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Definition. he knows that to be a fact because he was in the briefing. kellyanne conway could not give a straight answer to me or anderson cooper about why theyre doing this except to attack the media and it works with his face. >> it does. these are difficult issues to report and you have to report them with caution and with fairness and thats what cnn did. other news organizations didnt do it like buzz feed by linking two unverified claims that were the basis for this briefing and jake tapper ...

Anne conway and donald trump are denying. >> clapper just confirmed that also. he just explained in a statement they put out why they decided to include these documents. therefore reporting must be accurate that they were and he also talked about his thought that he didnt think that the intelligence agencies leaked and cnn never reported that they got it from the intel agencies. >> one more thing. they dont know that the material in it is factual, nor do we. but they believe the source to be cre...

Information. its not cia information. its not a cia or intelligence community product but it is something that they must have looked at and vetted at least on some basic level. they come across and obtains so much information on a daily basis. most of it is on the cutting room floor and factored in to some degree but not presented to the president and president elect in some way. its truly unique. you have a couple of scenarios, one is what the cnn report suggests which is the source of the docu...

President elect trumps transition team is responding to cnns reporting. he received a two page summary as part of his briefing papers last week. kellyanne conway clashed with anderson cooper in this fiery exchange about it. >> whats inaccurate about what cnn reported. >> the whole headline. go read the entire story. four by lines and a story thats just not true that the president elect was presented with this information that it was apended in a two page document to the briefing. nbc has said it...

Classified information that has presented intelligence briefings. >> i know cnn is feeling the heat today. come on and discuss it. what heat do we feel that youve got this raw information, this complete ridiculous fake news. >> after months of casting doubts over the conclusions of the intelligence community president elect donald trump conceded for the first time in a press conference that he believes russia was behind the u.s. election hacks. that was the only headline since november he hasnt ...

We have so much to discuss. lets bring in our panel. we have evan perez and david gregory and senior congressional correspondent for the washington examiner and hosting the examiner politics podcast. great to have all of you. i wouldnt blame viewers for being confused about what exactly was reported and what is true. let me recap quickly what cnn reported and what has been confirmed and that is here are the two quick bullet points. there were classified documents that were presented to mr. trump...