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Conduct more of these justice department leak investigations than all previous administrations put together. that began what seems to be a trend that may well have intensified under -- its worrisome -- under the trump administration. jeff sessions says he now has three-times as many leak investigations going on as were left open by the obama administration. that tends to suggest that this -- this is intensifying. and it does have a chilling effect. this particular case seems to have all sorts of...

Senate intelligence committee. this reporter who had her phone and email records seized, unbee noents to her a reporter alley watt kins who works for the times. she previously worked for buzz feed, previously for politico. now for the times. and she did not know i guess until recently that the justice department had seized her records, her phone and email records. thats a big deal for anybody. its a really big deal and has first amendment implications if they do it to a reporter. continues from ...

Reid report. this post was titled baghdad john strikes again. that discovery just one day after buzz feed found another disturbing post from 2006. in which reid urged readers to watch. the blogger who could be reid herself asked the fundamental question is do you believe the official story of 9/11. one post suggest anderson cooper is the gayest thing on tv.

. another msnbc anchor thats in hot water tonight, joy reid. back in april, she said her blog history had been hochacked but today. she apologized today, some of the things she wrote were hateful and hurtful. our andy kay has details. >> look closely, thats john mccain head fphotoshopped on th body of the virginia tech shooter who killed 32 people back in 2007. the blog post was discovered by buzz feed on a now defunk blog called the rereport. the blog once belong to joy reid. this post was ti...

Senator jms heohn mccains hea. good evening, leland. >> good evening, shannon. gone are the claims that hackers posted her inflammatory post, and now reid said shes sorry and a better person. i published my blog starting in 2005, i wrote thousands of posts in realtime on the issues of the day. there are things i deeply regret, things i would have said differently and issues where my position has changed. among those blog posts uncovered, the photoshopped picture of john mccain, uncovered by buzz...

Obligation, joy, says to call it out and you can do that in a way without violenting any journalistic standards, and it starts with saying lies with being said. not falsehood, lies. he is deliberately zoodeceiving. i think part of the branding is on the media because they have the platform and the voice to take these messages to the public at large. >> absolutely. you know, im going to play one more soundbyte. this is lou dobbs, and this is donald trump taking credit for creating a brand that we...

>> and the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. and the look of trust. james clapper instructed comey to sit down with president trump and then he leaked the information at the meeting to allow cnn and buzz feed to report the dossier. >> harris: we are learning a bit more. thank you. sorry. chief of staff john kelly will be there, and white house counsel as well. the meeting gets a little bit broader on the subject. great to have you. >> thank you. >> harris: well be right back. hey! we didnt have a homeowners...

That trump attorney michael cohen pursued a business deal in russia much later than previously acknowledged. he and cohen who was then an executive vice president at the trump organization discussed a trump tower in moscow, russia as late as june. six weeks before the republican national convention, he asked cohen when he and trump would go to moscow. cohen replied in a text message my trip before cleveland, the site of the rnc. once he becomes the nominee after the convention. this contradicts ...

People vetted by the president. if you turn it around and say, look, you cant get in here unless you write something nice about me, what does that do to free press? >> threatening to revoke the credentials of a free press. when you think about that, april, we havent really heard presidents talk about that. weve seen on the campaign trail poll through with that. there were a number of outlets he barred from attending events, "the washington post," politico, buzz feed among them. this isnt somethi...

Even if giuliani started on the case yesterday, isnt he supposed to know at least that? reports indicate that giuliani has been speaking to the president every day of the last couple of weeks, but youd never know that on sunday if you listened to rudy giuliani explaining how and when the president reimbursed michael cohen for the $130,000 paid to stormy daniels. >> the other day you told buzz feed that at some point after the 2016 election michael cohen complained to some people he hadnt been pa...