here. listen. i don t think they did anything wrong. they went to the court. they got the judges to approve it. they laid out all the information. there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at carter page. joining me is jonathan winer, a former senior official at the state department. he has known christopher steele for years. he wrote a two-page summary of the dossier contents, sharing it with state department officials, including john kerry. thanks for coming in. glad to be here. you heard lindsey graham. he calls the substance of the dossier garbage. what do you say? i would say an awful lot of material in the dossier has been corroborated by events and information that we have come to see since. other parts are still unknown whether they re going to be corroborated or not. major elements of the dossier i don t know any that have been
312 pages, pokes major holes in the gop talking points calling the dossier garbage. yeah, the co-founder of the firm, fusion gps, who hired christopher steele to investigate said they wanted steele to look into candidate trump s past, his business dealings, why he went to russia because there were questions they wanted to learn about exactly what happened and what mr. steele found, according to the transcript, was so alarming he had to inform the fbi. the 312-page transcript includes new revelations about the infamous opposition research dossier on donald trump and the russians. glen simpson, the co-founder of the opposition research firm fusion gps told the senate judiciary committee that a former british agent who compiled the dossier was so concerned about what he found that he decided to brief the fbi in the summer of 2016. the agent, christopher steele, worried about a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed.
dossier bogus, the u.s. intelligence has corroborated. susan just said some of the contents of the dossier and found russia was trying to interfere in a 2016 election from their own sources. two things here. i keep saying fox and friends is an entertainment program, not a news program. it s not part of the news division at fox. it s part of the entertainment division. and also why the attacks? what is the president trying to do here? you know, don, at any given time especially on this particular topic, it s really hard to try to figure out what the president is doing. but one of the things that really concerns me about these tweets and these patterns we see from the president where he calls these things garbage and says not only is the evidence in the dossier and the allegations in the dossier garbage, he then turns around and basically calls the fbi in tatters and essentially garbage.
two things here, i don t know why he is listening to fox and friends again. i keep sighing fox and friends is entertainment program. i want not news program. . it s part of the entertainment division. and also why the attacks? what is the president trying to do here? you know, don at any given time especially on this particular topic it s hard to try to figure out what the president is doing. but one of the things that concerns me about the tweets and these patterns we see from the president where he calls things garbage and not only is the evidence in the dossier or the allegations in the dossier garbage he turns out and basically calls the fbi in at that timers and essentially garbage. he said the same thing or similar detrimental comments you know about cia at the beginning of the tenure when he compared them to nazis and talking about the people who brought us wmd. i served my career the vast