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Russia. but it doesn't make logical sense for it to be a democratic conspiracy if half -- if the first half of the investigation was paid for by republicans. >> let me ask this about the steele dossier. some of the larger findings, some could argue, have been proven true. trump is vulnerable to russian blackmail was one of the allegations. a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between the trump campaign and russia. trump knew and approved of wikileaks. but none of those allegations have been proven. do you still stand by them? >> first, it's important to remember who christopher steele is...

That mi-6 began paying him a monthly salary, trading information for money was one way for a former russian agent to make a living in his new home in london. then suddenly in 2006 -- litvinenko, who had always been fit and healthy, got very sick. >> it was just incredibly strong and heavy sickness, just suddenly and not stopping. >> litvinenko's wife marina watched him waste away in a matter of just days. >> oh, it was awful. his hair started to be -- >> to fall out. >> yes, and he started to look like a cancer patient treated by chemotherapy. >> i knew he was going through unspeakable torment...

>> he was a law enforcement officer. >> he worked for the equivalent of the fbi. >> yeah, i mean what he was most interested in. >> in anti-corruption. >> anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. >> his name was alexander litvinenko, sasha to his friends. but his interest in fighting corruption had made him a lot of enemies, including in his own agency, the kgb, which was renamed the fsb. litvinenko was forced to flee russia with his wife and son and seek asylum in london where he quickly caught the attention of agents of the british intelligence service mi-6. glenmore trenear...

Effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> why not just shoot him? >> i didn't say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we don't do that sort of thing. >> also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in russia. he did our interview in one of the restaurants that he owns. he's a member of parliament. and he's even become something of a pop cultu...

In there without you noticing? >> translator: no. why don't you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. that's agatha christie stuff. >> mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says that's nonsense if for no other reason because mi-6 would never use such an expensive weapon to kill anyone. >> if the british wanted to kill him, then he would have fallen out of a hotel windo...