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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: President Trump said that he will reach across the political

aisle again, this time to help pass a tax reform plan.

To that end, he invited Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the House and Senate Democratic leaders,

to dinner tonight.

He also called in Republican and Democratic lawmakers this afternoon to talk about cutting

business and personal income tax rates.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: If we can do things in a bipartisan manner,

that will be great.

Now, it might not work out, in which case, we will try and do them without.

But if you look at some of the greatest legislation ever passed, it was done on a bipartisan manner.

And the rich will not be gaining at all with this plan.

We're not -- we're looking for the middle class and we're looking for jobs, jobs meaning

companies.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The president also voiced support for a new effort by four Republican senators

to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Meanwhile, independent Senator Bernie Sanders announced his Medicare-for-all plan, alongside

16 Democratic co-sponsors.

Neither bill is expected to come to a vote.

A man who was a longtime fixture in the U.S. Senate died today.

New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici had complications from abdominal surgery.

Domenici served for 36 years, until 2009, and became a bipartisan power broker.

For much of that time, he worked with now-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

SEN.

MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), Majority Leader: I served for a number of years with Senator

Domenici.

I came to know him as a smart, hardworking, dedicated and a very strong advocate for his

home state of New Mexico.

So, Mr. President, we're all saddened by this news today.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Pete Domenici was 85 years old.

The U.S. and South Korea sent fresh signals to North Korea to back off its nuclear and

missile testing.

The South's military announced that it tested a new air-launched cruise missile that can

fly 300 miles and evade radar.

And The New York Times reported Seoul is assembling a so-called decapitation unit that could target

Kim Jong-un in a crisis.

Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he no longer favors phasing out the U.S.

arsenal of long-range ballistic missiles.

Myanmar's leader will skip this month's U.N. General Assembly session, amid outrage over

the treatment of Rohingya Muslims.

Aung San Suu Kyi's office announced today that she will not attend the meeting.

Some 400,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh, reporting atrocities by government troops

in mostly Buddhist Myanmar.

The U.N. Security Council condemned the violence today.

ANTONIO GUTERRES, United Nations Secretary-General: Aid activities by U.N. agencies and international

nongovernmental organizations have been severely disrupted.

I call on the Myanmar authorities to suspend military action, end the violence, uphold

the rule of law, and recognize the right of return of all those who had to leave the country.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Myanmar claims that it's only reacting to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.

Back in this country, the Trump administration barred federal agencies from continuing to

use computer software made by Kaspersky Lab.

The company is Russian-owned and operated, and a federal directive cited concerns about

its ties to Russian intelligence.

Kaspersky denied that it's played any role in Russian cyber-hacking.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 39 points to close at 22158.

The Nasdaq rose almost six, and the S&P 500 added about two.

The big number in baseball tonight is 21, as in 21 wins in a row for the Cleveland Indians.

They beat Detroit today 5-3 to break the American League record.

And celebrations broke out on the field.

The old New York Giants in the National League won 26 without a loss in 1916, but that streak

included one tie.

Congratulations to the Indians, a lot of celebrating in Cleveland.

And the maestro was a machine in Pisa, Italy, last night.

A robot dubbed YuMi directed the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the first International

Festival of Robotics.

It included a performance by world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli.

And they can't replace him with a robot.

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President Donald Trump: 'I'm Not Skeptical' Of Working With Democrats | NBC Nightly News - Duration: 1:44.

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Trump to visit Southwest Florida - Duration: 0:23.

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Donald Trump viajará mañana a la Florida | Noticiero | Noticias Telemundo - Duration: 0:40.

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Breitbart And Ann Coulter Lash Out At Trump After Alleged Immigration Deal With Dems - Duration: 3:51.

As it turns out, we have actually finally found an issue that would make Donald Trump's

hardcore alt-right base finally lose support for him, and that issue happens to be working

with Democrats on things like DACA.

Now, Democrats on Wednesday evening tweeted out that they had reached a deal with Donald

Trump on DACA and Dreamers.

They were going to save these people.

They weren't going to be mass deported, and so immediately the right wing, hardcore blogosphere

freaks out.

Breitbart started referring to Donald Trump immediately as "Amnesty Don" and their followers

immediately turned on the President.

Ann Coulter went a little further and said that "Who doesn't want him impeached now?"

So, Ann Coulter, after this deal was reached, was ready to go ahead and impeach Donald Trump

because he wanted to keep some immigrants in this country.

