HER ATTORNEY MICHAEL AVENATTI
SAYS I WILL APPEAL TO THE 9th
CIRCUIT.
DAVID: JOINING ME, FORMER
CONGRESSMAN JASON CHAFFETZ.
HE'S A FOX CONTRIBUTOR.
I WANT TO FOCUS IN FOR A SECOND,
I WANT TO PLAY SOUND BITE TO AN
AMAZING TO ME ADMISSION OF
IGNORANCE ON COMEY'S PART AS TO
WHO FUNDED THE TRUMP DOSSIER.
>> WHEN DID YOU LEARN THE DNC
AND HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN
FUNDED CHRISTOPHER STEELE'S
WORK.
>> I STILL DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A
FACT.
I ONLY SAW IT IN THE MEDIA.
I KNEW IT WAS FUNDED FIRST BY
REPUBLICANS.
>> THAT'S NOT TRUE.
THAT THE DOSSIER THAT
CHRISTOPHER STEELE WORKED ON WAS
FUNDED BY REPUBLICANS?
>> MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT
STARTED AS OPO RESEARCH FUNDED
BY REPUBLICANS.
BRET: "FREE BEACON" SAID THEY
HAD FUSION GPS ON A RETAINER BUT
THEY DID NOT FUND THE DOSSIER,
THAT WAS INITIATED BY DEMOCRATS.
DAVID: IT'S EXTRAORDINARY TO ME
THAT THE GUY WHO PAID THE AUTHOR
OF THE DOSSIER THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS DIDN'T KNOW WHO
ORIGINATE IT?
>> IT'S STUNNING.
THIS DOSSIER WAS USED TO OBTAIN
A WARRANTS TO SPY ON AMERICANS
AND THE FBI AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL, DIRECTOR COMEY WHOSE
SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED TO DO
THESE TYPES OF THINGS IS
PLEASING IGNORANCE.
IT'S ONE OF THE FIRST CORE
QUESTIONS YOU HAVE TO ASKED.
WHAT IS THE GENESIS OF THIS AND
WHO PAID FOR IT.
FOR HIM TO PLAY IGNORANT AND
DOUBLE DOWN THAT HE HAD NO
CONTROL OF GOING ON THERE.
DAVID: WHETHER IT'S PURE
IGNORANCE OR WILLFUL IGNORANCE.
IT'S NOT ONLY CLEAR NOW AS TO
WHO FUNDED IT, THERE WITH BEEN
REVELATIONS IN THE "WASHINGTON
POST."
BUT SIX MONTHS AGO THE "FREE
BEACON" SAID SPECIFICALLY
BECAUSE REMEMBER COMEY SAID IN
THE INTERVIEW THAT REPUBLICANS
STARTED THE INVESTIGATION
FOCUSING ON THE "FREE BEACON."
THE FREE BEE CON HAD NO
KNOWLEDGE OF OR CONNECTION TO
THE STEELE DOES ARE.
NEVER HAD CONTACT WITH KNOWLEDGE
OF OR PROVIDED PAYMENT FOR ANY
WORK PERFORMED BY CHRISTOPHER
STEELE.
WITH ALL THIS OUT THERE AND THAT
VERY CLEAR CLARIFICATION FROM
THE "FREE BEACON," HOW CAN HE
MAKE THAT MISTAKE THINKING
REPUBLICANS WERE BEHIND THE
STEELE DOSSIER?
>> I DON'T KNOW.
HE HAD TO KNOW THIS QUESTION WAS
COMING UP.
IT'S BEEN CENTRAL TO A LOT OF
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DIRECTOR
COMEY AND THE FBI FOR MONTHS.
THIS WAS NOT A SURPRISE
QUESTION.
I THOUGHT BRET BAIER DID AN
EXCEPTIONAL INTERVIEW.
BUT THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A
MYSTERIOUS QUESTION.
IF YOU ARE USING THAT DOSSIER TO
SPY ON AMERICANS, IT'S ONE OF
THE FIRST QUESTIONS YOU HAVE TO
ASK.
AND IT'S SO FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG.
IT'S WHERE PEOPLE LOSE FAITH IN
THE FIRE AND IN DIRECTOR COMEY.
THE RUSSIAN LAWYER WHO MET WITH
DONALD TRUMP, JR., SHE LURED HIM
INTO A MEETING SUGGESTING SHE
HAD INFORMATION.
BUT WHAT IS NOT MENTIONED IN
"THE HILL," THE PUBLICATION THAT
ACKNOWLEDGED SHE HAS BEEN SPYING
FOR THE RUSSIANS SINCE 2012, IS
THE FACT THAT BEFORE AND AFTER
THAT MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP,
JR., THIS WOMAN MET WITH FUSION
GPS.
SHE WAS MEETING WITH BOTH THE
DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES AND
REPUBLICAN OPEN RAW TOUGHS AT
THE SAME TIME.
CLEARLY THE RUSSIANS WERE
SPREADING BAIT AROUND TRYING TO
LURE BOTH SIDES IN.
>> THE REPORT IS CLEAR, MEETING
WITH THIS PERSON WAS A MISTAKE.
IT'S 20 MINUTES OUT OF A
CAMPAIGN THAT LASTS MORE THAN A
YEAR.
BUT THERE IS STILL NO EVIDENCE
OF DEAL MAKING OR SUBVERSION.
THE DEMOCRATS EVEN TODAY SOME OF
THE PIECES YOU PLAYED IN THE
PIECE JUST BEFORE.
WHAT EVIDENCE DO THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE TO JUSTIFY CONTINUING TO
BEAT THIS DRUM?
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.
DAVID: THE EVIDENCE I WOULD
SUGGEST IS CLOSER TO THE
RUSSIANS WORKING WITH DEMOCRATIC
OPERATIVES.
CLEARLY STEELE WAS USING PEOPLE
LIKE THIS WOMAN TO GET
INFORMATION.
SHE WAS WORKING WITH THE
RUSSIANS.
IF THERE WAS COLLUSION, IT WAS
WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
>> IT'S DOCUMENTED.
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT MARK ELIAS.
WHAT THEY DID AGAINST BERNIE
SANDERS, BY THE WAY, THE HILLARY
CLINTON CAMPAIGN, THE DNC.
THIS GUY HAS WENT IN CENTER OF
THIS.
AND THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT
FLOWS OVERSEAS TO DO WHAT IS
ACTUALLY COLLUSION AND THAT
DOESN'T GET NEARLY THE REPORTING
IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT IT
SHOULD.
DAVID: I'LL BE FASCINATED YEARS