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But for a case of this significance when he went to the president of the united states to talk about an unverified dossier, from the time that he heard about it, the time that he approved the warrant in the fbi, and he had to do it, you and i both know two or three or four times, he go to the president, talks by the, and never says to his staff, why do we get this from, who is this guy christopher steele. you and i both know from the public information that christopher steele was paid for other ...

Says we are seeing how much misconduct went on under comeys watch. >> we learned the james comeys fbi was far more corrupt than we ever knew. we knew they used a false document but today we learned bruce ohr told comey and his confederates that this was a guy christopher steele, said he was desperate to stop donald trump, virulently anti-trump. they should have stopped right there in their tracks, thrown his dossier in the garbage, but they didnt care, they moved ahead to lunch the investigation...

Get the information out there." and what dearlove recommended was that the two go to a very senior british official and have them convey it subtly to the fbi so that it would not become an issue of britain trying to blow the whistle. he recommended handling it subtly and carefully. one of the things it appears is that steele and boroughs didnt entirely follow his advice because rather than going to a british official to subtly alert the fbi they went -- chris steele went directly to an old frien...

Working on for some time, how does it strike you, these attacks that he was trying to sink trump for political reasons? >> well, rachel, its true that christopher steele visited the "washington post" and other news organizations in 2016. we had a discussion with him that was off the record and were not released from our off-the-record agreement that we did get permission from mr. steeles associates to mention the fact that we had talked with him during the campaign. one of the things -- and beca...

Illegal arms deal? >> and someone knew where to find the account of sicord and so this money appears and the question does occur what was the motive of the person does occur motive the person who was suddenly putting this money into his account. >> the legal defense fund. when you start to read about it like watch the defense funds and now we finally got one in this scandal. great to see you, michael. well be right back. stay with us.

Assignments, and how did he deal, and did he deal, with what would seem to be an inherent contradiction? a guy who is talking to the fbi about things hes learned from russia sources on the one hand and a man, a professional, moved to the private sector, who feels he has obligations to a private client who happens to be working in this case for a law firm that represents hillary clinton and the democratic national committee. >> tom, you mentioned senator lindsey graham there. there has been this ...

Affront to the special bond between the united states and britain. could you talk about that, why the british are so affronted by what senator graham and senator grassley are doing? >> well, i think rachel, there are a couple things that we learned in talking to some of steeles former associates in the british intelligence community and we also talked with some members of parliament. one of the things we were struck by is how they seemed to be gathering around christopher steele, a person that t...

Parliament who said to us, you know, here we view christopher steele as someone to whom we owe a debt of thanks because he helped warn not only the united states as he saw it but also britain because his dossier and the word that he put out as circulated widely and he said hes one of the first who sounded the alarm and we should be thank ful, not critical, and certainly not, in his view, filing criminal charges. >> let me ask you one last point that to me was just a very intriguing point that yo...

A security conference in canada, again to try to ring alarm bells about the seriousness of trumps relationship with russia and how it may have affected the campaign. now, weve known that john mccain has been read in on the steel dossier and that he had provided its content to the fbi directly to james comey after he received it from british officials. but thanks to the "washington post," we have an account of what happened when they met in canada. "sir andrew wood, former british ambassador to r...

What he should do with this information which he believes is dangerous information hes getting about trump. quoting from your article "dearlove said the situation reminded him of a predicament he faced years earlier when he was chief of station for british intelligence in washington and he alerted u.s. authorities to british information that an american vice presidential hopeful had once been in communication with the kremlin." thats an amazing piece of story telling in terms of the communicatio...