and big surprise, people in london were a little suspicious of him. exactly. so he went over there with the intention of trying to get more information about christopher steele, the author of the trump dossier, from mi-6court mi-5 and gchq. of course mi-6 is the agency christopher steele worked for for a number of decades and mi-5 is the uk s domestic intelligence service and what he was trying to glean from mi-5 is actually particularly interesting. i m told that he was trying to kind of figure out what they knew about christopher steele s relationship with bruce ohr, the top justice department official who of course was grilled today by house republicans and who was speaking to chris steele throughout 2016 and 2017, kind of debriefing him on additional intelligence he may have gotten from the trump russia project that he was doing. so go ahead.
investigate the origins of the christopher steele dossier that describes donald trump s history with russian businesses and russian businesspeople. and in an exclusive report in the atlantic our next guest natasha bertrand reports that nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different british agencies, mi-5, mi-6, and the government communications headquarters, or gchq. but those meetings did not pan out. nunes came away meeting only with the uk s deputy national security adviser, madeleine al sandry. the people familiar with his trip told me that officials at mi-6, mi-5, and gchq were wary of entertaining nunes out of fear that he was trying to stir up a controversy. natasha bertrand, staff writer at the atlantic, joins us now. also with us david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and co-author of the book russian roulette. both are msnbc contributors. and natasha, i want to go to your exclusive reporting on what devin nunes was up to on his summer break.
meetings with officials at mi-6 mi-5 and gchq, the three main british intelligence agencies. the purpose of his request for those meetings was to get more information, i m told, about christopher steele, his service record in mi-6. he left the service a little over a decade ago. and, interestingly, about his relationship with bruce ore. apparently nunes wanted to know if britain had any knowledge of his communication with a justice department official going into 2017, between 2016 and 2017. the officials at mi-6, mi-5 and ngchq ultimately did not find time for him. i m told that was because they were wary that devon nunes was walking into this to politicize the intelligence. to your reporting, that s what a lot of american viewers would know him for. he, himself says he s there to
the cohen thing in the trump organization. now he refuses to give some sort of briefing to the bang of eight. they refuse to give these do you means to nunez. i think now rosenstein ought been given a direct order. very simple. you turn every document associated with this spy over in cambridge and whatever foreign zugs institution is involved. mi-5, mi-6. you get whatever the fbi did or the cia did. you see claerp and bremen, they re bitter old men. you turn over every do you mean and if he doesn t turn to it over you give him 24 hours. if he doesn t turn it over, i would fire him. that s not obstruction of justice, that s giving a law enforcement officer to turn over documents to capitol hill. if he doesn t do it, i would fire him. next on this cnn special, steve bannon complained about the preponderance of immigrants in certain powerful positions in
attorney general rod rosenstein. here it is. i think the question with rosenstein, particularly when you get to the southern district of manhattan involved and this whole cohen thing, it looks like the southern district of manhattan is involved in the trump organization, he refuses to give some sort of debriefing to the gang of eight. they refuse to give these documents to nunes. i think now that rosenstein ought to be given a direct order, very simple. you turn every document associated with this spy over in cambridge and whatever foreign institution was involved, whether it s mi-5, mi-6 or anybody else. you give whatever the fbi did. you see clapper every night, they re bitter old men. if he doesn t turn it over, you give him 24 hours. if he doesn t turn it over, i would fire him.