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>> the information was provided as parts of last week's intelligence briefings regard ing the russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzzfeed news. as true in other organizations, reporters at buzzfeed had obtained a copy of christopher steele's memos. >> we looked for things that were confirmable. >> ben smith says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier but smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being taken seriously by u.s. intelligence, that itself was news. >> we knew that this document was bei...

Classified intelligence briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzz feed news. as was true at several organizatio organizations, reporters at buzz feed confirmed. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> ben smith says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier but smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being taken seriously by u.s. intelligence, that itself was news. >> we knew that this document was being circulated and acted upon at the levels of government and you see ...

Regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> reporter: that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzzfeed news. as was true at several other news organizations, reporters at buzzfeed had obtained a copy of christopher steele's memos. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> reporter: ben smith is buzzfeed's editor in chief. he said buzzfeed was not able to verify claims in the dossier, but smith felt that such a dossier was being taken seriously by u.s. intelligence, that itself was news. >> we knew that this document was being circulated, talked abou...

Cabinet and his white house staff. david corn's october scoop about those trump memos from a western spy, that was long forgotten. until, ten days before the inauguration, that story came roaring back when cnn reported that both president obama and president-elect trump had been briefed by the intelligence community on a two-page summary of the christopher steele dossier. >> the information was provided as part of last week's classified intelligence briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzz feed news. ...

Briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzz feed news. as was true at several organizations, it was true. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> ben smith says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier but smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being taken seriously by u.s. intelligence, that itself was news. >> we knew that this document was being circulated and acted upon at the levels of government and you see important decision makers making decisions about how they...