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Im not sure when the fbi first took possession of it, but the media had it before you had it and we had it. at the time of your departure from the fbi, was the fbi able to confirm any criminal allegations contained in the steele document? >> mr. chairman, i dont think thats a question i can answer in an open setting. because it goes into the details of the investigation. >> no, that goes into the details of the investigation. that steele dossier now says that they stand by the veracity of that d...

Gave, those ten hours of testimony, the transcript for that will be made public. do you think that changes the stakes materially for the white house? >> well, i think it does because what it does is if he turned over 40,000 documents, forget about the ten hours of answering questions. if he turned over the raw material, the traffic that he used to, you know, christopher ste steele used and the notes that he took to bring that about, trained intelligence analysts at the cia and counterintelligenc...

We call rum-int. it stands for rumor intelligence. people are sitting around cafes and drinking and tells the stories as they know it. and the information that we had in the steele dossier, it was an enormous amount of rum-int but the term of art, rum-int has intelligence in it. when it came out in its fullness, it was very clear that christopher steele had something enormous on his hands. this was not a joke. everything that i had written in the months prior to that dossier coming out was almos...

Government, and all of the players being investigated by the mueller investigation. this gave the u.s. intelligence committee, as were finding out now, had already as early as june had its hair on fire over the russian hacking sent to the dnc and a campaign to get donald trump elected. christopher steele was way ahead of it and so was david corn. >> malcolm, im struck by the way that this has been furthered in the last 48 hours. the co-funder who commissioned the dossier from steele, hes done th...

The consumers in great volume. i knew of them. they just werent in my particular stable of folks that i hired for work, but they certainly were not considered anything but professionals. theyre not some fly-by-night agency that, you know, does a rip-and-read off of google and dumps a 200-page document on your desk. these are professionals. they come from a professional journalism background. obviously when they hired orbis and steele, covered russia in great depth, both in official cover and non...

Yesterday we reported that the firm that hired christopher steele, that mi-6 agent who did the dossier, the head of the american firm who hired him to do it was interviewed yesterday by the staff of the senate judiciary committee for ten solid hours. we can also confirm tonight that glen simpson, the head of fusion gps, did hand over 40,000 pages of documents to the committee as well. we can confirm it tonight. but even if you put aside 40,000 pages of documents, think about his ten-hour-long in...

Of the scandal. those details, too, were checking out when people were able to independently verify them. the important thing thats now new here is that fusion gps is basically having to make itself known because of this testimony to congress by the founder of fusion gps, and now that theyve been sort of forced to answer questions about this stuff, they are inviting scrutiny of this dossier. they are standing by it publicly. we know that the dossier itself was delivered to the fbi. its been repo...

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