And the story doesn't even stop there.

It only gets more interesting because Trump had to come out, after he saw this huge backlash

and when the Democrats had said they reached a deal, and he says, "No, no, no, no.

We didn't reach a deal.

There's no deal.

We didn't finalize anything.

It's not done.

We're still talking.

Please don't hate me, alt-right."

But at this point, the damage is done.

The perception that Trump might have a heart, at least on this one area, and it's a very

tiny heart if it even exists, is what pissed off those Breitbart, Ann Coulter wannabe followers.

They don't want Donald Trump to show any compassion whatsoever to immigrants in the United States.

They want them gone, and the only reason they want them gone is plain, good old fashioned

racism because they're not coming over here and taking our jobs.

In fact, when they go away, we have an influx of fruit that rots on the vine, vegetable

rotting in the field because nobody in America will take those jobs, or is able to do those

jobs.

So, yeah, we need them here.

Republicans would understand that if they'd pick up a newspaper every now and then, but

they don't want to do it.

They know that that person's shade of skin is slightly darker than their own, so they

must be bad.

That is the only reason they want these people out of here.

It's the only reason they voted for Donald Trump.

And now they think that he has made a deal with Democrats that currently may or may not

even exist.

So they are willing, as Coulter said, to go ahead and impeach him.

So, I sincerely hope for the sake of this country that Trump does reach a deal on this,

and not just because it's going to make his base turn on him, or because Ann Coulter wants

him impeached, but because it's the right thing to do.

These Dreamers, as they're called, did not come over here willingly.

They were brought over here as children.

They had no papers.

They had no way to come in here legally if their parents didn't, so it's not their fault.

We could at least have a little bit of collective sympathy for these people and offer them a

path towards citizenship when they've come here, gone to school, gotten jobs, helped

pay taxes, and made this country better.

But Breitbart, Ann Coulter, and all of the alt-right, they don't want to see that happen.

All they want to see are black and brown people deported to wherever the hell they came from

so that they can make America as lily white as they are.

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President Trump travels to SWFL to meet with Hurricane Irma victims - Duration: 1:34.

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Trump Pushes Back On Dems' Claims Of DACA Deal - Duration: 0:36.

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President Trump Reaches Out To Both Parties For Input On Tax Reform - Duration: 1:28.

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Colorado Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump's DACA Decision - Duration: 2:19.

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President Trump Says No Deal In Place On DACA - Duration: 0:18.

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Melania Trump wears Chanel flats as She heads to hurricane-hit Florida - Duration: 4:56.

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trump sows confusion over dreamers deal with dems - Duration: 16:24.

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President Trump Welcomes 9th Grandchild - Duration: 0:57.

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MUST WATCH: Trump Just Gave This Little Boy The Surprise Of A Lifetime, And The Media Is BLACKING It - Duration: 1:58.

The little boy who offered to mow the White House is finally getting a chance to because

of Donald Trump.

According to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Frank from Falls Church, Virginia, is set to mow

the White House lawn this Friday.

Here's the video below.

Frank is 10-years-old and he'll be working with groundskeeping crew to mow the Rose Garden

Lawn.

"He'll work with the grounds keeping crew here at the White House and will help cut

the grass at the Rose Garden," she said.

"The president is committing to keeping the American Dream alive for kids, like Frank,

and we're all looking forward to having him here."

Sanders read Frank's letter at the press briefing last month.

He offered his services and even offered to bring his own fuel and batteries for the equipment.

"Even though I'm only 10, I would like to show the nation what young people like

me are ready for," the letter read.

God bless this young man.

It is great to see that our President is going to help him out and make his dream of mowing

the White House lawn possible.

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Trump's Biggest Lie Yet? Says Wealthy Won't Get A Tax Break - Duration: 4:19.

Since being sworn in as president of the United States, Donald Trump has told some pretty

hefty lies, and keep in mind, he's only been in office for a little under eight months

and he's told over 1,000 lies to the American public since the time he got sworn in, but

this week on Wednesday he told what might be one of the biggest lies we've seen from

him since he came to the public's attention, and that is when he said after a bipartisan

meeting on tax reform that the wealthy in this country would not be getting a tax break.

That's right, Donald Trump, the man who's been advocating on cutting taxes for the wealthy,

the man who's the head of a party whose entire platform is cutting taxes for the wealthy,

says that he will not cut tax on the wealthy.

