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Malia zimmerman of fox news was. >> let me get some of the news out there. you've suggested, i believe, that as part of the lawsuit, you wanted to pose both president trump and the former press secretary, sean spicer. first of all, do you think that's realistic? do you think that might happen? >> we're going to treat this case the way we treat any other case. we're going to seek to take testimony in terms of getting documents that might be relevant and then we're going to seek to take depositions and the president might -- through his counsel, try and get a protective order, might say he's too...

As we set forth in the complaint, the reason for that was because the white house in conjunction with fox wanted to steer the narrative away from the russian hacking scandal and steer that towards seth rich, which is really a tragedy. i feel -- my heart really goes out for the rich family for being part of this. >> what do you say to the allegation that your client is broke and he's simply seeking money? >> that's just not true. i mean, what he was hired to do was to do an investigation into the murder of seth rich. he wanted to do that. unfortunately, he was used as a pawn in this case by ed ...

Degree. i don't know. i decided to take all the information i got and give it to police department, like you should do in any case and go from there. half way through the investigation and up until the point in which this article was released by fox, there were these quotes in there from me saying i knew for a fact that seth rich had been in contact with wikileaks e-mailing them e-mail >> let's pause. fox news as the sourceinking the dnc staffer to this hacking. you're saying at time that was false. >> right. the reporter wrote that story. i immediately challenged her. i said that's just simpl...

Fox investigator left him a voice mail saying quote, we have the full attention of the white house on this. tomorrow let's close this deal, whatever we've got to do. and texting quote, not to add anymore pressure but the president just read the article. he wants the article out immediately. it's now all of up to you, end quote. wheeler argues that was true and the white house was involved in the retracted story. if that was not true, it would help the white house but not fox news. that's one side of the case. fox is fighting this case today and denying all of these allegations saying quote, th...

Her you need to take these things out of article. she never did that. >> the difference between what you played and the may 16th article is in the clip he's talking about a source that allegedly existed. we don't know if the source existed. they attributed everything to rod having seen the e-mails. as he said malia zimmerman and ed admitted these quotes weren't right. ed said, you know what, these are records that you never said but you're going to win an award for having said them. >> the best legal defamation point is whatever happened we're at place where everyone including fox news said pa...