today he's friends with his daughter. the man is friends with ivanka trump. abc news reported it first. we followed it you, we have it now. how do you make it up. >> let's bring back andrew mccabe and jim baker. i would have bet 50 pairs of glasses that you guys match up with every day, you would never, ever get any tie-in the guy supposedly out to get you, he's friends with your daughter and give her a kilt, or whatever you call it, the tamly daughter -- >> give it to me, something with a t. >> what do you make of that? >> all you can say is now christopher steele has to be added to the long list of people who have been unfairly and unrack lit vilified by the president as being supposed political enemies. the simple fact is he has had a long -- i read in one piece of reporting seven-year relationship, friendly relationship with iv

then you go and you read the report and here is what christopher steele told the ig. he said simpson approached him in may specifically to look into any ties between the trump campaign and russia and whether or not russia was trying to get a specific election outcome. where did glenn simpson get this narrative this early in the game? >> sean: i think that is such a great question. what do you take on this? >> he got it from american intelligence agencies. likely the instigator of the hoax which is john brennan. the amazing part is if you look at the time line, and i put this in my book, within two weeks, the christopher steele comes uph the dossier, at least of the first and second memos. if you read those memos, that is an impossibility. unless he is just fed a bunch of garbage, and of course that's what we learned from the ig report. that it all largely came from a sub source who is finally confronted by the fbi and he said, are you kidding me? these are all exaggerations. >> sean: give the last word to kimberly. take out the sub source that says, that was bartok. o

we know about the politicall concerns about christopher steele's background. i will make a bold prediction tonight. i think the report is going to reveal that back in 2015, the fbi was warned by great britain that there were concerns about christopher steele's reliability, specifically his use of sub sources. and remember, why is that important? the fbi claimed in the footnote that they had no derogatory information about christopher steele. i think that will be a big highlight in the report. >> sean: john, could you say this, and then i want to go to mark. we now know, it's irrefutable, premeditated fraud, meaning they were warned, on the fisa court, because christopher steele, his own admission, in an interrogatory, set i don't know if any t of it is true. if they used any of it in the premeditated fraud on the court, and were warned repeatedly about it? >> i think for sure there will be one clear example of premeditated fraud, the falsification of documents. whether steele's -- >> sean: they were one with the steele dossier, can't be verified, that it was n

the inspector general's report also found a stunning connection between christopher steele and someone he used to call a friend, ivanka trump. the a breaking news of the night is that specific articles of impeachment might be announced by house leadership tomorrow morning. the chairs of the four house impeachment inquiry committees had a meeting with speaker nancy pelosi tonight in her office, and when the house foreign affairs committee chair left that meeting, he said there will be an announcement tomorrow morning on impeachment with the relevant chairs. chairman engel said, yeah, everything. in today's impeachment hearing in the house judiciary committee house sbeelg committee counsel daniel goldman presented the case against donald trump. in making that case, daniel goldman made a factual statement that every republican in the room today and every republican in the house and the senate has refused to admit. president trump got caught. >> by early september the president's scheme was unraveling. on september 9th, the intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committees announced an

christopher steele is that former british agent that did the dossier, worked for that outfit that in part was paid by the dnc to do this investigation on trump with his sources, right? the president has bashed this guy as pro-clinton again and again and again. we learned today he's friends with his daughter. the man is friends with ivanka trump. abc news reported it first. we followed it up. we have it now. how do you make it up? let's bring back andrew mccabe and jim baker. i would have bet 50 pairs of glasses like you guys match up with every day that you would never, ever get any kind of tie-inli like it, but here we a, andrew. the guy is supposedly out to get you. he's friends with your daughter and gave her a kilt, or whatever you call it. something with a "t." give me it so i don't disrespect -- >> a tartan. >> what do you make of that? >> all you can say, chris, is that now christopher steele has to be added to the long, long list of people who have been unfairly and inaccurately vilified by the president has being supposed political enemies. the simple fact is he has had a lo

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steele and the people who are funding christopher steele. who is bruce ohr married to? >> nellie ohr at the time he started interacting in november 2016 with steele, had been a former -- independent contractor for fusion gps. >> so, in other words, bruce ohr decides to insert himself into an investigation after the professional agents involved in this investigation said, mr. steele, isn't reputable, credible and has been talking to the media. we're not going to talk to christopher steele anymore. bruce ohr says i should and he meets with these people who are the employers of christopher steele or own his dossier, who's also bruce ohr's wife's source of compensation. >> had been as of september 2016 she had no longer been an independent contractor. and i want to also i think it's important to be clear because this is relevant to the significance of some of the inappropriate actions here, the fbi was not a reluctant participant in this relationship that was the conduit from bruce ohr, through bruce ohr to steele as we lay out here. they're not

