the consummate prosecutor entering into agreements with people in the trump campaign unless he was going to get some information. that information would tend to be things that they nigh about what happened from the american side of this meddling campaign, my guess is we will see things down the road and indictments die if sort of the american branch of this treaty. okay. bob, we saw the president there say that america doesn t have to worry. they would counter actions by russia to interfere further. do you see any indication that the u.s. is less velnerable in the mid-terms coming up in 2020 than they were in 2016? we, i frankly think we re more vulnerable because there has been no punishment put on the russians at this point. yes, diplomats have been expelled, compounds, that s it. the russians are indifferent to that. the dni coate s, says it s
were known to the fbi because steele worked with the fbi over the years on a number of cases and the fbi had a lot of confidence in him and in these sources, his network. jane, if you don t mind sticking around, there is one other matter i m desperate to ask you about and something i ve been wondering about since the clinton campaign was paying for steel s steele s investigation. why didn t they use this? you got good reporting. mind to stick with us? i ll be happy to. be right back. what would our founding fathers
say yes to the guy that got that job to put a spotlight on that man. if the russians were so psyched to get you there, what did they like about you so much and are they happy about the purchase and are there receipts? second revolution, brand new revelation from jane mayer. she s got a lot of detail about the past relationship with christopher steele and the f bi on corruption and international soccer. his work on an international gambling and money laundering ring that led back to an apartment in trump tower of all places. there is new news about the clinton campaign having a vague idea what christopher steele was doing, about him not knowing for months that his own work was being paid for by the democratic party. there is an interesting detail about the fact the clinton campaign never knew that christopher steele had taken his material to the fbi. we talked with jane mayer about all of that.
money for this year either. it s $120 million sitting there. not one of the 23 analysts working in the department s global engagement center which has been tasked with russia s meddling campaign, and not one of them speaks russia. here s the state department saying here are the tools and the money to do it, and they have responded by no thanks for over a year. is this normal? joining us now is gardner harris, reporter for the new york times, covering the state department and diplomacy. mr. gardner congratulations on this scoop. thanks for joining us to talk about it. glad to be here rachel. i m not well versed in interagency fighting around the foreign service and the pentagon and broader issues within the state department. is it possible this is a normal policy dispute where this money s just been hung up because of normal bickering or
christopher steele and the f birksbi on corruption and international soccer. his work on an international gambling and money laundering ring that led back to an apartment in trump tower of all places. there is new news about the clinton campaign having a vague idea what christopher steele was doing about him not knowing for months that his own work was being paid for by the democratic party. there is an interesting detail about the fact the clinton campaign never knew that christopher steele had taken his material to the fbi. we talked with jane mayer about all of that. there is also this great revelation about why this particular guy was so well positioned to do this research beyond the fact he had been the top russia guy for mi 6. the kremlin was interfering in western elections. in april 2016 not long before he took on the fusion assignment, he finished a secret