the intervi chris hayes interview. how did anybody know about it in the first place? we still don t know. but now it confirmed publicly because they did, as carter page said they would, they took their big shot at it today. they declassified the information about that warrant and what led to it, selectively, so they could take their big shot, so they could finally figure out the highest use they could put that warrant to. they d use this memo to make the russia investigation go away. poof. they would show that the fisa warrant for carter page was based on the steele dossier. the steele dossier they will say the therefore the source of the whole fbi russia investigation and boom, national consensus,
that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president. it s actually the only phrase in the entire memo that s in bold type. they really want you to know that christopher steele communicated that. thanks to the russia probes in congress being turned into anti-christopher steele investigations and they hauled the fusion gps guy back to congress again and again and again, we know what the congress is for christopher steele s state of mind around that time. we know what was going on at the time that might have led christopher steele to say something like that about how he felt about donald trump being elected president. we have more information about that than just what s in the memo. the first glen simpson memo was released, he explains his and
and then that part of the transcript ends with my time is up, thank you. so the member open released today by house republicans, this classified memo that they thought would be the big get out of jail free card, would end the russia investigation, the one actually alarming piece of it or at least kind of shocking piece of it is when they say that chris steele expressed grave worries about donald trump being elected president of the united states. they take that one piece and bold it, tit s the one bold lin in the whole memo. they held it up as proof that christopher steele they don t say it might be because of what he learned about donald trump and russia and compromise and blackmail. what a fiasco. what an embarrassment. oh! there s one.
of the fox news independent abo hype, there is one assertion in this memo that does still really stick out. i think it s designed to seem very worrying. it s an assertion in the memo about christopher steele himself. republicans have tried to make the dossier a scandal. they ve tried to make christopher steele a scandal. he was the head russia guy at mi-6 for years. they ve been trying to make him a dubious person. they ve turned a lot of what are supposed to be the congressional russia investigations into instead full-time efforts to impugn christopher steele and the russia dossier. because republicans have done that, we ve got pretty good public record, documents in the public domain, about the doss r dossier, about christopher steel
chris steele s statement of mind about donald trump. given all the information that steele had just collected about him which caused them to take their information to the fbi and the justice department. basically out of fear because they were so alarmed by what this research project had turned up about trum. this is from the transcript. quote, after the election obviously we were as surprised as everyone else and chris and i were mutually concerned about whether the united states had just elected someone who was compromised by a hostile foreign power. we were, you know, unsure what to do. initially we didn t do anything other than to discuss our concerns, but we were gravely concerned. okay. then we get a second transcript from glen simpson talking to the house committee and he explains in more detail. page 78. did the fbi ever reach out to you or fusion gps in relation to the matters that mr. steele informed them on?