Running With Buzzfeed News Today

About it in public, we have shows like yours to talk about these things. and so i would attach myself to the comments of carl bernstein. in the long run it is the press that has been accurate about the unique qualities of this presidency. also there is a record of buzzfeed getting these things right. on the particular of the stories i dont want to comment because we dont know about the sourcing, i dont understand enough about the construction of the story. these are incredible reporters, though,...

News outlet in the country ran with it. cnn ran with it, msnbc, even fox news a little bit. all of us, including you, kept saying, be cautious, be careful. did we all make a mistake by running with buzzfeeds story? >> no, i think we had to report it and attribute it to buzzfeed. as i said on our air, we dont know whether or not this story is accurate, contextual, true and it needs to be run down. but buzzfeed, indeed, has been at the front of this part of the story. i think you also need to look...

The reply to jasons e-mail two minutes later from the special counsels is why peter carr has the nickname peter "no comment" carr. when im sending an e-mail to buzzfeed, its a bullet long e-mail, everything thats included. i want to make sure everything has been checked first. why didnt jason do that? >> again, im -- carr has now said he would have responded in more detail if he had more detail. he could have said that two minutes later. he could have said, thats quite a statement. tell me more ...

Weve all been talking about this story. its the buzzfeed story that came out thursday night that said president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress. with a clear-cut impeachable offense being alleged, the story went everywhere within a matter of minutes. but then on friday night robert mueller did something incredibly rare. something his office almost never does. his office issued a lawyerly response seemingly knocking down the story saying buzzfeeds description description of specif...

Has -- >> its a joke we love and embrace. buzzfeed includes a very, very wide range of media, including very silly entertainment. and i think unquestionably very, very serious journalism. weve gotten people out of jail in chicago. weve changed the way sexual assault is prosecuted in the united states and weve had a series of revelations about about the investigation of the -- of donald trumps relationship of russia from the same two reporters who published this. >> and youve been breaking news a...

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And in the hearings it was established that he directed $350,000 just as we had said to be spent and it was apparent within two days that we were right. it may not be apparent within two days who was right, what the exact context is. well have to wait to find out. its clear that from the mueller statement that some part of what buzzfeed wrote the prosecutor believes is in error. is it the substance of cohen saying he was directed by the president to lie on is it about how the special prosecutor ...

Can be shady and that identity is revealed and you want to say, come on. i want to say the story in this case, these are very narrow, very strong discriminate escrip. i think that is -- that is -- >> so whats going on then? is there a fight between the special counsels office and southern district of new york and one set of prosecutors are saying one thing and the -- >> were actively figuring that out. were trying to figure how to parse this statement from the mueller team and figure out whats h...

It could -- it was ready to go. >> lets take a look at what buzzfeed did to request comment from special counsel. this is first e-mail from jason leopold, co-author of the story, sent to the special counsels office at 1:50 p.m. on thursday. it says, anthony and i have a story coming up stated cohen was directed by trump to lie. assume no comment from you but just wanted to check. best, jason. to me, this is a shocking casual way to ask for comment for such a serious story. to you think that was ...

Dispute about how accurate the story was and whether it was wrong? how do you think that plays? >> i dont know. nothing lasts long-term. everything is so frenetic. buzzfeed has a proven record of getting these stories right. lets not miss some important underlying facts here. one of the underlying truths of this is if you ask me, does ben smith, the editor of buzzfeed, have a deeper commitment to truth than donald trump, i would say, ben smith, obviously. >> right. >> i think part -- part of thi...