christopher steele. counsel and muller's investigators met with british spy whose dossier and alleged russian efforts to aid the trump administration. spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the trump administration. quote, the fbi and u.s. intelligence committee last year took the steele dossier more seriously than they at first acknowledged. and sounds look at this, quote, the intelligence the cia and steel's research seriously enough they kept it out in a report released in january on russian meddling in the election in order to not say divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and how. this is interesting. it is one thing to say they took it more seriously than people think. this is specific and interesting. right? you put this together with mark's report and what we got is robert mueller tracking down allegations made in the dossier. mueller's team meeting with krystopher steele and this report that the fbi and cia took care after internal debates, took care to not explicit

how could this cost kobe steel?l domestic customers will stick with them even if they ask for discounts. salesbe, 40% of their are exports. when japan is exporting, yes, you pay more, but you paid for quality. but now you are not paying for quality. you are just pay a more. customers will start to look elsewhere. that is a long-term problem. one of the questions to be resolved is, were they delivering subpar products because they could not afford to make the prices they were quoting, or just unable to make it? i suspect they quoted too low. they could not afford to deliver at the right price. this means the profits have been overstated in the past. when we looked at their accounts yesterday, we noticed like in germany, they are interfacing there profit margins because they are underappreciated. is a lot deeper, not just for product. it is creative accounting, probably understating their reliability. when they face lawsuits in the cash crunch, they will be in trouble. yvonne: you don't think their customers will jump

associate of steele test us that in fact very recently, in late september, christopher steele in london related to washington through this associate that mr. steele in fact would be happy to meet with richard burr and senator mark

steele, to meet with mr. steele. those offers have gone unaccepted and though we have been incredibly enlightened at our ability to rebuild backwards the steele dossier up to a certain date, getting past that point has been impossible. >> burr's counter part had the same problem he told me in an interview last night. >> on the dossier, your committee wants to talk to steele. how do you get someone with his background abroad to talk at all? >> well, we made outreach to mr. steele and we've offered, mr. conway and myself to go to london to sit down with him if that's a more comfortable way to participate and provide whatever information he can to the committee. i hope he will take us up on that. >> the fbi has more than home on its side. it has a history with the dossier author, chris steele, including a contract to continue that trump research which then fell apart. also reports that the fbi got names of some of the dossier sources from steele. the question is whether those names lead to something that matters. there'

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a big news night for christopher steel and the special prosecutor spoken to christopher steel. >> and we were able to report tonight to add to that, richard burr said yesterday hate brick wall in terms of senate investigators to talk to him, that we were able to report tonight that at least from the steel side of the equation, he's willing to talk and so we may yet see him speaking with those investigators, as well. >> i read that you provoked a response from chairman burr and vice chairman senator warner tonight and i've read their written response. and i'm wondering if there's some gray area where it's sort of true that they haven't gotten the cooperation so far from christopher steel they were seeking. the way they put it is they have sought many i'ms over the months and open to any credible offer. >> yeah. >> they might regard what's been offered as not credible or practical or something. >> right. they specifically reference to try to reach him including through the lawyers and made sure to say that. i mean, what -- i think the bottom line is that they haven't spoken yet. that th

i look at steel companies. to be honest with you, kobe steel was a production cap a city. ball the guys. there are two big players in japan. that would be a very good scenario to have a further restructuring in the steel industry in japan. i spoke with management. i think they are very happy to buy the steel business and restructure the business itself. this is a win-win scenario for both. each person against the current keephe wants to basically the current structure. with the current scandal, this could escalate for him to lose his job. the biggest barrier of breaking up the company, the likelihood increases substantially. i have a question about one of the potential buyers. what kind of synergies with a likely get out of that acquisition? onld there be any concern the behalf of the executives about the business culture if we are seeing this scandal rippled through different divisions? >> sure. ,f you look at past precedents this synergies were a couple hundred billion yen, which is a lot. .hey could close down excess they could get a lot of overhead. procurement togethe

