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Paid for dossier. watch this. >> with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesnt matter who paid for it. its what the dossier said and they the extent of which is corroborated or not. >> sean: we reached out to james clapper for a statement. he works for fake news cnn on saras report and his spokesperson declined to comment but he noted it appears to be about leaking information that was not classified or sensitive. so clapper is not outright denying it which tells you everything ...

Paul officer j is also reporting that the former obama director of national intelligence, james clapper, he is now facing scrutiny. serious questions are being raised about what clapper told fake news, cnn, about the dossier back in october 2017. lets watch him. >> with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesnt matter who paid for it. its what the dossier said and the extent to which it is corroborated or not. we had some concerns about it from a standpoint of its sourcing, which...

Tonight. now, paul sperry is also reporting that the former director of national intelligence, james clapper is now facing scrutiny. serious questions will being raced about what clapper cnn told about the dossier back in october of 2017. lets watch him >> with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesnt matter who paid for it. its what the dossier said and the extent to which its corroborated or not. we had some concerns about it from the standpoint of its sourcing, which we could...

>> sure enough. on the dossier itself, were going to go there now. among the goals of the nunes memo is to discredit the infamous steele dossier, alleging trumps russia connections as partisan opposition research. but my next guest says theres another more sinister possibility. daniel halfman is a retired cia agent who served in the former soviet union. he was a station chief. hes the author of this "wall street journal" piece, "the steele dossier fits the kremlin playbook." you say it might b...

Looks like, and the staff, we will find out whether its cash patel, whoever it is, whoever the staff people involved in this, are really running this for the white house. i think we will learn that. thats what it looks like. >> one thing we should point out, john mcloughlin, just briefly in terms of the background of christopher steele, christopher steele was a very valued mi-6 operative in russia for years and years. he was highly regarded by both the uk and by u.s. colleagues in our own intell...

Passport and said hed never even been to prague. and even though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, cohens passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> its a disgrace what took place, its a disgrace, and i think they ought to apologize to start with, michael cohen. >> reporter: the president elect attacked not just the dossier itself, he accused the u.s. intelligence community of ...

Country visited, cohens passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> its a disgrace what took place and i think they ought to apologize to start with. >> reporter: the president elect attacked not just the dossier itself, he accused the u.s. intelligence community of leaking it. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake, out. i think its a disg...

Democrat party dirty trick and completely false. >> its so crazy that its laughable. >> carter page admitted he had been to russia but insisted he had gone on personal business, not as trumps russian go between. >> i had no dealings in russia that would directly lead -- that had anything do with the trump campaign. >> as for michael cohen, you trumps lawyer, he tweeted a picture of his passport and said hed never even been to prague. and although it is month to travel in europe without getting a...

That will end up and when they need him so they absolutely would have collected whatever compromising information or materials they could have including try to set him up to create that type of information. i think one of the questions we need to ask ourselves is for a guy who said, look, i can go down to fifth avenue and shoot somebody and its not going to affect my ratings, what really constitutes blackmailable information on donald trump. for me its, i think, probably less women visiting him ...

Former special assistant and david gergen is back. what is the significance of this, that its not traced that the genesis of the dossier itself, whatever se manhattan cal game theyre maying. ochbl when it started over time and different funders, whether it was other republicans and other republican campaigns or pacs then to the hillary clinton campaign. it got more and more fleshed out and longer. but the initial funding coming from the conservative website, the free pea cbeacon. whats the signi...