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It. you dont just throw it out there. because otherwise, we might as well have a complete channel that says russian propaganda, pick and choose what you want. buzzfeed did it. i think they made a terrible mistake. totally indefensible. cnn picked it up sort of secondhand, said there was a briefing about it. did not publish it. but gave it legs. but i think the fact that the rest to of the media is encouraging because they do not go after it. >> tucker: im never gone after tough questioning of tr...

>> bill: i just dont think you need to steer people into it. i dont think -- >> that is something -- buzzfeed was steered into it. that is on them. but if you want to do a story on why this was even put on paper in the first place by the intelligence community, great. thats a good idea. if you want to do a story on how it was leaked -- >> bill: if i found out who leaked it, that is going to be the lead story on this program because that is a disgrace. >> right, thats a legitimate story. but do n...

Secondly, a lot of news organizations have this unverified, unsubstantiated collection of rumors and information about donald trump, they did not publish it and still have not reported the details despite the fact buzzfeed did. we are not all buzzfeed, but i understand that perception. the more that people think we are all biased, all fake, all making mistakes, all self absorbed, out of touch with the country, there is an element of truth and all that, the more it is very hard for us to be seen ...

Organizations habit, politicians have it, the intelligences agencies habit, idyllic of theyve got it and were talking about it we can see whats in it and see its absolute garbage." >> it wasnt presented as garbage, it was portrayed in buzzfeed as a semilegitimate. >> andy: im not sure i agree with that, i thought they did a decent job of saying that some of it wasnt verifiably point to my false. it >> the tone should have been that there was a weird document floating around the people keep takin...

Today and put the story out but brought attention to the story, i want to be very clear, cnn didnt put out the salacious details, that was buzzfeed. but they brought attention to the story. when you saw that, what went through your mind? >> i didnt have any idea it was in the intel report. again, people in your business, got to find what is in the best interest of our country and thee that a report has been briefed by the president, there is no foundation if its true or not, to me, seems to be a...

Briefing it almost begs the question or makes it inevitable that somebody is going to find out about it and report it and legitimate to report about it. it is news, not what was in the report which was unverified but the fact that the intelligence community briefed mr. trump about it and it will happen it will all come out. so it is almost like. >> martha: cnn said the news here is that this was included in the briefing. thats why it is news. do you agree with that? >> i do agree with that. i do...

Thats how i feel about it. >> wow. so what are you going to do now? >> just continue to do what i do. >> in terms of these guests that come on and they just come on here and they look you straight in the eye and you know they know what theyre saying isnt really the truth. >> we tell them its not the truth. thats all we can -- >> you have to do that. you have to say that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> youre getting me in trouble. but i like it. >> i could get you in more trouble if you have 30 m...

Because if everybody just sort of believes their own opinions and are in their own echo chambers, there is no common set of facts we can use as a country to debate these important issues. that, i think, is going to be very hard to get back. >> jenna: one of the big debates about technology, does it allow us more freedom to view other opinions or allow us to stay in our corners and reassert our own? it is one of the big debates about technology we continue to have. ari fleischer, former white hou...

Tom, buzzfeed faced a buzz saw of criticism from all corners. >> there it was an era when you would be the gatekeeper for information, you would say to your audience "trust us, were keeping things from you, we have lots of secrets were not telling you, we think you should trust us." you could say thats a good era or a bad era, thats not the present day. i think people like to throw the term fake news around to refer to things they dont like. this is a real document that was really being passed a...

Thing. >> andy: im saying they do. >> when? can i go on the main page of a buzzfeed right now? this might take a while. how much do you want to bet its either a dog or -- >> andy: do it quietly. he alluded to the memo as containing evidence that russia had supportive trump. >> he said that both he and david corn headed evidently has to this dossier after it had been dug up by anti-trump people, the fact that this isns such a document, they didnt publish it in october when they had it. >> andy: p...