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Dossier. what has hillary clinton said about all this? matt schlapp former political director and chairman of the american conservative union and leslie marshall, talk show host from l.a. and good day to both of you. leslie, i havent heard an official response from her. i dont know why. i think the one answer in the week was baloney. whats taking so long and what explains that >> there are a couple of reasons. her staffers say she really didnt know anything about this until buzz feed reported it...

Donald trump. th president trump claiming russian poked, in his words, has now turned completely around. >> hillary clinton always denied it, the democrats always denied it. and now only because its going to come out in a court case, they said yes, they did it, they admitted it. and theyre embarrassed by it, but i think its a disgrace. its just really -- its very sad commentary on politics in this country. >> a source now tells cnn hillary clinton was not aware of christopher steels dossier unti...

Hillary clinton herself told associates that she had no knowledge of it when the dossier was ultimately published by buzz feed. in fact, she expressed some disappointme disappointment that the dossier did not get out before the election. well, we now know that her own campaign or at least its representatives in this law if i am could have had had a hand in pushing this out and may not have done so as aggressively as she potentially would have liked. >> is this just what a lot of democrats are sa...

The time. so they were responding to a question about the dossier as oppose to the contents of their search. >> seems to be splitting hairs there. whether it was the dossier or saying it was a bunch of memos not yet collected into the dossier, do we know how widely those memos are where those memos -- the law enforcement is the middle man, they were the ones who hired future gps, they were the ones doing the memos. what happened to the memos? >> thats one of the bigamistries here. the hillary cl...

Heard shortly thereafter what was in the dossier. and, yet, the woman at the head of the campaign, hillary clinton, says she didnt even know about it until it was published by buzz feed. brian: really? is that the case? so, when brian fallon, who is the spokesperson for hillary clinton came out yesterday and started tweeting, good, if we are linked to this, if i had gotten that, i would have used it and gotten all that information out. but then he did an interview on cnn. and he was asked, since...

Democrat national committee funded at least part of the research that went into the unsubstantiated documents. republicans in congress seizing on the new development saying it should be part of the russia investigations. >> if its good to investigate russians involvement in the election process in the united states and in regard to trump, its just as legitimate to investigate russia versus the clintons. >> joining us now jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters and part of the white hou...

Upon. ill be back this morning on the russia investigation trying to get answers. >> bill: i have three more questions. i hope you can answer the following. buzz feed broke this story in the weeks before the election last october on the dossier. nbc news has a major stake in buzz feed, hundreds of millions by way of its parent company comcast. what do you think of that? and would you expect some sort of retraction or clarification from buzz feed? >> the legal part of that is way above my pay gra...

Because theres a market for them. companies and trade associations paid them for the research and campaign form research on their own. ive gotten plenty of research documents on the rnc under president trump and dnc under tom perez, its a common part of politics. whats more exotic this time, the kinds of things that are being tracked down, the dossier and reports are unconfirmed and taking place in a foreign country. >> the actual dossier buzz feed reportedly published the 35-page thing earlier ...

>> tucker: remember the trump dossier, the mysterious totally unverified document that was made public by buzz feed? it included both scandalous allegations about donald trump as well as claims that the web company web zilla was a front for russian hacking of the dnc. it was like a parody of a scoop. it was so juicy it had to be truex september it wasnt. since the dossiers release web zilla and buzz feed battling it out in court. fighting efforts to open its books. this week the companys executi...

>> tucker: remember the trump dossier, the mysterious totally unverified document that was made public by buzz feed? it included both scandalous allegations about donald trump as well as claims that the web company web zilla was a front for russian hacking of the dnc. it was like a parody of a scoop. it was so juicy it had to be truex september it wasnt. since the dossiers release web zilla and buzz feed battling it out in court. fighting efforts to open its books. this week the companys executi...