"I think the congressman is referring to someone within the State Department based on my reporting," Herridge said Tuesday on Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show."  "Because we have a pretty good sense now from these transcripts that have been revealed and then also records that were unsealed at the end last week in the defamation suit with BuzzFeed that … the government network was being pulsed with the dossier in the final months of the campaign and then during the transition period.  And that it was coming at the FBI and Justice Department through many different lanes or many different avenues, and the objective was to lend it credibility."

Herridge added, "My recollection is there is a tie into the State Department, so we'll see exactly who Congressman Meadows is referring to … but that is where I think it's going."

The deposition was released last week due to a lawsuit over BuzzFeed and their publication of the much-debated Christopher Steele dossier.