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I'm not sure when the fbi first took possession of it, but the media had it before you had it and we had it. at the time of your departure from the fbi, was the fbi able to confirm any criminal allegations contained in the steele document? >> mr. chairman, i don't think that's a question i can answer in an open setting. because it goes into the details of the investigation. >> no, that goes into the details of the investigation. that steele dossier now says that they stand by the veracity of that document. they are proud of their work on it. they've now handed over 40,000 pages to the senate. ...

Gave, those ten hours of testimony, the transcript for that will be made public. do you think that changes the stakes materially for the white house? >> well, i think it does because what it does is if he turned over 40,000 documents, forget about the ten hours of answering questions. if he turned over the raw material, the traffic that he used to, you know, christopher ste steele used and the notes that he took to bring that about, trained intelligence analysts at the cia and counterintelligence office of the fbi, they are going to make a lot of links back to known intelligence that comes fro...

We call rum-int. it stands for rumor intelligence. people are sitting around cafes and drinking and tells the stories as they know it. and the information that we had in the steele dossier, it was an enormous amount of rum-int but the term of art, rum-int has intelligence in it. when it came out in its fullness, it was very clear that christopher steele had something enormous on his hands. this was not a joke. everything that i had written in the months prior to that dossier coming out was almost identical to what the cia had written because we're intelligence officers. this is what we do. but...

Government, and all of the players being investigated by the mueller investigation. this gave the u.s. intelligence committee, as we're finding out now, had already as early as june had its hair on fire over the russian hacking sent to the dnc and a campaign to get donald trump elected. christopher steele was way ahead of it and so was david corn. >> malcolm, i'm struck by the way that this has been furthered in the last 48 hours. the co-funder who commissioned the dossier from steele, he's done this ten-hour interview from the senate and has handed over 40,000 pages to the senate, cooperating...

The consumers in great volume. i knew of them. they just weren't in my particular stable of folks that i hired for work, but they certainly were not considered anything but professionals. they're not some fly-by-night agency that, you know, does a rip-and-read off of google and dumps a 200-page document on your desk. these are professionals. they come from a professional journalism background. obviously when they hired orbis and steele, covered russia in great depth, both in official cover and non, this is a guy they obviously said we have to find somebody who can credibly do this work, and th...