Coverage of donald trump. He details allegations that russia has Compromising Material on donald trump that could be used to blackmail him. The dossier was written by a former uk Intelligence Agent called christopher steele. Heres our security correspondent frank gardner, with more about him. Hes a former Intelligence Officer at mi6, he is a specialist in russia. His firm was hired by a washington lobbyist, initially they we re washington lobbyist, initially they were hired by the republicans, who we re were hired by the republicans, who were looking to come up with some dirt about donald trump. Eventually it was the democrats who were interested. What he found in tapping up interested. What he found in tapping up his old russian contacts in the russian successof up his old russian contacts in the russian successor to the kgb, he eventually got the document passed to the fbi. That was in august last year. In october it started to leak out, partly from a Security Conference that took pl
Coverage of donald trump. He details allegations that russia has Compromising Material on donald trump that could be used to blackmail him. The dossier was written by a former uk Intelligence Agent called christopher steele. Heres our security correspondent frank gardner, with more about him. Hes a former Intelligence Officer at mi6, he is a specialist in russia. His firm was hired by a washington lobbyist, initially they we re washington lobbyist, initially they were hired by the republicans, who we re were hired by the republicans, who were looking to come up with some dirt about donald trump. Eventually it was the democrats who were interested. What he found in tapping up interested. What he found in tapping up his old russian contacts in the russian successof up his old russian contacts in the russian successor to the kgb, he eventually got the document passed to the fbi. That was in august last year. In october it started to leak out, partly from a Security Conference that took pl
In some areas. Tributes to the former england Football Manager graham taylor, whos died at the age of 72. And we speak to the writer of la la land the man whos brought the art of the musical back to hollywood. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, west hams star player Dimitri Payet Goes On Strike and demands a transfer, but the club say they wont sell him. Good evening. Donald trump seems to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet Nominees on some of the vital questions facing the new administration. His choice for new head of the cia, mike pompeo, has strongly endorsed the work of the Us Intelligence Community Hours after it was criticised by the President Elect. And generaljames mattis, nominated for defense secretary, accused russia of trying to break up nato and of being a threat to europe in contrast to mr trumps wish for much closer ties with President Putin. Our correspondent nick bryant reports from washington. A week before inauguration day, its usually an
password if you like. abusive offices and impeachable offense. is the president going to be reported as a security threat after that interview? the mainstream media melting down over the president telling abc he would listen if they foreign government offer damaging information about a political opponent but isn t that exactly what democrats did in 2016. genitalis is here to shed some light on all of this, thank you for joining us. you are newly married. you ve been here excuse me for a moment. this is what democrats did especially when it comes to the steel dossier because you have the seal dossier written by christopher steele from great britain and then his information coming from russian sources. democrats calling for impeachment when supposedly
douglas a live force this morning, appreciate you being with us, democrats quick to forget that in 2016 the dnc paid for british intelligence officer christopher steele to dig up dirt on then candidate trump, dan bungee now calling out the hypocrisy. watching that mosaic of democrats opening their mouths how this is the police state or whatever has to be comical to listeners and viewers of this show who are saying really? let s go through the list, human intelligence assets, national security, secret spy, based on a dossier who gets information provided by russian sources to another foreigner given to the clinton team and you are talking about the trump administration?