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>> greg: not going to d.c.! all right, the british paper the daily telegraph issued a humiliating apology on saturday at admitting an article titled "the mystery of melania" was full of fake news about the first lady. they took it back and paid her substantial damages. there is no point in recounting the storys lies. its the same stuff you heard many times before, part of a larger industry built on unknown sources and bitter buys. it shows you the kind of year the media is having, and its only b...

Take a listen. >> ive been fully briefed on the investigation, and i look forward to director mueller delivering the final report. i am comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be is reviewed either through the various means we have. but right now i think the investigation is i think close to being completed, and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as -- as possible. >> john, your view of those statements late today coming from the acting attorney ge...

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Google would say were making the internet better for everybody. side effect is that the newsrooms are suffering as a result. >> right. >> this is a problem much bigger than huffpost or buzzfeed? >> yes. journalism is a pillar of democracy. we need wide ranging news out lets. >> you were notified about this on thursday. so were many of your colleagues. ive been reading about people getting death threats, laid-off journalists getting death threat. >> yeah. >> is this affecting you, too? >> yeah. w...

Including a dozen at huff post. from rochester to knoxville to corpus christi. president trump read about this and said fake news and bad journalism has caused a big downturn. sadly, many others will follow. the people want the truth. the truth? the truth is he just posted yet another insulting tweet, mr. president. this time about american job losses. laura bassett joins me now. sadly, you were one of dozens let go. this is something i want to talk about, the reasons why, whats going on in the ...

I agree flying congress is a problem. but we have people flying congress all the time including john brennan and james clapper. howie: thats been overshadowed. there have been significant layoffs at "buzzfeed." ben smith, the editor of "buzzfeed." beverly: i think trump is the winner and this is a case of it. i wish he wouldnt tweet this out. but he has a very good point. lets not forget what "buzzfeed" did last week. for them to lose staff based on the fact people dont think they are as strong ...

The case as closely as anyone and editor in chief and msnbc legal contributor. what jumps out at you about this development and what we have learned from it? >> the two things that jump out to me are, one, the way that they went after stone, the predawn raid, there are law enforcement reasons why they had to do that but nevertheless, manafort did not get that treatment. no one else has gotten that treatment. they came after roger before the lights came on during the day. the other thing, youve a...

What should he and you expect? >> it will be private. and it will be to the public. house representatives will be subpoenaing him. that will be public. he has to testify. the allegations hes being threatened orsands getting robb fred. >> of course you had to get that in there. >> i had to get that in. because nobody can believe it. but, he is going to testify. >> your home away from home. your second home away from home. new york. >> right. >> new orleans. >> right. >> but his lawyers already sa...

The wikileaks material with either a russian operative or passing it along to a trump operative a crime. >> i dont think on its own is enough. it may be unseemly and weve seen enough to know unseemly and unsavory when we see it, but i think that bob mueller was appropriately cautious enough in the language of the roger stone indictment not to suggest those activities on their own would constitute illegality. whether he has it or not, we dont know, but im just saying based on the face of the docu...

Way they went after stone. the predawn raid there are law enforcement reasons why they had to do that but nevertheless, manafort did not get that treatment no one else has gotten that treatment. they came after roger before the lights came on that was directed a week after weve been fighting all week about whether "buzzfeed" should have used that word directed, well, now were using it courtesy of roger mueller. and there arent that many people in the campaign that could have directed that kind o...