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Malcolm, walk us through this. folks might say if you wrote something shouldn't 100% of it be accurate? 70% to 90% is high. this is raw intel, right? >> that's right. what christopher steele did was he created what we call rumor intelligence. this is what diplomats and spies would collect working people who are not actually agents for them. you know, you go to dinner parties and things like that. christopher steele's ma'am ran dumb, the dossier which i read very early on is a great example of this. however, i think now he's right. i think he is 70% to 90% accurate. things that i read in that d...

Clinton camp helped fund the research to argue that bob mueller and his investigation should be terminated. so malcolm, when we think about op o research, campaigns are not supposed to accept foreign aid, certainly not accept foreign aid for free. can american organizations be able to reach across borderlines to other countries in seeking opposition research. >> it's a question of where the information and the source of the information is. the information that was acquired by fusion gps, which, by the way, was done by a republican, like you said, the free beacon, it was not a foreign governmen...

>> i think they'll be work a day and professional. i think they'll be interviewing him. not interrogating him. he'll be giving them tips and hints and clues. some have said he misspelled this word and that word. that's a relatively solid intelligence document. it is rumor intelligence. those rumors, which we also use in the u.s. intelligence community, have to be worked up into verifiable and trusted intelligence. i think as a pro like him having worked the russia desk, having been an mi 6 operative, he will give them the exact path way they need to go to verify or refute this information usin...

Person. >> i think they'll be work a day and professional. i think they'll be interviewing him. not interrogating him. he'll be giving them tips and hints and clues. some have said he misspelled this word and that word. that's a relatively solid intelligence document. it is rumor intelligence. those rumors, which we also use in the u.s. intelligence community, have to be worked up into verifiable and trusted intelligence. i think as a pro like him having worked the russia desk, having been an mi 6 operative, he will give them the exact path way they need to go to verify or refute this informat...

We call rum-int. it stands for rumor intelligence. people are sitting around cafes and drinking and tells the stories as they know it. and the information that we had in the steele dossier, it was an enormous amount of rum-int but the term of art, rum-int has intelligence in it. when it came out in its fullness, it was very clear that christopher steele had something enormous on his hands. this was not a joke. everything that i had written in the months prior to that dossier coming out was almost identical to what the cia had written because we're intelligence officers. this is what we do. but...