and so what steele was doing quite simply was compiling information. raw intelligence which he reported in a dossier. he didn t attempt to analyze it. he didn t attempt to corroborate it. he was just simply reporting it. i also think it s interesting the president spends so much time, the president spends so much energy, so many words spent smearing this document, and that s usually a tell there s something very right and very troubling for him. it apparently got under his skin. it must have because now, over time, we see that various pieces are, in fact, true. we were very careful what we used to try to corroborate it. there s been a lot of reporting on it, but we put all the reporting aside. we looked at official court documents and basically admissions. things said by people against their interests. like when jerome corsi had a plea agreement draft handed to him and he made that public. primarily, we re using stuff from the mueller investigation. let me put some of it up.
that the president spends so much time, the president spends so much energy, so many words spent smearing this document and that s usually a tell there s something very right and very troubling for him. it apparently got under his skin. it must have because now over time we see that various pieces are, in fact, true. we were careful what we used to try to corroborate it. there s been a lot of reporting on. we looked at official court documents and basically admissions. things said by people against their interests. like when jerome corsi had a plea agreement draft handed to him and he made that public. primarily we re using stuff from the mueller investigation. let me put some of it up. this is in the dossier. the russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing e-mail messages emanating from the democratic national committee to the wikileaks platform. the reason was plausible