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Which is to protect our elections from further russian intervention when we have evidence that it s still continuing. it s just gotten to be absurd. david, you met with christopher steele. what would you tell devin nunes about him if he wanted to talk to you about him? i m sure what the mi-6 and mi-5 guys would say if they thought it was worth speaking to devin nunes, would say. he is a respected professional. he s worked 20 years with british intel and then he worked with the fbi and other u.s. agencies on sort of a contractor basis. so people who have worked with him speak tremendously highly of him. it doesn t matter what my impression of him is. he has an established track record. and if he doesn t like what he did with the memos, i don t think you can fault him. he was given an assignment. he went out. he sent stuff in. it wasn t for public consumption. it was just a lot of leads. and it s really not much of a ....
And big surprise, people in london were a little suspicious of him. exactly. so he went over there with the intention of trying to get more information about christopher steele, the author of the trump dossier, from mi-6court mi-5 and gchq. of course mi-6 is the agency christopher steele worked for for a number of decades and mi-5 is the uk s domestic intelligence service and what he was trying to glean from mi-5 is actually particularly interesting. i m told that he was trying to kind of figure out what they knew about christopher steele s relationship with bruce ohr, the top justice department official who of course was grilled today by house republicans and who was speaking to chris steele throughout 2016 and 2017, kind of debriefing him on additional intelligence he may have gotten from the trump russia project that he was doing. so go ahead. ....
Investigate the origins of the christopher steele dossier that describes donald trump s history with russian businesses and russian businesspeople. and in an exclusive report in the atlantic our next guest natasha bertrand reports that nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different british agencies, mi-5, mi-6, and the government communications headquarters, or gchq. but those meetings did not pan out. nunes came away meeting only with the uk s deputy national security adviser, madeleine al sandry. the people familiar with his trip told me that officials at mi-6, mi-5, and gchq were wary of entertaining nunes out of fear that he was trying to stir up a controversy. natasha bertrand, staff writer at the atlantic, joins us now. also with us david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and co-author of the book russian roulette. both are msnbc contributors. and natasha, i want to go to your exclusive reporting on what devin nunes was up to on his summer break. ....
Meetings with officials at mi-6 mi-5 and gchq, the three main british intelligence agencies. the purpose of his request for those meetings was to get more information, i m told, about christopher steele, his service record in mi-6. he left the service a little over a decade ago. and, interestingly, about his relationship with bruce ore. apparently nunes wanted to know if britain had any knowledge of his communication with a justice department official going into 2017, between 2016 and 2017. the officials at mi-6, mi-5 and ngchq ultimately did not find time for him. i m told that was because they were wary that devon nunes was walking into this to politicize the intelligence. to your reporting, that s what a lot of american viewers would know him for. he, himself says he s there to ....
The cohen thing in the trump organization. now he refuses to give some sort of briefing to the bang of eight. they refuse to give these do you means to nunez. i think now rosenstein ought been given a direct order. very simple. you turn every document associated with this spy over in cambridge and whatever foreign zugs institution is involved. mi-5, mi-6. you get whatever the fbi did or the cia did. you see claerp and bremen, they re bitter old men. you turn over every do you mean and if he doesn t turn to it over you give him 24 hours. if he doesn t turn it over, i would fire him. that s not obstruction of justice, that s giving a law enforcement officer to turn over documents to capitol hill. if he doesn t do it, i would fire him. next on this cnn special, steve bannon complained about the preponderance of immigrants in certain powerful positions in ....