The Outsize Life and Quiet Death of the Steele Dossier

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains strong language. The Steele Dossier — compiled by Christopher Steele, a British former spy — was born out of opposition research on Donald J. Trump, then a presidential candidate, and his supposed links to Russia. The document, full of salacious allegations, captured and cleaved America. But now, a main source of the dossier’s findings — Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst — has been charged with lying to federal investigators. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Habaro.
0:05.0	This is daily.
0:10.5	For years, the steel dossier captivated and cleaved America.
0:16.2	A collection of the most salacious allegations against Donald Trump, it became inextricably
0:22.2	linked to the Russia investigation, the Mueller report, and the legitimacy of Trump's presidency
0:29.0	itself.
0:31.4	Then just weeks ago, Igor Dancango, a Russian analyst and the dossier's main source,
0:38.6	was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI about his sources for the dossier.
0:46.8	Today, my colleague Mike Schmidt returns to make sense of the dossier's outsized life
0:55.6	and quiet death.
1:02.6	It's Monday, December 13th.
1:11.6	Mike Schmidt.
1:18.6	Very well.
1:20.6	Sorry, I'm late.
1:22.1	It's okay.
1:25.1	Is this on?
1:27.1	Yeah.
1:28.1	Okay.
1:29.1	So, Mike, this is truly a blast from the past.
1:33.1	You, Trump, Russia, steel dossier being in the studio.
1:39.4	And the reason we're bringing the proverbial band back together is because we now have this
1:44.1	new information on the dossier, which for the last year or so has remained kind of a loose
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