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Presidents personal attorney, michael cohen, has filed a defamation suit against buzzfeed for publishing the dossier. buzzfeed says, its the subject of active investigations by congress and intelligence agencies. what, if any, impact could that have the investigation? >> this is a very strong claim. in the sense that donald trump is a public figure. and the reason they had an extensive citation about all the people who have quoted their work is because you have to show actual malice and uncorrob...

President trumps lawyer filing a defamation suit against buzzfeed for publishing the infamous trump dossier that included salacious details. that as senator feinstein releases closed-door testimony of a man whose firm paid for the dossier. he testified that the former british spy who wrote the dossier worked at the fbi because -- wrote to the fbi because he believed there was a crime in progress. so much for the strategy of the president and republicans who have tried to paint it as a partisan p...

Simpson and buzzfeed he tweeted this enough is enough of the fake russian dossier. just filed a defamation suit against buzzfeed news for publishing the lie-filled document. ion potus and me. katie? >> katie: the document is defamatory however i think this lawsuit is going nowhere. the president of the united states has been a public figure. he has been a public figure essentially his entire life. his attorney, michael cohen is also a public figure. and the bar is very, very high for libel and d...

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. president trumps attorney michael cohen has filed ay defamation suit against buzzfeed, the blog, for unverified allegations against trump last year. cohen told fox i filed a complaint buzz feed and ben smith for the lie-filled dossier. we will continue to follow those details. speaking of the dossier,mp glenn simpson testified to congress back in august. until now his remarks had remained secret. today dianne feinstein, the democrat of california, abruptly re...

Democratic linked firm, he responded that he did not think so, despite that money passing hands. as i mentioned of the top, breaking this hour, though, about this dossier, the personal attorney for the president, michael cohen come, longtime ally, just filed two s. in new york state, hes filed a suit against buzzfeed for publishing some of the dossier. buzzfeed has put out a statement tonight saying that "the interest of the public is obvious and that is why they published it and they will aggre...

Provoked the kind of act, the extraordinary act we saw from her today. >> tim obrien, your organization, bloomberg reporting tonight that michael cohen, donald trumps long-time lawyer is now suing buzzfeed for releasing -- being the first one to release the fusion gps so-called dossier and suing fusion gps and suing christopher steele. what do you make of this lesson? >> i think michael cohen, like everyone else in the trump universe, needs to get schooled on the libel standard. its actual malic...

Also brought to it the attention of senator john mccain through a totally separate channel. john mccains aide who wanted to have this information. senator mccain gets involved in this. and you never hear any references from lindsey graham about what was senator mccain doing looking into this fusion gps report. >> yeah, lawrence. i think that the pivot here by senator graham for being side by side with senator mccain as a trump skeptic, trump critic to now being the biggest cheerleader for donald...

Did you think he was sitting there waiting timing, deciding im going to have my lawsuit ready to file when we need a counterstory? >> i dont know. there is an extraordinary amount of stars lining on this. ben smith, the editor of buzzfeed wrote an op-ed in "the new york times" published tonight that said he was glad they published the transcript. you had the simpson document released and michael cohen suing over all of this. i doubt he knew any of this was coming. i think one of the things we se...

Releasing -- being the first one to release the fusion gps so-called dossier and suing fusion gps and suing christopher steele. what do you make of this lesson? >> i think michael cohen, like everyone else in the trump universe, needs to get schooled on the libel standard. its actual malice. they would have to show that buzzfeed published this document with strong -- either outright knowing or strongly believing that anything in the document, everything in the document was false. they clearly di...

>> the fbis view, now that we got some work, talk about evidence, testimony here. simpson says the fbi believed the dossier could be true because it matched their quote, intelligence gathered from inside the trump organization. again, the evidence being that the fbi wasnt just listening to whatever they heard but you see it there in yellow. from inside the trump board, thats what we learned from this leak that goes to the politics of diane finestein saying she wanted this out there with or witho...