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-- christopher steele. we have a lot of michael steels who are friends of this show. christopher steele, the former british intelligence official. do you put the two developments around steele squarely into the collusion investigation oir is there any potential overlay from that obstruction of justice investigation? >> i think most of the detail in the dossier really go to the larger issue of what leverage the russian federation has over the trump organization, people inside trump's inner circle and ultimately the president of the united states. if you think very broadly, what is this investigation by the congressional intelligence committees, by the senate judiciary committee and bob mueller, what are they ultimately about? they boil down to leverage. in what ways has an adversary of the united states exerted and can they exert in the future leverage over the policy and decision making of the united states, and when someone like jim comey came to investigate those ties, and the president removed him from h

steel is unreliable.ufacturers are getting this steel from france, germany, other places as well. what i love about this story, and it traces through this one company, a russian steel company that has subsidiaries in north america, when you say "american made" or "make america great again," it is much harder than you think when you get down to the components of things, the components of manufacturing, where this is coming from, and frankly places where american manufacturing cannot supply enough raw material to meet the demand. it is easy for parts of it and not so easy for other parts of it. if you are a manufacturer of pipeline, the thing you need is a reliable source of things to make that pipeline. you do not care where it comes from. carol: you mentioned the russian connection. this company is owned by a russian oligarchs. megan: the majority shareholder is roman abramowitz, who is a well-known russian oligarchs, a , a diverse array of holdings. what we talk about a little bit is interestingly, over

associate of steele test us that in fact very recently, in late september, christopher steele in london related to washington through this associate that mr. steele in fact would be happy to meet with richard burr and senator mark warner. >> that is very different than what the republican chairman had suggested this week. and this discrepancy is important. if steele is ready to give his intel to investigators, and they are suggesting otherwise at the same time, then maybe this doesn't all who know steele's shoulders. maybe there is no wall. maybe there is more of a negotiation how he provides what he has. if fact, within just the last two hours, it's nbc's ken dilanian reporting on that development. >> our sources for the story were sort of taking issue with the way the chairman of the intelligence committee characterized the situation with steele. he basically said, look, we've asked to talk to him and he's refused. apparently it is more complicated. steele has offered to talk to the committee but they haven't been able to come to an agreement on conditions, on the circumstances. >> ok

kobe steel is japan's third biggest steel—maker.ducts are used in aircraft, bullet trains, globally and by falifying the information about the strength and durability of the products, all the companies are going to have to go back through their supply chains which is complicated and check for safety issues. kobe steel admitted that the data has been falsified for years, but it may have stretched back for a decade which is a long time. now, as many as 200 companies, i believe, are affected, but the five biggest buyers of kobe steel are the car makers. and if they have to replace some parts, one analyst estimates that the cost could be more than $1 million, but ultimately, i think that the reputational costs and any potential lawsuits from the scandal is going to cost the company a lot more. and taking it even wider than that, being hot on the heels of the airbag disaster as well, this really calls into question japan airbag disaster as well, this really calls into questionjapan as a high quality manufacturing hub? exactly. kobe steel

the japanese steel maker revealed it found falsified data other steel companies rallying on the news.e to buy these stocks, grasso >> they popped in the last couple of days, i would let them breathe a little bit i definitely think this trade has some degrees going forward china is ramping up, has increased in imports, decreased in exports >> earlier this year when wilbur ross was put in his position, we talked about it on the desk, it proved to be wrong, but he said he should be great for the steel industry the u.s. steel industry had a lousy run but has come back. steve is right, they've had a great run. i still think these things are levered to move higher you watch the moves u.s. steel has had, every time you've counted them to the upside or downside, they overshoot on both >> i think what china is doing, steve is talking about production, supply side, they're doing everything you want to hear they're cutting back on bad and inefficient production that's reverberating all the way through. the kobe steel thing is affirmative for all steel makers they will get protection from the tru

christopher steel is a former british spy who worked in russia.contains personal allegations about donald trump and claims there was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between russians and the trump campaign. joining us now, david corn, washington bureau chief of mother jones and ron clain is back with us. david, you're our go-to guy on this christopher steel and the dossier since you are the reporter that made that dossier public here in the united states. what do you make of the developments in light of yesterday's press conference with the intelligence committee and the senate where you asked the questions and others did about christopher steel's cooperation with the committee? >> it is important to keep in mind as i reported that christopher steel was already cooperating with the fbi as far back as june 2016. the work that he was doing for democratic financed research opposition project on trump he was also started sharing with the fbi very early on because he was so concerned about what he was finding about links between donald trump

