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Parameters of it were true and that would be enough to blackmail donald trump. we dont know but the point is cris her steele came up with that a year and a half ago and none of us wanted to believe it. and now were finding out parts of it were bourn out which means we need to dig into and the house and the senate and certainly the mueller investigation need to find out precisely whether all the rest of its true. >> david, when you look at how donald trump processes all this and we know according...

That stuff is dynamite now because it corroborates classified intelligence and classified intelligence also verifies what steele says. its going to be fascinating hearing from him. >> he is -- you know, what did mccain say? the shoes to drop. hes a big shoe if he ever drops. >> big shoe. >> malcolm and david, thank you both. >> thank you. we have a programming note here. tomorrow night on "the last word with lawrence odonnell" the author will be here to interview christopher steele and broke s...

The shoes to drop. hes a big shoe if he ever drops. >> big shoe. >> malcolm and david, thank you both. >> thank you. we have a programming note here. tomorrow night on "the last word with lawrence odonnell" the author will be here to interview christopher steele and broke some of the stories. i will be watching. i hope you will be. should be interesting. up next, presidents biographer says president trump wants to be a dictator. is he behaving like one? thats ahead. lets explore. every day, ...

That he left donald trump alone in a hotel room and then went to bed for the rest of the night at 10:00 p.m. i mean, theres a lot of things that are in there. more importantly, the russians can use this information. they could have used this even if it wasnt true by creating a circumstance to where the parameters of it were true and that would be enough to blackmail donald trump. we dont know but the point is cris her steele came up with that a year and a half ago and none of us wanted to believ...

Reaching that the russians endeavoring to help the trump campaign and influence our outcome here is bourn out by the intelligence agencies and he may have been on to that even before our own intelligence agencies were. but i think people need to recognize one other very critical fact and that is we have a deep interest in what aspects of the dossier are accurate but this is a very spaul part of a big investigation. and i think theres an effort by the gop to say, well, the whole information hangs...

He created what we call rumor intelligence. this is what diplomats and spies would collect working people who are not actually agents for them. you know, you go to dinner parties and things like that. christopher steeles maam ran dumb, the dossier which i read very early on is a great example of this. however, i think now hes right. i think he is 70% to 90% accurate. things that i read in that dossier that i would never have imagined would be confirmed like, for example, that, you know, prostitu...

Malcolm, walk us through this. folks might say if you wrote something shouldnt 100% of it be accurate? 70% to 90% is high. this is raw intel, right? >> thats right. what christopher steele did was he created what we call rumor intelligence. this is what diplomats and spies would collect working people who are not actually agents for them. you know, you go to dinner parties and things like that. christopher steeles maam ran dumb, the dossier which i read very early on is a great example of this. ...

Welcome back. christopher steele is that that former british intelligence officer who compiled the explosive dossier alleging all sorts of links between the trump campaign and the kremlin. now hes told a journalist with "the guardian" he believes it turns out the leads he was working on are 70% to 90% accurate. steele saying his reports based on all of the sources he cultivated for a listening time over three decades of intelligence work will be vindicated because, of course, special counsel bob...

Who to believe. you know, when they talk to secretary mattis, are they hearing mattis perspective or is he speaking for the president? and thats a question that members of congress ive talked to also have, you know, because they have a lot of faith in mattis, in tillerson and, you know, in the top military brass. and we saw bob corker earlier this week say that -- >> yep. >> -- tillerson, mattis and john kelly are keeping this country from chaos essentially. this administration from chaos. so it...

Morning. he said that steele was known as a quote, good operator who understood russia and who compiled the report as an intelligence product comprised largely of human intelligence. he said that the process that both mueller and potentially the senate intelligence committee are undergoing would put that raw intelligence product through the kinds of rigorous checks that it would go through if steele were still an mi6 agent, and not a businessman. he said that if that results in a corroborative p...