campaign. what is your reporting tell you because it s very different. right. so trump s tweet today is, i think, targeting the lowest information voters, the notion that, oh, it s a revelation that information from the famous or infamous steele dossier was part of what the fbi used in making the case back in fall of 2016 that there was probable cause that carter page was a russian agent. we knew all that back in january and february. the issue was, what was the problem with that? republicans put forward back then a critique, the fisa court was misled because they didn t know this was sponsored, campaign opposition, campaign opposition research and a couple other arguments they made. you can look at my article if you want to see that. the value of seeing the real document, the underlying document to this weekend was we can see that those arguments were false. they were misleading.
tortian a message who she predicted might be the secretary of state and how she felt about that potential nomination. here s what jumps out and why they might want to know about this particular charging document. a mayor published a profile of christopher steele, the man behind the infamous steele dossier. part of the bombshell of jane mayer, in addition to the dossier buzzfeed published and we all saw, there was a previously unknown, previously unreported additional memo christopher steele wrote after the election. one subject steele was believed to have discussed with special counsel robert mueller versions
white house with details. reporter: good morning. while the time and nature of surveillance of trump campaign by the obama administration remains under incredible scrutiny, but the president is convinced this was politically orchestrated from the very beginning to hurt him and his budding administration. let me take you back to twitter. the president being very vocal about this fact. he feels like this is all a deep state coup. look how things turned around on the criminal deep state. they go after phony collusion with russia, made-up scam, end up getting caught in a major spy scandal the likes of which this country may have never seen before. he adds this. goes around, comes around. that last quip may have been aimed at former cia director john brennan a vocal critic of the president who promoted infamous steele dossier to the democrats that led to the whole special counsel investigation started. the suspicions that is that the obama administration s
russian agent at that point was legally obligated to open an investigation. this is what the fbi does. but i guarantee you the president, president obama, did not call up the fbi say open up a political investigation into donald trump. it just did not happen. so he s conflating these two things, counterintelligence investigation and a political dirty tricks. laura: that s a red herring. whether or not he ordered it, the idea that they would put an informant or a mole and not inform the president of the united states, hold on a second, let s go to you on that. the steele dossier. that involved the fbi, the doj and cia. that kind of relationship only comes at the point of a president. that s the only person that can tell them all what to do. laura: given your best government experience, intel community, scale of 1-10, 1
cia head john brennan spouting off about the political news of the day, attacking the president s dishonesty, he says. it turns out brennan himself is a liar. he s been caught lying. odd for a government official. last year, for example, brennan told congress the infamous steele dossier had no influence at all on the intel community s claim that russia interfered in the 2016 election. here s a selection.. do you know who commissioned the steele dossier? i don t. did the cia rely on it? no. why not? because we didn t. it wasn t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. it was not in any way used as a basis for the intel sfo community assessment that was done. tucker: ooh, busted! liar!me by the way, brennan, you should know this, is an nbc and msnbc paid contributor now, needless to say. two top former intel officials