-- kobe steel is under pressure.k at the case. it seems to be quite isolated a company. they wanted to compete with big players in the industry and got involved in errors they should not have. much for the mean broader japanese economy or stock market, and for that reason you will see the japanese share market has shrugged that off. don't want to be a kobe steel shareholder right now, but the materials and industrials in japan makes sense. rishaad: we have a situation where we had problems with the banks that has been sorted out. is that one of the reasons why you are heavily exposed on that front? >> absolutely. that is very important. withd central banks negative interest rates, qe, monetary policy divergence, downward pressure on bond yields, where as now we are starting to central banks pointing to exits, bond yields stabilizing, and banks in better shape. of view,ofit point banks were under pressure anduse yields were down flat, and now that is changing. the yield curve is steepening and the japanese share marke

we don't know what information steele may have provided to mueller's team, but we know steele previously provided the fbi information, some of the sources he used to put together his memos. we've also been told that while the intelligence community haven't verified some of the most salacious details in the dossier parts have been corroborated. the president has taken issue with the intelligence community and steele calling it fake news and tweets but despite the president's words congressional investigators want to take a -- still want to talk to steele. take a listen. >> though we have been inkrids me enlightened at our ability to rebuild backwards the steele dossier up to a certain day, getting past that point has been somewhat impossible. >> and part of that is because they really have not been able to talk to steele. yesterday they said that when senator burr did have that press conference earlier in the week he indicated that burr somehow was not -- that steele was somehow not cooperating with congressional investigators. but we're told steele hasn't ruled out talking to the senate

what is the latest on kobe steel?eel initially said that 200 companies were affected by this cheating scandal. but now, that list has ballooned to about 500 companies. that is more than double the early account. despite falsifying data for cars and space equipment and rockets, so far, no safety problems have surfaced, as kobe steel atoms to get a grip on this data tampering that it earlier said may go back as far as ten yea rs. said may go back as far as ten years. —— attempts. revelations ripple through supply chains, from the famous bullet train injapan to boeing, many have been entangled. the scale of the shares, wiping about $2 billion so far for the market value. kobe steel also said that the problems had gone beyond the borders of japan, that the problems had gone beyond the borders ofjapan, with that the problems had gone beyond the borders of japan, with data falsification found in subsidiaries in thailand, china, and malaysia. thank you very much, rico hizon. he will keep us up on that story. china's top offi

steele found can be corroborated? how much of it is accurate? we've been working hard to answer those questions, which are really what the american people need to know, and, indeed, some of the dossier has been corroborated. what i find most significant about it is the fact that christopher steele, no matter who was paying for his services, may have discovered before our own intelligence agent sis that the russians were going to interfere in our election on behalf of donald trump. so we have a lot of work to do in terms of a lot of the claims in the dossier, but it -- i don't think it really adds much value to know who paid for it, necessarily, and i view this as part of the effort to discredit him which really doesn't advance the investigation. >> on the point of discrediting the dossier, if the dossier went to the fbi, right, to me i've always seen that as a sign that not only the fbi saw christopher steele as credible, but that christopher steele thought his own work would check out if somebody like the fbi followed up on it and reviewed his

we know who christopher steel was. we know his background, one of the top mi-6 intelligence officers on the russian beat. we see the reports that he sent in. we know that the fbi at a certain point in time and he seems to have information on this, too, asked steel for more information and he was sending them the reports. so he's just basically saying, you know, we need to know more about the motives. actually, some degree you do. some degree you don't. and ultimately what was in the steel dossier is not important in terms of the committee reaching conclusions about interactions between the trump campaign and russian officials or anyone representing the russian government. you can do that regardless of whether the material in the steel memos are accurate or not. >> david, go ahead. >> the answer to that question may be hidden not at all in moscow and the steel dossier but in the trump data operation. that's where this will all -- that's where the evidence really is, in the trump data operation implicates or involves ver

