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>> so people associated with the democrats were peddling that story. >> reporter: nbcs intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian. >> we did hear things like, look, if you did anything at the ritz carlton moscow, that whole place is wired for video and sound. so its perfectly plausible that anybody who engaged in embarrassing activities there would be on tape and russian spies would have that tape. but there was really no way you could prove it. >> reporter: alongside those swirlin...

>> im really pleased to be back here working again at the orbis offices in london today. >> reporter: but he left it to others to solve the puzzle his dossier had created. >> and ill just add that i wont be making any further statements or comments at this time. thank you so much. >> reporter: true to his word, steele stayed out of the public eye, but he has reportedly been interviewed by the investigators working for special counsel robert mueller. and in a november 2017 book by luke harding, a...

Re-opened an investigation of hillary clintons use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. >> the fbi dropped a bomb on the race for president this afternoon. >> reporter: that story and reaction to it would dominate the headlines right up to election day. >> very proud that the fbi was willing to do this, actually. really. very proud. >> reporter: when the calendar finally flipped to november 8th and election day arrived, donald trump won enough electoral votes to become president ...

Accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: the final red flag came on the day after donald trump accepted the republican nomination. on july 22nd, 2016, days before the democrats were to open their convention, wikileaks published thousands of stolen democratic party e-mails. >> that was something new. that was something we hadnt seen before, and it clearly shook up the democrats. >> reporter: malcolm nance said it was the moment he knew america was under attack....

Weeks later in july 2016, steele sent off his second trump memo. this was the headline -- russia: secret kremlin meetings attended by trump adviser carter page in moscow. according to steeles sources those meetings involved a move to lift ukraine-related western sanctions against russia. on the day that report was filed, the republican national convention was getting under way in cleveland, ohio. at the time, a few american journalists were starting to see the vague outlines of a trump/russia st...

I, donald john trump do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: after donald trump took the oath of office in january 2017, a steady barrage of news reports started to reveal the character of the russian campaign to influence the american presidential election. the circulation and hyping of internal democratic party documents that had been stolen by russian hackers. fake social media profiles pushing divisive story lines and attempting to drive support for trump. thousands of russian-bought online ads ta...

Passport and said hed never even been to prague. and even though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, cohens passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> its a disgrace what took place, its a disgrace, and i think they ought to apologize to start with, michael cohen. >> reporter: the president elect attacked not just the dossier itself, he accused the u.s. intelligence community of ...

>> i was able to do some research on him and find out at the very least, he was who he said he was, and that he had the intelligence pedigree, that id been told that he had. >> reporter: by mid october, christopher steele had filed 15 of the 16 memos that would later be called the dossier. david corn saw several of the memos. >> and i dont use the term dossier. because its not really a dossier. that gives the impression of a finished product that was compiled into one single entity, one document...

>> reporter: that salacious claim about trumps time in moscow was a small part of the first christopher steele memo. when the full steele dossier later became public, that claim would be the headline. but it was steeles broader assertions about russias aims, russias methods and russias relationship with trump that would end up slow burning through the whole first year of the trump presidency. i saw the change in rich when we moved into the new house. but having his parents over was enlightening....