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Latest headline blasted the front page of "the new york times" this weekend. bill oreilly thrives at fox news even as harassment settlements add up. this new report includes accusations against the anchor. lets bring in correspondent brian seltzer joining me now. it seems to be a cloud over fox news for sometime now. what are the latest allegations? >> yeah. this story gets to the issue of culture within in this case a newsroom and a corporate culture. questions that would apply to any big compa...

Nunes and shift did get a private briefing by comey about the precise nature of the fbi investigation. and nunes was clearly not happy with some of the answers about whether the trump white house and trump himself were under investigation and reading between the lines the way i interpreted what he said privately versus publicly was how close to the white house this investigation is. and this is the reason the nunes says theres a cloud over the white house. >> somewhat. now getting back to kirste...

The trump white house were under investigation. and what schiff and nunes knew privately, versus what comey was willing to say privately, was how close to the white house the investigation was. and this was the reason that nunes said that theres a cloud over the white house now that he thinks is unfair. >> somewhat, yes. getting back to kirstens questions, is what they want to do is have comb any come in, and he will not do that, until he got a request signed by the minori minority chairman, mr....

Have seen no evidence to support the presidents claim. and if this is an effort by the president and by the white house to throw a cloud over that or create some uncertainty, its not going to work because ultimately theyre going to have to produce these intercepts. the chairman will have to produce them to substantiate any suggestion that they support the presidents claim. i think ultimately that will be debunked because as a fundamental matter, if there was any wiretapping of the president, the...

>> right. and so i take congressman nuness point that this has created a cloud over the trump white house right now. it will probably impair theirable to advance their legislative agenda. i think you wouldnt have written it up worse for the trump white house today in terms of the worse of all worlds testimo testimony. and so while i understand the situation and i think its an unfair predicament, i have no simple thee for the trump white house because in our case director comey actually, the fbi ...

>> what was wrong was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, were given that information. because that was classified information. it was given illegally. thats the real problem. >> there are reports of apparently illegal leaks. but it is a real problem if there are secret links to the russians or criminal collusion with them. and there will be a cloud over the trump administration until and unless the president releases his entire tax returns so that all potential russian...

When you watched comeys first announcement. we were in headquarters and we heard he was going to make an announcement. we went out. as he was making his statement, we had no idea what he was going to say. >> 11 days out. >> oh, 11 days out. this was the initial announcement in late june, early july. 11 days out it was totally out of lft. >> both campaigns used this to their advantage when they could. the clinton campaign used his recommendation not to prosecute to say that this matter is closed,...

The question really is are we going to able to -- sweep it away as quickly a possible. because president-elect trump used it as a cloud over is value didity of his win. >> theres cabinet choices for trump, his first press conference in a very long time, and then you have president barack obama already giving his fair well address to the nation in his town hall address in chicago. we already know hundreds of people braved the refrigeratfri temperatures there. and you see people waiting to get tic...

They blew them off. part of it was the attacks were more effective. i dont think you can say that but for some of the podestas e-mails coming out that somehow hillary would have won. the e-mails were embarrassing. at the end of the day, i dont think they were decisive. >> media coverage, i remember far more talk about donald trump and what -- the comments he made dwarfing whatever we had on the e-mail stuff. let me get your take on how this drip, drip, drip of information about russias involveme...

Blown off congress and exmain what they met here. and today you went to trump tower and met with the president-elect. whats the latest? >> i discussed with him what i said on your show last night, theres no evidence thats been brought to our attention and the intelligence community has never shown us anything indicating that the russians, who i believe were involved in hacking, that they were attempting to favor donald trump over hillary clinton. theyve consistently told us that the intention of...