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So important. were laughing about this but the media. >> they said this story has been floating around, did you hear it? >> i had heard word of it. i didnt read the dossier. but what i had read was david corns piece based off this dossier. in terms of the first order of questions, i think you dont publish that dossier, thats my own personal feeling because you have to verify stuff that you publish. thats my feeling. >> no, thats correct. >> thank you. >> and as someone who -- i myself have had b...

Those assertions. most news organizations, including fox, stayed away. but earlier, cnn did pick up the general thread of the story and that angered mr. trump. he was also agitated that u.s. intelligence agencies in the past have leaked stuff. >> i think it is a disgrace. and i say that, and i say that, and that is something that germany would have done that and did do. i think it is a disgrace that information that was false and fake and never happened got released to the public, as far as buzz...

And the press and how he wants to look? >> only in this regard that he wanted to talk about his finances today, chris, because there was this elaborate establishment of a new trust for the trump organization. i have been waiting for weeks to see it. it makes sense to me. i think he met the bar, but there are some critics who say he did not, the emoluments clause. he could have had a better day. and buzzfeed really did a disservice to the media today. >> we still do not know if he has any financi...

Trump was the man you said, with birtherism. this is a whole different cloth. easy to dump on buzzfeed. and then we see dumping on cnn. people come back and say there is some legitimacy. this really exists. >> if you know that michael cohen is not that michael cohen, calls into question everything. anybody could say there is 100,000 michael cohens on the globe. >> they want to say it is so bad. >> hes never been to prague or russia. >> other establishments would never print fat. print fat >> lia...

Theres a 90%, 95% probably that youre right. assumptions are sometimes made and cnn made an assumption that was handed to trump. it wasnt actually done the way it was given to the office. >> whats so damaging about this whole episode is that it allows trump and gives him an open to score a political point, that the media is somehow biassed and out to get him. i think it is especially important in the incoming trump administration that the media is a fierce crusader for what is true and what we c...

It wasnt delivered to him in person as you and i talked about. it was delivered to his office in a classified manner, an appropriate manner. but they were somehow using an alley-oop play, that somehow cnn was setting up buzzfeed to do the dirty work. or is he trying to smear cnn with the behavior of buzzfeed? >> i think youre right, chris. >> which is right? he said buzzfeed wouldnt have introduced it if you guys didnt introduce the topic. >> intelligence reporting is hard, chris. and this was h...

That he is basically a pawn. >> this is if not the end game the last chapter in what appears to be an attempt to destroy trumps presidency before he gets to the white house. as for that document published in buzzfeed or whatever, ive seen stuff like that before in moscow. it is junk. you send me to moscow and i can get you a better dossier than that. it wont even have the factual errors in it. it is generated by so-called private intelligence agents, who are out to make a buck. they will sell it...

President-elect didnt get these two pages of this memo, this dossier, that was talked about in passing. that was the whole thing that cnn was reporting, i guess, was the two pages were an addendum to this intelligence report about russia. >> and "the new york times" cooperated with cnn had found. whether it was said in passing, whether it was appended to the document, whatever, the first part, i think how we makes a distinction. the first part is responsible journalism when you say, okay, we und...

Accuracy of it so he handed it over to the fbi. abby and rob back to you. >> thank you, rich. >> time now for a look at who is talking. rurria experts professor steven says not only accusations against trump fake but they actually pose a national security threat. >> this is the end game or the last chapter of what appears to be attempt to destroy trumps presidency before he gets to the white house. as for that document published in buzzfeed or whatever, i see stuff like that before in moscow, it...

>> julie: wait a second -- >> david: it wasnt just that, julie, there are so many stories out there that are based on very thin reads that dont deserve the attention that cnn gave it. >> harris: heres what we know, the director of intelligence, james clapper, said to the president-elect, look, it was an unsubstantiated information that came out. what more do you need? >> julie: you are conflating buzzfeed was cnn. >> they are also not focusing on jim acostas behavior. part of the story is jim ac...