Brit Hume: CNN Reporter Who Fell for Steele Dossier Is Now Running Preliminary Report Leak

BAIER: “And all of this, let’s bring in Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume. Brit, good evening. You know, there’s a lot of this back and forth, but there are kind of broader issues here to look at about the strike and the fallout from it.”

HUME: “Well, Bret, the best thing you can say about that preliminary report that leaked out yesterday was that it was very, very tentative and very, very early. And it was marked as low confidence. And, you know, there’s only so much you can know about underground damage from massive bombing in the 48 or 72 hours after it happens, because in order to really know, you’d have to be in there. And nobody within the reach of the Defense Intelligence Agency that I’ve ever heard of would be in a position to assess that. But we have reporters working on this story. One in particular who worked for CNN, who is a person who fell for the Steele Dossier hook, line and sinker, who thought that — who wrote that the Hunter Biden laptop, bought into the story that that was Russian disinformation. And so, someone I don’t — I’m not — she wasn’t working for CNN at the time. It’s not clear to me how she ever got a job there, but CNN took her anyway and now she’s doing this kind of stuff. So, you know, I think that the subsequent intelligence reports we’ve heard about are more reliable. But, you know, this all has to await a longer-term situation in which somebody is going to have to get in there and really find out. But the Iranians themselves were saying today that their nuclear program was badly damaged, so maybe we ought to rest with that.”

BAIER: “Yeah, the Iranians, actually the foreign minister —“