couldn't say. we treated it all accordingly. after trump became president, christopher steele was in hiding for a while, and then he stayed more or less off the radar for years. peter strzok and his colleagues at the fbi who pursued the counterintelligence investigation into president trump and his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then last month christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news' george stephanopoulos. in that interview christopher steele said he stood behind his work and said he believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. we've all been wondering about the timing of that. why did he come out to publicly defend his work? well, now maybe this is it. today the special counsel that was appointed during the trump administration, the prosecutor tasked by trump's attorney general, bill barr, with investigating the russia