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Democrat national committee funded at least part of the research that went into the unsubstantiated documents. republicans in congress seizing on the new development saying it should be part of the russia investigations. >> if it's good to investigate russians involvement in the election process in the united states and in regard to trump, it's just as legitimate to investigate russia versus the clintons. >> joining us now jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters and part of the white house correspondents association. in your role as a journalist this revelation that broke in the "was...

Upon. i'll be back this morning on the russia investigation trying to get answers. >> bill: i have three more questions. i hope you can answer the following. buzz feed broke this story in the weeks before the election last october on the dossier. nbc news has a major stake in buzz feed, hundreds of millions by way of its parent company comcast. what do you think of that? and would you expect some sort of retraction or clarification from buzz feed? >> the legal part of that is way above my pay grade. i will tell you this. there was a witness yesterday we interviewed whose name is prevalent in t...

Because there's a market for them. companies and trade associations paid them for the research and campaign form research on their own. i've gotten plenty of research documents on the rnc under president trump and dnc under tom perez, it's a common part of politics. what's more exotic this time, the kinds of things that are being tracked down, the dossier and reports are unconfirmed and taking place in a foreign country. >> the actual dossier buzz feed reportedly published the 35-page thing earlier this year. i would imagine the qu"the new york times" and others have a slew of journalists tryi...

>> tucker: remember the trump dossier, the mysterious totally unverified document that was made public by buzz feed? it included both scandalous allegations about donald trump as well as claims that the web company web zilla was a front for russian hacking of the dnc. it was like a parody of a scoop. it was so juicy it had to be truex september it wasn't. since the dossier's release web zilla and buzz feed battling it out in court. fighting efforts to open its books. this week the company's executives pleaded the fifth to congress. why would they do that? what could they be hiding? is there an...

>> tucker: remember the trump dossier, the mysterious totally unverified document that was made public by buzz feed? it included both scandalous allegations about donald trump as well as claims that the web company web zilla was a front for russian hacking of the dnc. it was like a parody of a scoop. it was so juicy it had to be truex september it wasn't. since the dossier's release web zilla and buzz feed battling it out in court. fighting efforts to open its books. this week the company's executives pleaded the fifth to congress. why would they do that? what could they be hiding? is there an...