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Investigation in early 2016. that means u.s. intelligence had found information that american citizens were working in conspiracy with russian intelligence. the dossier was coming out in parallel to that at an unclassified level. and as a matter of fact, when the fbi agents who were handling steele, they found it was like almost radioactive later on in the year because they didn't know that there was all this intelligence that was being collected on the exact same subject. when we fuse that together, we call that multi-source analysis or fusion analysis and that's what gives you that big intel...

Was fueling the fbi investigation. yes, they sbrped in what steele had and almost entered into an arrangement to pay him but they have a lot of information on their own without this dossier. >> some of the reporting seems to suggest that the reason why fusion gps ended up doing a lot of this was because they found so many rich veins to tap about the president's financial dealing. >> i also think it would be a different thing in the democratic national committee said months and months ago it was opposition research. we were doing this. this is a natural thing to do. whether it was ignorance or ...

Yesterday. one thing i want to clarify, and just make clear, what steele reported, some was that russia wanted to help trump and there were connections, and it's at the heart of the u.s. intelligence community's assessment which was made public in january. while some has been validated, some of the more salacious details in the dossier have not. we understand better now who was behind this effort. >> you bring up a very crucial point here, and much of the same information, the intelligence community has corroborated, whoever paid for it, corroborated the information that was in there to begin ...

>> okay. >> so these reports were being produced on a regular basis, every few weeks. every few months. he would prepare, chris steele, would prepare a new report, which he would give to the people who were paying him, fusion gps. fusion gps would then want to tell the lawyer for the clinton campaign, who he's representing, what information was being collected. and then that information was then being given to the campaign. the way that it was being given is what we really don't understand. how high up in the campaign did that information go, we don't really know. but like you said, the point ...

Be doing in foreign policy. >> greta: what is the job of chairman of the republican national committee? >> inherently, when you don't have a president the chairman is going to get a fair amount of publicity. a lot of what steele has done has been good. the real purpose is to raise money to build the organization nationwide. he represents every state party. he helps get resources and assets to all of the state parties. he played a significant role last year in helping win in virginia, new jersey in the governors races and in massachusetts in the special senate election. i think that easy to for...