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Stole christmas to push white supremacy." the problem is when you go to buzzfeed and slates and at the atlantic and most of these organizations, it is so far outside any chance of reality. i will give you an example of why. it that means theres going to be of some empty desks at "the new york times" pretty soo soon. your enterprise has failed because youre not actually being an organization, you are going out and telling false stories. >> julie: he is trying to maybe make peace. >> give me a bre...

To claim they care about these things is, a, equally strange and b, not true. >> do you think you have this campaign now, #bringbackthebot, do you think twitter will change its mind? >> i dont know. i would like to think so. thats why i wrote the op-ed. its a piece of code, we could have created another bot when they suspended the bot, but we dont want to work around twitter. we want twitter to know about a black hat account and a white hat account. it may seem like they are acting the same way,...

Have the dossier, i think that y used both, but we have to see, o know. >> trish: im amazed by that, because the journalists have seen it, organizations have seen it, nobody published it until, well, buzzfeed decided to. because they knew it was tainted, they knew it read like a piece of fiction if you read the whole thing, so an incredible person will look at that and say, i have to take this with a grain of salt. we do not know that they did that, -- >> it shows the support, the member of the ...

Investigation. this is ridiculous and if it werent for people like sara carter, i dont know how we would have found out the truth, since the mainstream media isnt doing its job. >> katie: shes an incredible reporter. richard, what about that? there are serious questions about how this dossier was used. i think we need to take a step back and go through history a bed. when these allegations were being shopped around to the mainstream many reporters in the fall of 2016, many of them rejected the d...

Privilege, the deliberative process privilege and the presidential communications privilege." now, im not a lawyer. and statistically speaking neither are you. but think of that for a second. this is for the transition. so trumps not president. so hes claiming presidential privilege over stuff that happens before hes -- i mean, there cant be presidential privilege if donald trump wasnt president yet unless theres presidential privilege for the president of the trump organization. thats not how i...

Transition team believes that robert muellers investigation illegally obtained emails from that transition period which is the period between when trump was actually elected and when he became president. its important to note that at that time, these emails were housed on government servers. the transitions both trumps transitions and hillary clintons transition that never really fully became a transition, are government run. they are housed on government servers. those emails. and in this lette...

Race? >> the polls are going to close at 8:00 eastern time. then it is going to be slow going. we have had a couple elections in alabama this year. we didnt get much for the first 90 minutes. if it is as close as the indications are, it may be the wee hours of the morning. >> late night for you, my friend. thank you for coming on the show earlier in the morning. now to buzzfeeds reporter who is on the ground there and "washington post" senior political reporter aaron black joining me here. so ...

Regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> reporter: that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzzfeed news. as was true at several other news organizations, reporters at buzzfeed had obtained a copy of christopher steeles memos. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> reporter: ben smith is buzzfeeds editor in chief. he said buzzfeed was not able to verify claims in the dossier, but smith felt that such a dossier was being taken seriously by u.s. i...

Steele and published by buzzfeed. >> within hours of being outed, steele went into hiding with his wife and children. >> the media were all over him. >> reporter: his friend nigel west. >> and what he adopted was the correct advice that anybody in reputation management would give, which is saying nothing and disappear. >> reporter: in the days immediately after the dossiers publication, anyone interested in russias role in the election had read it, including jonathan weiner. >> i looked at it li...

This from our audience? >> reporter: at 5:20 p.m. on january 10th, buzzfeed hit publish. all 35 pages of the dossier went online with a warning that the allegations are unverified and the report contains errors. >> and that was really our main goal in our summary of it, was to say very, very clearly, we havent verified this. there are some, as you say, minor, but real errors in it that could give you pause and heres what we know about where it comes from. >> reporter: it was explosive stuff, and...