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In london court records, they show that steele briefed yahoo news and other reporters at the direction of fusion gps which is the opposition research firm. there is chris steele right there, behind the dossier they describe steele as business associate that research into trump's russia ties but do not mention that fusion gps was funded by the dnc and hillary clinton. ainsley: that's why there's 13 republicans who wrote that letter to the president in june included trey gowdy and devin nunes they are saying there irregularities with the sources. the information is not consistent. they have a pr...

Remove from the staff of robert mueller in july following the discovery of anti-trump text messages. doj cleared for questioning last weekend after the text messages disclosed. >> they need to produce the information. if they don't. i don't want the drama. i want the information. if we have a floor fight, it's because the department picked one, not us. >> the dossier was given to the fbi in july 2016 from the same time donald trump accepted the republican nomination. former fbi director james comey has described it as a compendium of salacious and unverified material. congressional investigato...

>> it's a difficult moment for most people to see after the inauguration, there's many that believe that that comey letter on october 28 subsequently cost her the election, and the stories about the other e-mails that didn't come out are still hot in the press, there's a humor, but i also think that doesn't sit very well after the inauguration. >> you think about this relationship here, comey is the person who reportedly brought trump aside and briefed him on that famous dossier of controversial, unverified material that was circulating among journalists in the intelligence committee. comey br...

The truth, and in doing so we don't make huge information dumps of unverified material which is what this was. >> david, do you agree? >> i totally agree. i think it cuts even deeper than that. i thought at first when i wrote about this the first time, i thought was i being too hard on smith, ben smith. when i heard him now with you trying to say this is respect for the intelligence of the audience and all that, i thought we haven't been hard enough. they jettisoned one of the most important principles of journalism, which is verification especially in case like this. dan rather who had a stor...

More fully the difference between their assessed intelligence the russians tried to manipulate the election and these kinds of spurious, unverified, raw allegations. disinformation is what one of our sources told us. and that there was also information about hillary clinton in this two-page document available to the briefers. mr. clapper and others, should they have decided to use it. also, unverified material, also not considered accurate material, it was available as an example to mr. trump. but we are told that that material was not briefed to the president-elect. >> katy tur is also with u...