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Explosive new allegations are coming to light today in a lawsuit filed by a fox news contributor. the story begins last july when staffer seth rich was murdered in what dc police believe was attempted robbery gone wrong. his murder was spun into a baseless conspiracy theory. this new lawsuit alleges it was fox news who purposely cooked up the false story with white house input. what's more, that allegedly president trump signed off on it. randi kaye picks up the story from there. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born. caught up in i...

Russia had hacked the dnc. the story was later retracked from the fox news website, but the story was also far from over. let's get more now from cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born, caught up in it, this man. >> i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he's a former dc homicide detective and fox news 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 wikilea...

Suggested his death was retribution for his supposed leak. the private investigator enlisted to develop the story now claims it was all designed to discredit u.s. intelligence which, of course determined that russia had hacked the dnc. the story was later retracked from the fox news website, but the story was also far from over. let's get more now from cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born, caught up in it, this man. >> i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. >> reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he...

Have this other blow to the president in the form of a lawsuit, former d.c. cop accusing fox news of manufacturing a story, using the death of a dnc staffer to distract from the russia investigation. we talked to the donor at the center of it last night here. ed po towski, going to the family with a tip that revealed nothing about the truth. how big a deal is this lawsuit to fox news, part of it is met with shaun spiean spicer. and the president is alleged to have read this piece. >> i think that last piece you mentioned is the most important. obviously theatrics is one side of the story. >> i...

We should speak about these things every day whenever we have a chance to have a conversation. >> shannon: this is an active investigation, and many witnesses to comb through. thank you for joining us. >> bill: chanted, the first on the air with this information today. steve scalise is one of the wounded. as well as a female officer. one staffer whose identity has not been revealed yet. former d.c. homicide detective with us now. i know you know the area, and