FASCINATED BREAKDOWN. NATASHA, BEFORE WE GET TO THIS
SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON HERE,, CAN YOU EXPLAIN KRIEFR STEEL'S
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION? >> I THINK HE'S SPOKEN TO
MUELLER'S TEAM, HE WANTS TO SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT CAME
OUT WHEN HE WAS RESEARCHING ALL OF THE PRESIDENTS ALLEGED TIES
TO RUSSIA AND YOU KNOW HE OBVIOUSLY HAD CONCERNED WHEN HE
WAS RESEARCHING LAST SUMMER THIS WAS SERIOUS.
HE BROUGHT IT TO THE FBI AT ONE POINT SO HE WANTS TO GET IT IN
FRONT OF CONGRESS. >> YOU LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE, YOU
BREAK IT DOWN IN TERMS OF TIME LINES, WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN TERMS
OF TIMING. WHAT ARE THE COINCIDENCES THAT
YOU CAME ACROSS AS YOU TRIED TO CORROBORATE ALL THIS?
>> SO THERE WERE A NUMBER OF COINCIDENCES, THAT'S A GENEROUS
WAY TO PUT IT. BEGINNING IN JUNE WHEN
CHRISTOPHER STEELE WRITES THIS DOSSIER UP THROUGH DECEMBER.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST COINCIDENCES WE CAN SEE COMPARING THE TWO IS
THAT CHRISTOPHER STEELE WROTE IN LATE JUNE THAT THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN HAD BEEN RECEIVING A REGULAR FLOW FROM THE CELL LEN.
NOW WE KNOW NOW. >> YOU SAID FOR FIVE YEARS THAT
WAS GOING ON? >> YES.
>> WE KNOW NOW THAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE BEGINNING OF JUNE THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND HIGH LEVELS OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN DID MEET
WITH THE RUSSIAN LAWYER, A RUSSIAN LOBBYIST ON THE PROMISE
OF RECEIVING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LINES UP AND IS WORTH FURTHER
INVESTIGATIONS. WE KNOW THERE WAS AN AMENDMENT
TO THE GOP PLATFORM ON UKRAINE THAT WAS ALTERED IN JULY THE
DOSSIER SAID IN EXCHANGE FOR RUSSIA LEAKING THESE E-MAILS TO
WIKILEAKS THE COMPANY AGREED TO SIDELINE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN
UKRAINE AS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE.
NOW WE KNOW THIS PLATFORM WAS ESSENTIALLY WEAKENED A LOT.
IT WAS ACTUALLY OUT OF STEP WITH GOP ORTHODOXY AT THE TIME WITH
SENDING LETHAL WEAPONS TO UKRAINE.
A LOT OF REPUBLICANS AT THE TIME WERE ADVOCATING FOR THIS FOR US
TO SEND, YOU KNOW, LETHAL WEAPONS TO THE UKRAINE.
THE FACT THAT THIS WAS KIND OF GUTTED AND TLEN THEN THREE WEEKS
WE SAW THE E-MAILS WERE, IN FACT, RELEASED BY WIKILEAKS IS
AN INTERESTING TURN OF EVENT. >> OKAY.
LOOKING AT ALL THIS YOU GOT CONGRESS AND THEN YOU GOT
MUELLER'S TEAMS, THEY MAY HAVE DIFFERENT GOALS, BUT WHY DO YOU
SUSPECT, CHRISTOPHER STEELE SPOKE WITH THE COMMERCIAL
COUNSEL'S TEAM FIRST AS A POSED TO GOINGLING TO CAPITOL HILL AND
SPEAKING WITH CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS?
>> ROBERT MUELLER MAY HAVE SUBPOENAED HIM.
WE REALLY DON'T KNOW, ROBERT MUELLER'S INVESTIGATION IS IN
WAYS IS A LOT MOR MORE I WOULD YOU KNOW IN TERMS OF CRIMINAL
CHARGES, IT'S A LOT MORE PROBABLY SECRET THAN THE
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ARE OPERATING AND HE PERHAPS FELT
LIKE HE MAYBE HAD MORE OF A REASON TO SPEAK WITH MUELLER
SOONER THAN THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
>> THAT BEING SAID, MUELLER OR CHRISTOPHER STEELE AND HIS ALLIE
VERSUS PUSHED BACK ON THIS IDEA THAT HE WAS EVER RESISTANT TO
SPEAKING WITH CONGRESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
HE TOLD REPORTERS RECENTLY OR SOURCES CLOSE TO HIM TOLD
REPORTERS HE HAS NEVER NOT WANTED TO SPEAK TO CONGRESS
ABOUT THIS IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF WHO REACHED OUT TO HIM FIRST
AND SEEMED MORE SERIOUS OF GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE
ALLEGATIONS MADE IN THIS