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Breitbart is criticized as a far right wing echo chamber. its important that we understand thats happening. we shouldnt treat it like its an exotic enterprise. joining me to discuss all this is the senior editor at large of breitbart. joel, great to see you. >> good to be with you. >> i understand youre on the management side of breitbart but i wanted to ask you about the readership and the audience. when youre writing for the site, who do you picture as the breitbart reader? i feel like breitba...

And im glad that their voices got heard, even if it was by somebody who manipulated the issue for their own political advantage. at the end of the day, we need a new trade model that ends deferral which is a tax provision that allows companies to keep profits offshore and not bring them back into the country. we need a trade policy that invests in american jobs and put american workers first. so thats really where we have to go from here. >> but these are the things that president trump is sayin...

With put this out with a very clear summary. we stressed there were false things in this document. >> why not publish a full rep t reportrepor reported explanation to the reader. why not help them understand what they were seeing in this memo? >> i dont think you or i or the fbi can say with great confidence they have to do this up or knocked it down. >> there were some details that were false. you could have annotated that and put some redactions. >> we put out things that were false. >> you ru...

Organization. >> were well within american journalism which is every time you use the world alleged on your air, every time you see alleged in print or saying were repeating a claim we cant verify. its a totally, within the standard particularly of covering law enforcement. youll hear that dozens of times. youll hear that word quite a bit in coverage. from our perspective if youre going to say that, your obligation if you have the indictment, even if you think theres lots there thats false and t...

But you weeks before we published. we published things we were confident -- and the reader -- >> be honest, you rushed this out. cnn published, and you published a couple of hours later trying to get this on the internet is as soon as possible. >> it is both of our jobs to be accurate and fast as we can. >> accurate and then fast -- >> yes, of course. >> the rap against buzzfeed is they werent doing reporting. they were publishing. they were sharing a document. they say it was okay because gover...

Viewed it at buzzfeed and he won. by his standards he won. >> would you publish this memo? >> we had access to the same information going back for a while and we didnt. i was trying to figure out if it was true or not. clearly, i made a decision not to go forward unless we can verify information because i think thats what were supposed to do. i think ben is a great journalist. i just disagree with his decision. were supposed to help the reader understand whats true and whats false. thats why we ...

Calling anything fake news and get back to the specific definitions. >> there was some pretty strong pushback after buzzfeed decided to publish the dossier, that coming from the rest of the industry. ben smith deciding and tweeting out a statement saying that hes on the side of disclosure and showing the reader everything. but agencies, news outlets have had this information. they were trying to search for the truth. but buzzfeed went with it. >> that was, you know, the responsibility is high fo...

Hold donald trump accountable. >> id like to know what the cnn reporters question was, by the way. anyway, buzzfeeds editor was on msnbc last night. heres how he defended his decision to release those documents. >> i think there was an error when you would be the gate keeper to information and say to your audience, trust us, were keeping things from you, we have lots of secrets, but you could trust us. i think you could say that is a big error. that is not the present day. when you have -- once,...

There are things that are true. there are things that are accurate and these facts will hold donald trump accountable. >> id like to know what the cnn reporters question was, by the way. anyway, buzzfeeds editor was on msnbc last night. heres how he defended his decision to release those documents. >> i think there was an error when you would be the gate keeper to information and say to your audience, trust us, were keeping things from you, we have lots of secrets, but you could trust us. i thin...

Youre going to talk about it a little bit later. >> a lot. >> he was talking about the tendency we have to retreat in terms of the information we receive and how we talk about it to retreat into bubleeds. what i watch happened last night when this broke online, when buzzfeed put these documents up, unverified claims that no reared has a-- reader has a way to verify. if you looked online last night, if you looked on social media, this stuff was spreading as accepted fact like wildfire. this happe...