and clinton campaign funding of the dossier, a publication in washington was the first to actually provide funding for that, there's a lot of -- >> but not for dossier. opposition. pete: opposition research to include president trump, that research stopped when donald trump became the presumptive nominee and ultimately the fusion gps went to democrats said, we have done all this research, would you be interested and that's the point where they continued the funding. >> that's when christopher steel got involved. abby: the spy over in the uk. >> brings it to unverified allegations about donald trump. abby: byron york broke the story and he breaks down the timeline of how everything played out. watch this. >> this effort starts in the fall of 2015 and it's a conventional operation that's