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Cooked up, she says, in london over the course of weeks that got dhart somehow lewded the fbi, cia and mi 6. this christopher steele years out of service and brought it all to james comey, and james comey declared this person was, quote, reliable and that's why they sort of bought what he had to say. you know, do you feel -- kim strassel has been writing about this quite a bit. how would you characterize the coverage of how much scrutiny james comey and fbi gave christopher steele over the course of all of this? >> i don't think so there has been enough. i have had the feeling that the steele ...

We didn't know that fusion had contracted with steele. >> and did you know it was used at least in part to justify a fisa warrant against carter page and all the rest? >> i think what is important, is the underlying information true? i think the republican effort is largely a smoke screen to distract from the fact the contacts, the investigation began with, because of the activity that's mr. papadopoulos that occurred before chris steele showed up on the screen. so i think they should be more concerned about whether the underlying allegations are true, rather than trying to besmirch mr. steele...

Week? >> three words in the republican memo. the fin fbi and doj begged congressman nunes to remove and he and the republican majority chose not to. the references to chris steele. the author of the infamous dossier referred to in the republican memo as long-time fbi asset. so we have an agreement with great britain, canada, australia, new zealand, we are the 50 called. five eyes: we freely exchange intelligence information. in return for that exchange, we agree not to recruit someone from one of the other countries. the fbi recruited chris steele contrary to that agreement. if they recruited ...

Mr. steele. he left mi-6 in 2009. this is serious stuff. the justice department and the fbi is which not run by the same people running it then. we are talking about eric holder and james comey, has an enormous problem on his hand. >> martha: 2009 is a long time ago. you can prove there was an overlap in his mi-6 time and fbi time? >> we don't know. i think that congressman nunes used the phrase "long time." does that go back to 2009? that explains the ferocity that the fbi tried to prevent this from coming in. >> martha: our panel, tammy bruce. mark, a scholar and speech

He is a former british intelligence agent. we won't cherry pick each other's agents. he was apparently was cherry picked by the fbi. if this happened, while he was an mi-6 agent he could be prosecuted for espionage by the british government. >> martha: we know he was working for them. they were interested in his work. there is a discrepancy whether they paid him. they also say they released him. they have some kind of relationship whether it was monetary or not. >> i think they had a monetary relationship and decided it was not credible or we can't trust you because you have become a leaker. l...