Im Nicole Wallace in for brian williams. Day 348 of the Trump Administration and tonight theres breaking news in the russia investigation. The founders of fusion gps, the firm behind that explosive trump russia dossier are speaking out tonight about what they learned about trumps ties to russians. Glen simpson and peter frich wrielting an oped in the New York Times that details their investigation and the process by which the results of that investigation were shared with American Government officials. All of this is information they have testified to before three congressional committees. Simpson and frich confirm in their piece that they hired former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele and write, quote, yes, we hired mr. Steele, a high will he respected russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question. Why did mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Nicole Wallace in for brian williams. Day 348 of the Trump Administration and tonight theres breaking news in the russia investigation. The founders of fusion gps, the firm behind that explosive trump russia dossier are speaking out tonight about what they learned about trumps ties to russians. Glen simpson and peter frich wrielting an oped in the New York Times that details their investigation and the process by which the results of that investigation were shared with American Government officials. All of this is information they have testified to before three congressional committees. Simpson and frich confirm in their piece that they hired former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele and write, quote, yes, we hired mr. Steele, a high will he respected russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question. Why
tonight s revelations is to try to turn it into some sort of smoking gun, if you will. that theory, though, that the dossier is what instigated the original investigation was blown up by your paper s investigative unit, the reporters mark ma zetty was on our show earlier tonight, and another one of your colleagues. we now know that the original investigation into potential ties between donald trump s campaign and russia was from low-level deutsche papadopoulos, right, peter baker? that s right. the other writer 0 than piece is sharon. thank you. who was in moscow with me back in the early era of the putin tenure so she spent a lot of time covering russia as well. and the story found that the investigation got underway because george papadopoulos was bragging at a drinking session with a foreign diplomat on the fact that he knew russians had dirt on hillary clinton. and once those e-mails were leaked last year, that australian diplomat, obviously his government then contacted the
tonight s revelations is to try to turn it into some sort of smoking gun, if you will. that theory, though, that the dossier is what instigated the original investigation was blown up by your paper s investigative unit, the reporters mark ma zetty was on our show earlier tonight, and another one of your colleagues. we now know that the original investigation into potential ties between donald trump s campaign and russia was from low-level deutsche papadopoulos, right, peter baker? that s right. the other writer 0 than piece is sharon. thank you. who was in moscow with me back in the early era of the putin tenure so she spent a lot of time covering russia as well. and the story found that the investigation got underway because george pop apadopoulos bragging at a drinking session with a foreign diplomat on the