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>> sandra: as far as who knew, we saw the statement from the dnc saying this wasnt us. debbie wasserman-schultz was asked about it and said she didnt know about it. did hillary clinton herself know about it? here is her former campaign spokesperson brian fallon answering that question. >> she may have known. the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. it could have been a decision was made to authorize the law firm to commission research but decisions about going out and finding ...

Since january. it was floated around privately before that. how could you not know that the clinton team was paying for it? and didnt someone in the clinton campaign know this? >> im sure there was a small group of folks that were aware of the nature of the decision to hire fusion back in the spring of 2016. but it was kept for reasons that i can understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired, a former mi6 agent, christopher steele, that was taking these discreet...

Some of those criminal acts. nothing here that took place with respect to the hiring of fusion gps, which is an independent private research firm that campaigns contract with all the time, nothing rises to the level of donald trump taking a meet with an authorized representative of the russian government for the purposes of trying to help donald trumps campaign by way of illegal acts. >> but brian fallon, in july, to our colleague, anderson cooper, you said, quote, theres a difference between go...

Letters that were released from clintons law firm that fusion gps actually came to that law firm in april or march of 2016, and said, weve been doing this research. if you want to pay us, we can continue that research. thats when we know clintons campaign and the dnc, they took fusion gps up on this offer. they funded this research well through the election. now, weve heard from clintons spokesman at the time, brian fallon, he said he wasnt aware of this until this past weekend. and heres what h...

Of this? >> well, she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. for instance, it could have been a decision was made to authorize to do some kind of commission, some kind of research, but then decisions about, you know, going out and finding fusion gps, finding christopher steele. i mean, she may or may not have been aware of that level of detail. i dont know. but i think its important to remember that, a, opposition research happens all the time in the camp...

To contract with you now to keep doing this research. and then once christopher steeles cover was blown and his identity became public, i guess that went south and they no longer went forward with contracting him. but he was very well-known to u.s. intelligence. he was not being handed things by trunhe russians. otherwise we would probably know the details of these supposed videotapes and the business connections that donald trump has with russia. none of that stuff was out there prior to the el...

Morning about who helped bankroll the dossier allegig ties between the trump campaign and russia. a source tells cnn hillary clintons presidential campaign and the dnc helped pay for it. the source says clintons camp retained research firm fusian gps in april of last year. that is the same firm that anti-trump republicans used for the beginning of this research dossier, what have you, in the primary. >> "the washington post" reports that fusion gps did not hire the dossier author, christopher st...