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.
about things big and about things completely insignificant and you wonder what is this compulsion? we have seen people say that above all the job is to get the president talking and keep him talking. nobody ever contradicts him. his staff doesn t contradict him. his staff knows he s lying and they don t sit there and say, actually, sir, because he ll fly off the handle. he ll end the interview, end the meeting in the white house and kick the staffers out. because he s so temperamental this way and has lived in this alternate universe, alternate reality for so long, it s very difficult for people to actually confront him and to correct him and to say, sir, that s wrong. sir, that s a lie. just doesn t happen. and i worry about this, but i also worry about what message he sends as a person who really is the chief executive of the federal government. he s against flippers. he thinks people that cooperate with federal investigations, that tell the truth about crimes under investigation a
considered an unverified document compiled by british intelligence officer christopher steele based on raw intelligence. to date, none of it has been disproven. and whole big parts of it are holding up as special counsel robert mueller s investigation has methodically yielded indictments and plea agreements from which numerous court filings have lined up almost exactly with some of the reporting in the dossier. that includes documents from the indictment against 12 russian intelligence officers and court documents from michael cohen, michael flynn, paul manafort and george papadopoulos. in fact, former senior fbi official and u.s. attorney and friend of the show chuck rosenberg and a colleague recently wrote a piece for lawfare examining which parts of the dossier had been corroborated based on the court filings. plus, they looked at documents released by jerome corsi and documents from democrats on the house intel committee. as chuck and his colleague note, quote, the mueller investig
it s amazing how it lines 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 for using wikileaks was plausible deniability and the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of trump and senior members of his campaign team. this seems to be the heart of the mueller probe, right, trying to tie the trump campaign to the dnc hack. so here s what you found from an indictment. the conspirators used a variety of means to hack the e-mail accounts of volunteers and employees of the u.s. presidential campaign of hillary clinton, including the clinton campaign s chairman. conspirs tors also hacked into the computer networks of the democratic national campaign committee and the dnc. they staged and released tens of thousands of stolen e-mails and documents used fictitious online personas including dcleaks and guccifer 2.0. so it s
russia investigation evolve, so lying has been core to donald trump s political strategy. the same way core to his business strategy beforehand. he calls it he straight-out lies. he got away with it in business and in politics in a way no one before him was really able to do. did he? he settled a bunch of civil in business, yeah. but i mean, he lied about stuff. he had to settle cases but those are a cost of doing business. it didn t change him. in the legal world, lying sends you to jail. what we ve seen as his associates have followed his behavior and lied to investigators, lied to members of congress, lied to grand juries, lied to federal investigators, you find them pleading guilty and facing potentially jail time or becoming a convicted felon for the rest of your life. it s a very different thing. that hasn t caught up with the president yet, but we saw an interesting thing a few weeks ago when michael cohen pled guilty and bob mueller in his sentencing memos talked about