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To president-elect trump and president obama, they said it was unsubstantiated information they could not verify. donald trump con glad it with what buzzfeed did to what cnn did. they thought they better stick together as donald trump comes forward. you could divide cnn from buzzfeed. it looks like the house of card is coming apart on the press side. >> i asked sean spicer about that. you can criticize cnn's decision. i wasn't comfortable with it. but i didn't do it. buzzfeed didn't put the allegations out there. ben smith doingedly defending his decision to go ahead with the story. here he is...

President obama, they said it was unsubstantiated information they could not verify. donald trump con glad it with what buzzfeed did to what cnn did. they thought they better stick together as donald trump comes forward. you could divide cnn from buzzfeed. it looks like the house of card is coming apart on the press side. >> i asked sean spicer about that. you can criticize cnn's decision. i wasn't comfortable with it. but i didn't do it. buzzfeed didn't put the allegations out there. ben smith doingedly defending his decision to go ahead with the story. here he is with nbc's chuck

The front row and we only had one seat and that was for me. as opposed to the correspondents and a number of producers. that's how they got in the front row . >> bill: all right. now, the controversy, the trump people are mad, and civilian terms, okay, why are they mad at cnn? cnn didn't put out all the salacious details. buzzfeed did. all right? so why is the trump administration so angry at cnn? >> i think probably because cnn was first. they were the ones that got the leak from someone in the intelligence community that trump had been handed that two-page summary of the salacious and other ...

All agree that what buzzfeed did was journalistically irresponsible. it was reprehensible. but donald trump was wrong when he said that cnn was engaged in fake news. all cnn did was report that top intelligence officials gave a briefing to the president, to the president-elect, and to key members of congress, and they did it responsibly. they said, that the report contained, quote, "potentially compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump." that is not fake news. that is legitimate news, and it is legitimate news done the right way. >> bill: i disagree with you. here's why. ...

And it may be used as blackmail against you. you don't think that's a news story? you don't think that is worth reporting? >> bill: i think it has to be kept with the president and the intel agencies unless there is clarification about who is putting this out. because you can create mass chaos. the press can create mass chaos and defamation by putting out all the rumor and innuendo that floats in to the intelligence agency. >> buzzfeed is guilty of that. cnn was very careful not to go -- >> bill: i'm glad you are sticking up for them. we need to hear both sides of the story. bernie goldberg, e...