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In. we know that the fbi at a certain point in time and he seems to have information on this, too, asked steel for more information and he was sending them the reports. so he's just basically saying, you know, we need to know more about the motives. actually, some degree you do. some degree you don't. and ultimately what was in the steel dossier is not important in terms of the committee reaching conclusions about interactions between the trump campaign and russian officials or anyone representing the russian government. you can do that regardless of whether the material in the steel memos are...

And use vast range of expertise to target the voters that might be able to tip a state and tip the electoral college for them in a particular state. and that there are very few of us sitting at the distance from a presidential campaign who have that kind of information. and that -- and so, senator merkley's point today of how did the russians figure out how to target the states with so few votes, flip the states and there by flipping the electoral college and the suspicion that that would be the point of collusion with the trump campaign is what david frum was identifying in our last segment. ...

And i say that to you but i also say it to chris steel. >> joining us now, david corn, msnbc political analyst, washington bureau chef of mother jones with the first to report on the existence of the dossier in october 2016. also with us, david fromm for the atlantic. david corn, you were at the press conference today. what do you make of this update that we got today? >> well, richard burr was trying to, you know, straddle very fine line. he wanted to make it seem like the committee is doing a lot of digging and gave us a lot of stats, how many documents they looked at, people interviewed to ...

Trump for years dangled business deals in font of him. he write that is in june of 2016 just after months earlier donald trump had come close to sealing a deal to build a tower in moscow. he was close again in 2014. he did in 2008. so time and time again he sought these deals and the russians kept saying let's see if we can work this out. nothing came to fruition and certainly during that period of time when he is running for president he's not telling the american voters that at the same time he's running for president on an american first platform he's also trying to get a deal in russia tha...

Mother or a father, a son or a daughter. we know that your sorrow feels endless. we stand together to help you carry your pain. you're not alone. we will never leave your side. >> joining us now daniel dale, washington correspondent for the toronto star, who the president has blocked on twitter. and david frum is back with us. this is tweet you put out about puerto rico. it's part of the reason the president has banned you from twitter. it says -- and you're quoting someone in your reporting about it, someone in puerto rico telling you he takes two weeks to visit a disaster zone where 3.5 mill...