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>> sandra: as far as who knew, we saw the statement from the dnc saying this wasn't us. debbie wasserman-schultz was asked about it and said she didn't know about it. did hillary clinton herself know about it? here is her former campaign spokesperson brian fallon answering that question. >> she may have known. the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. it could have been a decision was made to authorize the law firm to commission research but decisions about going out and finding fusion gps, finding christopher steele, she may or may not have been aware of that level of detail...

Since january. it was floated around privately before that. how could you not know that the clinton team was paying for it? and didn't someone in the clinton campaign know this? >> i'm sure there was a small group of folks that were aware of the nature of the decision to hire fusion back in the spring of 2016. but it was kept for reasons that i can understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired, a former mi6 agent, christopher steele, that was taking these discreet, covert meetings in europe, trying to track down information about business meetings that trump h...

Some of those criminal acts. nothing here that took place with respect to the hiring of fusion gps, which is an independent private research firm that campaigns contract with all the time, nothing rises to the level of donald trump taking a meet with an authorized representative of the russian government for the purposes of trying to help donald trump's campaign by way of illegal acts. >> but brian fallon, in july, to our colleague, anderson cooper, you said, quote, there's a difference between going out and hiring opposition firms that work in the united states of america and going on and sol...

Letters that were released from clinton's law firm that fusion gps actually came to that law firm in april or march of 2016, and said, we've been doing this research. if you want to pay us, we can continue that research. that's when we know clinton's campaign and the dnc, they took fusion gps up on this offer. they funded this research well through the election. now, we've heard from clinton's spokesman at the time, brian fallon, he said he wasn't aware of this until this past weekend. and here's what he had to say about his boss, hillary clinton, and what she knew. >> she may have known, but ...

Of this? >> well, she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is beyond my knowledge. for instance, it could have been a decision was made to authorize to do some kind of commission, some kind of research, but then decisions about, you know, going out and finding fusion gps, finding christopher steele. i mean, she may or may not have been aware of that level of detail. i don't know. but i think it's important to remember that, a, opposition research happens all the time in the campaign. b, the reason that fusion gps had a head start on this and basically came to the campaign an...