british intelligence officer named christopher steele who had a long history of working with the fbi. these raw intelligence reports described an alleged plot being run out of the kremlin to influence the u.s. election, a plot that involved several campaign figures, allegations that the russian government had compromising information about candidate trump that they could use as leverage over him if they wanted to. all of those reports would later be published months after the election as the so-called steele dossier. in september 2016, these things were not publicly known at all. these raw intelligence reports were coming in from a trusted source and they landed at the fbi. that is how that top counterintelligence 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 was that it confirmed information, contours of events
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but i was just talking to chris about this the other day. and i think he mentioned the fact that he was friendly with ivanka the very first time we met. he certainly had no animus against them. what we ve said previously in testimony and other places is that to the extent that there was an opinion that was formed about donald trump s fitness to be president of the united states it was formed during the course of the research. and the reason that chris was so concerned about donald trump becoming president was because of what we were finding about him, which was really scary. and that is what i want to get to now. there s a washington post piece that compares what the mueller report found and what steele found. and i ll read a little bit of it. the mueller report substantiates the core reporting and many of the specifics in steele s 2016 memoranda including the trump campaign figures were secretly meeting with kremlin figures that russia was conducting a covert operation to elect do
hunt without merit. the origins of the investigation that started it all are now the subject of a lengthy official review by the u.s. justice department. and as the so-called horowitz report is expected to show, mistakes were made. cnn s evan perez has the details. reporter: the justice department is investigating a former fbi lawyer who allegedly altered an internal document used to prepare the 2016 surveillance war application on a former trump campaign adviser. the altered document is among a number of mistakes that are expected to be cited in an upcoming report by justice department inspector general michael horowitz. despite the mistakes, horwitz s report is expected to find that the court-ordered investigation of carter page was valid. and the report is also expected to conclude that the fbi improperly opened investigations between trump campaign figures and russia in 2016. but it s those mistakes