dossier. unfortunately the committee has hit a wall. we have on several occasions made attempts to contact mr. steele, meet with mr. steele. gone unaccepted. committee can t really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources. and though we have been incredibly enlighted at our ability to rebuild backwards the steele dossier up to a certain date, getting back that point has been somewhat impossible. joining me is congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the house side of this. congressman, thank you for your time tonight. you bet. on the dossier, your committee also wants to talk to
dossier without understanding things like who paid for it. who are your sources and subsources and though we have been incredibly enlightened at our ability to rebuild backwards the steele dossier up to a certain date, getting past that point has been somewhat impossible. joining me now is congressman adam schiff, the ranking member of the house side of this, the intelligence committee there. congressman schiff, thank you for your time tonight. you bet. on the dossier your committee also wants to talk to steele. how do you get someone with his background abroad to talk at all? well, we made outreach to mr. steele and we ve offered mr. conway and myself to go out to london to sit down with him if that s a more comfortable way for him to participate and provide whatever information he can to the committee. i hope he will take us up on that. but that would certainly be one way that we could accomplish
unsavory details. it is still out there for those who want to read it. it was mentioned today on the hill. we ll show you that and talk about it in a moment. to the dossier, unfortunately the committee has 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 have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who were your sources and subsources? michael, what should be make
individuals making that connection. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who were your sources and subsources? michael, what should be make of that? well, steele is a former british intelligence agent who many current and former intelligence officials have vouched for, saying this is credible guy. he compiled a report on trump and his possible connections to the kremlin. people should remember when they re looking at the dossier, which is available online much to the consternation of donald trump, a lot of that is raw intelligence. the u.s. intelligence committee gets information, analyzes it and decides what is or not true. but the cosyea itself was not reporting to be the definitive final word. that said as you go back and look many assertions in the
things like who paid for it? who were 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 steele dossier up to a certain date, getting past that point has been somewhat impossible. and i say this because i don t think we re going to find any intelligence products that unlock that key to pre-june of 16. my hope is that mr. steele 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 depict his findings of what his intent or what his actions were. i say that to you but i also say it to chris steele.