BUSTED: Maddow reveals senators were lying when they said British dossier spy refused to meet with

[kpete]

Maddow brought up the press conference with the Senate Intelligence Committee‘s Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA). They revealed in their press conference Wednesday that they were able to investigate many things about the Russia scandal except for the dossier. In that case, they’ve hit a brick wall. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has even said that anyone citing the dossier is outright wrong and should be held accountable.

The new reporting, according to Maddow is that Steele, through an associate, told members of Congress he’d be happy to talk to them.That contradicts both Grassley and Burr’s claims. So, it came as new to Steele that the senators couldn’t meet with him, because he offered to and was waiting until they could agree on a date. When Maddow’s team reached out for comment the committee said that they were happy to meet with Steele, but didn’t confirm or deny that Steele had offered to meet with them previously.

“So, there may be a continuing political interest in Washington in trying to make the Christopher Steele dossier seem like a scandal or seem like an unplumbable depth that we’ll never be able to understand and nobody will ever be able to investigate,” Maddow said.

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Maddow outlined four major facts:

1. “A bunch of the dossier has proven to be true.

2. “The FBI and CIA have reportedly validated parts of it as true and have apparently used it as the basis of some of their ongoing investigation.”

3. “The special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the dossier including interviewing Christopher Steele about it.”

4. “Senate investigators apparently can meet with Christopher Steele if they want to. Even if the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee yesterday said otherwise.”

She noted that former Trump aide Steve Bannon is demanding that Republicans in the House and Senate put their collective feet down to stop these investigations. However, every day there is new information proving that this the investigation is warranted.



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[L. Coyote]

1. Just posted the video on the front page

[awesomerwb1]

2. Burr is a two faced liar

And Warner (weak) goes along with whatever he says.

Mueller is our only hope.

[annabanana]

3. It's very frustrating to see MSNBC's daytime lineup pretend

that there WAS no Rachel Maddow Show the previous evening. She has invariably moved the story further down the line, and they are "reporting" as if there's no new info.

[burnbaby]

4. he interviewed him last summer

Some aspects of the dossier — like communications between foreign nationals noted in the dossier — have been confirmed by officials; however, the majority of the scandalous allegations included in the document have not been verified.

Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr, R-N.C., expressed this week that Steele had dismissed requests to meet with the committee, and therefore, the credibility of the dossier was difficult to verify.

"The committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like, who paid for it? Who are your sources and sub-sources?" Burr said. "We're investigating a very expansive Russian network of interference in U.S. elections. 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 somewhat impossible."

The dossier includes content originally intended to be used as opposition research during the GOP primaries by anti-Trump Republicans; however, Democrats got on board once Trump won the nomination in May 2016. Steele was hired during the summer of 2016 to join the Washington firm

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Our Republican Senators are liars.

Que surprise.

[triron]

6. She is a sharp cookie.

[pnwmom]

7. I wonder if Burr and his people have been lying to Warner about Steele

and his willingness to talk to them.

[triron]

8. kick