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Dough? >> well, the fact is from the beginning, for instance, when we fist reported that the intelligence chief briefed then president-elect donald trump and president obama in january on the existence of this dossier, we reported then and previously since that it was funded by democrats, donors tied to -- supporting hillary clinton and prior to that by republicans who were opposed to donald trump. this is more specific that that money tied directly to the campaign. >> and they should have been more transparent about it. >> no question. absolute. they have been more transparent. but at the dos...

Denied it. the democrats always denied it. and now only because it's going to come out in a court case they said, yes, they did it. they admitted it. and they were embarrassed by it. but i think it's a disgrace. it's a very sad commentary on politics of this country. >> does it matter much who paid for what information, jim sciutto? >> well, the fact is from the beginning, for instance, when we fist reported that the intelligence chief briefed then president-elect donald trump and president obama in january on the existence of this dossier, and provided them a synopsis. we reported it then and...

Scandal that christopher steele created that dossier in the first place. that he was hired by an opposition research firm to dig that stuff up. the attacks on the dossier itself, on christopher steele for having produced it, on fusion gps for having commissioned that dossier, the attacks on the republican side have only increased over time as elements of the dossier have been proven true, and as none of its major assertions have been publicly disproven. it had been previously reported that fusion's opposition into trump had initially been funded by a republican donor that was interested in def...

Scandal that christopher steele ever created that in the first place, that he was hired by an opposition research firm to dig that stuff up. the attacks on the dossier itself, on christopher steele for having produced it, on fusion gps for having commissioned that dossier, the attacks on the republican side have only increased over time as elements of the dossier have been proven true, and as none of its major assertions have been publicly disproven. it had been previously reported that fusion's opposition into trump had initially been funded by a republican donor that was interested in defeat...

Representing the clinton campaign. what we don't really know is how that information was then relaid to the campaign. our understanding from talking to people who were close to the matter is that those actual steele reports were not directly handed to the campaign. so we don't really quite understand how the information was passed. who got the information, and you know, obviously, we want to know what they did with that information after they received it. >> right. right. and those are crucial questions. as for the dossier itself, i want to remind our viewers. it's about 30 pages or something....