he said, what was significant about the material was that it confirmed information, contours of events and players, that we knew to be accurate and consistent with our understanding of the way putin and the russians were operating. at the same time, many other pieces of steele s information, most of them in fact, were devilishly hard to either prove or refute. but peter strzok, fbi s top counterintelligence official, had to try. his team created a spread sheet of every statement in christopher steele s reports to try to run each one down. they attempted to identify all the confidential sources and subsources in the reports to try to analyze the quality of their intelligence and where possible to interview those sources. peter strzok himself flew to europe to meet in person with christopher steele and others. this is how he sums it up. in mid-2017, the end of the time i worked with the group verifying and pursuing the
and players, that we knew to be accurate and consistent with our understanding of the way putin and the russians were operating. at the same time, many other pieces of steele s information, most of them in fact, were devilishly hard to either prove or refute. but peter strzok, fbi s top counterintelligence official, he had to try. his team created a spread sheet of every statement in christopher steele s reports to try to run each one down. they attempted to identify all the confidential sources and subsources in the reports to try to analyze the quality of their intelligence and where possible to interview those sources. peter strzok himself flew to europe to meet in person with people who knew christopher steele and his work who all knew christopher steele to be diligent and truthful. this is how he sums it up in his book. in mid-2017, the end of the time i worked with the group verifying and pursuing the steele material, my sense of it remained similar to how it had stood at the beg
and he is saying it s a lot more important than you let on. if i was, then i m sorry that i did that but i meant it was one part of the presentation to the court. it was not a huge part of the presentation to the court but it was the fact according to his report that convinced the lawyers to go forward. chris: all right. then there is the issue of how reliable the steele dossier in fact was. on january 6th, 2017 in the trump tower, you briefed donald trump, president-elect about the steele dossier. that same month the fbi talks to steele s main russian contact, named person who he based the dossier who says according to the i.g. report, steele misstated or exaggerated the primary subsources or statements in multiple sections of the reporting. director, comey, not only do you fail to go back to the president-elect or president after january 20th, tell him, oh, you know that report i briefed you on, turns out is
and he is saying it s a lot more important than you let on. if i was, then i m sorry that i did that but i meant it was one part of the presentation to the court. it was not a huge part of the presentation to the court but it was the fact according to his report that convinced the lawyers to go forward. chris: all right. then there is the issue of how reliable the steele dossier in fact was. on january 6th, 2017 in the trump tower, you briefed donald trump, president-elect about the steele dossier. that same month the fbi talks to steele s main russian contact, named person who he based the dossier who says according to the i.g. report, steele misstated or exaggerated the primary subsources or statements in multiple sections of the reporting. director, comey, not only do you fail to go back to the president-elect or president after january 20th, tell him, oh, you know that report i
and he is saying it s a lot more important than you let on. if i was, then i m sorry that i did that but i meant it was one part of the presentation to the court. it was not a huge part of the presentation to the court but it was the fact according to his report that convinced the lawyers to go forward. chris: all right. then there is the issue of how reliable the steele dossier in fact was. on january 6th, 2017 in the trump tower, you briefed donald trump, president-elect about the steele dossier. that same month the fbi talks to steele s main russian contact, named person who he based the dossier who says according to the i.g. report, steele misstated or exaggerated the primary subsources or statements in multiple sections of the reporting. director, comey, not only do you fail to go back to the president-elect or president after january 20th, tell him, oh, you know that report i