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Campaign or those allied with her. i do think there's no question that hiring someone to do opposition research is a perfectly legitimate campaign function. there is no question that given the president's ties to overseas businesses, a lot of that work was going to be done by foreigners and about things that happened overseas, businesses and institutions. i do think there say legitimate argument that some of the information in the steele dossier was not accurate. some of it may have come directly or indirectly from foreign governments. and putting that out in the media was a mistake. and that ...

Separate entity. he was on a retainer, $35,000 a month. within that retainer he could pay expenses of the client and it would be normal that even though he's not involved with the campaign, that if he sees a problem that he needs -- it needs to go away. that he would address that and it would not -- >> one problem with that. is that according to the reporting done since rudy giuliani said this, the payments didn't start until -- it is a post facto detainer on this subject, correct? >> that is correct. i think that has to be explained. if i'm a candidate and i had a problem, you know, rl estate...

The administration wants to have everybody know about. the government sometimes likes it. >> you would think that capacity might be something we want to keep secret. this is a great secret. this ap story we want to use this as a vehicle for intimidating future government sources. >> you do -- every administration it's in their interest to control information and use the press as an adjunct to their own communications department. it's what they all want to do. congress has a role. i wish we had a congress that is functional. they have an oversight responsibility where they can rein back some of...

Welcome back. with us the always outspoken new york best selling author ann coulter. we were talking about our friend, matt, in the earlier segment. he has as his headline now "stay calm." and it quotes stephanie cutter. i said whatever you do in the conference call today, don't listen to the exit polls. [laughter] >> by the way, we don't usually as conservatives, and i kind of agree with you but not for the reasons, it tells me panic has set in. one other thing they are explaining obama has not been into this race, he didn't want to prepare for the debate. only in the last week he's been moti...

Welcome back. with us the always outspoken new york best selling author ann coulter. we were talking about our friend, matt, in the earlier segment. he has as his headline now "stay calm." and it quotes stephanie cutter. i said whatever you do in the conference call today, don't listen to the exit polls. [laughter] >> by the way, we don't usually as conservatives, and i kind of agree with you but not for the reasons, it tells me panic has set in. one other thing they are explaining obama has not been into this race, he didn't want to prepare for the debate. only in the last week he's been moti...