This tax package that he's putting together with the Republicans is all about helping

the middle class, and the working class, and everybody else.

He even went as far as to say if wealthy people have to pay more in taxes then they're just

going to have to pay more.

Now, in theory, on its surface, I absolutely support that 100%.

I think that is a phenomenal plan.

Raise taxes on the millionaires and billionaires and lower taxes on the working class.

That is a sound idea that I think everybody in this country could probably get behind.

Unfortunately, he doesn't mean a word of it, because Thursday morning immediately after

telling everybody the wealthy are not getting a tax break, he got on Twitter and started

talking about giving the wealthy a tax break in the form of cutting corporate taxes.

Now, I know a corporation is not a person, even though the Supreme Court tells us they

are, but when you cut taxes on a corporation and they have more money that doesn't have

to go to the government, where does it go?

Oh, it goes to shareholders.

It goes to CEOs.

It goes to board members, so those people will be making more money and getting the

benefits of your tax cuts, so yeah, you are cutting taxes on the wealthy, so don't sit

there in front of the cameras and say that, "Oh, no, the wealthy are going to have to

pay more.

See how populist I am?

See how great I am?

See these promises I'm keeping?"

This is how you duped the voters in the Midwest to voting for you in the first place, and

if anybody can't see through this lie, then I strongly suggest they go back to school,

get a better education so that they can be able to point out when you're lying and when

the Republican Party is actually going to propose one thing and do another, because

that's what this is.

The analyses that we have seen coming out about a few of the reforms that Republicans

have proposed show that the biggest tax cuts are going to go not even necessarily to corporations

but to the top 1%, people making more than 3.8 I think million dollars a year.

They're going to get almost a million dollars a year back in tax cuts from the Republican

plan that Donald Trump is sitting there telling us is not going to cut taxes on the wealthy.

Meanwhile, the working class is going to average a little under $40 a year in tax savings.

In no way, in no reality is that a fair tax plan.

If you can pay more, if you've made your money, made your fortune by using American schools,

American roads, and bridges, and police departments, and fire departments, and our military that

keeps you safe, then I think you need to pay a little more, because you've benefited from

this country more than anyone else.

I think that's perfectly fair, and if you're not going to just take that tax cut money

and go hire more workers, then hell yeah you should be spending it on the federal government

who can do those things, putting people to work rebuilding our infrastructure.

If this administration was serious about creating jobs, that is what they would do, but Donald

Trump was absolutely lying through his teeth when he tells us he's not going to cut taxes

on the wealthy because that is specifically what his tax reform package is designed

to do.

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Trump's Jews And Generals - Duration: 3:24.

Seems like a strange mix, the chemistry's just not there.

For with Jews and Generals on Trump's team, and a nasty Zio-christian--I mean, Pence--you've

got a strange brew.

What does a "Kushner" have to do with a "Kelly?"

A "Mnuchin" with a "McMaster?"

A "Cohn" with a "Mattis?"

Nada...at least on the face of it.

While Jews don't hang around barracks, and Generals don't hang around synagogues, Jews

are the biggest militarists around.

Jewry's love for Israel's war-machine has replaced the First Commandment with: "Thou

Shalt Love The Israel Defense Forces With All Your Heart, Soul, AND Money."

Just ask Jared Kushner, a past member of "Friends Of The IDF."

And how did it happen that neo-lib Democrats, once anti-war after Viet Nam, are now super-hawks,

just like neocon Republicans?

It's a matter of what kind of Jewish flavor you want: Democratic warmongering or Republican

warmongering?

Both are funded by Jews.

And when it comes to politics of an international kind then stocks and bonds translate into

stocks and bombs.

Why make bombs and fund the factories if there's no one to fight?

Jewish Wall Street finances the arms industry, underwrites their stocks, and seeks a return

on investment.

Generals buy the deadly stuff with dollars printed out of thin air by the Jewish-owned

Fed who then gouge taxpayers with high interest.

Monsters abroad are hatched and the tanks start rolling and the bombs start flying.

It's 'repeat business' as new monsters are whipped up every day.

But it's bad business for Millennials whose dollars spend less and whose steep student

loans can't get paid off.

And it looks like shabbos goys, Mattis and McMaster, Kelly and Pence, are flipping the

switch for 'Wall Street First, Bleed America Fast.'

Bleeding young goys too.

