We've had inquiries, but we've also had kind of hacking. And now, of course, we know what happened last year. And by way of kind of return, the Russians were sort of helping Trump's kind of nascent political career. HARDING: Well, I mean, the dossier found, really, what Steele described as a kind of conspiracy going back a long way - at least five years - a transactional relationship where Trump was passing information - or people around him were passing information - to Moscow about Russian oligarchs living in the United States. And he was hired by Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, really, to answer a sort of simple question in the spring of 2016, which was, what are Donald Trump's connections, business or otherwise, to Russia?ĬHANG: OK. And he went into private business intelligence in 2009 and has a pretty kind of solid track record both in London, where I am, and in Washington - pretty well-regarded. HARDING: Well, Christopher Steele is a former MI6 - that's British intelligence - spy with extensive knowledge of the Soviet Union, where he lived, and then Russia. Thanks for joining us.ĬHANG: So can you just for a moment take us back to the origins of the Steele dossier? What is this thing, and why did it become such a big deal? He writes for The Guardian and joins us now from their offices in London. To unpack all of this, we are joined now by journalist and author Luke Harding. And they claim that their testimony will set the record straight. They've testified before Congress behind closed doors.
The Steele dossier is back in the news because the founders of Fusion GPS claim they have been attacked and misrepresented by the conservative media and by President Trump himself. It was commissioned by a political research firm, Fusion GPS, to prove the connection between the campaign of then-candidate Trump and officials in the Russian government. It's a 35-page document that's come to be known as the Steele dossier. Now let's take a look at one area of interest to congressional panels looking into President Trump's ties to Russia back when he was campaigning for office.
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