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You need to steer people into it. i dont think -- >> that is something -- buzzfeed was steered into it. that is on them. but if you want to do a story on why this was even put on paper in the first place by the intelligence community, great. thats a good idea. if you want to do a story on how it was leaked -- >> bill: if i found out who leaked it, that is going to be the lead story on this program because that is a disgrace. >> right, thats a legitimate story. but do not cover a meeting of te to...

Long history of donating democrats. since 2004, hes contributed almost half a million dollars to democrats, including $2700 to hillary clinton in 2016. is that a fair balance? i dont think so. it should be no surprise that cnn and all these other people, buzzfeed, are standing by the s decision to publish what amounts to fake news all in an attemptre to smear the president-elect donald trump. take a look. >> sean: i know this was not your intent, ive known you lonb time. but you just published f...

Became president versus jim acosta, cnn, buzz feed against donald trump. it is so dramatic. what you think of it? >> the juxtaposition is just stark. its been one long glorious coordination for president obama. it still hasnt stopped. the right? because hes going back to chicago, community organizer central. as long as you show respect, for the results of the election, show some dignity. i agree with you, the tonality, suggesting that they want to destroy it. knock it down. ask suggest violence,...

Consequential for the country and this president is the -- his relationship with the intelligence officials. and its not clear that -- it seems like after director clapper had called him on wednesday night that they patched things up a little bit but then you have president-elect trump again tweeting this morning, blaming the intelligence for these leaks of this dossier. so, how that relationship goes. but broadly i think usually in transitions you have the chaos of the campaign and it kind of -...

Russias effort to influence the u.s. election. and the anti-trump garbage was included and that intel briefin briefing. vice president biden said today that the president questioned why the gossip was even included in the briefing and he was not pleased. that is to mr. obamas credit. the next day, donald trump received the same intelligence from four senior u.s. intelligent cheats domain chiefs. that is when all hell broke rose. also, receiving information, eight congresspeople. paul ryan, nancy...

>> oh, no. i agree. and i dont think they fully grasped what they were up against. what i meant is that i thought buzz feed handed him the stick that he needed to do to turn all of that around. with the unsubstantiated allegations. this was a gift to him. i think the media has to understand they are facing something they never faced before. their poll ratings are just slightly above hemorrhoids right now. donald trump knows he can beat on the media. he can humiliate the media. discredit the medi...

Other outlets trying to work on this story. they rather talk about the media than the facts on the ground. that was my impression at the press conference. donald trump would rather attack the press, attack the messengers than deal with the questions. this is something we should expect to continue. to prepare to continue. we talk a lot about media distrust in this country, low levels of trust in media, the polls have shown it for years. we should also note how many viewers want us, want the press...

Definition. he knows that to be a fact because he was in the briefing. kellyanne conway could not give a straight answer to me or anderson cooper about why theyre doing this except to attack the media and it works with his face. >> it does. these are difficult issues to report and you have to report them with caution and with fairness and thats what cnn did. other news organizations didnt do it like buzz feed by linking two unverified claims that were the basis for this briefing and jake tapper ...

Get it. >> thats actually real news. that happened. >> okay. >> thats not unsourced, unnamed -- >> you still have not answered is what is inaccurate in our reporting? because you said you werent in the briefing, you dont know if what were reporting is true or not. you werent in the briefing. i guess you havent heard anything about what was in the briefing from anybody who was there. can you deny that what we reported, not what buzz feed, all that unsubstantiated stuff, which were not reporting, ...

One, that the intelligence community chose to include these allegations in briefing materials to the president-elect and to the current president of the united states, barack obama. two, that the fbi is investigating these allegations. they have not determined them to be true, but they are investigating this, and they are taking them seriously. three, that both democratic and republican lawmakers, senators, are taking these allegations seriously and pursuing them. that was the essence of our sto...