[Clip: "You have to worry about sending young people into harm's way, and you're always

worried about what could happen, worse case scenarios, where some of the political types,

they don't necessarily focus in on that."

"Well, there's a fondness and appreciation and a respect that you develop from ahh nah

I grew up for forty years in the Marine infantry, infantry's called 'infantry' because 'infant

soldier,' 'young soldier,' and I've signed over sixteen hundred next-of-kin letters."]

Any to Blitzer's tribe?

Only the goys die young...

[Clip: "But we also know some things are worth fighting for..."] ...in wars for the Jews.

It's a strange mix on the face of it, Jews and Generals in interviews, and passing each

other at Trump's White House door.

But war is a racket and Jews are the biggest warmongers and racketeers of them all.

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Mueller Goes for the Kill, Trump Pushes Tax Cuts: A Closer Look - Duration: 8:31.

-President Trump is once again dealing

with new developments in the Russia scandal

that are reaching some of his closest advisors,

even as he tries to push his own domestic agenda.

For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."

[ Cheers and applause ]

With his historically-low approval numbers,

the White House has been looking for ways to humanize Trump.

And one of those ways involves

reading letters from kids to the President.

Last month, a 10-year-old boy named Frank wrote a letter

offering to mow the White House lawn,

and today, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced

that Frank will get his wish.

-On a slightly lighter note, I'd like to announce

that Frank from Falls Church, Virginia,

whose letter I read last month,

offerings his services to mow the White House lawn,

will be here on Friday.

He'll work with the groundskeeping crew

here at the White House

and will help cut the grass in the Rose Garden.

[ Laughter ]

-That's right -- Frank is actually gonna mow

the White House lawn.

That's almost as amazing as the fact

that there's a 10-year-old kid named Frank.

Apparently, he wants to get famous

because he's got a big crush on his classmate Joan.

Now, after a long summer of bizarre missteps and scandals,

Trump is dealing with everything from hurricane clean-up

to keeping the government funded.

And on top of that, there are new details

in the rapidly-escalating Russia investigation.

The special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller,

is now reportedly focused specifically

on Trump's decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey.

According to Axios, "Mueller is burrowing in hard

on the obstruction-of-justice angle.

Republicans close to the White House say

every sign by Mueller is that he's going for the kill."

And if anyone's capable of going for the kill,

it's Robert Mueller.

Look at this guy.

He looks like the police chief from every 1950s noir film.

He looks like he should be holding a bullhorn

and shouting, "You're surrounded, McMurphy!"

This guy always looks like you just asked

if you could take his daughter to a Slayer concert.

[ Laughter ]

He doesn't even get haircuts.

He just looks at his hair in the mirror

and growls, "Get shorter."

[ Laughter ]

Mueller's investigation seems to be moving very quickly,

and has ensnared not only Trump but some of his closest aides,

such as his son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner.

Kushner repeatedly failed

to disclose meetings with Russian officials,

and now it looks like even some of Trump's own lawyers

knew Kushner would be a liability.

-The Wall Street Journal is reporting

that members of the President's legal team

concluded that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner,

should resign as White House Senior Advisor

because of the extent of his contacts with Russian officials

and Russian businessmen.

-The report claims that press aides to the legal team

went as far as drafting a statement

to explain Kushner's resignation.

-Jared Kushner resign?

But then who would be in charge of U.S.-China relations,

U.S.-Mexico relations, criminal justice reform,

opioid crisis management, veteran care reform,

the White House Office of American Innovation,

revamping the entire federal government,

painting the Easter eggs for the Easter-egg hunt,

and peace in the Middle East?

Jared Kushner --

[ Applause ]

Jared Kushner has more jobs than Steve Harvey.

He's the white Steve Harvey.

[ Laughter ]

So how is Trump's legal team responding?

Well, if I were Trump,

I'm not sure I'd be all that confident

in their performance so far.

Trump's lawyer Ty Cobb -- and that's his real name --

apparently fell for an e-mail prank last week

when a prankster posing

as the White House Social Media Director, Dan Scavino,

e-mailed him

and asked him questions about the Russia scandal.

And Cobb seemed to essentially admit

that former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort

and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn

may have broken the law.

Here's what the prankster, posing as Scavino,

wrote to Cobb --

And in hindsight, you can tell right away

from the tone of this e-mail that it was definitely fake.

"I've been really worried recently

about the whole Russia situation.

The White House will be okay, won't it?

I love my job and the people I work with.

