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Agent. jury selection in that case is scheduled to begin on september 17th, but today the judge delayed the beginning of the trial for one week later. the trial will now start on september 24th. during paul manafort's trial in virginia devin nunes used taxpayer money for his own trip to london where he tried to 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 ...

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. 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 info...

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...

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 depar...

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 w...