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Particular trump campaign guy who didn't turn up in the dossier. a guy christopher steele said he never heard of when the fbi went to him and asked him if he knew anything about this particular trump guy. that was the first big problem. we're going to prove this thing and here is our memo that disproves that thing. field at that level. then the memo claimed out right in black and white that to the extent the fbi had sited the steel dossier in this application for a search warrant on a different advisor to the trump campaign, republican memo said to the extent they referred to the steel dossier...

Out to be well-founded counter intelligence concerns about a particular trump campaign guy who didn't turn up in the dossier. a guy christopher steele said he never heard of when the fbi went to him and asked him if he knew anything about this particular trump guy. that was the first big problem. we're going to prove this thing and here is our memo that disproves that thing. field at that level. then the memo claimed out right in black and white that to the extent the fbi had sited the steel dossier in this application for a search warrant on a different advisor to the trump campaign, republic...

It. essentially, this was -- this was put up or shut up moment. this was a put up or shut up moment when putting up was not the better of the two options. the central claim of their weeks of hype, their whole campaign to release the memo is somehow this memo would prove the dossier by an mi 6 officer christopher steele, the campaign was based around the idea this memo would prove that the steele dossier is what led to the whole russia investigation. now the problem with that argument with having created that expectation about the secret memo is the secret memo actually conceded that it was not...

With the investigations ongoing? do you think it will do some harm? >> it will. people said no sources an meths were disclosed. they were. the argument that we're making is just because they were publicly known because of press reporting, it's never been the practice at the department of justice to acknowledge sources and methods. mr. steele's identity was disclosed. his long-standing history as a source was disclosed. when we need people to come forward and be sources, they'll think twice and worry that their cooperation could be outed because of the political winds. >> one last question. i u...

Said during the campaign that he thought that the system was rigged against him. i think the russians were listening very carefully to that and maybe after the election if the russians had thought secretary clinton would have won, that donald trump would have criticized and rightly so this dossier paid for on by the dnc with this salacious information as evidence that the system was rigged against him. >> so here is what i'm taking away, that this guy christopher steele would have been known to the russians because of his role with mi-6, the fact that he was doing his surveillance remotely wou...