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Confirmation hearing, ever. but cory booker will do that against jeff sessions tomorrow. 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 con...

I do not. it would be another thing, steve, if this were the considered opinion of u.s. intelligence agencies, but its not. as you mention, this has its prove pans in in opposition research and the 2016 campaign. first by republican-based groups and then was subsequently, i believe, financed by some democratic leaning groups. so it has the tinge of, you know, having been involved in a presidential campaign. so theres no way that buzzfeed should be putting its banner behind this information. and ...

President-elect standing in front of the media, taking questions on anything they ask. there were a number of questions that were raised, but one topic far more than others that came up. and that was russia. aerofor good reason. the press conference today coming on the heels of an absolutely extraordinary 18 hours in politics with the series of explosive and also we emphasize completely unverified claims exploding across the internet and media outlets overnight. specifically, a document seen her...

Ask him. he was in the briefing. we asked him, did president obama get briefed on this. listen to this. >> well it is complete garbage, ill tell you that, and i, look, i was in the briefing too. i got to tell you, this salacious stuff, first i heard of any of these things when someone printed off a buzzfeed. buzzfeed themselves said this stuff is not credible. "the new york times" announced overnight, they couldnt even publish this stuff because they couldnt verify it around they dont believe in...

Senator testified against a sitting senator at their confirmation hearing, ever. but cory booker will do that against jeff sessions tomorrow. the hits keep coming. at noontime today, buzzfeed, published an article that the widow of martin luther king jr., coretta scott king, testi. 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 segrega...

The next commander in chief and the best and biggest and most powerful intelligence services in the world, the united states of america, are at war with each other? this is a problem, and this we would say our intel people would assess a country situation right now as theres an unstable leadership situation. >> thats just a weird fight to continue to make public. if he really thinks the five people in the room leaked something or someone in there leaked them that is a serious conversation for th...

Reasons to doubt the allegations in the report. the executive editor of "the new york times" also dismissed the report by saying it was, quote, totally unsubstantiated echoing the report many respecters had on the internet. the fact buzzfeed and cnn made the decision to run with this claim is a sad and pathetic reason to get clicks. the report is not an intelligence report, plain and simple. one issue that the report talked about was the relationship of three individuals associated with the camp...

Information about him in an effort to blackmail him. in publishing the documents, buzzfeed acknowledged the claims are unverified and contained obvious errors. trumps response was in the form of a tweet, fake news, a total political witch hunt. and heres kellyanne conway onset myers. >> nobody has sourced it. they are all unnamed, unspoken sources. and the story says it was based on a russian investigator to begin with. >> it was based on an mi-6 british investigator. >> right. one of those. and...

Information that sort of came out about 24 hours ago. two things here. there was this report, not report, there was this document that went up on buzzfeed. this was about a 35, 36 page document, they say this was compiled by opposition researchers, campaign opposition researchers who talked to one former british intelligence official made all sorts of accusations about donald trump and about the russians having information that could blackmail with him with this. thing went up and cnn said a two...

Nancy pelosi for a reason because the trump effect electorally was to help bolster the gains in the house of representatives for republicans, take control of the senate and certainly keep control of the state legislatures and governorships. the same people who have been pedalling phony balonvillonbalo the election cycle are trying to -- the bottom line, greta, this never should have been released, never should have been insinuated. its based on raw information, not facts, not figures, and it got...