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Russia. but it doesnt make logical sense for it to be a democratic conspiracy if half -- if the first half of the investigation was paid for by republicans. >> let me ask this about the steele dossier. some of the larger findings, some could argue, have been proven true. trump is vulnerable to russian blackmail was one of the allegations. a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between the trump campaign and russia. trump knew and approved of wikileaks. but none of those allegations have been...

That mi-6 began paying him a monthly salary, trading information for money was one way for a former russian agent to make a living in his new home in london. then suddenly in 2006 -- litvinenko, who had always been fit and healthy, got very sick. >> it was just incredibly strong and heavy sickness, just suddenly and not stopping. >> litvinenkos wife marina watched him waste away in a matter of just days. >> oh, it was awful. his hair started to be -- >> to fall out. >> yes, and he started to loo...

>> he was a law enforcement officer. >> he worked for the equivalent of the fbi. >> yeah, i mean what he was most interested in. >> in anti-corruption. >> anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. >> his name was alexander litvinenko, sasha to his friends. but his interest in fighting corruption had made him a lot of enemies, including in his own agency, the kgb, which was renamed the fsb. litvinenko was forced to flee russia with his wife and son and seek asylum in london where ...

Effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> why not just shoot him? >> i didnt say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we dont do that sort of thing. >> also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in russia. he did our interview in one of the re...

In there without you noticing? >> translator: no. why dont you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. thats agatha christie stuff. >> mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says thats nonsense if for no other reason because mi-6 would never use such an expensive weapon to ...

Supported by people on both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans have a lot of respect for him. he was the one that dealt it was very well known in the intelligence community and respected among political. they cannot say this is a bar issue, and he is supporting president trump, we have john durham right in the middle and he will be the buffer, and he was 100% right on which he talked about christopher steel dossier. because you brought it up and you brought it up, they went to foreign...

And republicans have a lot of respect for him. he was the one that dealt it was education bill that were trying to get across the finish line. very well known in the >> that is great. intelligence community and respected among political. they cannot say this is a bar i love hearing about this but i want to make sure our audience understands youre working on so many things that fit all the issues on the show pro issue, and he is supporting community, you really have that president trump, we have ...

Investigation up until the very end. it really was a lot about foreign intelligence and, you know, every place we operate in the world, particularly all the activity in the investigation that took place in britain, we coordinate with the foreign government in those places where there was a lot of forward activity here. i think thats where the real collusion was. >> mark: there is talk of actually sending subpoenas to brennan and clapper, who were the highest figures in the obama intelligence bur...

When you look at it from the overseas end, with these mi6 characters, alexander downer, who ran australias secret intelligence service when he was the foreign prime minister in canberra. these people, their connection with the united states would be through the cia, wouldnt it? in that sense, yet. is the cia on the hook here? >> its sure would, mark. when you look at this and the full continuum of the investigation, the fbi and justice department are almost late to the party. this actually i thi...

And they desired to establish something called the national anti-corruption bureau to weed out high-level corruption with ukraine. people like myself was there to train investigators and prosecutors on what we did in the fbi as far as best practices, how to recruit sources, physical and electronic surveillance conducting interviews and the like. >> congressman, americans have heard a lot about someone named victor shogun. while you were there did you form an opinions prosecutor general viktor sh...