steel is unreliable.ompanies, that even manufacture american-made pipes, are getting this deal from -- the steel from france, germany, and other places. what i love about this story, and it traces through this company, a russian steel company that has subsidiaries in north america, when you say american made or make america great again, it is much harder than you think when you get down to the components of things, the components of manufacturing, where this is coming from, and frankly the case that our own american industries and manufacturers cannot supply enough raw material to meet the demand. >> that is so easy to say, made in america. >> it is definitely, it is easy for parts of it and not so easy for other parts of it. if you are a manufacturer of pipeline, the main thing you need is a reliable source of steel and you do not really care where it comes from. carol: you mentioned the russian connection. this company is owned by a russian oligarch. megan: the majority shareholder abramovich who is a w

from what all we hear that the report is ready on both steel and aluminum it's a matter of getting it released and clearly one of the obstacles is the republican congress who don't want this released until they deal with taxes but before that is they didn't want to release until they dealt with health care well health care is dead now they want to deal with taxes and let me tell you since the president signed that executive order on steel on april the nineteenth imports of unfairly traded steel from countries like china and south korea have gone up twenty five percent almost that means that during that time we've had plant closures while we wait for this report to come out and we're pretty sure it's already completed and we're pretty sure it points out that china south korea vietnam malaysia indonesia are all cheaters well i mean the president has said ministration has to know this are they silent on this issue. silence is not a strong enough word there seem to be paralyzed on this issue the fact of the matter is the day that the executive order was signed in the oval office all of th

steele. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources? >> now, price is msnbc's national -- or one of msnbc's national security analysts and a former cia analyst as well. he joins me now. ned, good to see you. we heard one thing from senate intel leaders another from sources familiar with the situation. what's behind the disconnect here about whether or not steele wants to come in and answer questions from the senate intelligence committee? >> well, katy, there does seem to be a disconnect, but i think the fact of the matter is that spies the world over are typically wary of the united states congress. they know that congress probably more so than any other body in this town tends to leak like a sieve. so i'm not at all surprised to learn that christopher steel dlesteele met with mueller's team this summer. they speak the same language. christopher steele is a long-time operative of mi-6

shares of japan's third—biggest steel—maker, kobe steel, are now at a five year low having slid morehis morning. $2 billion has been wiped off the value of the company. more than 500 companies have used their metal products around the world. this comes after the steel—maker revealed that about 500 companies had received its falsely certified products, more than double its earlier count. airbus chief executive tom enders has said he would be prepared to step down if he was "no longer part of the solution" as the firm deals with ongoing corruption probes. the aircraft maker has been under investigation in the uk and france since 2016 when it admitted

tonight, the infamous steel dossier is at the very center of the news on the russia investigation. nbc news reports that investigators on special counsel robert mueller's team have interviewed christopher steele. that's of course the former british intelligence officer who compiled that absolutely explosive document. the dossier deals an alleged effort by the russian government over a period of years, stretching back to 2013 or so, to cultivate and coopt donald trump and his inner circle, as well as an extensive conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian forces to work together to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on trump's behalf. the president denies those claims. but clearly mueller isn't taking the president's word for it, neither is the senate intelligence committee. yesterday chairman richard burr discussed the committee's investigation into the dossier but said they're having trouble verifying some details. >> as it relates to the steele dossier, unfortunately the

get far with steel. we learned last week he is in talks with congressional leaders? the senate intelligence committee to meet with them perhaps in london. i do think that bob mueller's team will have more success with christopher steel. bob mueller, former long time director of the fbi, christopher steel, long time he espionage operative, they both understand the importance of protecting sources and methods and understand that congress has a tendency to leak like a sieve. i think he'll have an easier time getting details from christopher steel and that's mo more important. it's mueller's team not congress responsible for any criminal charges that stem from this law enforcement investigation. what congress will put together we hope is a report documenting the entirety of what went on in this election, the russian effort and any collusion on the part of the trump team whereas what mueller is working on, could be potential indictments and could in fact land some people in jail. >> ned price, i'm sure we'll

