AS WE KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO
SPEAKER PELOSI, SHE WILL NOT
HOLD IT UNLESS SHE HAS THEM.
>>> WE’RE FOLLOWING BREAKING
NEWS FROM THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT.
A SENIOR DOJ OFFICIAL CONFIRMING
TO NBC NEWS AN ANALYST WHO WAS A
KEY SOURCE FOR THE STEELE
DOSSIER WAS ARRESTED THIS
MORNING.
THAT DOSSIER CONTAINED
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
IT IS COMING IN CONNECTION WITH
SPECIAL COUNSEL JOHN DURHAM’S
PROBE INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE
INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
KEN DILANIAN HAS MORE.
BRING US UP TO DATE ON THIS.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
WHY NOW?
>> WE KNOW VERY LITTLE.
WE DO KNOW FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
HAVE ARRESTED THIS MAN THIS
MORNING.
HE’S A RUSSIAN-BORN ANALYST
LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND HE WAS INTERVIEWED BACK IN
2017 BY THE FBI ABOUT HIS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THAT
CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER.
AND WHAT HE TOLD THE FBI WAS
THAT HE PROVIDED RAW
INTELLIGENCE TO CHRISTOPHER
STEELE ABOUT THINGS THAT WERE
ESSENTIALLY RUMORS INCLUDING THE
SALACIOUS ALLEGATION ABOUT A SEX
TAPE IN MOSCOW.
THE FBI FOUND HIS INFORMATION
WAS UNVERIFIED AND WAS PORTRAYED
WITH MORE CONFIDENCE IN THE
STEELE DOSSIER THAN IT DESERVED.
THE KEY QUESTION IS WHAT ARE THE
CHARGES?
THEY REMAIN SEALED AT THIS HOUR.
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, BUT
THEY ARE PART OF THIS
INVESTIGATION BY FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR JOHN DURHAM,
ESSENTIALLY THE INVESTIGATION OF
THE INVESTIGATION.
IT WAS LAUNCHED UNDER THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION BY ATTORNEY
GENERAL WILLIAM BARR BUT HAS
PERSISTED AND CONTINUED INTO THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, AND AS YOU
RECALL, DURHAM INDICTED A
DEMOCRATIC LAWYER ON CHARGES OF
LYING TO THE FBI AS PART OF THAT
PROBE.
THIS IS REALLY THE THIRD SET OF
CHARGES IN THAT PROBE, COMING
TODAY AGAINST THIS ANALYST WHO
PROVIDED INFORMATION TO THE
STEELE DOSSIER.
WHAT THE CHARGES ARE, AGAIN, WE