e-mails in september of 2016 and forwarded them to another campaign official. senate judiciary committee leaders said that one other witness had turned over e-mails from kushner that he himself had not produced. the committee also wants, quote, documents concerning a russian back door overture and dinner invite which kushner also forwarded to at least one other campaign official and in a third request the committee says it wants any communications from kushner involving u.s./russian businessman millian. what s interesting about this particular request is that sergei millian is the man identified as source d in the trump dossier. millian apparently supplied the details of some of the most salacious claims in that report. and there are more developments concerning that explosive trump dossier from guardian journalist luke harding learning that the author of the dossier christopher steele assessed the
the issue around the dossier is about veracity. that s what everybody s opinion of it hinges on. do we believe this guy christopher steele? the critics of it want to sully it by discussing who paid for it, and even that s a bit confusing. you know him. you have met christopher steele. you ve researched this. what is your evaluation of his claim of the truthfulness and veracity of this reporting? i think he s broadly credible. he says this is not a perfect document but he thinks, as he said in the introduction, 70 to 90% accurate. the sources he used for this, the sources he had used before. this come from the moon, they re people who are reliable, have a good track history, and informed the dossier he did previously on the war in ukraine. we don t know who they were but i find him professional and he s been studying russia for 30 years. the idea is that he has been a spy, he has been an intelligence gatherer, and these intelligence people do it a lot like we do as journalists,
you explain this strange loyalty from trump to putin when he s so rude about everyone else, including presumably you, ali, and your channel. he s not that nice to anybody. apart from mr. putin. and it s not mr. putin s charisma or personal chemistry. i think it s something else. and so does christopher steele. you have to actually go back, you asked about collusion, to trump s first trip, 1987, the summer, to soviet moscow. of course he s invited by the soviet government. the russians don t invite anybody. they invite people for a purpose. certainly it looks to me and other intelligence sources i ve spoken to like a classic cultivation operation. and this is that is just a little bit, a taste of what is in the book. luke, thank you for coming and spending time with me. i think the book is an important read for anybody who wants to get a little smarter about this whole issue. luke harding, foreign correspondent with the guardian and the author of collusion.
days after the news broke about the infamous steele dossier. our guest was the guardian s bureau chief and is the author of the book collusion. luke harding, thank you very much. you ve been writing about this issue for a long time, more than most journalists. the issue around the dossier is about veracity. that s what everybody s opinion of it hinges on. do we believe this guy christopher steele? the critics of it want to sully it by discussing who paid for it, and even that s a bit confusing. you know him. you have met christopher steele. you ve researched this. what is your evaluation of his claim of the truthfulness and veracity of this reporting? i think he s broadly credible. he says this is not a perfect document but he thinks, as he said in the introduction, 70 to 90% accurate.
via loans former spy said according to a conversation detailed in harding s book. quote, the difference is what s important. according to the book, steele did not elaborate on the point and harding felt the implication was clear. it s possible that trump was indebted to russian interests when he declared the candidacy in 2015. i ll speak with luke harding, the author of collusion about those revelations and more right after this. when you have a cold stuff happens. shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels.