News per CNN: Robert Mueller has interviewed Christopher Steele who put together the Trump dossier.

[kpete]

Mueller's team met w/Chris Steele, and they took Steele dossier more seriously than previously known, CNN reports:



https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Will he go under oath and so on?

Not that it matters, half the country wont believe it and Trump will pardon himself, but it does matter in that I want to see just how guilty they all are.

Just how much treason they committed.

[Cary]

2. No need to jump to conclusions

I think we will see justice. It may not be as much justice as we might want, but this ends badly for Republicans.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Sure, why not, I am in a good mood. I will go along with that idea.

[Cary]

8. You just can't deny me.

Seriosly, "conservatives" aren't invincible and #fakepresident has always been a loser. There is no upside in elevating them. Fascism never works out. Fascism is subversive and ends up failing because of its internal flaws.

This iteration will fail too.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. I have a lifelong friend who texts that to me everyday when I text him doom and gloom

For me it is about not underestimating how crooked trump is and how vile his followers are.

But, I am very hopeful and you my friend are correct.

[Cary]

15. We have a lot of work to do

Maybe we will get lucky this time and our erstwhile friends will work with us instead of undermining us?

Of course they will never own their undermining. That's too much to ask. But if they ease back on the sowing of discord and discontent.... a fella can dream. Right?

[Gothmog]

3. Exclusive: Mueller's team met with Russia dossier author

This will be fun to watch http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html?sr=twCNNp100517special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele0606PMStory&CNNPolitics=Tw

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Information from Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 officer, could help investigators determine whether contacts between people associated with the Trump campaign and suspected Russian operatives broke any laws.

CNN has learned that the FBI and the US intelligence community last year took the Steele dossier more seriously than the agencies have publicly acknowledged. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, said in a January 2017 statement that the intelligence community had "not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable."

[kpete]

5. thanks Gothmog

You are my DU guardian angel
I was looking for that

kp

[Hortensis]

12. And Repubs on the senate intelligence committee now say they can't verify

the dossier yet, that they run into a barrier around last June they can't follow information past. Umhm. My guess is their statement yesterday was to get their damage-control version out ahead of this news.

[procon]

6. Wasn't that Trump toady, Sen Richard Burr, saying just yesterday that

his investigation was struck because Steele wouldn't speak to them? That tells me that Steel knows Burr cannot be trusted, and if he had the info that Mueller now has, he'd run straight to Trump with it.

[Nevernose]

9. Supposedly Steele wont come to the US

I assume because he is — very correctly — afraid of being assassinated.

So even if he did meet with the FBI, nothing says it was in the US or that he wasn’t keeping it quiet.

[procon]

11. No doubt than man has cause for alarm, if not only from Trump's crazy fans, but Putin, too. nt

[kentuck]

7. For some reason..

I think that Senator Burr made his comments about the Steele dossier yesterday in his news conference.

He tried to downplay it somewhat, I thought. Now, I think he probably knows about the Mueller information and wanted to soften its impact a little?

[rzemanfl]

13. +1. Drumpf fans will seize on that and say "why won't he come here?" Maybe because we

can't even protect concertgoers?

[kentuck]

14. I doubt that Mueller is very interested in the "juicy' stuff...

I think he is looking for other connections? Such as financial deals or working with the Russians to disrupt or change our political system?