credibility, christopher steele. is he considered a crackpot, a fringy, or someone who is a real serious spy? >> not in the least. my intelligence sources tell me this guy is a serious person. he was stationed in moscow. he worked for the british secret intelligence service, mi6. he's known as a russian expert and he has credibility. moreover, the fbi worked with steele in their investigation of corruption in international soccer before he began working on the trump thing. and then the fbi was prepared to pay steele to allow him to continue his fact-gathering on the trump/russia stuff. that didn't come through. but the fbi has been working with steele all along. and now we know that mueller has some additional questions for him. >> is this going to be like he meets -- if mueller meets with the guy, he gives him a template, a blueprint for what to check out. in other words, he could give him a guideline as what to look for. >> i think that has already happened. what this would be is probably follow-up questions. there

>> steele was talking to reporters.ks -- >> there's no evidence of this. >> everybody is denying it. when people are lying, like trump said today, it's watergate in modern times. >> if russians were trying to collude with hillary clinton and not donald trump, why hacking the dnc, leaking it out with wikileaks. election results from various states and leaving all of this steele -- >> get to the bottom of why no one in the campaign says they knew and whether they knew they were getting information from russians. get to the boicttom of it all. >> fact that no one in the campaign seems to have an idea -- >> somebody has an idea. only heard from podesta and wasserman schultz was on the outs. robbie mook would know if the campaign was spending this money. someone has to know. problem that clinton campaign has here. brian alluded to it, which is they would admit, say this is what we do. opposition research, nothing to feel guilty about it. but problem is they haven't said what the story really is. >> fundamental difference bet

the cheating scandal around japan's colby's steel widens dramatically substandard copper and alimony and was sold to five hundred customers including comic. actress and even nuclear power plant operators. sas of sorts to a sixteen year high after the successful takeover of by rival abdullah and pilots and crews are left in. this state of your business as in berlin. there's been a dramatic new development in the certification cheating scandal around japan's coby steel the company now says it sold products that failed to meet required specifications to hundreds of customers among them car makers well ways aircraft manufacturers and even nuclear power plant operators it also notes that management knew about the problem much earlier but did not inform the customers. that gesture of humility as it emerged the falsifying of product quality certificates had coby steel had gone much further than had previously been disclosed you know well. right now our top priority is to find out the cause to take preventive measures and to examine whether or how our inadequate products have affected our us

a gesture of humility as it emerged the falsifying of product quality certificates had coby steel had gone much further than had previously been disclosed you know. right now our top priority is to find out the cause to take preventive measures and to examine whether or how our inadequate products have affected our users. i plan to put all my energy into this effort. to. countless psaki said the company had uncovered nine more types of products whose inspections had been faked or manipulated more than five hundred customers were affected among them boeing which used coby steel with fake quality certification in airliner fuselages these latest problems were discovered with shipments of more than eleven thousand tons of steel copper and aluminum products the quality cheating wasn't limited to one location but found in products made by cobie and its affiliates in japan china malaysia and thailand. coby admitted some cases had been discovered much earlier and discussed at board meetings but not made public. the problems disclosed by japan's third largest steelmaker are just the latest in

and by the way, the point here now is that steele at least before this moment steele was talked about as someone who was getting information from the russiansful this is all a russia push, right. so now we have to find out who in the campaign knew or should have known and were they actively being told by steele, hey, i've got source in russia that are pushing this story. >> i don't see how steele could have been paid by the russians. steel was investigating the russians. >> my understanding is the allegation was he was paying sources in russia and the russian government ostensibly, this is what we're hearing were feeding stories and pushing things this. >> steele was hired because of his expertise in russia. he did not go to russia, bt he still had contacts, we assume, with connections to the kremlin or knowledge of, which is why some of the information in the dossier has turned out to be true. other, you know, information has not been verified and seems pretty outlandish. >> right. but the allegation is is it possible that the kremlin was giving disinformation, negative information a

