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Weapon. he was now being summoned to rome where he spoeent hours in a discreet location telling american officials, some of whom had flown in from the united states, about his findings. the russians had damaging information about trump's personal behavior and finances that could be used to pressure the gop nominee. what's more, the kremlin is carrying out an operation with the campaign's help to tilt the u.s. election a plot steele said was ordered by vladimir putin. the fbi investigators treated steele as a peer, a russia expert so well trusted he assisted the justice department on past case,...

Steele's perspective "my first thought has to be for your country. how else can i sound this alarm?" now republicans in congress are trying to persuade the justice department to bring charges against him for having done that. joining us now is one of the reporters who broke this latest news and gave us this narrative detail about christopher steele, tom hamburger, national reporter for the "washington post," hamburg hamburger, thank you for being with us. >> thanks so much. good to be with you. >> this report comes in the midst of a concerted attack on christopher steele himself fr republicans...

What's happened now, rachel, is that christopher steele is sort of moved to the center of the polarized fight that we're seeing so you have the nunes memo from the house intelligence committee that suggests that the fbi really didn't appropriately alert the fisa court, the court that granted a search warrant for monitoring carter page. that there was insufficient disclosure of who christopher steele was. and senator lindsey graham has raised the question publicly and in his letters to the fbi saying is christopher steele an informant for the fbi or is he in fact a political hired gun, an oppos...

Armed with nuclear weapons. he can go into a rage and enter the nuclear launch codes. how bad does it have to get before congress does something? >> he's here in person, he's here in studio. joining us is michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. great to see you. >> great to be here. >> i almost missed you there. i'm used to high fiving you through the satellite. >> it's a pleasure to do it here. >> we broke this story a little bit in terms of the president setting up what appears to be a russia scandal legal defense fund and we were first to break the story that the legal document ...

Her name is ching hai, she's the leader of a religious cult. she had her own fashion line, she had a big chain of international restaurants, her followers were so devoted to her that i kid you not they used to buy her old socks. you get socks that wear them out, in her case her old warn t out socks, her followers would buy them and trade them amongst themselves like treasure. in the late '90s, ching hai, the supreme master of zen, she and a bunch of her many followers gave a really generous gift to the president of the united states. >> reporter: how would american followers of an obscure reli...