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We act as if its true. no, it validates donald trumps story about fake news all the time. this is what it looks like when you run with the story so eager to criminalize donald trump that you dont give it a second to maintain your own personal credibility. its astonishing. pete: speak of fake news. the father of fox news documentary on fox nation right now. dan rather, so he quickly, immediately, without any discretion jumped to twitter and tweeted. this he said special counsel has issued a state...

To remember the day when a story like this would have never made the light of day. i personally have been on both sides of this where reporters have come to me pete we have heard x, y and z have they investigated? they never run with it because it is fake news. other side reporters never come to you and run with anonymous garbage but and your personal life and professional life or something you said or didnt say and just run it. ed: its a narrative. pete: seeing more and more of that today. inte...

To start. so much to cover here. whether you have folks like dan rather yesterday supposed to be one of the great anchors in american history trying to sort out the great mysteries of the day saying the walls are closing in on donald trump. how do you react to that? >> i mean, this is just the latest in a long line of stories where we have had exact same thing happen. explosive claims that if true would bring down the presidency and then they all sort of end up being a dud. the promised evidence...

Is fascinating. pete: yeah, the implication was that they had evidence that cohen -- the president told cohen to lie. other than cohen just telling. jedediah: not just words. ed: emails and text messages they claimed in the story from anonymous sources again thursday night, that there were email and text messages from people in the trump organization the business side of everything that were backing up michael cohen that would suggest the president was lying. no, thought special counsel is sayin...

Michael cohen. as you know it, goes deeper than that the buzzfeed story was alleging this was not just michael cohens word against the president but that there were text messages and emails that would prove michael cohen is right. that statement from the special counsel, robert muellers office, seems to be unambiguous. seems to be saying we have no such evidence. >> the actual claim in the buzzfeed story wasnt so much based on cohen as they claimed a treasure trove of evidence and two anonymous ...

You are frustrated as anybody. ed: they have these anonymous sources. we all can rely on anonymous sources sometimes. you have to check them out and make sure its true. run them past the white house and special counsel. they said they did all of that and buzzfeed is standing by the story. but you cant just throw out there something that suggest that the president of the united states instructed someone to lie and was obstructing justice. thats what the allegation was. and so what im more frustra...

Curve on malfeasance and how this russia probe began. if you compare the buzzfeed story that you say everyone ran with anonymous sources that turned out it looks like not to be true. on the other hand, bruce ore at the justice department and this transcript on the record that we now see kim strassel and you and others have been reporting on where he says i warned people at the fbi that this was political information the dossier. paid for by the clinton camp and yet they ran with it anyway. most ...

Spokeman saying buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office in characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. pete: buzzfeed had no sources. no other outlet. ed: anonymous sources. pete: every other news outlet was going with the headline but saying we cannot yet independently corroborate this evidence. ed: nonetheless it might lead to impeachment. jedediah: if true. interestin...

Our control room to the producers because they work so great. pete: he goes to restaurants and meets friends. some of them will probably be here as guest later on. ed: they dont know who i am they know pete. let me tell you something thats sweet. a breaking overnight. a big, big story. a fox news alert. the so-called buzzfeed bombshell seems to be coming apart. remember where we started late thursday night there was this the latest quote, unquote, bombshell. pete: some bombshells i cant keep tra...

They want to preserve the integrity of the special counsel investigation. they saw an opportunity to get rid of true fake news and squash it so they can look more credible and buzzfeed look even worse. everyone else ran with it. jedediah: they give donald trump that talking point repeatedly. he is always saying fake news, fake news. listen, when you cover something like, this thats completely unsubstantiated that so many people in the community and law enforcement community saying hold on a seco...