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More of a question. some experts say this information would be classified. others say it could be violating those issues. >> given your reportinging that you just outlined there and given the criticism that has been leveled against the gop memo that kiem out earlier, that it, too, would compromise intelligence gathering methods within the fbi, is there a concern now within the intelligence community that the release of both of these memos, the gop 1 and the press release that you alluded to from...

Sources of information. it will be interesting going forward t forward. the white house said its fought considering firing rosenstein. i think it would have watergate type consequences. >> steve, let me ask you quickly about what youre picking up if in washington in terms of sentiment or feelings about devin nunes who by some account has declared war on various agents and now talking about going after the state department. what kind of sentiment are you picking up there in d.c.? >> well, congres...

Have sought potentially to use that as a channel to weaponize disinformation against us. it would absolutely fit with the fsb playbook, with the kjb playbook, as well. >> so some people look at the steele dossier, and they question contents and say, thats not true. but there are aspects of it that have been borne out. how does that factor into your analysis that this could have all been the product of espionage? >> right. so the russian intelligence modus operandi when theyre feeding you informa...

And that is to create for the reader at least a picture that, well, this looks like a pretty good report. it enhances the veracity of the overall report. and then he will sprinke in their themes, which they wish to propaga propagate, which are not true and those are designed to influence the target audience. >> so the most salacious aspect of the dossier, the so-called shower, you know what im talking about, does that come from the playbook as something that they create or as something that they...

Alone disclosing sources and methods. and that should be a matter of concern, because some of us who have been critics of fisa and critics of the intelligence community have been arguing for years that the fbi routinely classifies information to prevent their embarrassment for political or tactical reasons. this is a rare case where that allegation i think is more than evident and obviously true. and i think that we need to go back to these members, and to the fbi, and say what gives? i mean, yo...

>> sure enough. on the dossier itself, were going to go there now. among the goals of the nunes memo is to discredit the infamous steele dossier, alleging trumps russia connections as partisan opposition research. but my next guest says theres another more sinister possibility. daniel halfman is a retired cia agent who served in the former soviet union. he was a station chief. hes the author of this "wall street journal" piece, "the steele dossier fits the kremlin playbook." you say it might b...

And those are designed to influence the target audience. >> so the most salacious aspect of the dossier, the so-called shower, you know what im talking about. does that come from the playbook as something that they create, or as something they carry out, or both? >> it could be either one. it absolutely could have been something they have created. they have certainly done that plenty of times. they have tried to use honey traps with people. when those honey traps arent successful, theyll simply ...

Classified let alone disclosing sources and methods. and that should be a matter of concern. because some of us who have been critics of fisa and critics of the intelligence community have been arguing for years that the fbi routinely classifies information to prevent their embarrassment, for political or tactical reasons. this is a rare case where that allegation i think is more than evident and obviously true. and i think that we need to go back to these members and to the fbi and say what giv...

Tactical use of classified laws. >> the penultimate paragraph or paragraphs of the memo are those i would argue that say that the initial fisa court was not advised of the funding source for the dossier that led to the surveillance of car pter page. i have a couple of reactions to that. one of which is, so what? because the employer for christopher steele was not the dnc or that firm, it was fusion gps. and i know this as a trial lawyer and the court of law day in, and day out. information comes...

Inside russia. and we know that mr. steele little never traveled there, and in-that the fsb, their internal security police, would have detected his efforts to collect information from russian sources on the campaign, on the trump campaign, and on donald trump. and then i think that they would have sought potentially to use that as a channel to weaponize disinformation against us. it would absolutely fit with the fsb play book i go obookplayboo playbook as well. >> some question contents, but th...