melding, including the dnc hacks. they found it important enough to brief the president about it back in january. that said, some of the more salacious allegations have not been corroborated to our knowledge. we should point out that the dossier fuelled the investigations on the fbi side as well as on the hill and robert mueller of the special counsel sent investigators over the summer to speak with christopher steele, clearly is something that he was interested in. >> right. and steele talked to him, although he wouldn't talk to senate and house intelligence committee investigators. >> that is correct. >> tell us about cambridge analytica. you have new reporting on that. >> that's right. sources tell my colleague dana bash, this data firm working for the trump campaign, actually reached out to julian assange, the founder of wikileaks during the campaign. asking him about the 33,000 e-mails that hillary clinton had deleted. he sent this e-mail to others telling him he had reached out