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Passport and said hed never even been to prague. and even though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, cohens passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> its a disgrace what took place, its a disgrace, and i think they ought to apologize to start with, michael cohen. >> reporter: the president elect attacked not just the dossier itself, he accused the u.s. intelligence community of ...

Former british spy christopher steele and published by buzzfeed. >> within hours of being outed, steele went into hiding with his wife and children. >> the media were all over him. >> reporter: christopher steeles friend, nigel west. >> and the advice that he adopted was the correct advice that anybody in reputation management would give, which is saying nothing and disappear. >> reporter: in the days immediately after the dossiers publication, anyone interested in russias role in the election h...

Page served as an intermediary with the russians. trumps personal lawyer michael cohen traveled to prague to meet with russians trying to cover up the scandal. >> damaging allegations about trump and his dealings with russians. >> reporter: the reaction from the trump camp was immediate and furious. >> the buzzfeed memo is total complete garbage is what it is. >> reporter: the trump associates named in the dossier vehemently denied any wrongdoing. paul manafort said the allegations were a democr...

What was fast becoming the worst kept secret in washington. >> the question we ask ourselves, why would we keep this from our audience? >> reporter: at 5:20 p.m. on january 10th, buzzfeed hit publish. all 35 pages of the dossier went online with a warning that the allegations are unverified and the report contains errors. >> and that was really our main goal in our summary of it, was to say very, very clearly, we havent verified this. there are some, as you say, minor, but real errors in it that...

As part of last weeks classified intelligence briefing regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> reporter: that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzzfeed news. as was true at several other news organizations, reporters at buzzfeed had obtained a copy of christopher steeles memos. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> reporter: ben smith is buzzfeeds editor in chief. he said buzzfeed was not able to verify claims in the dossier, but smith felth...

Having published admittedly unverified allegations. >> are you knowingly spreading false information? >> i think as with the obama birth certificate thing during the obama campaign this is an incredibly difficult balance that everybody in our business navigates every day. >> reporter: baize buzzfeed did not redact all personal identifying information of people named in the dossier, several russians named in the dossier said they had been libelled by its publication and are now suing. david corn ...