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>> i was able to do some research on him and find out at the very least, he was who he said he was, and that he had the intelligence pedigree, that i'd been told that he had. >> reporter: by mid october, christopher steele had filed 15 of the 16 memos that would later be called the dossier. david corn saw several of the memos. >> and i don't use the term dossier. because it's not really a dossier. that gives the impression of a finished product that was compiled into one single entity, one document. these were field reports. it was very much the way a reporter in the field would send notes to ...

Steele. >> i was able to do some research on him and final out at the very least he was who he said he was and that he had the intelligence pedigree that he -- that i'd been told that he had. >> by mid-october, christopher steele had filed 15 of the 16 memos that would later be called the dossier. david corn saw several of the memos. >> i don't use the term dossier because it's not really a dossier. that gives the impression of a finished product compiled into one single entity, one document. these were field reports. it was very much the way a reporter in the field would send notes to an edit...

Intriguing and in many ways, pressing document at the heart of the trump, russia story. we'll step and look back at the 35-page trump russia dossier and the allegations contained in the document can sound out landish ori freakishly spot on. >> are there any russians here tonight, any russians? >> they have conducted watergate 2.0. >> this fake dossier was made up. >> i don't use the term dossier. these were field reports. is there something here that i could verify? >> i call it the russian hoax.

That i'd been told that he had. >> by mid october, christopher steel had filed 15 of the 16 memos that would later be called the dossier. david corn saw several of the memos. >> i don't use the term dossier because it's not really a dossier. that gives the impression of a finished product compiled into one single entity, one document. these were field reports. it was very much the way a reporter in the field would send notes to an editor. >> to try to verify the credibility of steel's memos, david corn started calling his own sources. malcolm nance was one of them. >> david corn, the first one...

Intelligence pedigree, that i'd been told that he had. >> reporter: by mid october, christopher steele had filed 15 of the 16 memos that would later be called the dossier. david corn saw several of the memos. >> and i don't use the term dossier. because it's not really a dossier. that gives the impression of a finished product that was compiled into one single entity, one document. these were field reports. it was very much the way a reporter in the field would send notes to an editor. >> reporter: to try to verify the credibility of steele's memos, david corn started calling his own sources. ...