Steele dossier

Oh, man.

I could have sworn, because the story was that Jeb Bush, the Bush family, had initially funded this Steele dossier.

I remember this.

Well, it was a joint effort.

This is fun.

In July 2020, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina who classified the judicial committee, released a 56-page redacted FBI summary of the FBI's interview of Danchenko while referring to the entire Russian investigation as corrupt.

In the FBI summary, Danchenko was referred to anonymously as the primary subsource for the Steele dossier.

Shortly after the release of the summary, Danchenko was identified online as the primary source.

Just undo it, and try to do it as fast as you can because you might not ever have a chance again.

And that's what I, I t- And what they reacted to, boy, when you look at two impeachments, trying him as a citizen, Steele Dossier, Hunter laptop fiasco, 20...

B- de-balloting him in 25 states, raiding Mar-a-Lago, five criminal and civil suits.

F- for the only time in history that the Secret Service have shot at a potential assassin f- on four different occasions, a Trump assassin.

You said you weren't, and there's no proof that you ever were.

In fact, if you read my book, and let me just do this, because my publisher yells at me if I don't show the book, I wrote that the Steele dossier said you were, and no evidence ever came up of that, and you denied being there.

So, you know, you can look it up.

You can look up your name in the index, Michael, and you'll see that I don't get into that.

Okay, so...

Well, I appreciate that.

Now, not only, of course, did the Steele dossier have that as an allegation, there were, I believe, 12 more allegations raised about me, including one that I traveled to Prague with $10 million within which to pay Russian compromise in order to assist Paul Manafort at the direction of Trump.

None of that is true.

Now, the FBI was investigating contacts between Trump campaign and Russia without telling the public that it was doing this.

And that was already happening before the Steele dossier.

So to me, that was the point of the story.

And there was lurid stuff, as we now know, in the Steele dossier that I did not report on because I thought that was unfair even to Donald Trump.

Even to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump.

But it reminds me of that.

There's kind of tips, and you don't know quite what to believe.

He's published numerous other books.

He's the investigative reporter who broke the Steele dossier.

Welcome back to the Court of History, David.

Great to be back with you.

And he kept asking Comey for loyalty, right? Loyalty.

At the same time, Democrats are calling for a major single comprehensive investigation, which Republicans don't want to do.

And then the Steele dossier comes out in January of 2017.

Well, it doesn't just come out.

A disinformation operation.

Can you tell me a little bit about the Steele dossier? That was a big thing in 2016, and I know Trump was hung up on it.

Was there any evidence that what was in that dossier was true? And exactly what was it?

Well, in 2016, an opposition research group that was hired by Democrats to do work on Donald Trump said, asked Christopher Steele, who was a retired British intelligence officer with a good reputation, who had worked with the U.S. government many times in many cases, to look into Donald Trump.

He was saying bizarrely positive things about Putin.

And they wanted to know, is there anything here that the public should know? And Christopher Steele started sending them reports, memos that...

When compiled, were called the Steele dossier, and it was really a collection of gossip, speculation, half-truths, leads, and unproven allegations.

You know, we've talked to someone who heard that Paul Manafort might be working with the Russians in some way or another.