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Contributor. and now he's filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of seth rich to the wikileaks release of thousands of e-mails from are the democratic national committee. the idea being that rich was murdered by some sort of dnc operative in retaliation for the leaks. all of this despite the fact that police say rich's murder was the result of a botched burglary and that this is key, authorities had already determined that russians hacked the dnc e-mail nzs and gave them to wikileaks. what was the goal? >> i think their goal...

According to the lawsuit it was done in coordination with the trump white house with butowsky even arranging wheeler to meet with then press secretary sean spicer. spicer has acknowledged meeting them but said he was unaware of any contact involving the president. still, just two days before the article was published on fox's website, butowsky left this voice mail for wheeler. >> hey, rod, it's ed. so a couple minutes ago i got a note that we have the full attention of the white house on this. and tomorrow let's close this deal. >> reporter: hours later, this text from ed butowsky to wheeler. ...

Narrative that russia wasn't behind the hack. it seemed to take hold. >> this issue is so big now, that the entire russia collusion narrative is hanging by a thread. >> reporter: according to the lawsuit, butowsky had also texted wheeler before the article was published saying, the narrative in the interview s youmight use is that your and malia's work prove that the russians didn't hack into the dnc and steal the e-mails and impact our election. >> i thought it was horrible because what did that have to do with the murder of this guy that i was investigating? wheeler insists the fox reporter ...