>> in what way? and to who. >> to all of us. a day after a story is published they come out with a very very detailed and very opaque statement disputing it. >> are you concerned -- i'm concerned, frankly, that when you -- over the next few months, whenever there's a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, it's another buzzfeed story, it's another story like buzzfeed where even robert mueller said it was false. do you worry that's going to damage all of us? >> you know, we are, like most of our colleagues, very focused on doing the reporting and getting it right. that's all we can do. >> so now, right now, you have reporters out there trying to go back to sources, follow up on this? i would assume you have everybody trying to follow up on this. >> yes, absolutely. >> ben smith, i appreciate you