steele. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources? now, price is msnbc s national or one of msnbc s national security analysts and a former cia analyst as well. he joins me now. ned, good to see you. we heard one thing from senate intel leaders another from sources familiar with the situation. what s behind the disconnect here about whether or not steele wants to come in and answer questions from the senate intelligence committee? well, katy, there does seem to be a disconnect, but i think the fact of the matter is that spies the world over are typically wary of the united states congress. they know that congress probably more so than any other body in this town tends to leak like a sieve. so i m not at all surprised to learn that christopher steel
the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it? who are your sources and subsources? we re investigating a very expansive russian network of interference in u.s. elections. and though we have been incredibly enlightened at our ability to rebuild backwards, the steel dossier up to a certain date getting past that point is somewhat impossible. and i say this because i don t think we re going to find the intelligence products that unlock that key to pre june of 2016. my hope is mr. steel will make a decision to meet with either mark and i or the committee or both so that we can hear his side of it versus for us to
dlesteele met with mueller s team this summer. they speak the same language. christopher steele is a long-time operative of mi-6 along with the officials bob mueller has put together. so they are able to share details that i don t suspect that christopher steele would ever be comfortable sharing with congress probably because of the same concerns about leaks that often plague the capitol behind me. does it have to do with just not wanting to leak information or not wanting steele not wanting to reveal who funded this report? well, it could be a little bit of both. i think it s an open question as to what christopher steele has revealed to mueller s team. but it sounds like they have gotten much further than steele has offered to the senate investigators so far. but when it comes to the most cherished assets of an intelligence professional, that is his or her sources. and those subsources that report to those sources. so i suspect more than anything what christopher steele what ma
out the christopher steel dossier. they have been able to follow but we hit a brick wall there. as it relates to the steel dossier, unfortunately the committee hit a wall. we have on several occasions made attempts to contact mr. steel to meet with mr. steel to include personally the vice chairman and myself as two individuals making that connection. those offers that have gone unaccept unaccepted. the committee really decides the credibility of the dossier and understanding things like who paid for it? who are your sources and subsources? we re investigating a very
reputation in the uk, someone who knew of his knowledge and expertise when it came to russia, saying that if now this product that was created by a businessman is put through the rigors of an investigation like bob mueller s or the senate intelligence committee, that it could potentially be very significant. what bob mueller will do is take the statements made in the steele dossier, they were essentially statements made by steele s sources and his subsources which steele recounted in those documents, and they will begin to try to align those with specific evidence, with travel records, with e-mail, with telephone records, and they will try to figure out what checks out and that will provide additional leads and additional avenues of inquiry for the mueller investigators. it s one thing, important thing to note that bob mueller s field investigators in this investigation are fbi agents. fbi agents are the ones who are actually doing the work on behalf of the special counsel,