believed to have discussed with mueller's investigators is a memo he wrote in late november 2016 after his contract with fusion had ended. this memo, which did not surface publicly with the others, when buzz feed published the dossier last january, this is shorter than the rest and it's based on one source described as a senior russian official and the official said he was merely relaying talks circulating the russian ministry of foreign affairs but what he heard was astonishing. people were saying the kremlin intervened to block trump's choice for secretary of state. he was notably hawkish on russia calling it the single greatest threat to the u.s. steele's memo said the kremlin through unspecified channels had asked trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine related sanctions and who would cooperate on security issues of interest to russia. if what the source heard was true, then a foreign power was exercising pivotal influence