I understand you might not know this because I suspect your right wing media sources were in no hurry to report on it.
But in essence, Steele had determined 6 months before our IC did, based on a number of sources, that the Russians combined cyber and propaganda operation was directed personally by Vladimir Putin, with the aim of harming Hillary Clinton's candidacy and helping Trump.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/Trump-...rt-one-7646273
This is a fact that everyone in the world (including Congressional Republicans) now accepts as true except for Trump and a few other conspiracy theorists.