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Ask me some questions about, how do you evaluate this information. >> reporter: after doing his own due diligence, corn arranged to do an interview via skype with christopher steele himself. >> our agreement at the time was that i could quote him but i would not identify him by name. >> reporter: the former spy didn't want publicity. he wanted action. in the interview, steele told corn, this is something of huge significance, way above party politics. he said, i think trump's own party should be aware of this stuff as well. corn had his scoop. but he knew he had to be careful. >> i wasn't goin...

>> 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...

Intelligence. west says that steele was mi6's man in moscow in the early 1990s. >> and thereafter, he ended his career as the head of the branch that trains new entry intelligence officers. and that's actually considered to be a pretty important role. >> reporter: after retiring, steele started a new company called orbis business intelligence. located in this building in london. orbis specialized in getting corporate executives, deep targeted intel on foreign countries they were dealing with. steele's specialty was russia. >> i have listened to his presentations on what he calls the kleptocrac...

>> reporter: in response, the president would invert the revelations about russia flooding propaganda and disinformation into the campaign. he flipped that. he denounced mainstream american journalism as fake news. >> the leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake. because so much of the news is fake. >> reporter: by late january, the white house had been warned that the president's national security adviser, michael flynn, had been compromised by his undisclosed contacts with the russian ambassador. in february, flynn resigned. >> national security adviser michael flynn is out. >> reporte in...

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