I don't want the dream to end up derailing."

[ Laughter ]

That should have been a dead giveaway.

That doesn't sound like an e-mail from a Trump aide.

That sounds like an old prospector

writing home to his wife.

"Dearest Elizabeth,

I've been really worried recently.

So far I've only found silt and coal.

I hope to find gold soon.

I don't want the dream to end up derailing."

Cobb then responded to the prankster,

who he thought was Scavino,

"Manafort and Flynn

have issues separate and apart from the White House

that will cause the investigation to linger,

but am hoping we get a clean bill of health soon."

I'm sorry, have you seen Donald Trump?

If there's one thing he's never gonna get,

it's a clean bill of health.

He doesn't even have a clean doctor.

[ Laughter ]

"Hey, I got your blood test back,

and good news -- It's red."

[ Laughter ]

"See you in five years, bro."

And that was just one of the many replies

the prankster got from Trump's lawyer.

But the most embarrassing part of this whole thing for Cobb

is that he didn't realize this e-mail was from a prankster,

because this is the actual e-mail address

the prankster used to pose as Dan Scavino --

dan.scavinojr@emailprankster. co.uk.

Although I'm not surprised this guy had trouble with e-mail.

Look at him.

He looks like he's more comfortable with Morse code.

[ Laughter ]

He looks like he's pitching in the 1908 World Series.

But while all these high-stakes crises

swirl around his administration,

Trump is also trying to move on with his domestic agenda

and gather support for his tax-reform plan.

Now, the boring and complex nature of tax reform

may be why Trump doesn't actually spend very much time

talking about the actual details.

In fact, he doesn't really have a tax plan yet at all,

just a series of vague promises

about cutting taxes and red tape,

made even more vague by Trump's often-incoherent rambling.

-North Dakota is an inspiring example of the amazing things

that are possible when we unleash the genius

of American innovators, unite the red tape --

And I'll tell you -- And we have to unite everything,

and all that red tape becomes beautiful

when you get rid of it.

But -- And we're getting rid --

Are we getting rid of a lot of red tape, by the way?

-I mean, forget Russia.

We need an special counsel investigation

just to figure out what the hell Trump is talking about.

[ Laughter ]

Now, Trump has always been a well-known rambler,

but if you think he sounded

even more incoherent there than usual,

conspiracy theorist and Trump ally Alex Jones

has an explanation.

-It's known that most presidents end up getting drugged.

Small doses of -- of -- of sedatives till they build it up.

Trump's such a bull, he hasn't fully understood it yet,

but I've talked to people -- multiple ones --

and they believe that they are putting a slow sedative

that they're building up -- It's also addictive --

in his Diet Cokes and in his iced tea,

and that the President, by 6:00 or 7:00 at night,

is basically slurring his words and is drugged.

-That's how bad things are right now.

The President's allies are defending him

by saying he's not incompetent, he's being secretly drugged.

[ Laughter ]

Now, the Trump administration has not actually released

a detailed tax plan,

so we don't know much about it,

aside from the vague promises Trump has made.

His Chief Economic Advisor, Gary Cohn,

has insisted that they at least have the outlines of a plan

and are trying to add details to it before announcing it.

But he keeps using one very gross metaphor.

-We're now working with both the Senate Finance Committee

and the House Ways and Means Committee

to really build out the skeleton,

put the muscles on and put the skin on it.

We've got a great -- I would say -- skeleton.

We need the Ways and Means Committee

to put some muscle and skin on the skeleton.

To really finalize what that blue print will look like,

I would say take a skeleton,

put the muscles on it, put the skin on it.

-Does anyone around Trump know how not to be creepy?

[ Laughter ]

They can even take something like tax reform

and make it sound like a Body World exhibit.

Trump and the GOP are once again trying to cut taxes

for the wealthy and corporations,

but they don't even have an actual plan.

We don't know whose taxes are gonna be cut

or by how much or how it's gonna be paid for.

Is there anything we do know?

-It's known that most presidents end up getting drugged.

-All right. We know that.

This has been "A Closer Look."

[ Cheers and applause ]

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USA News: EXCLUSIVE: Gowdy Wonders If Democrats Are 'Fearful' Trump Dossier Is 'A Piece Of Fiction' - Duration: 7:09.

Democrats are "fearful" that the Trump dossier is "a piece of fiction," one that

the FBI used to form the basis of its investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with

the Russian government.

