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That. its important for him as a part of his brand to be that honest and effective. >> eric: ben smith, the editor-in-chief of buzzfeed literally wrote a note to his memo and staff saying these are unsubstantiated allegations. then he went ahead and publish them anyway. is there a lawsuit coming? >> i dont know. i would have to leave that up to the president-elect to decide. i can tell you my personal experience with ben has not been favorable. theres been a level of dishonesty but the buzzfeed ...

Been able to confirm it yet. >> harris: he called it unsubstantiated. >> julie: but they are continuing to run it down to see if it is true or not true, and i think we are going to be taking a huge risk if we somehow dismiss this as fallacy or truthfulness until they are able to run a downgrade he was very clear what donald trump said in his tweet was just false. >> harris: you are telling journalist right now it is not true and it shouldnt have been out there, so what is the difference? i would...

Profits out. it is an elaborate white paper put together. there was a lot of news to be made today, a lot of serious news. and what buzzfeed did was throw that out there, make a nefarious allegation for clicks. it was wrong and it destroyed an important news media sicycle. >> when we come back, i want to talk about trump attacks a journist, attacks the messenger. bring the bad news about him correctly usually or not you get nailed by him personally. number two, change the subject. the rabbit som...

Attacked publishing unverified information." you have been critical of wikileaks for publishing emails that did not belong to them and yet you are cheering on the information that is clearly wrong. >> i support their attempts to publish documents that would otherwise go unpublished. i support buzzfeeds decision to do the same when those documents are clearly part of an important story, they said they were and verified. they didnt say that everything in there was true. all they said was these doc...

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Go ahead, go ahead. no, not you. not you. your organization is terrible. as far as buzzfeed which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it? i think they are going to suffer the consequences. they already are. >> tucker: the news organizations published untrue information all the time, but buzzfeed -- even buzzfeeds editors could not verify the information published today. the report contained errors. many are arguing their decision to publish that peace piece was justified. joined now by matthew...

Martha maccallum on covering the trump administration the first 100 days. this is "mediabuzz." the most fiery clash yet between the incoming president and the media began with a report that u.s. intel used an unsubstantiated document to brief donald trump. >> the top intelligence officials provided information to the president-elect and president obama about russian efforts to compromise president-elect trump. howie: buzzfeed published all 35 pages of unsubstantiated rumors.

Are discussed privately, especially during campaigns. you know this well. that we dont publish because we are not certain if they are true and the bar is higher when they are personal, damaging to peoples reputations. isnt it our job to verify that? isnt that why we have reporters in the first place? >> sure, buzzfeed is working and has been working for months according to ben smith to verify the things that were in that document. its not that by publishing they are saying we accept all of these...

He seemed to blur cnn reporting which skipped the unconfirmed details with buzzfeeds story which included the information not confirmed. then mr. trump slammed the entire intelligence community. >> i think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake. it is a disgrace. >> this seemed to prompt an extraordinary phone call from james clapper who released this statement overnight describing the conversation. he told the president-...

His bare hands. >> tom: thank you, andy, lets welcome our guests. comedian meghan hanley. hes got a big mouth, and hold his foot quite nicely. chris hahn. hes a weight lifting champ, but somehow speaks in full sentence sentences. comedian joe devito. he has a lot of skeletons in his closet, all former enemies of the state. mike baker. okay, lets start the show. ♪ last week, buzzfeed published a memo claiming that russia had compromising material on president-elect donald trump. ever since, tru...