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Are you doing this to me? and you are pushing -- stuff like this pushes people to be more racially conscious, which is bad, in my opinion, if you see what im saying. >> again, i think if we want to talk about the way people experience poverty, i think first of all, its been proven that a black person who makes $100,000 is actually owing to live in a poor neighborhood with fewer resources than a white person that makes less than $25,000. because white property and black property are not equivalen...

The two reporters that founded a washington d.c. based research firm called fusion gps. now, fusion was a low-profile research firm until a year ago. a year ago this month. when buzzfeed published a dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump and his campaign. detailedal gagtss about the russian government intervening in the election to help trump win. that dossier was compiled by a respected former mi-6 british spy, christopher steele. but the firm that paid him to do it was fusion gps. now...

An extensive and now confirmed effort by the kremlin to help elect mr. trump president. mr. steele saw this as a crime in progress and decided he needed to report it though the fbi. we did not discuss that decision with our clients or anyone else, instead, we deferred to mr. steele, a trusted ground and intelligence professional with a long history of working with law enforceme enforcement. we did not speak to the fbi and we havent since. after the election, mr. steele decided to share his intel...

Our work and most importantly, what happened to our democracy." again, this is coming tonight from the two founders of fusion gps. they say they have given these republican-led committees in congress information on trumps relationship with deutsche bank, on business dealings by the trump organization that raised questions about money laundering. they said they did not want the dossier published. they said the russian sources for christopher steele in the dossier were not paid. they say they didn...

For having published admittedly unverified allegations. >> are you knowingly spreading false information. >> with the obama birth certificate, this is an incredibly difficult balance. everybody in our business navigates everyday. >> because buzz feed did not redact all personal information, many said they were liable by the publications. those russians are suing buzz feed, christopher steele and fusion gps. david corn feared buzz feed put at risk the lives of christopher steeles sources. >> one ...

Never even been to prague, and though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, the passport tweet was touted by the president-elect as a repudiation of the dossier. >> its a disgrace what took place. its a disgrace and i think they ought to apologize and start with michael cohen. >> he accused the u.s. intelligence community of leaking it. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that tu...

>> the information was provided as parts of last weeks intelligence briefings regard ing the russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzzfeed news. as true in other organizations, reporters at buzzfeed had obtained a copy of christopher steeles memos. >> we looked for things that were confirmable. >> ben smith says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier but smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being...

Audience in on what was fast the worst-kept secret in washington. >> the question we ask ourselves is why would we keep this from the audience? >> at 5:30 p.m., january 10th, buzzfeed hit publish. all 30 pages of the dossier went online with a warning that the allegations are unverified and the report contains errors. >> that was really our main goal in our summery of it was to say very, very clearly we havent verified this. there are as you say some minor or real errors in it that could give yo...

You saw and apologize. you can imagine. you can imagine. would think, but no. that has not been happening. that has not been happening. one story they wrote, white people are a plague to them planet, another one. there is a theme at the buzz feed. your floor director was walkinge out he said, because of that story i stopped following buzz feed. i willç not read it anymore. and can only cross the line so many times..he >> brian: lastly, is therere aha chancet that they are having fu? they are t...

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