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Think its going to take down as many people on the democratic side believe. >> tucker: they should listen to you, peter. thank you for coming on.cr >> my pleasure.n thank you. >> tucker: dave weigel is a politics reporter for "the washington post," which implies a lot of things, including that hes likely not a fan of the show. indeed, he is not, judging by his reaction to an interview we did wednesday night. ben smith, the editor of the buzzfeed came on, and we had a vigorous discussion about li...

They look different, they overwhelmingly live in the same cities, hail from the same backgrounds, and most important, have pretty much the same ideas. recently, white house correspondents association jeff mason of reuters told us that journalists are still capable os fairly. watch. >> people standing in the briefing room who are telling us on camera, i am just here to report the facts, then, you read their twitter feed, and they say, "i hate company is a fascist takeover of the country." they ar...

Katie, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: todays journalists are in a bigger problem than they have ever been before. that is not speculation. research shows that. how can they hope to write fairly about a country they dont live in at a president who they unanimously despise? one of the questions we will have the editor in chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, next. ♪ instead of allergy pills. its more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using un...

That sounds right to me. how many trump voters you think you have on staff at buzzfeed? >> i dont know. i dont ask people about their ideology. i agree with you. i dont think there are a lot of journalists voting for trump. but again, you just told a story, i dont think that happened that he was left out of meetings where his ideology. that certainly doesnt happen in our news operation. >> tucker: you dont think that if someone came out and said, by the way, i i mean even travel call and i think...

Backgrounds, and most important, have pretty much the same ideas. recently, white house correspondents associations jeff mason of reuters told us that journalists are stillll capable of covering the news fairly. watch. >> tucker: people standing in the briefing room who are telling us on camera, i am just here to report the facts. then, you read their twitter feed, and they say, "i hate trump and itsou a fascist takeover of the country." they are out in the open liberal. >> do you have a specifi...

Cities, hail from the same backgrounds, and most important, have pretty much the same ideas. recently, white house correspondents association jeff mason of reuters told us that journalists are still capable os fairly. watch. >> people standing in the briefing room who are telling us on camera, i am just here to report the facts, then, you read their twitter feed, and they say, "i hate company is a fascist takeover of the country." they are out in the open liberal. >> do you have a specific examp...

How many trump voters you think you have on staff at buzzfeed? >> i dont know. i dont ask people about their ideology. i agree with you. i dont think there are a lot of journalists voting for trump. but again, you just told a story, i dont think that happened that he was left out of meetings where his ideology. that certainly doesnt happen in our news operation. >> tucker: you dont think that if someone came out and said, by the way, i i mean even travel call and i think abortion is murder and i...

Of free inquiry to me. >> he was an employee of our los angeles entertainment division. i did actually try to report out that an actor because it sounds pretty preposterous. i dont think it happen. i was not there. more broadly, that story, he goes under the name baked alaska, his name is tim. i dont think he was somebody who was persecuted for his conservative beliefs. this was somebody who obviously did not have a great experience at buzzfeed. left buzzfeed, for a while hung out in the pro-tru...

And i appreciate it. katie, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: todays journalists are inng a bigger problem than they have ever been before. that is not speculation. research shows that. how can they hope to write fairly about a country they dont live in and a president they unanimously despise? one of the questions weid will have the editor in chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, next. lergies holding you back? break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist instead o...

Today we also got a grand new display how the trump party will fight against the investigation. >> where is all this speculation about collusion coming from? in january buzzfeed published a dossier spinning wild conspiracy theories about the trump campaign. buzzfeed acknowledged the claims were unverified and some of the details were clearly wrong. buzzfeed has since been sued for publishing them. since then much of the dossier has been proven wrong and many of his outlandish claims have failed ...