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Before they gave the information to the fisa court. whether they were straight with the fisa court when they were describing who steele was. importantly and something that hasnt been covered much, what about the information that steele was transmitting to the justice department and the f.b.i. through ohr after the first fisa application >> sandra: im sure well hear more about what was exchanged in that room. issa came on earlier what they learned of ohrs explanation of the dossier. here is what ...

For dossier and they never told the fisa judge that it was hillary clinton bought and paid for. they put a footnote in, it may be political. >> its arguably six different felonies for doing that the kramer thing is interesting. he appeared before the intelligence committee december 19th and he said i know who steeles sources are the committee said who are they? he said im not going to tell you. slap him with a subpoena to make him tell him now he invokes the fifth. why would he do that? maybe he...

Forr dossier, and they never tod the fisa judge that it was hillary clinton bought and paid for. they put a footnote in that it may be political. >> is arguably six different felonies for doing that. but the kramer thing is interesting because he appeared before the intelligence committee, december 19th, and he said i know who steeles sources are. and the committee said who are they? and he said, im not going to tell you. so they slap him withot a subpoa to make him tell them. and now he invokes...

Chris officer steele. was he working with the fbi? any conspiracy they could thread into it. and simpson went into them like a cheap carnival trick. >> this is a larger problem about what a lot of these are about. a fixation on process not substance. and a partisan approach to the process, which is what youre saying. simpson is saying, remember, this was originally funded by republicans. then picked up by democrats which is when steele came. the mandate was to simply find information, not a part...

Democratic senator dianne feinstein ignored her republican colleagues. cnns manu jaju live in washington with more. whats the fall out? >> reporter: chris, they will release the transcript despite furious objections from skhubg grassley who warned it would undermine the investigation. according to simpson, steele was so alarmed he felt obligated to alert the fbi in the summer of 2016. now, simpson said this in the transcript, chris said he was very concerned about whether this represented a nati...

Cooperation in the senate judiciary committee. >> simpson also would not reveal who steeles sources were. even saying one of the russian sources had been killed. we now know from our own sources that comment was in reference to the string of debts of high profile russians in the aftermath of the 2016 elections. now, this all comes as trumps personal lawyer, michael coe hen, announced plans to sue both fusion gps and the news organization buzzfeed over his concerns over defamation. he says the wi...

Lindsey graham, you want chris officer steele part of a criminal investigation after sitting and understanding his testimony that way, it has to be political. what a tv extravaganza. an opportunity you dont usually get. people were candid. both sides. the president and his alleged deal-making prowess on display. here is another taste of a moment. >> when this group comes back hopefully with an agreement, this group and others from the senate, from the house, comes back with an agreement, im sign...

Tell somebody in the government, in our government about this information. >> he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a national security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. he testified steele told him the fbi had similar intelligence from an internal source to help back up the dossier. we now know from our own sources that was information passed on to the fbi about the former campaign adviser george papadopoulos, who since then has pleaded guilty to ...