but we now know from the mueller probe that some of the details it contains are true. here's cnn's tom foreman. >> you should ask hillary clinton about russia because she financed the fake dossier. >> reporter: team trump's assessment of the steele dossier has never waivered. an they've also dismissed the packet put together during the campaign at the request of opponents as a smear job, plain and simple. >> the fake dossier, the phony dossier. >> the dirty discredited dossier. >> reporter: as robert mueller's russia investigation has rolled on digging into many of the same areas cited in the dossier, parts of it have held up over time. start with the real estate. the dossier claims the russians were trying to lure candidate trump into a tighter relationship by offering favorable real estate deals. for decades trump had dreamed of building something in russia including one suggestion of a large luxury hotel across the street from the kremlin but his