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>> the reason i think this book is sort of the one you should read of all the books written about this subject is because i feel fairly steeped in this matter and i learned something on every page, detail i didnt know, everything from the criminal background of the guy to whom trump sold his house in palm beach, of that $100 million house, i mean, to lindsey graham supporting john mccains decision that the steele memo should be shown to fbi director james comey, which you wouldnt know talking to...

In this case, the democratic national committee and the hillary for president campaign. we were not able to talk about those things for a long time and in the meantime, faced a lot of pressure from republicans in congress, specifically the chairman of the judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee, devin nunes. >> in terms of the way that you approached, the reason i think this book is sort of the one you should read of all the wooks that have been written about the subject is beca...

Campaign. who would have won those elections. he applauded the mueller probe. he said this was an all-star team of prosecutor and attorneys. he said i would bet my life bob mueller would do things the right way. this was only the first round of this. he was up there for 6 1/2 hours. hes coming back on the 17th. we expect. > -- we expect another round of. jesse: when he was asked do you know who paid for the steele memo? did you know it was financed by the democrats? he seems so wishy washy, sayi...

Campaign. who would have won those elections. he applauded the mueller probe. he said this was an all-star team of prosecutor and attorneys. he said i would bet my life bob mueller would do things the right way. this was only the first round of this. he was up there for 6 1/2 hours. hes coming back on the 17th. we expect. > -- we expect another round of. jesse: when he was asked do you know who paid for the steele memo? did you know it was financed by the democrats? he seems so wishy washy, sayi...

Campaign. who would have won those elections. he applauded the mueller probe. he said this was an all-star team of prosecutor and attorneys. he said i would bet my life bob mueller would do things the right way. this was only the first round of this. he was up there for 6 1/2 hours. hes coming back on the 17th. we expect. > -- we expect another round of. jesse: when he was asked do you know who paid for the steele memo? did you know it was financed by the democrats? he seems so wishy washy, sayi...

Opposite. exactly. and they understand that too. >> ken, here we are over a year later, doesnt he still have a feud going with at least his doj? >> absolutely. in fact, the informant that trump is trying to out right now may well have been a cia asset as well as fbi ats asset and theres a lot of angst about this ongoing battle and his comments calling this a witch hunted because this isnt just an fbi investigation, its a counterintelligence investigation into russia election interference that in...

The doj. >> talk a little bit about the idea of this source, of the idea of potentially revealing a source. jeremy bash, who i know youve been on this set with talked about that this morning. heres what had he to say. >> that source may have played maybe a negligible role, it maybe playing another important role in another counterintelligence case where hes in touch with russian intelligence agents, maybe russian organized crime, others perts his affiliation with the u.s. intelligence sation rev...

Tweet, bob, here talking about how he believes it should go actually even further, right? >> reporter: whats going to be important to follow as reporters here is what does it mean to be politically motivated? thats the real -- >> yes. >> reporter: you have to underscore here. because when you think about this counterintelligence investigation that began in 2016, some people in the dupt of justice believed there was a reason, not political, but a reason to have a counterintelligence investigation...

This that page was targeted for russian recruitment dating back to this case of bb bank. he was on the radar before trump ran for president. the russians were interested in him and thats the only reason the fbi was interested in him. this has very little to do with the trump campaign. this has to do with the steele memo. it really highlights both those things. >> the end game for the russians was what, do you think? >> the russians, just like the chinese, just like the iranians, just like the no...

Expected it to be. and that is a point by point refutation of the nunes memo. its fot as though the nunes memo needed a refutation because the best rebuttal to the nunes memo was in fact the nunes memo. but this lays out in about 10 or 11 very clear, concise pages exactly where the nunes memo erred. in my reading of this the most important takeaway here is the fact that the democrats contend the steele dossier was not in any way used to as a predicate for the july 2016 launch of the investigatio...