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Particular trump campaign guy who didnt turn up in the dossier. a guy christopher steele said he never heard of when the fbi went to him and asked him if he knew anything about this particular trump guy. that was the first big problem. were going to prove this thing and here is our memo that disproves that thing. field at that level. then the memo claimed out right in black and white that to the extent the fbi had sited the steel dossier in this application for a search warrant on a different ad...

Out to be well-founded counter intelligence concerns about a particular trump campaign guy who didnt turn up in the dossier. a guy christopher steele said he never heard of when the fbi went to him and asked him if he knew anything about this particular trump guy. that was the first big problem. were going to prove this thing and here is our memo that disproves that thing. field at that level. then the memo claimed out right in black and white that to the extent the fbi had sited the steel dossi...

It. essentially, this was -- this was put up or shut up moment. this was a put up or shut up moment when putting up was not the better of the two options. the central claim of their weeks of hype, their whole campaign to release the memo is somehow this memo would prove the dossier by an mi 6 officer christopher steele, the campaign was based around the idea this memo would prove that the steele dossier is what led to the whole russia investigation. now the problem with that argument with having...

With the investigations ongoing? do you think it will do some harm? >> it will. people said no sources an meths were disclosed. they were. the argument that were making is just because they were publicly known because of press reporting, its never been the practice at the department of justice to acknowledge sources and methods. mr. steeles identity was disclosed. his long-standing history as a source was disclosed. when we need people to come forward and be sources, theyll think twice and worry...

Said during the campaign that he thought that the system was rigged against him. i think the russians were listening very carefully to that and maybe after the election if the russians had thought secretary clinton would have won, that donald trump would have criticized and rightly so this dossier paid for on by the dnc with this salacious information as evidence that the system was rigged against him. >> so here is what im taking away, that this guy christopher steele would have been known to t...

Basis for continuing this fisa. >> im limited on time. an important quick final question. weve all heard about christopher steele. you dealt with him. did he strike you as being motivated bipartisanship, by annimus toward donald trump or concern over security? >> the latter. look, he is a serious guy. he was the mi-6 russia specialist for many years. and well have in the forthcoming book some very interesting stories about the role that he played for mi-6. he had this private investigative firm....

That type of taktd cctical use classified laws. >> penultimate paragraphs of the memo are those i would argue that say that the initial fisa court was not advised of the funding source for the dossier that led to the surveillance of carter page. but i have a couple reactions to that, one of which is so what because the employer for christopher steele was not the dnc or that firm, it was fusion gps. and i know this as a trial lawyer in the court of law, day in and day out, information comes from ...

Putins spies broke into my apartment, we were told by the british diplomats that we had bugs in our room, in our bedroom, and video. >> wow. >> so the thing is, you know, if these guys will bug me, a troublesome western journalist, of course they would bug mr. trump in 2013. the question then is not did they tape. they did tape. the question is how trump behaved. and then, you know, that we cant know. but obviously putin will know and trump will know. i think this gives putin leverage over trump...

We certainly know that there was contact, thats a fact, at this point not only do we know there was contact, we know there were a lot of people lying about the contact. just this week when the president said that hes asked vladimir putin several times if hes interfered in the election, and how many times can you ask the guy, he keeps saying he didnt. all of this stuff strikes regular people who are not conspiracy theorists as weird. >> thats the question, how do you explain this strange loyalty ...

Perhaps using more sophisticated tools. hes been doing this for a while and his work has proven to be accurate in the past. >> yes. some of my book is what steele was doing in the early 1990s, when he was a young undercover spy going around talking to people. hes horrified by the publicity and attacks on him. hes quietly confident that over time hell be vindicated. the more we discover, the more we see the interaction of trump and russians appears to be true. >> the term "salacious" comes up in ...