May 16th Article News Today

Malia zimmerman of fox news was. >> let me get some of the news out there. youve suggested, i believe, that as part of the lawsuit, you wanted to pose both president trump and the former press secretary, sean spicer. first of all, do you think thats realistic? do you think that might happen? >> were going to treat this case the way we treat any other case. were going to seek to take testimony in terms of getting documents that might be relevant and then were going to seek to take depositions and...

As we set forth in the complaint, the reason for that was because the white house in conjunction with fox wanted to steer the narrative away from the russian hacking scandal and steer that towards seth rich, which is really a tragedy. i feel -- my heart really goes out for the rich family for being part of this. >> what do you say to the allegation that your client is broke and hes simply seeking money? >> thats just not true. i mean, what he was hired to do was to do an investigation into the m...

Degree. i dont know. i decided to take all the information i got and give it to police department, like you should do in any case and go from there. half way through the investigation and up until the point in which this article was released by fox, there were these quotes in there from me saying i knew for a fact that seth rich had been in contact with wikileaks e-mailing them e-mail >> lets pause. fox news as the sourceinking the dnc staffer to this hacking. youre saying at time that was false...

Fox investigator left him a voice mail saying quote, we have the full attention of the white house on this. tomorrow lets close this deal, whatever weve got to do. and texting quote, not to add anymore pressure but the president just read the article. he wants the article out immediately. its now all of up to you, end quote. wheeler argues that was true and the white house was involved in the retracted story. if that was not true, it would help the white house but not fox news. thats one side of...

Her you need to take these things out of article. she never did that. >> the difference between what you played and the may 16th article is in the clip hes talking about a source that allegedly existed. we dont know if the source existed. they attributed everything to rod having seen the e-mails. as he said malia zimmerman and ed admitted these quotes werent right. ed said, you know what, these are records that you never said but youre going to win an award for having said them. >> the best lega...

Standards by implementing new policies the day before this article came out. >> rod, final question. is there anything you want to say to president trump who is named in your suit with regard to reviewing this article and number two, anything you want to say to mr. richs family? >> ive already expressed my apologies to the rich family. this thing even went in the direction that it did. the only thing i would say to the president and the democratic party is to butt out of police investigations an...