law firm that helped arrange the, and perkins coy who then hired fusion gps who then hired steele. it received $168,000 in the 2016 election and any ties to donald trump and his campaign. president biden s then-attorney general william barr tapped durham to lead the investigation into the fbi s russia probe known as crossfire hurricane. some of the facts that i ve learned don t hang together with the official explanning as of what happened. trump did show an openness in the candidate in businessman to receive favor and business from russia and there have been dozens of proven contacts revealed between trump campaign associates and russian nationals. still, none of it added up to the collusion suggested in the steele memos and his probe looking for exactly that, special council robert mueller
they highlighted based on their limited reading of the document here that it was one part of this and there was frankness about how it was used. given what you have seen today, what color, what new color do you have about the role that dossier played from this application and subsequent renewals? we can see here that indeed the dossier was in there. to the ex etent that trump and s allies have made the mere fact of the dossier s presence somehow scandalous, that s confirmed. on the other hand, if you want to dig deeper and say, well, why is it scandalous? the arguments put forward by nunes in the them owe and sean hannity in february was the court was misled. it didn t understand it was looking at opposition research. we can see clearly here that the fbi did inform them that this was the person who hired steele was looking for information to discredit mr. trump s campaign but notwithstanding the reason he was hired to look into this, they thought it was credible for the following r
russian under force and possible russian lunges to the trump campaign. they say the investigation of carter page would have continued with or without the memo. and that the unis application and three renewals failed to mention hillary clinton and the dnc helped fund the dossier. investigators didn t get reporting from the does years author former british spy christopher steele until 2016. officials told the court about the quote assessed political motivation of those who hired steele.
he was a less than reliable source for the fbi. three points to make. christopher steele wasn t terminated by the fbi, he was never employed by the never. and it was steele who cut ties, not the other way around. in august 2017, the fusion gps founder, who hired steele, testified, i understand chris severed his relationship with the fbi out of concern that he didn t know what was happening inside the fbi and there was a concern that the fbi was being manipulated for political ends by the trump people and we didn t understand what was doing on. two, steele did conduct a skype briefing with david corn, which according to a may 2017 court filing in london from a defamation filing was at fusion gps s request. and while it showed steele shared no documents with mother jones, it did disclose the limited intelligence regarding indications of russian interference in the u.s.
confidentiality and demonstrated he was a less than reliable source for the fbi. three points to make. christopher steele wasn t terminated by the fbi, he was never employed by the never. and it was steele who cut ties, not the other way around. in august 2017, fusion gps founder who hired steele testified, i understand chris severed his relationship with the fbi out of concern that he didn t know what was happening inside the fbi and there was a concern that the fbi was being manipulated for political ends by the trump people and we didn t understand what was doing on. two, steele did conduct a skype briefing with david corn, which according to a may 2017 court filing in london from a defamation filing was at fusion gps s request. and while it showed steele