christopher steele said it's more information. i didn't say it was corroborated plus i'm working for fusion gps. i was not working for the fbi. i'm working for my client. they are running away from this whole things. nobody thing it's good now. ainsley: the fisa court wasn't even told who paid for that does the yea. it was hillary clinton's campaign. >> correct. we knew that at the time. we knew the fisa court was not told about that. some of the details that we get of the lack of credibility, the fbi actually did get to talk to some of the sources of information who gave information to christopher steele. he got none of his information firsthand. it didn't come from his knowledge. he got information second and third hand from people who themselves got information second and third hand. the fbi trained some of these people and they said wait a minute, this was gossip. it was hearsay. it was what friends say over beers. one literally said that and they were amazed that christopher steele took it so seriously. and, yet, this formed

steele and the people who are funding christopher steele. who is bruce ohr married to? >> nellie ohr at the time he started interacting in november 2016 with steele, had been a former -- independent contractor for fusion gps. >> so, in other words, bruce ohr decides to insert himself into an investigation after the professional agents involved in this investigation said, mr. steele, isn't reputable, credible and has been talking to the media. we're not going to talk to christopher steele anymore. bruce ohr says i should and he meets with these people who are the employers of christopher steele or own his dossier, who's also bruce ohr's wife's source of compensation. >> had been as of september 2016 she had no longer been an independent contractor. and i want to also i think it's important to be clear because this is relevant to the significance of some of the inappropriate actions here, the fbi was not a reluctant participant in this relationship that was the conduit from bruce ohr, through bruce ohr to steele as we lay out here. they're not

they didn't even ask who was paying christopher steele for the so-called research. and consequently the horowitz report is littered with words like this. no corroboration, no consideration for contrary facts, no supporting documentation. inaccurate. no verification, failed to disclose sub sources. lapse in judgment, omitted sources, less than candid and on it goes. their bias, their recklessness was on full display. all over the airways. >> do you believe the president could be a russian asset. >> it's possible. >> that's at appearance to me. >> mr. trump said yesterday to betray the men and women of the fbi, the cia and others answer betray the american public. that's why i use the term it's nothing short of -- of treasoness. trish: the screw-up from their perspective i would bet is donald trump was elected, is still in office, and they got caught. >> the fbi also sent multiple undercover human spies to surveil and record people associated with our campaign. look how they have hurt people. they destroyed the lives of people that were great people that are still gre

to christopher steele anymore. he meets with these people who are the employers of christopher steele who is also bruce ohr's wife. >> as of september 2016 she had no luck or been in an appendix contractor. also i think it's important to be clear this is relevant to this significant of the inappropriate actions here. the fbi was not a reluctant participant in this relationship it was the conduit from bruce ohr to steal as we lay out here so i just want to be clear. they are not saying we don't want to deal with them. they are saying essentially if you have something we would love to hear fromm you. >> i want to say that i'm in wish mike lee weren't sitting to people away from me right now because as the national security hawk i had argued with mike lee in the four or five years that i've been in the senate that stuff like this couldn't possibly happen at the fbi and the department of justice so somebody who is embarrassed on behalf of the fbi about your port because i believe it's critically important that we have

the origins of the now-infamous steele dossier go back to 2016 when christopher steele was contacted by the private intelligence firm fusion gps to do some research on donald trump for a client. it's important to remember that fusion's first client was a conservative online publication which backed off when trump became the republican front-runner in the 2016 campaign. it was only then that a law firm tied to the clinton campaign and the dnc hired fusion to continue the research. that dossier, the steele -- the dossier steele compiled and all its details burst into public view when buzzfeed published it in january of 2017, just ten days before trump's inauguration. and it is still having an impact -- or 2016, before the inauguration. it's still having an impact just days before trump is set to be impeached. when we come back, i'll talk with the founders of fusion gps who reveal new detail about the steele dossier in their book. you do not want to miss it. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ]

christopher steele, was there a bias against donald trump? >> given who he was paid by there was a bias to the court. >> did it seem he had a personal bias, not just because he was on the payroll of the democratic party? >> from mr. ohr that his comment to him that he was desperate to prevent mr. trump's election. >> again, this is the guy that provides the dossier that gives the warrant against carter page. he's paid for by the democratic party and he personally believes it's bad for donald trump to win. he's marketing the dossier which is baunch a bunch of garbage to anybody and to everybody. to me, that's important. is that important to you? >> any evidence of bias is supposed to be disclosed to the court and to the department of lawyers. >> -- department lawyers. >> okay. so let's play this out. in january 2017, when they figured out the primary sub source and they talk to the russian guy that provided steele all the information, what should the fbi have done at that moment? >> two things, considered internally where things stood and most

and christopher steele, the former british spy who compiled a dossier on the president, told investigators it was ridiculous to think that he was biased against mr. trump. why? he had been friendly with ivanka trump. steele said, if anything, he was favorably disposed toward the trump family. >>> the inspector-general's findings are clear and undeniable. but the president and his allies disagree. we'll get the sound for you later on. >>> attorney general bill barr is taking the extraordinary step of disagreeing publicly with his ownment own inspector-general. he insists the probe was launched on, quote, the thinnest suspici suspicions. john durham, hand-picked by barr to investigate the investigation, also says he does not agree with some of the report's conclusions. >>> a sobering and tragic revolution, drawing comparison to the pentagon papers from 50 years ago. a huge trove of controversial documents obtained by "the washington post." they reveal u.s. officials lied about the war, virtually from day one, to manipulate public opinion. and they show a flawed strategy for winning the war t

