paid for dossier. watch this. with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesn t matter who paid for it. it s what the dossier said and they the extent of which is corroborated or not. sean: we reached out to james clapper for a statement. he works for fake news cnn on sara s report and his spokesperson declined to comment but he noted it appears to be about leaking information that was not classified or sensitive. so clapper is not outright denying it which tells you everything you need to know. we have for over a year been out here an island to ourselves as we have been uncovering this scandal and telling you as shocking as what is being exposed is only the tip of the iceberg. the house intelligence committee, 14 months, still conducting very important investigation. they had nothing to do with donald trump. but they do have to do with unmasking at an unprecedented
paul officer j is also reporting that the former obama director of national intelligence, james clapper, he is now facing scrutiny. serious questions are being raised about what clapper told fake news, cnn, about the dossier back in october 2017. let s watch him. with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesn t matter who paid for it. it s what the dossier said and the extent to which it is corroborated or not. we had some concerns about it from a standpoint of its sourcing, which we couldn t corroborate. um-huh. at the same time, some of the substantive content, not all of it, but some of the substantive content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our intelligence community assessment which from other sources and which we had very high confidence level. sean: that s fascinating because it looks like going back to october is clapper. he is trying to lay the groundwork for the argument that oh, it doesn t really matter that hillary clinton paid for the r
tonight. now, paul sperry is also reporting that the former director of national intelligence, james clapper is now facing scrutiny. serious questions will being raced about what clapper cnn told about the dossier back in october of 2017. let s watch him with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is it doesn t matter who paid for it. it s what the dossier said and the extent to which it s corroborated or not. we had some concerns about it from the standpoint of its sourcing, which we couldn t corroborate. but at the same time some of the subs and content, not all of it, but some of the content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our intelligence community assessment, from other sources which we had very high confidence for. hannity: that s fascinating, because it looks like going back october, there is clapper, trying to lay the ground work for the argument oh, it doesn t rally matter that hilary clinton paid for the russian dossier
sure enough. on the dossier itself, we re going to go there now. among the goals of the nunes memo is to discredit the infamous steele dossier, alleging trump s russia connections as partisan opposition research. but my next guest says there s another more sinister possibility. daniel halfman is a retired cia agent who served in the former soviet union. he was a station chief. he s the author of this wall street journal piece, the steele dossier fits the kremlin playbook. you say it might be part of russian espionage. how so? i spent many years working against russian intelligence, and i m very, very well aware of the challenges of collecting information or intelligence inside russia. and we know that mr. steele himself never traveled there. and i think that the fsb, russia s internal security police, would have detected his efforts to collect information from russian sources on the campaign, on the trump campaign, and on donald trump. and then i think that they would
looks like, and the staff, we will find out whether it s cash patel, whoever it is, whoever the staff people involved in this, are really running this for the white house. i think we will learn that. that s what it looks like. one thing we should point out, john mcloughlin, just briefly in terms of the background of christopher steele, christopher steele was a very valued mi-6 operative in russia for years and years. he was highly regarded by both the uk and by u.s. colleagues in our own intelligence community, most recently he was revalidated by british intelligence as having been someone with a sterling reputation. he s very well respected. he oversaw their interest in moscow and you know, without commenting on the dossier itself, because we know it was raw intelligence. we know it was raw intelligence. eventually we will know how much of it was true or not. there is no reason to suspect