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Have had -- justified? >> that the intelligence agencies told donald trump at a meeting with him last friday at trump tower. that is understandable too. jim clapper is leaving after 51 years in the business. >> right. >> john brennan, he is leaving because he is going to be replaced by mike pompeo. then you had admiral rogers there so they dont know when they get a chance to sit with the principal, the president-elect of the united states and they got that chance last friday. they dont know if h...

>> why would buzzfeed and cnn go with this? >> first of all, what is it that we are talking about? its basically a collection of whispers and rumors. >> and, by the way, we are not even going to come close to what they put out there as far as -- >> correct. >> -- the allegations. what it is is an absolute bombshell and a molotov cocktail thrown on january 11th with no verification. >> but to davids point its been out there for several months. we have all heard elements about it, gossip about it ...

Nine days and in the release that president-elect trump put out on friday in the last paragraph, we say that -- and he said we are going to do a full examination of this entire episode. we are going to have a report in 90 days after taking office as to this issue and potentially what our reaction needs to be, based on the things we have been talking about over the last several weeks, and we are going to do that. he is going to do that as president of the united states. but as to the buzzfeed mem...

Combative, wait until you see the press conference today. i think going back to the journalistic questions here raised by the decision to publish this, look at the explanation that buzzfeed offered. they offered this -- you report, we decide. they used that as the defense, you know, the journalist mission to report the facts and let the people decide. its always been a much more nuanced mission than that. we dont throw things out there that we dont know to be true and then let the public fight o...

Buzzfeed made the controversial move last night of publishing a da who claims to be a member of british intelligence. inside the claims are is the russian government is cultivating and supporting and shifting the president-elect for five years, even gaining compromising information about him in an effort to blackmail him. in publishing the documents, buzzfeed acknowledged the claims are unverified and contain obvious errors. >> lets stop right there and we will get donald trumps reaction first. ...

One of these things where you said lets not -- after 2002, 2003, not get too far ahead of ourselves. you look at all of the alleged, all of the this and all of the that, it doesnt seem like we have -- at least this morning to hang our hats on, do we? >> there is really not much to go on in here. none of this is verified or verifiable. this is shopped around to media agencies for months and no one, before buzzfeed, agreed to publish it for exactly that reason. there is also a lot about it that st...

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...

Thank you both for being with us. >> you bet. >> there was an explosion last night. >> but nobody can talk about it bauts it because its not confirmed or verified. >> what is the president-elects response to the buzzfeed and cnn reports and will he talk about them at 11:00 today in his press conference? >> well, i mean, the buzzfeed memo is total complete garbage is what it is. i -- look. buzzfeed, themselves, said it was garbage. "the new york times" would not even print the document because it...

Report but the cnn report is also wrong is what youre saying? no two-page summary presented to the flcket? president-elect? >> i cant. listen, i cant get into that. all i can tell you is that the buzzfeed memo, the salacious details in that memo, all of those things are total phony baloney garbage and it never happened. it isnt true. and what created the buzzfeed article and, i think, most of what cnn has been talking about, im not watching it 24/7 is based on this document from this opposition ...