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To president-elect trump and president obama, they said it was unsubstantiated information they could not verify. donald trump con glad it with what buzzfeed did to what cnn did. they thought they better stick together as donald trump comes forward. you could divide cnn from buzzfeed. it looks like the house of card is coming apart on the press side. >> i asked sean spicer about that. you can criticize cnns decision. i wasnt comfortable with it. but i didnt do it. buzzfeed didnt put the allegati...

Secret document and were not going to share it. >> its not possible to have unity in the press corps if buzzfeed is acting like wikileaks and telling the audience to decide if its true or not. >> i think we reported a story -- >> theres a difference between publishing and reporting. >> we explained the origin of the document. we described the extent to which it was accurate and inaccurate and we shared information that was being -- by the way that not just the head of the cia, dozens if not hund...

What cnn published. lets listen to sean spicer. >> the fact that buzzfeed and cnn made the decision to run with this claim is sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks. the report is not an intelligence report plain and simple. >> were you trying to just get clicks? >> i think sean quoted me in saying it was unverified. theres obviously an attempt to divide the press, to turn us on each other and turn reasonable differences about editorial decisions into screaming matches between us on this show. i...

Rafael caldera cnn fake news. buzzfeed made t-shirts and is donating the money to protect journalists. maybe hes figured out the streisand effect, a term for when a celebrity attacks something or talks about something and then gives it even more attention. thats what trump had done with "snl" earlier in the season. maybe hell avoid that today. >> whats coming up on the show today? >> "reliable sources," got the editor of chief ben submit of buzzfeed for publishing all that unverified and unsubst...

Lawsuit threats been they have been filed. >> do you worry or care that this sort of inoculated donald trump? it conflated a lot of these news outlets and a lot of them call you failing pile of garbage? >> i really didnt understand this. i saw the next morning people saying this was the moment after two and a half years of really getting totally rolled by donald trump and many cases apologizing for coverage of donald trump that this was the morning that we were going to -- this was the morning t...

And cnn at the press conference. >> god, im loving this press conference. i love the press, i respect. press. lets take another question from the press. >> hello, im from buzzfeed. >> not you, youre a failing pile of garbage and i took your quiz yesterday, and im into the joey, im a rachel. who also has a question, i love the press. >> jim acosta. >> not cnn, youre overrated, fake news and i tried to watch the necessarywork and there was a crazy blond woman spouting lies. >> that was kellyanne c...

Viewed it at buzzfeed and he won. by his standards he won. >> would you publish this memo? >> we had access to the same information going back for a while and we didnt. i was trying to figure out if it was true or not. clearly, i made a decision not to go forward unless we can verify information because i think thats what were supposed to do. i think ben is a great journalist. i just disagree with his decision. were supposed to help the reader understand whats true and whats false. thats why we ...

You have people applaud over something like that. do you know what i love about the buzzfeed thing? the transparent excuse. they ran it because it was interesting. when we did the anthony weiner story we didnt do it because it was about politics. >> its because you want to say it on tv. greg: exactly. >> its interesting in its wackiness like an urban legend. you want them to be true. everyone wants this to be true but lets be real, come on. greg: its like the richard gere story. theres no indica...

Pushing unreliable stories to advance a highly partisan story is what too many journalists are doing. he did have a good point when he talked a about how this information did add context and meaning to the story. the original cnn story sounded so unbelievably bad like russians had the goods on trump and cia was taking it very seriously. buzzfeed publishes the dossier and people could see how ridiculous, how immediately debunkable some of the most important claims were. it cast doubts not on cnn ...

Kim kardashians asked. number three the disinformation has been around forever and no one touched it. it was like the last hotdog at 7-eleven. if you eat it you own it. and you will probably your pants after. [laughter] number four, the idea that trump would have hookers defile a bed because president obama slept in it, it sounds like a bieber dream written by sean penn on a nisqually and bender. you believe that you believe bill clinton is faithful and lena dunham is talented. [laughter] [appla...