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This and to actually include it in the investigation to see if his team can get a better sense of those sub sources on whom christopher steele relied forgot information. some of which has been corroborated. >> this is the key issue. they have to be able to talk to christopher steele, to find out how many of this is accurate, given the inaccuracies we have in the moment. and i think when journalists were talking about it, it was some of the salaciousness. they thought this is too far out there. t...

Interview him to find out what his sources were and who was paying him. >> hes in a place where a lot of people speak like you do. >> im afraid it doesnt give me a hotline to speak to christopher steele. >> your view? >> well, thats right. i think there are some elements that have proven not to be true. when you take a look at the dossier, you realize that there are some components that have been borne out over time. the key report in the dossier is dated june of 2016. and christopher steele wri...

Christopher steele, the author of that infamous dossier. again, this news coming into the newsroom right now. our viewer to "the beat" may remember moments ago i was reporting on this that because of a reuters report about bob mueller working on the dossier and inheriting the inquiry into it, minutes later, as is so often the case these days, we have this breaking reports. nbc news reporting that muellers office indeed has made contact with this elusive individual. christopher steele. behind tha...

Clearance process. im sure general kelly is aware that they dont neat standard. not only does it protect their integrity, but they are compromised. so foreign powers can threaten to leak information. whether it is true or false to attempt to get them to do things so this is a very big problem for national security. they should have it revoked immediately. >> congressman ted lu on a busy news day, thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. i hope to see you again on "the beat." >> if youre just j...

I agree with you, theres circumstantial evidence that suggests he was in on something earlier than most people were in on something. that doesnt in and of itself mean the sources are solid all the way through. >> i want to add into our discussion, michael isikoff, a chief investigator, has said that christopher steele was an fbi asset assisting in the investigation. i want to add your reporting and views to this. donald trump and his allies may wish the dossier would go away. as ive just reporte...

To be so false and fake, out. thats something that nazi germany would have done and did do. i think it is a disgrace. >> joining me, an anchor. also worked in the cia analyst. the dossier is back. a lot of serious people are looking at it. >> yeah. the fact that the fbi is considering this dossier. we know there were some mistakes in the dossier. there was the name of a company that was wrong. a retreat location in russia that was wrong. so some fwakts this seem to be wrong. but there must be en...

And it was information christopher steele felt he could divulge without jeopardizing the lives of his sources or sub sources, he would have given it to them then. whether that led anywhere, whether it allowed the bureau to develop information corroborated or knocked down some of what steele found or wrote, we dont know. from everything we know, steele reached out to the fbi long ago. there was context, the fbi had every opportunity to question steele about his sources. >> this goes to the point ...

Track down christopher steele. >> i think it is worth remembering from what we know, as christopher steele was working on the dossier, and developing this information, long before it became public. he himself reached out to the fbi. the account hes given is that he was so kerneled about what he was doing finding. he thought the fbi with whom he had a relationship ought to know it. and there are at least two contacts. one in july and one later, august, september time frame, when he speaks to, mee...