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Words on it, and those words are actually made up of letters, but thats not generally accepted in reality to mean the same thing as, quote, letters of congratulation that anchors sent to the president. as for the white houses list of tweets 18 out of 19 are not actually from anchors and 19 out of 19 are not letters. and the congratulations heaped on the president on this list, heres one from the daily mail editor. thats a text congratulations letter. heres a tweet from a buzzfeed letter. im so t...

The president. tom, how are you doing and good morning to you? okay. your views are very important to help us wade through all this. i want to be specific. if the presidents attorney cohen who is suing buzzfeed on behalf of michael cohen, not on behalf of the president. in addition to that, you have the comments from yesterday talking about libel and the president said the following from the white house. wafrp. watch >> president trump: our current libel laws are a sham and disgrace and do not r...

♪ >> sean: the president front on offense today against his critics of my phone number will microphonene the russia investigation. ed henry has a live report with insight into the president strategy. >> good to see you. the presidents advisors telling me that he is getting fed up about playing so much at events for so long. one day after his personal attorney, michael coburn, tweeted out "enough is enough" and filed those defamation suits against both buzzfeed and fusion gps and its cofounder,...

Would have a lot of trouble understanding last year and without this document. >> tucker: of course but you are making a retroactive argument. >> this was true at the time. the dossier was a piece of dark matter that was pulling the fbi, pulling he reread, its important to understand. >> tucker: thats the point. we now have a context for it. we didnt then. >> a lot of this we knew then. a lot of the reality of this case we knew. >> tucker: i didnt read it on buzzfeed, i did not know this was par...

Joining us now is ben smith, the editor in chief of buzz feed. thank you for coming on and doing this. >> thank you for having me on. >> one year after you published the dossier. you talked in other venues about the internal process and decisions you had about whether or not to do this. i have some very specific questions about the dossier. >> im not sure if i have answers or not. >> it seems like there was an indication in the glen simpson transcript that maybe these things were out of order, m...

Steele has a consulting firm, done a lot of work. is obviously a leading expert on the subject. what else deal. reported on. >> what do you mean? in terms of things that are noted in the dossier that -- i dont understand what you mean by this. >> i mean theres -- if you look at the pages of the dossier, theyre not sequential and as youre referring to there -- i dont have a clear answer. >> you published you had? >> yes. >> whos highlighting on it? when you got it or buzzfeed highlighting? >> i d...

Work still not stopped, still investigating trump and russia. publication of the original memos by buzzfeed, happened a year ago tonight, apparently not the end of this work by fusion gps and christopher steele. but start of a new odyssey for buzzfeed itself. since fending off lawsuits and attac attacks from all sides. but ben smith says hes proud to have published the dossier. he joins us next.

Acknowledged he created 16 memos, june 2016 and october 2016. accurate? >> to the best of my knowledge thats accurate. >> show you exhibit three. its a document produced to the committee by your lawyers. explained to us this was document originally boasted by buzzfeed in january 2017. question, if you could just take a look at that, is that what we were just discussing? >> yes it is. >> can you explain for us just what does this represent? 16 memos that would have occurred between june and octob...

Memos by buzz fooed, which -- you you know what, that night was the start of a whole new odyssey for buzz feed itself. since its been fending of lawsuits of all kinds from all ieds. >> but editor in chief says he is proud of the dossier. thats next. t i dont need luck, i have skills... i dont have my keys. (on intercom) all hands. we are looking for the captains keys again. they are on a silver carabiner. oh, this is bad. as long as people misplace their keys, you can count on geico saving folks...

That accurate? answer, to the best of my knowledge thats accurate. yes, exhibit 3 is a document produced to the committee by your lawyers. they explained this was a document originally posted by buzzfeed in january 17. is that what we were just discussing as the series of memos by buzzfeed and created by mr. steele? >> yes. >> does what does represent between june and october 2016? >> these are the memos that he created the engagement. to the best of my knowledge, as