With its unprecedented power, is there anything anyone can do about it . I wish i could tell you that were going to be able to stop all interference. But that just wouldnt be realistic. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight, the infamous steel dossier is at the very center of the news on the russia investigation. Nbc news reports that investigators on special counsel Robert Muellers team have interviewed christopher steele. Thats of course the former British Intelligence officer who compiled that absolutely explosive document. The dossier deals an alleged effort by the russian government over a period of years, stretching back to 2013 or so, to cultivate and coopt donald trump and his inner circle, as well as an extensive conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russian Forces to Work Together to interfere in the 2016 president ial election on trumps behalf. The president denies those
and now it appears mueller wants to ask some followup question
and now it appears mueller wants to ask some follow-up questions. that s what i think this interview would have been about. ken dlanian, thank you. i want to bring in former assistant watergate special prosecutor juwan banks, former federal prosecutor renato marriotty. what do you make of this news? it s interesting and big news. the dossier i think you and ken covered it very well, chris. the dossier contains a lot of explosive details. and had been denied had been the subject of very frequent denials by the administration. they said, oh, false dossier, fake, there s nothing real in there. but at ken was pointing out portions have been verified. now that mueller s looking at it, what it tells me is he s going back and trying to figure out what he can create usable evidence out of. so your viewers understand, you can t just toss this dossier in front of a jury. you actually have to bring in
for the investigation. the fbi has had most of it from steele for a long time. and now it appears mueller wants to ask some follow-up questions. that s what i think this interview would have been about. ken dlanian, thank you. i want to bring in former assistant watergate special prosecutor juwan banks, former federal prosecutor renato marriotty. what do you make of this news? it s interesting and big news. the dossier i think you and ken covered it very well, chris. the dossier contains a lot of explosive details. and had been denied had been the subject of very frequent denials by the administration. they said, oh, false dossier, fake, there s nothing real in there. but at ken was pointing out portions have been verified. now that mueller s looking at it, what it tells me is he s going back and trying to figure out what he can create usable evidence out of. so your viewers understand, you can t just toss this dossier in front of a jury.