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Bruce orr was grilled by republican lawmakers for eight hours today. the closed door session was believed to focus on the relationship with christopher steele, the british spy behind the dossier that included intelligence on trump and russia. let's discuss now with cnn national security analysts and cnn global affairs analyst susie glasser. never a dull moment in the news business and in america. thank you for talking about this. take us through this. what does bruce orr have to do with former fbi attorney paige and what information led him to testify today? >> well, it's interesting. first of...

Thank you. >> eric: another fox news alert for you from washington, demoted justice department official bruce ohr is slated to testify tomorrow before the house oversight committee. he will be a closed-door session. if ohr could provide more information on the salacious and unverified trump dossier. publican cumbersome and darrell issa on what he hoped to hear for more. >> we want him to confirm what we already know from hard evidence, that he and his wife were part of a conspiracy to create this narrative of involvement and wrongdoing by by the president relative to the russians. >> eric: cat...

Businesses. the american economy is very strong and illinois is doing better as a result. you have to applaud that. clearly we've had unfair trade deals with many countries. we should support him. but tariffs are devastating and can hurt america and we can lose jobs. we have to avoid that. >> neil: thanks, governor. governor rauner from illinois. meanwhile, peter strzok has agreed to testify tomorrow. unfortunately it's a closed-door session. you'll never find out what's going on. many say the doors should be open for everybody. that's next. so i'm not happy unless my hands are dirty. between ...

Is that the way it is seen in washington? and that if you defy the president you do so at your political peril? >> of course that concern for so many candidates that take on the president you can end up on his twitter feed one day. i don't think anyone will be really excited about that. it's something to keep in mind for everyone running for office and the republican party really have to make up your party do i want the president on my side? and if i do join him to campaign for me? because he is a political force. he is the president. his base support you as well, that's a lot of people on you...

We said. she testified for more than nine hours. according to members of the committee who attended the closed door session, hope hicks refused to answer questions about anything that has happened during the trump presidency, and initially refused to answer questions about the transition period. the committee was eventually able to compel her to answer some questions about the transition period because she had already discussed that with the senate intelligence committee last year. she specifically refused to discuss her role in writing or cowriting or suggesting the false statement about dona...