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Everything old was new again this week as two of the most infamous names from the past -- from past legal scandals reappeared in the news. many of us were riveted thursday as networks went wall-to-wall with coverage of o.j. simpsons parole hearing. and we were horrified at a buzzfeed report detailing allegations that r. kelly self-described pied piper of r & b was holding women against their will in what parents of one woman described as a cult. a representative for kelly has denied the allegati...

Documents and theyll speak with staff and will talk to the committee at some point in the future. but not now. in the meantime, though, chuck grassley is going to hold an entirely different hearing on wednesday and hes filed a subpoena to compel testimony from the head of the research firm that paid for the christopher steele dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump, that dossier that caused such a stir when it was published by buzzfeed in january, it has a lot of lurid stuff in it but ho...

This week as two of the mostin fam ois names from the past legal scandals reappeared in the news. many were riveted as networks went wall to wall with coverage of a.j. simpsons parole hearing and horrified as a buzzfeed report with detailed that r. kelly was holding women against their will. in what parents of one of the women described as a cult. a representative has denied the allegations an one of the woman said shes not being held against her will but back in 2008 he was acquitted when he we...

But now on top of that we are learning that there was a second meeting at that same event. and you know, the first peep about this as a possibility had actually been the day after the meeting. the saturday after at the end of the story that they reported on the g20 that day, buzzfeed news mentioned in their article about the g20 that they had heard from a single source that there might have been an additional long chat between donald trump and vladimir putin that hadnt been disclosed by the whit...

Authors or celebrities who will share these stories from the kind of liberal online fever swamps and theyll share them on twitter without saying i know for a fact this is true. but pass them along cred lousily. in one remarkable case, democratic senator ed markey was giving an interview on cnn and parroted something he had read own the palmer report and journalists followed up with him and he had to retract it and apologi apologize. but the fact that has no credible sourcing and has not been tou...

>> the analysis done by buzzfeed was in the final weeks of the presidential election. studied right-wing and left-wing hyperpartisan facebook pages. among the three you mentioned. which taken together have millions of followers, one out of five, about 20% of the stories they posted were either partly or mostly false. and so and i will again, make the point of saying that the conservative facebook pages that were the parallel, were, had an even higher proportion of fake news. but consider that. o...

A senior russian government official and a senior kremlin official. they were spreading information directly sourced to the highest level of the russian government. instead ofed stopping all of this -- the dossier was passed aroundis for months and months, eventually published by buzzfeed, routinely cited by democrats who repeated the false claimsy to attack president trump. that was about the ritz-carlton and hookers and i wont go any further. it led to an investigation. the group behind this p...

A top level russia intelligence messenger. a senior russian government official and a senior kremlin official. they were spreading information directly sourced to the highest level of the russian government. instead of stopping all of this -- the dossier was passed around for months and months, eventually published by buzzfeed, routinely cited by democrats who repeated the false claims to attack president trump. that was about the ritz-carlton and hookers and i wont go any further. it led to an ...

About, boy that sounds an awful lot like that dossier story. it was another trap, another situation. >> kennedy: we should be factually accurate about that. buzzfeed published it as quick bait and other organizations basically quoted the bus speed story. >> rachel: they were repeating it as if it were true and i got legs. >> kennedy: i understand, but the thing is people are sophisticated enough to understand what fake news is in that story died pretty quickly and it ultimately didnt hurt the pr...

Russia resulted from that whole mishigas. republican and the trump white house and parts of the conservative media are starting to signal that theyre going to try to make that case, that russian scandal, that money-laundering case, the case that this russian lawyer was involved in when she came to that meeting, they appear to be gearing up to make it seem like that case itself, like thats the real russia scandal here. it does not make sense yet, i will not try to make it make sense hear on tv. b...