That's one theory that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy is proposing for why Democrats are pushing

back so hard against a GOP effort to get answers about the dossier from the FBI and Justice

Department.

In an interview with The Daily Caller, the House Intelligence Committee member addressed

claims from his Democratic colleagues and some in the media that he and his fellow Republicans

are attempting to discredit the dossier and its author, former British spy Christopher

Steele, in order to help Trump.

"I don't know why anyone — from [California Rep.] Adam Schiff, to Vanity Fair, to Rachel

Maddow — would not be curious whether or not the world's premier law enforcement

agency relied upon a dossier in connection with an investigation without vetting it,"

Gowdy told TheDC on Friday.

"For the life of me I don't understand why they are focused on this," Gowdy says

of the Democratic pushback, "unless they are fearful that the bureau did rely on a

piece of fiction."

He was responding to Democrats' criticism of a GOP-led effort to subpoena Attorney General

Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray for information about the dossier. (RELATED:

House Intel Chair Threatens Sessions, Wray Over Fusion GPS Dossier Claims)

Committee Republicans issued a subpoena for Sessions and Wray Aug. 24, seeking information

about how central the dossier is to the collusion investigation and how it was vetted.

The agencies did not provide documents in response to the subpoena, so the committee

extended a deadline until Sept. 14 while also seeking meetings with Sessions and Wray to

have them explain why information about the dossier should be withheld from Congress.

Democrats on the committee — Schiff, Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, and California Rep. Eric Swalwell

— have alleged that Republicans are taking a unilateral and unnecessary step to discredit

the dossier.

But Gowdy dismisses the Democrats' complaint, telling TheDC, "I really don't know what

in the hell they're talking about."

Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, says that the FBI and DOJ have ignored "months and

months of requests" for information about the dossier. The agencies have largely ignored

similar requests made by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has also focused heavily

on the dossier but has yet to issue subpoenas for the FBI and DOJ.

"The investigators on [the Intelligence Committee] have been trying for months to

obtain documents about the dossier, but when you get no response, then you go from a polite

request, to a firm request to a legal request," says Gowdy.

"And if they still don't comply with it, then we're well within our rights — I've

done it before — you bring in a witness and say 'OK, you're under oath, you need

to explain to me why you don't think you need to share this, what am I missing?'"

Gowdy tells TheDC that he does not need the FBI and DOJ to disclose the most sensitive

details of the dossier — the identity of Steele's sources and intermediaries, or

how exactly the information was compiled. But he does want assurances from U.S. officials

that the document was vetted. He also wants to know how much investigators have relied

on the document for its investigation.

"I don't need to know how you got the information, just tell me how you either sought

to corroborate it, how you vetted it," says Gowdy, who says he has studied the dossier

twice in preparation for some interviews conducted by the committee.

"Did the FBI rely upon it? Did the DOJ rely upon it?" he asks. "If yes, to what extent,

and how did you vet the sources and sub-sources in the document?"

"Before you can rely on something, you need to know where it came from and how it was

either corroborated or contradicted," says Gowdy, adding that, "it is relevant to ask

whether or not a law enforcement agency relied on this dossier — or any evidence — without

vetting it."

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, is directing the investigation,

which is looking at possible collusion as well as any financial mis-dealings involving

current and former Trump advisers.

The dossier, as has by now been widely reported, came into being last June, after Steele, a

former MI6 agent based in London, was hired by an opposition research firm called Fusion

GPS to investigate Trump's activities in Russia. Fusion, which was co-founded by former

Wall Street Journal reporters, was working at the time for an unidentified ally of Hillary

Clinton's.

Steele would go on to write 17 memos, dated from June 20 to Dec. 13, which lay out a series

of salacious and uncorroborated allegations about Trump's personal activities in Russian.

The 35-page document alleges that the Kremlin has blackmailed Trump for years and that members

of the Trump campaign were in direct contact with Russian government officials as part

of a plot to sway the election.

According to various news reports, Steele first met with FBI agents in Europe last July.

Soon after, the bureau opened its investigation into possible collusion.

The dossier was also reportedly cited in the FBI's application last September for a Foreign

Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. (RELATED:

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Page, an energy consultant who served as a volunteer on the campaign, is accused in the

dossier of working as a middleman for the Trump campaign and Kremlin operatives.

But Page, who has never met Trump, vehemently denies the allegation. He refers to Steele's

document as the "dodgy dossier."