Christopher Steele and the Story of the Dossier

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 8, 2018

Rosalind Helderman, Washington Post political reporter, talks about her reporting on Christopher Steele and how the former British spy compiled the Trump-Russia dossier -- the competing interests around him and his alarm at what he was finding that led him to inform the FBI.

→"Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation." (Washington Post, Feb. 6, 2018)

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