question whether it was a joke or sarcasm or something else. bob mueller will not just look at how funny donald trump is and his style on the campaign trail. bob mueller will look at what other circumstantial and direct evidence sheds light on whether this was an ongoing conspiracy. that s the criminal term. remember, you re supposed to take trump seriously but not literally. an important thing to remember here. you know, trump does say sarcastic things all the time but there does seem to be a grain of truth or a grain of honesty in whatever he says. so maybe it is a valid legal defense. i have a difficult time believing that they would be able to really make case. you think he meant it. i don t think that he didn t mean it. i don t know. to point out, rebecca mercer, is not just close to steve bannon. she s also long time friends with kellyanne conway who
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company. and there s a new rule that just went into effect july 1st that would allow you to band together with others and subban bge bank. yesterday it was struck down, so this protection is now gone. a lot of folks said, look, in the case of wells fargo, it was hard to sue wells fargo and this would have made it easier, so that was a real case. the stock market down just a few points, and we are close to record highs here. we have hit 23,000 look at that, all of these milestones. doesn t take much to hit a record high. and take a look at the current bull market now, the second longest on record. the big question is, is it s too
research firm that s doing some of this work. jim, why is this information just coming to light now? the dossier came to the attention last winter and has been part of the investigation for months. to be clear it s been known for some time democrats funded this and republicans prior to that. but the specific information, it s possible there s a court case in the u.s. district court were fusion gps asked a federal judge to block efforts by devin nunes to subpoena a bank for bank records that were presumably establish payments and where the payments came from. that court case is under way right now. in fact, is judge is giving them a deadline of thursday, 3:00 p.m. to come to a settlement in that case. it s possible it s connected to that. but it s not clear why this information is out right now. does the intelligence community think the dossier is fake? no. one, as cnn reported some months ago, the intelligence
available about their own candidate. this is a very common practice for them to engage with lawyers to act as middle men who then go out and hire research firms. that s what happened in this case. in march, the discussions begin between this lawyer representing the clinton campaign and the dnc and fusion gps. in april 2016 they reach an agreement and the funding starts. fusion gps hires christopher steele, the british intelligence officer, former, who is an expert on russia. and he begins to do these intel reports or these reports which he sends to his boss, the people who are paying the bills. fussing gps gives it to the lawyer who s representing the clinton campaign. that s basically what happened here. later come january, buzzfeed accomplish publishes the