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D.c. staffer who was murdered last year in which police said was a botched robbery attempt. in may of this year fox published a story saying wit us rich who leaked out of the e-mail and not russian government hacker. the story quoted rob wheeler saying his only investigation showed a leak between the dnc staffer and wikileaks. a week later fox retracted the story. and today in a lawsuit uncovered by npr, rod wheeler alleges that those quotes were fabricated. that he never said he connected the dnc staffer to wikileaks. more than that, he alleges that fox's story was designed to shift the blame...

Stephanie ruhle. fierce reaction from the white house to a lawsuit filed by a former investigator and fox news contributor, all surrounding a story he says is fake news. it all stems from the tragic death of dnc staffer seth rich, who police say was killed in a botched robbery last year. investigator rod wheeler says he was hired by trump supporter ed butowsky to look into the killing on mbehalf of the famil. wheeler claims a fox news reporter fabricated quotes attributed to him suggesting it was the slain dnc staffer and not russia who leaked dnc documents to wikileaks during the presidential...

National committee. jake tapper has more. >> reporter: the unsolved murder of seth rich continues to get a huge amount of attention. >> reporter: it was an explosive story that was later retracted. a new lawsuit filed today says the white house and a wealthy trump supporter were behind the news smear working to craft the story that the lawsuit claims would put to bed speculation that president trump colluded with russia. a claim that the white house and president denies. >> it's untrue the white house involvement in the story. >> reporter: with the totality of everything else in this case -- >...

Now, this lawsuit, which was first reported by npr, was filed by rod wheeler. a former detective, a fox on-air contributor alleging that the motivation behind the article was to establish that seth rich provided wikileaks with the dnc e-mails to shift the blame from russia and help put to bed speculation that president trump had colluded with russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election. wheeler says he was asked by a prominent republican donor named ed butowski to investigate that murder and quotes attributed to him were completely made up. wolf? >> so alex, what...

Silence. so he needed to put to bed speculation that he was dead, just like -- there's been speculation about that. and the movement has been weakening al qaeda at a time when it's in competition with isis. and of course, there's this new leader of the taliban now, and he needed to come out of the woodwork to pledge allegiance to him, otherwise the speculation would just have grown. >> how much do you think the competition with isis played a role in this pledge of allegiance? what's the motivation behind it? >> oh, i think there should be no doubt. we've seen the wide recruitment of isis. in a...