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Was to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, as part of that full and thorough investigation, what determination did the special counsel office make about whether the steele dossier was part of the russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election? >> again, when it comes to mr. steele, i defer to the department of justice. >> well, first of all, director, i very much agree with your determination that russia's efforts were sweeping and systematic. i think it should concern every americ...

>> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion conspiracy theory. as democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the american people as well as you, mr. mueller, the american people may recall the media first began spreading this conspiracy theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign started developing the steele dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top o...

Hidden in plain sight. and they're right. there is collusion in plain sight. collusion between russia and the democratic party. the democrats cloouded with russian sources to develop the steele dossier, russian lawyer gnat ala veselnitskaya cloouded with glenn simpson. through interviews and usual anonymous statements to reporters that today's hearing is not about getting information at all. they said they want to, quote, bring the mueller report to life and create a television moment through ploys, like having mr. mueller recite passages from his own report. this is political theater, hail ma...

In terms of a portrayal of the conspiracies, we returned two indictments in the computer crimes arena. one gru and another active malaysias in which we lay out in excruciating detail what occurred in those two rather large conspiracies. >> i agree with respect to that. but why this is important is an application and three renewal applications were submitted by the united states government to spy or surveil on trump campaign associate carter page and the steele dossier was submitted as a central piece of evidence to that. the premise was that there was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation...

>> reporter: now that the dossier was a matter of public record and of fierce political controversy, the core question remained -- were the allegations in it true? intelligence professionals like former british officer glen harvey wondered if perhaps the russians might have deliberately fed steele some bogus information. >> the thing depends on who indeed christopher steele's sources were. they might indeed have genuine access of the kind he talks about. and 70, 80% of what they are telling him was true. however, there might be that 20% that actually comes from putin's administration and it is...