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Reputation destroying for anybody, including a president-elect, you decide whether it's true or not. you don't act in reckless disregard. >> yes. i wouldn't reckless disregard. i would not have published it. it wasn't a news story. i'd like to know why that was included in the intelligence briefing. >> it was included as a an addendum described in the papers as disinformation. >> which is another reason not to publish it. but what reasons me more is what some of the panelists have said already. the president-elect has talked about narrowing liable laws in this country. it is very hard under th...

Of unsubstantiated allegations, probably false, about donald trump. they weren't the only ones. buzzfeed came under harsh criticism by a number of news organizations today. we're back with katy tur, rick stang stengel, hugh hewitt. ben bradley, the great editor of all times at the "washington post" who broke the watergate story with the help of woodward and bernstein once said "to edit is to choose." it seems when you're given a pile of stuff that's salacious and could be career destroying, at least reputation destroying for anybody, including a president-elect, you decide whether it's true or...

One, that the intelligence community chose to include these allegations in briefing materials to the president-elect and to the current president of the united states, barack obama. two, that the fbi is investigating these allegations. they have not determined them to be true, but they are investigating this, and they are taking them seriously. three, that both democratic and republican lawmakers, senators, are taking these allegations seriously and pursuing them. that was the essence of our story. now, donald trump did not mention or was not asked about the fbi investigation or republican and...

The documents presented to donald trump, but you can't confirm if it was specifically discussed. >> let's be clear. when you have an intelligence briefing or in circumstances like this, the briefing includes both written documents and then spoken conversation, right, we know that this was part of the written documents, and that sh part of the briefing, and let's be clear. intelligence agencies don't include garbage in those briefings. there's a minimum amount of time, limited amount of time for the people you're speaking to and for the senior intelligence officials doing the briefing, so they ...

Friday. the first i heard of all of this salacious garbage is when someone printed out this document last night, so it's not like we are sitting around talking about hotel rooms and meetings in prague for four days now and, suddenly, we are acting like, oh, my gosh, this is crazy. it never happened. >> gene robinson? >> then why did intelligence officials apparently include a two-page summary of this report that you say is total garbage with the intelligence briefing? why would they even bother if it's totally beyond the pail? >> because it's classified, i have to answer it this way. it's up t...