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So secret. so certainly the democratic memo painted a fuller picture where as the republican memo perhaps just gave you a sort of a slice of what was going on during this investigation. >> and to be clear, one of the big charges in the nunes memo, republican memo, is that whole investigation is based on the steele dossier which had funding from the dnc, democratic party, but that the timing belies that, does it not? counter intelligence before that dossier was submitted. >> correct. counter intelligence starts in july of 2016. it wasn't until september 2016 that christopher steele, mi-6 agents...

To replace him when bork fired cox and another man came in and we know the outcome of that. >> sandra: house republicans have launched phase two on the steele dossier. what do we need to know here? >> we need to know that christopher steele was probably a double agent. he was probably working for mi-6 at the same time he was working for the f.b.i. it means that neither government wants him to testify under oath in any public arena. there is a lot of dirt there and a lot of dirt that will come out. prediction he will never be charged with anything in an american or british court. >> sandra: the...

Have the senate who said this guy lied to the f.b.i., christopher steele, what is the justice department doing? where is the prosecution of christopher steele? it is a slam dunk case. >> sandra: he is calling it a slam dunk case. is it? >> here is what we know, sandra. christopher steele was an mi-6 agent. but we also know that when the f.b.i. employed him he violated their rules, he leaked information to the press and information about his dossier to the press. and for that reason he was terminated. so i understand that the criminal referral has been made. i will say at the end of the day the...

Because it had not been verified but shortly after cnn broke the story, buzz feed published the entire dossier on the internet. donald trump was furious. >> it's a disgrace. it didn't happen. >> though journalists had not verified it, portions of the dossier had been in fbi hands for month. >> chris steel, the former mi-6 officer who compiled the dossier puts it in the hands of someone he knows in rome who's an fbi agent. >> christopher steele was a veteran british spy worked for the mi-6 intelligence service, was a russia expert. >> steele had compiled the dossier as opposition research for t...

Basis. so just logically speaking, if you're a foreign intelligence partner, if you're the israeli mossad or mi-6 in the uk, why would you share information with the white house if it might end up in the hands of people the fbi doesn't trust? it logically doesn't make any sense. this comes at a time when our intelligence sharing relationships are already under pressure. we have reporting right after the election that the israelis were reticent to share information on russia because of potential ties between the trump campaign and the russians. we have this arbitrary declassification of informa...