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Exist now is, then cnn will take corrective measures about that? because you released -- >> i certainly think they should. i think everybody in this business who stands by their reporting if they get it wrong, they should acknowledge that right away. >> i think the point that sean spicer -- >> -- thats important. >> the point that sean spicer and the president-elect were trying to make today is simple. many outlets refuse to go where cnn went and separately -- >> many outlets refuse to publish a...

Thanks for joining us. you can watch "out front" anytime anywhere on cnn go. anderson is up next. good evening. thanks for joining us. breaking news in the wake of president-elect trumps first formal press conference in nearly six months. the focus was expected to be on how he plans untangle business ties but todays questions returned into more after cnns reporting about him being presented with classified documents alleging russian operatives claim to have personal and information about him. ...

Buzz feed or anybody else after months of deciding against publishing specious, scurrilous, unverified, uncorroborated junk in a democratic opposition research document, do you think they would have released it l.a. night had cnn not preceded it with its own report? i doubt it. >> thest last time i read buzz feed i saw a headline that said ten top sex toys to improve your sex life. i dont buzz feed so i dont speak for them or defend them. i dont think they should have published unsubstantiated a...

Donald trump won. youre doing him a favor. >> im trying to get a sense of -- >> this report is concerning. >> you say its not true but you cant say whether its true or not. i get the anger over the buzz feed stuff. that was unsubstantiated. i think i do understand because its politics for you to try to link all the reporters together. it seems unfair and frankly disingenuo disingenuous. >> no. actually, very few people came to cnns defense today. im sure youre aware of that. >> shepard smith on ...

Electron electronic, so reluctant and hesitant to go forward with anything close to what cnn or buzz feed did. >> again, youre conflating what buzz -- >> you went first. i know what cnn did. you are responsible. youve gone all over the world, widely respected. >> whats inaccurate about what cnn reported? >> the whole headline. go read the entire story. four bylines and a story thats just not true that the president-elect was presented with information that was appended in a two-page document to ...

Propaganda ministers do and that is what she is is a propaganda minister. what weve seen here tonight is a deconstruction of the journalistic process. and we did our work and you can deconstruct it and it comes down to, look, the chief officials of the united states intelligence community believed they had something urgent enough to bring to the attention of the president and the president-elect of the united states. that is a story. >> is it politics that they are conflating all this reporting,...

Information about donald trump. >> anderson, your sources are not correct. and the fact is that -- >> youre saying in that intelligence briefing there was no information in any of the documents that -- of that two-page summary. >> two things on that. one, we dont discuss the classified information that is presented in intelligence briefings -- >> you said it wasnt true. >> excuse me, i know cnn is feeling the heat -- >> i think you guys are feeling the heat. >> what heat do we feel? that you got...

>> we ear not reporting rumor. >> because cnn went first and had this breathless report, everybody said it was a bombshell, earth shattering report last night. >> we didnt say it was a bombshell. >> it says right here, intel chiefs presented trump with russian claims of information to compromise him. >> wheres the word bombshell? >> your headline is wrong. then seth meyers said that he continue fronted me on the bombshell. none of it is true. you tell me -- can you tell me would you run the same...

She knows that. the fact she kept conflating them intentionally. and particularly dangerous, this is a person who will be senior adviser to the president of the united states in about five minutes who is now claiming that reporters should be fired for writing a story that was critical of her boss even though she was unable to name a single thing wrong with that story. every time she came back about you, it was about buzz feed, had nothing to do with cnns reporting. this is not the governments jo...

Is it about obviously the press has low favorability ratings as kellyanne conway points out? is it about just setting up the them versus us, that they think works in their favor? >> i think there is an idea theyll delegitimize news organizes that are critical of them. that way when theres a criticism they can say its fake news. kellyanne conway said fake news. donald trump said cnn was fake news today. but fake news is literally people making things up, not making a mistake. fake news is actuall...