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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 see in the trump family so to speak is that theyre all willing to please the master, and that theyll follow in his footsteps and essentially try to w...

Quote, i respect senator grassley. but i think its important. what i do want is for the public to see. meanwhile the presidents lawyer michael kohn is now using buzzfeed over that. well have more on that. breitbart announced that bannon would step down. in the controversy that sparked backlash from the president. "the new york times" reports that bannon was and bannons position at breitbart grew untenable as associates described him as unable to grasp the severity of the fallout at the white h...

Commission, for example, but democrats and frankly a number of republicans have felt as though those actions havent gone far enough. now, all of this comes, steph, as the presidents personal attorney, michael cohen, is filing a lawsuit against buzzfeed for publishing details of that now infamous dossier. cohen saying that details within the report are false, are provably false, for example, saying that his wife is russian. he says that thats not the case according to the suit. so what youre real...

Has filed two separate defamation lawsuits, one against phusion gps and other against buzzfeed for public issue willing the document. one claimed that his wife is russian and that her father is a leading property developer in russia which allows that relationship with the russian government. the lawsuit said cohens wife is ukrainian. and that her father has only been to russia once. buzzfeed published it last january and says it plans to fight the lawsuit. ben smith the editor-in-chief will spea...

Sense of. >> bret: a lot of members of congress ive talked to say we are going to wait here we are going to wait until mueller comes out with whatever he comes out with. >> house intelligence committee, all the committees investigating a going to have to reconcile their facts with the mueller investigation. if you look at the information today about simpson saying theres someone whos been killed as a result of a source being exposed, i have to question that a little bit because you have to remem...

Special counsel to look at not only how mr. steele conducted himself, what the fbi did with the dossier, whether mr. orr whose wife worked for fusion gps alongside mr. steele, what involvement did he have in the dossier, and i want to find out if the lead investigator of the clinton e-mail investigation had a political bias against trump for clinton to the point that it was a sham investigation. i dont know all these things, but i can tell you somebody needs to look. if you believe robert muelle...

Contents of the dossier. it had not been verified. but shortly after, buzzfeed published it on the internet. donald trump was furious. >> it is fake news, phoney stuff, a disgrace. >> portions of it had been in fbi hands for months. >> the former officer that compiled the dossier puts it in the hands of someone in roam that is an fbi agency that puts it in the blood stream of the fbi. >> christopher steel was a veteran spy that worked for the mi 6, a russian expert. >> steel compiled the dossier...

Thats the whole point. that is why racism is wrong, right? >> that is exactly why racism is wrong. >> tucker: so why is the left doing that? >> when you say "the left," i wonder who those people are. >> tucker: i dont know. anytime i pull a buzzfeed or "huffington post," or any lefty side, there is an piece about white people or a scourge in america, and im not defending white people, alllk im saying , you shouldnt write off any group of people on the basis of their race. i thought that was the ...

Structural issues that we have. >> tucker: happy to, but you are not answering the question, which is why does this help? with always been divided along racial lines, its a tragedy. one of the worst things -- its the worst thing about america. and you dont want to get worse, which is why you dont attack people on the basis of their race in public. and now all of a sudden the left has decided thats okay. its crazy to me. >> again, you have to enter in nuance and context here. i think that many of...

For buzzfeed represents the powerful. that guy is making $40,000 a year. >> tucker: name one who went to public school in the midwest? i bet you cant. we are out of time. congressman, thank you. congressman. i hope you will announce in the future. journalist in new york city, home of brooklyn and people who write buzzfeed, and he joins us tonight. chadwick, i know im painting with a broad brush, but i can kind of picture the staffer in question sneering at the middle of the country and blinding ...