compromising information about candidate trump that they could use his leverage over him, all of those reports were published a month after the elections, called the steele dossier. in september 2016, these things were not publicly known at all. these individual raw intelligence reports that were coming, and from a source, landed at the fbi. that's how that top counter a television's official peter strzok, described those reports. when he published a book about his experience last year. he said quote, what was significant about the material, is that it confirmed information, and players, that we knew to be accurate and in consistent with the way putin in the russians were operating. many other pieces of steals information, most of them in fact, we're devilishly hard to either prove or refute. but, the fbi's top counterintelligence official, he had to try. his team created a spreadsheet,