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It wasn't delivered to him in person as you and i talked about. it was delivered to his office in a classified manner, an appropriate manner. but they were somehow using an alley-oop play, that somehow cnn was setting up buzzfeed to do the dirty work. or is he trying to smear cnn with the behavior of buzzfeed? >> i think you're right, chris. >> which is right? he said buzzfeed wouldn't have introduced it if you guys didn't introduce the topic. >> intelligence reporting is hard, chris. and this was highly classified information. is fact that a summary of this was included in a classified compar...

Going to be all over the place and, sure enough, it was. there are a lot of meetings that you take people aside and you just talk to them. so it's interesting. so it was not briefed to him in the briefing and they didn't get the dossier in the briefing? is that correct? >> they brought the dossier to the briefing but didn't leave it there is our understanding. this intelligence reporting is hard. we have a very good source by i imagine it's kind of like trying to get information about vladimir putin's inner circle. only a handful of people that know and most of them are not talking. >> all rig...

Buzzfeed wouldn't have done it if you didn't introduce the topic? >> intelligence reporting is hard, chris, and this was highly classified information. the fact that a summary of this dossier was included in a classified compartmented briefing that went to trump, that went to president obama, went to senior members of congress, that was a really hard get. when nbc nice scrambled to confirm that last night, it was difficult for us as well. we knew we had to be careful about it and, you know, cnn did not publish the 35-page list of urrius allegations. buzzfeed did that. so, so -- >> why didn't -...

But i'll tell you that we shouldn't need this kind of intelligence reporting to tell us that vladimir putin would be leading this effort. this wasn't sort of a one-off rogue operation. i mean, there were, again, this was a multi-facetted operation that includes everything from rt america's promotion of donald trump here in the united states, the hacks, the relationship with the alt-right and the white supremacist movement in the united states, positive statements by putin about donald trump. threats by some of -- by putin's positive comments from putin about donald trump. comments from some of...

Terrorism and presidential candidate ben carson is here, we have a report suggesting someone tampered with the intelligence on isis that is being given to president obama. the question is whether that was directed by obama and his staff. in moments we'll join by lieutenant general flint serving as director of defense intelligence or dia and a former islamic extremist who has a surprising take on the president's handling of isis. we begin with catherine herigde reporting from washington. >> reporter: thank you, megyn. fox news says it included two e-mails suggesting analysts should dial back on...