hard to keep track of them but we are going to do our best. we know the fbi authorized payment for the man at the center of this entire opus, christopher steele, for information in that dossier. and to be clear, steele was like hardly an objective source when it came to national security matters. he is quoted in the house intel memo as telling doj officials that he was, quote, desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president. no agenda there whatsoever. so he cooks up this fake dossier so try to kill trump s candidacy. and at the same time, steele began shooting his mouth off to yahoo news about carter page s trip to moscow, which included his infamous dossier. the fbi later cites that yahoo news story as corroborating evidence of the dossier s credibility. that s a neat trick.
biases at play here it s so hard to keep track of them but we are going to do our best. we know the fbi authorized payment for the man at the center of this entire opus, christopher steele, for information in that dossier. and to be clear, steele was like hardly an objective source when it came to national security matters. he is quoted in the house intel memo as telling doj officials that he was, quote, desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president. no agenda there whatsoever. so he cooks up this fake dossier so try to kill trump s candidacy. and at the same time, steele began shooting his mouth off to yahoo news about carter page s trip to moscow, which included his infamous dossier. the fbi later cites that yahoo news story as corroborating evidence of the dossier s credibility. that s a neat trick.
and none of any substance. then you have the dossier coming in as to what role that played, if any. and i have to be careful on, this when the fisa court allowed warrant. martha: let me ask you a question about that. it s my understanding that the democrats were looking for some evidence of collusion in their questioning yesterday. they wanted mccabe to confirm the reason for unmasking. the only thing that he mentioned that came out ofs to yea was that carter page took a trip to moscow. well, we all knew that carter page took a trip to moscow. so, if that is all that they got out of that, that s not a whole heck of a lot. first of all, let me tell you carter page s trip to moscow was absolutely nothing there. that s clear. we know that now. and to use that as any kind of excuse at all, even if that was only one of the bits of evidence they used to rely on that any way, to me was the irresponsible. martha: was that the only thing he mentioned in terms of substantive information th
and this bhoowhite house? the bottom line is if michael flynn did something wrong by not disclosing the relationships he had with turkey and other governments, he should be held accountable for that. i don t think this goes to anywhere else but flynn and potentially his son. people who haven t followed the rules, people like paul manafort, mike flynn, if they have done something wrong they should be held accountable. okay. so he says these people have to take responsibility. but the list is getting longer and longer. and closer to the top. mike flynn, paul manafort. mike flynn was the nsa director. he was reporting to the top. right. and for that matter, the list includes corey lewandowski. remember corey lewandowski is the one who initially denied he approved carter page s trip to moscow. and later said i refresh my memory. now i do remember doing that. so, look. when you have a sequence of events that includes a meeting with the president s son, his
for michael flynn sr. we re told by witnesses who have been interviewed by the special counsel investigatioors that th have been asking questions about police s his son, michael flynn jr., his overseas trips and some of the income that has been earned from that. flynn jr. serves as his father s chief of staff. he was actively involved in some of her father s consulting and lobbying work and there is that famous trip to moscow in 2015 when flynn dined with vladimir putin, it was a black tie gala for russia today television. came under scrutiny, ooilts been the focus of questions from investigators. and the investigation by the mueller team is also looking at some undisclosed lobbying during the campaign that flynn sr. did on behalf of the turkish government. so all of this certainly has flynn sr. concerned we re told because there is that chance that they may be trying to get