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Would -- that your lives would be transformed to the degree th they have? >> i mean, we knew that would happen when once the dossier was published by buzzfeed. >> yeah. >> january of 2017. but i dont know if we were as former journalists we were that well prepared for the scale and the vinality of the lies being told on the right about us. >> i went to college in washington. i basically spoke most of my profession fall life in washington covering scandals so there was some ability to anticipate ...

At the time when you guys were doing your work that there was going to be blow-back, that you would become target, you write in very serious terms about the risk to the sources who were used to collect some of this information. did you anticipate that you would -- that your lives would be transformed to the degree they have? >> i mean, we knew that would happen when once the dossier was published by buzzfeed. >> yeah. >> january of 2017. but i dont know if we were as former journalists we were t...

For a navy s.e.a.l. an update on ruth bader ginsburg as well. she has been hospitalized this weekend. former congressman david jolly, msnbc contributor, and hayes brown, senior editor and reporter from buzzfeed news and host of podcast impeachment today, which i recommend to everybody. and former federal prosecutor, special counsel to the senate committee on the judiciary. i will start with that news about devin nunes who seems to be close to the center of that story the committee has been inves...

These republicans were not happy with the way trump is being treated. >> if a government can do this to the president of the united states they can do it to you as with well. you need be scared. >> somehow not scared. i just dont think the average american is scared theyre going to lose their job for with holding military aid for ukraine. >> it was via satire like that that one ukrainian soldier learned that the u.s.-with held vital military aid. according to a buzz feed from ukraine, quote the ...

Of the clintons to spy and smear -- spy on and smear the trump campaign. >> laura: was interesting among many things. people didnt know anything about fiona hills knowledge about the dossier. devin nunes did a line of questioning that was fascinating. watch. >> you stated in your deposition that a colleague had showed you the steele dossier before was published. who was at colleague? stick with it with one of my colleagues at the brookings institution. >> who was that? >> the brookings instituti...

>> in 2016 i dont recall, but i did meet with him some times before 2016. >> but you dont remember the date? >> i dont, im afraid, no. >> you stated in your deposition that they colleague had showed you the steele dossier before it was published. who was that calling? >> that was one of my colleagues at the brookings institution. >> and who was not? >> that was the brookings institution president, who have been sent a copy of this. >> and he shared it with you? >> that was the day before it was ...

Gps hires christ fear steel to write the steel dossiers, a collection of false allegations attributed to russian sources claiming that donald trump is a russian agent. fast forward to january 6th of 2017. fbi director james comey briefs president-elect trump on the steel dossier. the briefing is linked to cnn. and soon afterwards buzz feed publishes the dossiers. january 20th. on president trumps inauguration today, the headline. january 30th, ten days later the whistle-blowers current lawyer tw...

Intelligence services in 2009. >> i dont call in 2016, but i did meet with him a few times before 2016. >> you dont remember the date? >> i dont, im afraid, no. >> you stated that a colleague showed you the steel dossier before it was released. >> that was a colleague at the brookings institute. >> and he shared it with you? >> that was the day before it was published in buzz feed. >> you mentioned that you thought that it was a, lets get the exact quote, that the do dossier was a rabbit hole? >...

Done it. it doesntt matter who i am dog it for, whether it is 60 minutes or fox nation or the newspaper i started at. having first hand sources and verifying information independently, not allowing anonymity to be a standard, those are the sort of basic of independent, decent journalism. they dont change. they really dont. so i was always confused about the buzzfeed dossier as a professional journalist because from the very beginning, it wasnt firsthand. the sources and it burned. then you had f...

False. buzz feed. president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project. all of these were false. there was no objectist or fairness in the medias russia story just to tarnish and remove a president who refuses to pretend the media are something different from what they really are. puppets of the democratic party. with their biased misreporting on the russia hope the media lost confidence of millions of americans and because they refuse to say how bad they botch...