a limit down with kobe steel.ou have to wait until the market closes before you see the plunge. toyota ande likes of mitsubishi speaking in the last hour, talking about the potential fallout from all of this. we are seeing stocks from the carmakers taking this in stride so far. toyota saying this is a very grave issue. there are confirming the impact on their toyota and lexus vehicles and considering countermeasures. take a look at to will get a -- toyota. they are currently investigating the parts in question. a lot hanging on this potential story. rish is joining us next. rishaad: we are looking at shipping. 19% plus of everything that we consume. a big recovery going on. in the see that container market. the thing about that, it is showing -- is there a synchronized recovery? john will be joining in about an hour or hour and a half. ,e are talking to our very own talking about the company's future. looking forward to that. that is it for "daybreak: asia." rish andcontinues with sophie. this is bloomberg. ♪ reta

steel to meet with mr. steel to include personally the vice chairman and myself as two individuals making that connection. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dosier without understanding things like, who paid for it? who were your sources and subsources? >> chairman there richard burr being very cautious with his words. as all of this unfolds, the president is expected to meet with john huntsman, his newly minted a.m. bass so door. huntsman formally presented his credentials to president vladimir putin. and then a comment by the president and the white house has yet to clarify. we'll show it to you flanked by military families and their spouses and standing next to the joint chiefs and his wife. the president said this to those ushered into the room. >> you know what this represents. the calm before the storm. >> what's the storm? >> it could be the calm before the storm. >> what storm? >> we have the world's great military people in this room, i wil

steel is not from the u.s. he's not exactly a foreign government. >> he's not russian. >> these are the details that will need to be worked out. but guys, thank you so much for this discussion. >> thank you all. >>> so this just into us, house speaker paul ryan says repealing, replacing obamacare off the table, his words, for this year. and thinks that some in congress are focused on take two next year. sunlen serfaty, our cnn correspondent, is on the hill with more. so this is -- i was using the word to john, a little captain obvious. but do we know what about alexander murray? what about this middle ground? is this also off the table? >> reporter: that certainly is a key question, poppy. and that certainly was an intriguing -- it sounded like a nail in the coffin for repeal and replace for obamacare from speaker ryan, but it wouldn't go that far. as you rightly pointed out, health care is something that essentially doesn't die up here. it has opinion going through fits and starts with the alexander murray pla

but like you said, the point is that much of what steele said or at least some of what steele said isdifferent from what the intelligence community later discloses in january, which was an effort by, you know, alleging that the russians were working to try to help trump. that is one of the main findings of steele's investigation. so even though, yes, we are revealing here that the clinton campaign's money and the dnc's money was being used, at least in part, to fund this investigation by chris steele, that doesn't mean that what he produced was not accurate, was not inaccurate or, you know, some of the information was clearly accurate. and is born out by what the intelligence community later disclosed. >> right, which is obviously a crucial point. when you say the money, do you have any idea how much money it was? >> no, the people we talked to wouldn't tell us. they told us that the amount of money paid to fusion gps was shared between the campaign and the dnc. but we don't know what the dollar figures are. and we don't know exactly how that was broken down between the two organizati

ste steel, to meet with their steel, to include personally the vice chairman and myself as two individua individuals making that connection. those offers have gone unaccepted. >> three sources dispute that characterization by senator burr. nbc news reports that one source close to steel said that in late september steel relayed to washington through an associate that steel would be happy to meet with burr and senator mark warner of virginia. joining me now, rob reiner, director, activist and co-founder of the committee to investigate russia. rob, it is interesting. we've had not only the three sources that nbc news reported on, but a senate committee response to the nbc news report saying in a joint statement, the comm committee has made multiple requests to meet with mr. steel. what do you make of it? >> this is confusing. some kibnd of disconnect here because clearly steel is saying he'll make himself available. there must be some reason why maybe the terms of the meeting are not agreeable to both sides. but i don't know quite frankly why that is. >> and do you have any sourcing on tha

i want cobie steel to do its utmost to regain the trust of its customers and of society. among those customers are car makers nissan subari and honda toyota has already confirmed that products with falsified data was used in some vehicles a central japan railway company has used some of the products in cars for the shinkansen bullet train mitsubishi and qatar saki have used coby steel products in fuselages for aircraft including some for boeing all companies say that so far the products have not post the safety risk but that they will be exchanged. canada's prime minister justin trudeau is headed for washington for the fourth round of talks to revamp the north american free trade agreement is visit comes as u.s. president donald trump again signals the deal is doomed he wants to bring production back to the united states but many businesses warn that terminating the agreement would be bad for all involved. renegotiating nafta isn't easy that steve being the us president sought out allies the stanley cup winning ice hockey team the pittsburgh penguins were guests at the wh

