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Earlier after having had this information for more than six weeks have managed to cast a cloud of doubt on both the professor and the judge. if they believed professor ford, why didnt they surface this information earlier so that he could be questioned about it? and if they didnt believe her and chose to withhold that information, why did they decide at the 11th hour to release it? it is really not fair to either of them the way it was handled. we have a lot more to learn about the timing of all...

I had a chance to look at the witness list. some of the items on the witness list have led to other stories weve done in the past. really, you have e-mails corroborating information. you have bank statements corroborating information. you have wire fund transfers corroborating information. the evidence paul manafort faces is overwhelming. in most cases somebody would say uncle at this point. theyd do a plea agreement. paul manafort faces ten years in jail. a significant time away from his family...

Ive never been an agent of the foreign power in any -- by any stretch of the imagination. >> carter page is more like inspector gadget than james bond. trump never met him or had a conversation with him. >> i think they went to the court. they got the judges to approve it. they laid out the information and there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at carter page. >> there was a document presented to the court as if it werent. >> the economy is a winning argu...

Which is not an easy standard. >> its not a guess? >> okay, then, but if you really have to have probable cause, why isnt he indicted? >> sometimes you dont come up with enough evidence to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. this happens all the time with wiretap warrants. the fact of the matter is i as assistant u.s. attorney, i used to have lots of warrants like this. not necessarily fisa, but the format was the same. you look at different kinds of people. you have informants and v...

People helping you. its also to give you an opportunity to push things out of the public mind. other things come up. other instances of particular events come up. other people may get charged. theres all sorts of things that happen along the course of an investigation or just over time that it takes that intense pretrial scrutiny and publicity and takes it out of the populous head and the potential jurors head. in this case, im not sure if thats going to work for them. if were not talking about ...

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. president trumps attorney michael cohen has filed a defamation suit against buzz feed the blog for publishing a dossier of unverified allegations against trump last year. >> co- told gomez at fox i filed a complaint buzz feed and ben smith for the lie-filled dossier. we will continue to follow those details. speaking of the dossier, fusion gps co-founder glemp simpson testified to congress back in august. until now his remarks had remained secret. today diann...

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. president trumps attorney michael cohen has filed ay defamation suit against buzzfeed, the blog, for unverified allegations against trump last year. cohen told fox i filed a complaint buzz feed and ben smith for the lie-filled dossier. we will continue to follow those details. speaking of the dossier,mp glenn simpson testified to congress back in august. until now his remarks had remained secret. today dianne feinstein, the democrat of california, abruptly re...

The whole investigation is corrupt at its core because that was what prompted it. this says, no, that wasnt the case. what started the investigation was george papadopoulos running his mouth at a bar in london. the australian ambassador reporting it back to the fbi and then the fusion gps report coming in. and verifying or fortifying some of that information. that it seems to me is fundamentally a very important thing to know. >> we learned that papadopoulos information from "the new york times,...

Effect a whistle-blower. here is the exact quote from the testimony. simpson testified before the senate that the fbi, quote, believed chris, this being chris steeles information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the trump organization. i should say that since that, this testimony of course was in august, since that glenn simpson, a source inside fusion has clarified this refe...

Scenes, but the house intelligence committee is a mess and now you have the senate judiciary committee just devolving into this. >> there is no shortage of charges about partisanship back and forth. i would say, though, in releasing the information, we havent had a chance to go through it all, but what we have heard from it, there is really not a whole lot of new information in there. what i did find surprising is that so much of what glenn simpson testified about was his perspective or providin...