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>> christopher steele went to the fbi wish -- saying trump could be blackmailed, striking a fight with chuck grassley. the fbi believes the information might be credible because they had intelligence that indicated intelligence. a human source from inside the trump organization. disputed by -- told "the washington post" of nbc news the reference was to intelligence provided by the australian investor. trump campaign aide george papadopoulos. joshua leavy did not respond to foxs request for clari...

Effect a whistle-blower. here is the exact quote from the testimony. simpson testified before the senate that the fbi, quote, believed chris, this being chris steeles information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the trump organization. i should say that since that, this testimony of course was in august, since that glenn simpson, a source inside fusion has clarified this refe...

To brief the fbi about what was going on. the 312-page transcript includes new revelations about the infamous opposition research dossier on donald trump and the russians. glenn simpson, the co-founder of the opposition research firm fusion gps, told the senate judiciary committee that a former british agent who complied the dossier was so concerned about what he found that he decided to brief the fbi in the summer of 2016. the agent, christopher steele, worried about a security issue about whet...

Obviously, know that bob mueller now knows who that was. can you talk about why papadopoulos is so much more threatening to the rest of the -- why he maybe creates more legal exposure to the rest of the campaign aides? >> he was arrested at dulles airport on july 27th. hes been secretly cooperating since that time. he plead guilty in secret. no one even knew he stepped foot into a courtroom before an article 3 judge, plead guilty and since that time hes been trying to work off his sentence, if y...

Concerned about that and pakistanis had personnel in the area so decision was tell them to go ahead and carry out the raid. >> is it surprising that u.s. intelligence seemed to be aware of their location and pakistan was so quickly able to mobilize? >> im not surprised. i think it was lucky thing intelligence-wise. i think maybe an intercept or human source that told them they were moving the captives. its very rare. what is very rare is pakistanis acted on the intelligence. you know. its not cl...

Operations. >> i know you spoke to u.s. intelligence official. i understand they told you accepting u.s. forces spew pakistan was considered at one point. >> it was, but there was concern about below back. there was so much anger in pakistan after the u.s. raid, unilateral raid that killed oh samba bin laden. there was also an issue of timing and the pakistani had forces in the area and so the decision was to tell the pakistanis and have them go ahead and carry out this raid. >> is it surprising...

Started as nicholsons deputy in the counterterrorism center. at that time radical islamic terrorism was on the rise. so there was a lot of real work stuff going on that you had to focus on. >> they were looking at critical players who eventually became known post 9/11. >> in the middle of all that youre trying to catch your boss compiling information hes going to give to the russians. >> to have a human source in touch with him every day is invaluable. >> getting to know him was part of the exer...

We position him to do the least amount of damage? >> the decision was made to put him as a branch chief in the counterterrorism center. >> given the environment at the time, pre-9/11, thats where we could most effectively detain him. >> youre letting him know he can do what he wants because nobodys watching me. >> so its finally in june 1996 he began his new duties as a branch chief in counterterrorism. >> now you have to collect the evidence and present it for an arrest warrant. we have to moni...

So in the spring of 1996 i started as nicholsons deputy in the counterterrorism center. at that time radical islamic terrorism was on the rise. so there was a lot of real work stuff going on that you had to focus on. >> they were looking at critical players who eventually became known post 9/11. so it was very critical stuff they were doing. >> in the middle of all that youre trying to catch your boss compiling information hes going to give to the russians. >> to have someone in human source in ...

The next challenge is where do we position him so he can do the least amount of damage? >> so after discussion, the decision was made to put him as a branch chief in the counter terrorism center. >> given the environment at the time, pre-9/11, thats where we could most effectively detain him. >> youre letting him know he can do what he wants because nobodys watching me. >> so its finally in june 1996 that jim began his new duties as a branch chief in counterterrorism. >> now you have to collect ...