Christopher Steele

100%.

My response is that I'm a professional intelligence officer, an expert on that part of the world. I'm not a politician.

Let him finish. Let him finish. So I've been a loyal and close ally of the United States for probably most of the last 40 years. I've worked extremely closely with officials working for administrations, both Republican and Democrat. I have a very strong U.S. client base for which I've worked and produced information over many years, none of whom have ever made any such allegation against me.

And it's palpable nonsense to claim that I'm in hock with politicians.

Well, I never worked for the Clinton campaign. I never had any contact with the Clinton campaign. That's the reality of it. I produced a report for a partner firm in Washington, and the results of that report made me as an ally of the United States, as I would have expected, an American counterpart to do, to report back in what I found to the contacts I had in the FBI at the time.

That was the right thing to do, and I'm proud of what I did.