We had senior officials in the CIA who were tasked to work on this, who objected to then CIA Director John Brennan using these as sources because they were not credible. One of them was the Steele dossier, this manufactured political document that was filled with falsehoods. So then you see, after that, this assessment again leaked to the media, briefed to Congress. This was the document that then led to everything that happened in the four years that President Trump was in office. (10:16–10:24)
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Asserts that the Steele dossier was a manufactured document filled with falsehoods.
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