ask me some questions about, how do you evaluate this information. reporter: after doing his own due diligence, corn arranged to do an interview via skype with christopher steele himself. our agreement at the time was that i could quote him but i would not identify him by name. reporter: the former spy didn t want publicity. he wanted action. in the interview, steele told corn, this is something of huge significance, way above party politics. he said, i think trump s own party should be aware of this stuff as well. corn had his scoop. but he knew he had to be careful. i wasn t going to take any of the specific allegations, particularly the salacious ones, because even donald trump is owed a degree of fairness, but also just for journalistic integrity, you don t want to report allegations about anyone that you can t verify aren t true. reporter: still, corn believed steele s reputation and the fbi s interest in the broader outlines of steele s
due diligence, corn arranged to do an interview via skype with christopher steele himself. our agreement at the time was that i could quote him but i would not identify him by name. reporter: the former spy didn t want publicity. he wanted action. in the interview, steele told corn, this is something of huge significance, way above party politics. he said, i think trump s own party should be aware of this stuff as well. corn had his scoop. but he knew he had to be careful. i wasn t going to take any of the specific allegations, particularly the salacious ones, because even donald trump is owed a degree of fairness, but also just for journalistic integrity, you don t want to report allegations about anyone that you can t verify aren t true. reporter: still, corn believed steele s reputation and the fbi s interest in the broader outlines of steele s story gave it credibility.
information. after doing his own due diligence, corn atrienrrange do interview via skype with christopher steele himself. our agreement at the time was that i could quote him but i would not identify him by name. the former spy didn t want publicity, he wanted action. in the interview steele told corn this is something of huge significance, way above party politics. he said i think trump s own party should be aware of this stuff as well. corn had his scoop, but he knew had he to be careful. i wasn t going to take any of the specific allegations, particularly the salacious ones, because even donald trump is owed a degree of fairness. but just for journalistic integrity you don t want to report allegations about anyone that you can t verify that aren t true. still, corn believed steele s reputation and the fbi s interest in the broader outlines of steele s story gave it