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Purporting to be the -- excuse me originating information, all of which has been unverified. reporting from nbc today refuting both the cnn report and the information in those documents posted by buzzfeed. now buzzfeeds editor in chief ben smith defended putting up that unverified document. publishing this dossier reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017. obviously raising some major issues here for journalism in the age of trump. joining me to talk a little bit more about this, eric, he...

>> good morning. thank you for being here. were now nine days away from the inauguration of the next president and vice president of the united states. its an opportunity to be here today to allow the president-elect to take your questions. after the president-elect makes some remarks, he will introduce miss sherry dillon, a prominent attorney in washington, d.c., with morgan lewis who structured the agreements pursuit to the presidents business arrangement. she will give brief remarks. before w...

But it was presented in some of the materials. the fact that the intelligence community saw fit to make note of that we thought was significant and reported it. subsequently, buzzfeed, a 35-page dossier full of unsubstantiated claims about trump, we understand simply are not true, not vetted, some of which have been investigated by the fbi but theres no evidence thats been found that any of them are true. so -- its funny, i was all set to write a story about how the rift between trump and the in...

And the fbi was working to confirm or discredit the claims. last night, cnn was first on the air and busby went further posting the document from a former british spy who was paid by republicans and democrats for opposition research. "we have always aired on that side of publishing," buzzfeed said. there are serious reasons to doubt the allegations, as we noted. publishing this document was not an easy or simple call. people of goodwill may disagree with our choice. after the news conference, cn...

Added bonus. susan, the pushback from the president-elect from the transition team could not have been stronger to these reports. >> yes, absolutely. a lot of criticism today by journalists of the decision by buzz feed to publish salacious, unsubstantiated versions of that report. cnn, with their reports. in any case, the pushback i met could not have been dear sir, i. he used a four letter word in describing it as outrageous and at medical, democrats try to ask a question, he wouldnt let them a...

Time of nixon, a vital time certainly for yourewspaper in washington. im looking at the quotes here. they called buzzfeed among other things a "failing pile of garbage," and he directly accused jim acosta on behalf of his network, cnn, "you are fake news." so you have a fight going on with the intelligence community, something, like it or not, that is a valuable asset when youre president of the united states. you have a fight going on with what is considered in our constitution to be a free pre...

Will have reverberations on capitol hill, the president-elect says he wants to almost simultaneously repeal and replace the health care law, maybe same day, same week, same hour perhaps. i think that house speaker paul ryan might be frantically trying to figure out how to actually make that happen, given republicans still have not coalesced around some cohesive plan to replace the affordable care act and the time to repeal it is in wheels in motion. of course the fake news discussion and his bac...

He wont be doing it. russia will have much greater respect for our country when im leading it than when other people have led it. >> kellyanne conway is the counselor to president-elect trump and, of course, ran his successful campaign. nice to see you, kellyanne. >> nice to see you, greta, congratulations on your new program. all the best. >> thank you very much. help me understand this, nbc is reporting the president-elect did not get the report from the intel -- intelligence briefing he got. ...

Brian, has decades of experience in russia, and putting in even greater focus on his relationship with vladimir putin and russia is the controversy, the explosion of what is the potential bombshell, this unverified allegation in a nonintelligence document which has been circulating around washington, which, you know, as you know, we were talking last night, came out on buzzfeed and is now being circulated. officials are telling us it was a two-page intelligence addendum to the classified briefin...

The hits keep coming. at noontime today, buzzfeed, published an article that the widow of martin luther king jr., coretta scott king. sessions was seen as too racist to be a federal judge. coretta scott king wrote to the senate and pleaded with the senate to not elevate him to the federal bench. the committee chairman at the time, clong time segregationist strom thurmond never submitted her letter to the congressional record. buzz feed posted this piece about the missing letter from martin luthe...