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Tonight, there is a new twist in the russia investigation, two republican senators chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and fellow committee member senator lindsey graham want trump dossier writer christopher steele to face a criminal investigation. they spelled out their concerns in a letter to the department of justice. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju has details. so, manu, what's the latest? >> well, the two senior republicans, anderson, are calling for the justice department to investigate whether or not christopher steele lied to the fbi about hi...

On whether or not the justice department will move forward on its own investigation into mr. steele, who republicans for a long time have been going after as part of their own investigations, believing that his dossier was filled with what they believe are unsubstantiated charges. >> i mean, just to be clear, they're not alleging that anything in the dossier itself is false, is that right? >> that is correct. in fact, they make very clear in their letter that it does not even talk about the veracity of the claims in the dossier itself. it's strictly talking about whether or not he lied about h...

Tonight, there is a new twist in the russia investigation, two republican senators, chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, and fellow committee member senator lindsey graham want trump dossier writer christopher steele to face a criminal investigation. they spelled out their concerns in a letter to the department of justice. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju has details. so, manu, what's the latest? >> well, the two senior republicans, anderson, are calling for the justice department to investigate whether or not christopher steele lied to the fbi about ...

Just wanted him to look into these business contacts and that's how they -- how he determined that there is potential wrongdoing during the campaign season and that's why he briefed the fbi later. and, anderson, tonight democrats are saying this is all a distraction and they weren't even consulted about this referral to the justice department, anderson. >> manu raju. manu, thanks. >> thanks. back now with our panel. carl, do you think this is a distraction? is this an attempt for republicans to run interference for the president? >> yes. it's not just a distraction or a red herring, it's a g...

But, anderson, no word tonight on whether or not the justice department will move forward on its own investigation into mr. steele, who republicans for a long time have been going after as part of their own investigations, believing that hiss dossier was filled with what they believe are unsubstantiated charges. >> i mean, just to be clear, they're not alleging that anything in the dossier itself is false, is that right? >> that is correct. in fact, they make very clear in their letter that the refefl does not even talk about the veracity of the claims in the toss yay itself. it's strictly tal...