christopher steele, the people at the fbi no christopher steele was untrustworthy, he was an untrustworthy foreign actor, he was a political hack, he didn't like trump, he was being paid by the clintons, but they still pushed forward with using him and exercised extremely poor judgment, correct? >> certainly once they found out that they had decided to close him, they should have followed the rules if they wanted to reengage with him. they had plenty of information to question the validity and bona fides of some of those reporting. >> should bruce be held criminally responsible for his misconduct? >> we make his. >> let me ask you. a couple of times we've heard of lower-level fbi agents and lawyers who had generated some of these inaccuracies, these 17 inaccuracies. what is the process for supervisors fact-checking? >> under the procedure committee's factual accuracy procedure is put into place in response to prior incidences found of failure to accurately relate information to the court, the first line supervisor is supposed to go through and recheck the process to make sure it was done.

one sub source, you know, we knew that christopher steele didn't say it but he is saying, you actually, really believed that hooker's story in moscow? >> here is the amazing thing, he goes through the report, and the fbi had about a million red flags presented the second this report came in, yet they didn't bother to find the source and talk to him until january 2017. they could've saved the country so much grief if they had done basic due diligence on this guy and his reporting and spared us all. >> sean: all right, thank you both. great work, the both of you the last couple years. hard work, investigative reporting. when we come back, oh, we have a big announcement to make. that is at the end of the show. but a big warning sign from 2020 democrats from across the pond, straight ahead. ♪ from 2020 democrats from across the pond, straight ahead. guys, it's time to step up your game. force factor's alpha king boosts total testosterone for more lean muscle in the gym, more energy, and more passion and drive so you can rule the bedroom. unleash your potential with alpha king. now availa

where they warned that christopher steele was out to get trump? did they ignore those warnings? of all of that proved to be true, it is devastating. every american should be concerned. and the fisa court to do something about it. and if they accept this as okay behavior, that maybe we should get rid of the fisa court. >> sean: okay, agreed. by the way, i would hate to see that actually. because there is a lot of evil in the world, and you know what, there is evil -- i don't care if it is a broad or domestic, we have enemies to domestic and foreign. we need to get to the bottom of this. my major concern in all of this is horwitz already referred, you know, from further investigation, mccabe and comey for lying. didn't michael cohen, paul manafort recently roger stone run into issues involving lack of candor that led to guilty admissions, convictions? >> yes, so he referred people for prosecution, comey, they decided not to prosecute based on what the clinton email investigation. i trust william barr to be fair too. i don't know what is in the report, but here's what i believe. if

we learn christopher steele, the former mi6 agent informed his fbi handling agent that quote fusion gps had been retained by a law firm to conduct this research, according to the handling agent. it was obvious to him the request for the research was politically motivated. horowitz finds the likes of james clapper and peter stroke did not investigate who ultimately paid for steele's reporting. in march 2017 it was widely known between fbi officials that glenn simpson who hired christopher steele had himself been hired by someone related to the democratic party. they knew that much. three renew applications to spy on carter page didn't reflect that general knowledge. joining us tonight is tom fitton, the president of the judicial watch. tom, i want to start with you. you were foremost as a skeptic of what we would hear today and what we would learn and you were right. you were early and often correct in your assessments of this inspector general and what he would conclude. >> i warned anyone that would listen that i.g. reports are exposes' and cover-ups at the the same time. of course the

he was the one who was reading the christopher steele dossier. lou: he has been lying for 2 1/2 years. how about an accounting. to be honest about the fact this was a politically motivated con try advance on the part of the dimms and the deep state. great to see you. thanks so much. miranda divine. stay with us and please be here soon. ♪ limu emu & doug hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes home insurance, so they'll only pay for what they need. your turn to keep watch, limu. wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lou: the trump administration completing the phase one trade deal with china. dr. michael pillsbury sharing the details of the agreement after talking with the president. >> he locked in $50 billion per year just in agricultural products. energy will be add as well. that's the first big thing. the second thing is this rampage of stealing our intellectual

. >> in january of 2018, chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi department, interfering christopher steele for potential investigation of lying to the fbi. we told the fbi, the department -- and the department that what the fbi told the court about steele's media contacts didn't match with what he told the british court. did -- four questions in regard to that. did the fbi ever ask steele whether he was a source for the september 2016 yahoo! news article that cited western intelligence sources, quote/unquote? if not, why not? >> they did not ask that question despite having the opportunity to do so. and we got a variety of explanations, including that -- as to some of these issues that they didn't want to offend him or jeopardize their relationship with him. >> question two. on october 11th draft of the fisa application stating fbi believes steele was the source for the yahoo! news article, but it was taken out in the october 14th draft. why did the fbi originally say steele was the source and what factual basis did the fbi have to change that and tell the court that steele was not a sourc