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Steele material, my sense of it remained similar to how it had stood at the beginning. some things we could corroborate, a lesser number we could show were inaccurate, and with the vast majority we just couldnt say. we treated it all accordingly. after trump became president, christopher steele was in hiding for a while and then he stayed more or less off the radar for years. peter strzok and his colleagues at the fbi who pursued the counterintelligence investigation into president trump and his...

And players, that we knew to be accurate and consistent with our understanding of the way putin and the russians were operating. at the same time, many other pieces of steeles information, most of them in fact, were devilishly hard to either prove or refute. but peter strzok, fbis top counterintelligence official, he had to try. his team created a spread sheet of every statement in christopher steeles reports to try to run each one down. they attempted to identify all the confidential sources an...

Essential role in the decision to seek a fisa order. chris: horowitz says it wasnt part as you told bret baier, it was not part of a broader mosaic. he said it played an essential role in establishing probable cause. he said in fact he says if it hadnt been for the steele dossier the fbi wouldnt even have submitted a fisa application that had been reviewed in april of 2016 or august of 2016. decided not to do it. they get the steele dossier. they do i had. it was not part of a broader mosaic. th...

Reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a fisa order. chris: horowitz says it wasnt part as you told bret baier, it was not part of a broader mosaic. he said it played an essential role in establishing probable cause. he said in fact he says if it hadnt been for the steele dossier the fbi wouldnt even have submitted a fisa application that had been reviewed in april of 2016 or august of 2016. decided not to do it. they get the steele dossier. they do i had. it was n...

Reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a fisa order. chris: horowitz says it wasnt part as you told bret baier, it was not part of a broader mosaic. he said it played an essential role in establishing probable cause. he said in fact he says if it hadnt been for the steele dossier the fbi wouldnt even have submitted a fisa application that had been reviewed in april of 2016 or august of 2016. decided not to do it. they get the steele dossier. they do i had. it was n...

Time. are you aware in your e-mail dated january 10th where you acknowledge the fact that harry reid knew about the dossier prior to sending the letter, are you aware of that e-mail from you? >> i dont know that i was talking about the steele material that you refer to as the dossier. i would have to check my notes. >> i need you to check your notes and report back. we have evidence that would suggest that. >> the date was what? >> august 25th was the briefing with harry reid. >> 2016. >> he sen...

Wow. they didnt tell the court any of this? they did until the court where the money came from? they didnt tell the court they also knew that steele hated trump? because steele mentioned it to bruce orr. we go to that in a minute. there is substantial evidence suggesting that mr. steele material he the fbi, one which bears on his credibility. it starts, yet the fisa applications nor the existence of a news article dated september 23rd, 2016, which in particular contains some of the same dossier ...