important documents in the whole trump laura: why? it was the main basis for the application to spy on carter page. and that s also what comey and the other intel chiefs briefed president-elect trump on on january 26, 2017 starting the whole fight between trump and comey. it s a hugely important document. he seemed to repeat a left wing talking point that it began with republicans. we know anybody has followed knows that the fusion gps research into trump s business life began with republicans. they quit that. then the steele dossier was funded by democrats. laura: isn t that shocking? you ve sold 600,000 books, which is amazing. you wrote a book about this. you re on bret baier s show. oh, it s what i read in the media. you were fbi director.
sew discord and discontent, to hurt hillary clinton, and help now president trump. i stand on the findings and i think the intelligence community today stands on those findings. the house republican majority on the house intelligence committee disagree with the last part of it. let me read what your conclusion came to after saying the russians wanted to sew dissent at the orders of putin, wanted to hurt hillary clinton. didn t like hillary clinton. then you conclude this in january 26, 2017 analysis. we also assessed putin and the russian government aspired to help president elect trump s election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton and publicly con trtrasg her unfairly to him. all three agencies agree with this judgment have high confidence in this judgment.