christopher steel opposition research dossier you know the one that alleges that the russian government collected compromising information on trump and wasn't gay. effort to assist his campaign. you know the one it was the russian hotel p. dossier that everyone knows what they found out that that does it was for the most part funded by wait for it wait for it the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign not one thing the post is reporting that the d.n.c. and the clinton campaign funded funded fusion g.p.s. and former british intelligence agent steals research through an intermediary named marcie elias and his law firm perkins koyo and that this funding started as early as april two thousand and sixteen and ran deep into october just days before the election now it's unknown how much was paid to fusion g.p.s. specifically for the report but the post notes that the clinton campaign paid perkins quote five point six million in legal fees from june twenty fifteen to december twenty sixth that's according to campaign finance records and the d.n.c. paid the firm three po

steele to meet with mr. steele, to include personally the vice chairman and myself as two individuals making that connection. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it? who were your sources and sub sources? >> chairman there richard burr being very cautious with his words. as all of this unfolds the president is scheduled to meet with his newly minted u.s. ambassador to russia john huntsman. he's fresh off his trip to moscow where he formally presented his credentials to vladimir putin as newly arrived ambassadors do. and then tonight a comment from the president that no one fully understands and the white house has yet to clarify. we're going to show it to you flanked by military families and their spouses and standing next to the chairman of the joint chiefs and his wife, the president said this to reporters who had been ushered into the room. >> you guys know what this represents? it's the calm be

one source close to steele said that in late september, steele related to washington through an associatehat steele, in fact, would be happy to meet with burr and senator mark warner of virginia. the committee's ranking democrat. phil rucker is back with me and also carrie cordero. phil, let me start with you. carrie, let's start with you. what's your take on this. >> maybe the difficulty in getting to mr. steele, he was very publicly letting mr. steel know they want to talk to him and probably have been in some kind of negotiation regarding him coming on board and being able to speak to the committee. i would think that mr. steele from his perspective, he's got to be most concerned about the protection of his sources. so whether it turns out that the information in his report turns out to be true or not or some of it is true and other parts are not, the verification of now he obtained his information is going to be of interest to investigators and he, on the other hand, is going to want to protect the sources of information that he relied upon. i would think that would be at least one of

let's get back to the scandal engulfing codebase steel. -- engulfing kobe steel.bring in the deputy tokyo bureau chief for bloomberg news. latest developments today concerning what was first a problem, i thought, with just aluminum and copper, but now seems to involve iron? that's what typically happens with these kinds of scandals. we are starting to see more information breadth out of the company, reports emerging that the company may have falsified data on iron ore powder, which is typically used in automobile on.s, brakes and so there have been other reports out today that units of the company may have also find data related to semi conductor material. we are starting to see more information, out of the company, and obviously the market reaction has continued. shares plummeted yesterday with most of the shareowners unfulfilled. they were down another 19% today . we can continue to expect to see this dominate the headlines for the next few days to come. do you have a sense of how the business is going to cope with this crisis? as you pointed out, the price acti

nbc news now reports one source close to steele said that in late september steele relayed to washington through an associate that steele in fact would be happy to meet with burr and senator mark warner of virginia. the committee's rapging democrat. phil rucker is back with her. and joining the is conversation cory core der row who is now at georgetown law. welcome to both of you. kerry, let me start with you, what's your interpretation of this? >> well, it was a little bit unusual for senator burr to be so public about the interest he had and maybe the difficulty that the committee has had in getting to mr. steele, so he obviously was very publicly letting mr. steele know that they still want to talk to him. and probably they've been in some kind of negotiation regarding him coming on board and being able to speak to the committee. what i would think is that mr. steele, from his perspective, he's got to be most concerned about the protection of his sources. so whether it trurns out that te information in his report turns out to be true or not and some of it is true and other parts are n