kalugin was under scrutiny when he departed.hail kalugin was under scrutiny when he departed. so none of us really know wholistically what to think about this dossier. but here's one concrete checkable part of it. this guy really did work as a senior diplomat in the russian embassy in d.c. and he did get summoned back to moscow while nobody expected him to reportedly while investigators were in this role to mess up our election. that's in the dossier. that seems to have happened in real life, at least the checkable ports of it have. he served in the embassy for six years but then, yank. of course he denies having any role in this scheme, the russians deny there was such a scheme and it's possible he was yanked as a part of a normal rotation, it was time for him to go. it's also possible the russians felt like they needed to get him out. think about their reasoning behind that. because he was a senior diplomat at their embassy. they didn't have to worry about criminal liability for him. he would have diplomatic immunity, a senior

last night we reported on this senior russian diplomat, mikail kalugin who was working at the russiansy in washington, d.c. he's accused of being the pay master who handled the money side of russia's efforts to hack the election. the dossier reports that in august he was withdrawn back to moscow after he became the target of u.s. suspicion. well, in fact, that diplomat really did get called home to moscow and now we know, based on reporting from mcclatchy, that when he did get recalled to moscow, he was under suspicion by u.s. authorities for his potential role in the russian attack on the election. so this crazy-sounding dossier keeps coming back. now after two months spent underground its author, christopher steele, is back. last night on this show the top democrat on house intelligence made news. he said he was determined his intelligence committee should talk to christopher steele, should talk to the man who compiled this dossier. we'll have more on that in a second. but you know admittedly, right, some of this, the consequence is done, right? admittedly it's done. i mean, you kno