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Investigation. just this week the leader of the senate intelligence committee richard burr suggested that the senate intelligence committee has corroborated parts of the dossier. he didnt say which parts and he says he wants to talk to steele. steele has been unwilling to talk to the senate investigators because theyre making demands that he doesnt want to meet, like who paid for the dossier. the dossier was commissioned as a piece of opposition research by initially unnamed republicans of group...

Reputation in the uk, someone who knew of his knowledge and expertise when it came to russia, saying that if now this product that was created by a businessman is put through the rigors of an investigation like bob muellers or the senate intelligence committee, that it could potentially be very significant. >> what bob mueller will do is take the statements made in the steele dossier, they were essentially statements made by steeles sources and his subsources which steele recounted in those docu...

Pretty clear he wants to know who paid for the dossier. that is something as i understand it that steele is unwilling to discuss. hes not willing to go there. there also may be a debate about sources. steele may be zealously guarding the identities of his sources. i also want to step back and say maybe frame this a little differently about how we should understand whats happening with the dossier. dont forget, the dossier has been around, was published in january, and the fbi has had parts of it...

Investigators from robert muellers office traveled to london recently to interview christopher steele. that dossier author. your reaction? >> i think this is important news that shows the special counsel is not messing around. he is tracking down all the leads. and based on various reports, it is clear at least some, or perhaps many parts of the dossier are in fact true. so i am very pleased that special counsel mueller had a chance, at least his investigators, to interview christopher steele. >...

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And we know that christopher steele did enjoy good relationships, strong relationships, with line fbi agents in a variety of investigations. so i think there is going to be a lot of collaboration, a lot of work here as these investigative streams come together. >> ken, let me ask you to speak to the story that you broke this afternoon, that there may in fact be some sort of breakthrough, some ability for the senate intelligence committee which just a couple days ago said they had hit a wall when...

Steele -- christopher steele. we have a lot of michael steels who are friends of this show. christopher steele, the former british intelligence official. do you put the two developments around steele squarely into the collusion investigation oir is there any potential overlay from that obstruction of justice investigation? >> i think most of the detail in the dossier really go to the larger issue of what leverage the russian federation has over the trump organization, people inside trumps inner ...

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