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>> sure enough. on the dossier itself, we're going to go there now. among the goals of the nunes memo is to discredit the infamous steele dossier, alleging trump's russia connections as partisan opposition research. but my next guest says there's another more sinister possibility. daniel halfman is a retired cia agent who served in the former soviet union. he was a station chief. he's the author of this "wall street journal" piece, "the steele dossier fits the kremlin playbook." you say it might be part of russian espionage. how so? >> i spent many years working against russian intelligence,...

And those are designed to influence the target audience. >> so the most salacious aspect of the dossier, the so-called shower, you know what i'm talking about. does that come from the playbook as something that they create, or as something they carry out, or both? >> it could be either one. it absolutely could have been something they have created. they have certainly done that plenty of times. they have tried to use honey traps with people. when those honey traps aren't successful, they'll simply make up the information themselves. and in this case, i think they know that if they had supplied...

Classified let alone disclosing sources and methods. and that should be a matter of concern. because some of us who have been critics of fisa and critics of the intelligence community have been arguing for years that the fbi routinely classifies information to prevent their embarrassment, for political or tactical reasons. this is a rare case where that allegation i think is more than evident and obviously true. and i think that we need to go back to these members and to the fbi and say what gives? i mean, you can object to how this process worked, but you sold the public on the fact that this...

Tactical use of classified laws. >> the penultimate paragraph or paragraphs of the memo are those i would argue that say that the initial fisa court was not advised of the funding source for the dossier that led to the surveillance of car pter page. i have a couple of reactions to that. one of which is, so what? because the employer for christopher steele was not the dnc or that firm, it was fusion gps. and i know this as a trial lawyer and the court of law day in, and day out. information comes from investigators. you can cross examine on the case of source but we surely don't throw it all ou...

Inside russia. and we know that mr. steele little never traveled there, and in-that the fsb, their internal security police, would have detected his efforts to collect information from russian sources on the campaign, on the trump campaign, and on donald trump. and then i think that they would have sought potentially to use that as a channel to weaponize disinformation against us. it would absolutely fit with the fsb play book i go obookplayboo playbook as well. >> some question contents, but there are aspects that have been borne out. now, how does that factor into your could have all been th...