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The washington examiner and the analyst. joining me senior adviser, and national republican consultant katon dawson. >> to you first, giraldo rivera, out of the al capone book, was on sean hannitys radio show on thursday. this is what he had to say about how effective sean hannity could have been in a bygone era. >> nixon would never have been forced to resign if you existed in your current state, 1972, 1973? >> i was literally 11 years old. >> yeah, i know, too bad for nixon because nobody like...

One, and also irresponsible. senior members of a political campaign, presidential campaign, they need to be aware of what it is they need to do in order to make sure they stay on the right side of the law, as well as the right side of ethics. i find it inexplicable in terms of how that meeting took place and interest on the part of the individuals very close to mr. trump who wanted to get dirt on hillary clinton from russians. >> when did you first learn of the so-called steele dossier and what ...

Significant portions without getting into the contents. >> you just talked about steele and getting paid. let me read one part of the memo. the carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016 yahoo! news article. steele has admitted he met with yahoo! news and several other outlets he improperly concealed and lied to from the fbi about those contacts. steele had become a less than reliable source for the fbi. so in other words, congressman, as a prosecutor, what you ar...

Release of the democrats memo? what is this thinking there? >> as with this memo there were extremely partisan undertones to it. it was released to conservative outlets first. have you to take the partisanship done with this and weigh it whether the white house wants to continue in that partisan way and potentially block a democratic memo of its own kind, or say, look, were in the issue of full transparency, we want all of this out here. we want the republican side out here and democrat side out...

I think its also interesting to note here that republicans are looking at this memo and are thinking that we need some type of -- some type of out, how can we have this happen. that will be interesting see will they sit down with the president. >> exactly. before this memo got interrupted, the big story was special counsel muellers team that hope hicks believed memos about the trump tower meeting will never get out. what is the significance of that? >> yeah. i mean, you have few people closer to...

Surprised by sean hannity mad reaction to a factual statement that among other things he speaks often to the president of the united states and one of his closest informal adviser gsz. that is a fact. that is reported by us and many other outlets many times over the past year or two. >> it does seem like there is a direct connection and this is something really heavily promoted on that show. heavily promoted on that network. looes the -- release the memo and the president watches it and from you...

News, phony and anonymous sources. >> joining me now the author of that report white house reporter osman suebsaeng. did you just make it up, sfen? >> not, absolutely not. i was a little bit surprised by sean hannitys viscerally mad reaction to a factual statement that among other things he speaks often to the president of the united states and is one of his closest informal advisers. that has been reported by us and many other outlets many times over the past year or two. >> it does seem like t...

Reaction to a factual statement that among other things he speaks often to the president of the united states and is one of his closest informal advisers. that has been reported by us and many other outlets many times over the past year or two. >> it does seem like theres a direct connection which is this has been something heavily promoted on that show, heavily promoted on that network, release the memo, release the memo. the president batches a lot of it. it seems from your reporting that was ...

Involvement was disclosed. not specifically saying the dnc and the clinton campaign are a part of the steele dossier. but the fact that it came from a partisan source was something, according to the "washington post" and other outlets, that was disclosed as part of the on original application. there are two reasons why this memo essentially is a sham. one, it articulates that the fisa warrant was renewed three separate times. in order to do that in this process, theres a high standard. and you n...

Assesses that steele did not directly provide information to yahoo! news. steele has admitted in british court filings, pamela brand has done since. the definition grade that he met with yahoo! news and several other outlets in september 2015 at the direction of fusion gps. just one more thing. remember that senator grassley and senator graham sent a referral to the justice department on the basis that they felt that we 17 had provided and lied to federal investigators, violation of usc 2001. th...