his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then, last month, christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news is george stephanopoulos. in that interview, he said he stood behind his work, he said he still believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. and we ve all been sort of wondering about the timing of. that why all this time did he come out to publicly defend his work. well, now maybe this is it, today the special counsel that was appointed during the trump administration, prosecutor cast by trump s attorney general bill barr. with investigating the russia investigation itself. to prove the whole thing was a hoax, that trump said all along to try to prove that it was criminal to investigate the russia matter. that special prosecutor, has just issued his second indictment. in the man he arrested in charge today, was a primary source for christopher steele s intelligence reports in 2016.
steele material, my sense of it remained similar to how it had stood at the beginning. some things we could corroborate, a lesser number we could show were inaccurate, and with the vast majority we just couldn t say. we treated it all accordingly. after trump became president, christopher steele was in hiding for a while and then he stayed more or less off the radar for years. peter strzok and his colleagues at the fbi who pursued the counterintelligence investigation into president trump and his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then last month christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news george stephanopolous. in that interview christopher steele said he stood behind his work and said he believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. we ve all been wondering about the timing of that. why did he come out to publicly defend his work? well, now maybe this is it. today the special counsel that was appointed
couldn t say. we treated it all accordingly. after trump became president, christopher steele was in hiding for a while, and then he stayed more or less off the radar for years. peter strzok and his colleagues at the fbi who pursued the counterintelligence investigation into president trump and his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then last month christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news george stephanopoulos. in that interview christopher steele said he stood behind his work and said he believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. we ve all been wondering about the timing of that. why did he come out to publicly defend his work? well, now maybe this is it. today the special counsel that was appointed during the trump administration, the prosecutor tasked by trump s attorney general, bill barr, with investigating the russia