for libel. someone sued him in british court. in response to the lawsuit he admitted in british court that he had talked to media outlets in september of 2016 about the dossier. the p.i. told the fisa court all through 2016 that mr. christophr steele had no contacts at all with the media when it comes to shopping around the dossier. we have a filing in british court for a lawyer for mr. steele who admits to talking to the worldwide media in september of the same the fbi was using him as a confidential informant. somebody needs to look and see whether or not, who he is lying to. we will give him the tools to do it because they cannot be counted on to investigate themselves. it s kind of common sense. if you do something wrong, you don t have the fox guarding the
story. the story that mueller is delving into. trump set on the record to the new york times that that would be a red line, going into business dealing. i think the most interesting thing is the alchemy that creates. there s also the issue that this investigation began to look into collusion. we have these congressional investigations. they don t find collusion but what they do find if anyone has information on collusion, it will be great to get it out. but what you found out was that there were problems at the fbi and department of justice. there have been criminal leaks. fisa abuse another problems. we can t expect the fbi and department of justice to investigate themselves. whether or not media people care about the scandal of the century, the american people need answers for the problems at the fbi and apartment of justic justice. i don t see how else you restore the ability of these agencies and lets you have someone truly
with the special counsel s investigation in any way. at the same time treasury was announcing sanctions, dhs and fbi warned russian hackers are trying to infiltrate the american energy grid. had his confirmation hearing to leave the national security agency, a lieutenant general painting it as a matter of grave concern. the entire defense of our electric system is of great concern to me. i m aware this been reporting with regards to elements within our systems, that is something that should could concern all of us. in the oval office with ireland s prime minister, president trump weighed in on personnel changes. shooting down chatter that more cabinet and staff departures are imminent. there will always be change but very little. it was a very false story, very exaggerated, very exaggerated and false story. but there will always be change.
we have had hearings in our community about how russia operates. we have brought in sally yates and john clapper and a bunch of people who are worried about the trump campaign association with the russians. we haven t found any evidence of collusion but mueller is doing his job. the chairman and i have looked close at the fbi investigation of the clinton email scandal and i have come away believing it was shoddily done. there were conflicts of interest in political bias that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for by the democratic party and fusion gps, mr. christopher steele had associates in russia they could have easily compromised him. we believe the fisa warrant process was abused. the reason we want a special counsel as i think crimes may have been committed. mr. christopher steele was sued in may of 2017 in great britain
the punishment for violating the law should be you lose your job. if he in fact did authorize fbi agents to talk to the media and lied about it. bret: seeing what you ve seen, you think he did. i don t know. here s what i do know. the fbi and department of justice were corrupt when it came to handling the email investigation of clinton and the entire fisa warrant application process was abused. one last thing. not one democrat seems to care about this. why did we start out with this? trump-russia was the start but you follow the facts and the facts led us to there s a lot of things done in the previous administration. today i was criticizing my committee by democrats, why are we interested in the previous administration? well, if there is political interference in the justice department, the fbi in one administration and that s what we were looking into, wouldn t