mr. clapper, former intelligence agency, chief and others have said that's not how this thing started. eric: they are saying papadopoulos got drunk in london with australian diplomat and spilled the beansout it. >> that was new york times in december that corrected the record. >> i mean, look, the dossier is not something that's under oath, right? and it's christopher steel is talking with the fbi agents, they would write out a 302 or something about it, but if that's not under oath, how could you potentially bring charges against him if he said -- let's say if he said, did you share with anybody else, no, he was giving it to reporters at the same time. >> well, there could be a conflict between what mr. steel told the fbi and what he has said in a civil case that's being played out in the london courts. we just don't know. what we do know that christopher steel himself has not spoken to any of the three committees in the house and senate that are investigating, you know what disturbs me, eric, we have an election coming up and the whole point of this inquiry and these investigations are supposed to be aimed at finding out whether or not russia actively gettered our democracy and seems