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The alleged sources are supposedly affiliated. americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations. michael, you are going to get the first crack at this. again, the theorizing tonight on social media ranged from is this a cry for help by the number two guy at justice, or has doj been hacked? >> well, it's an extraordinary statement, brian, it's kind of trumpian in its tone, which is not what ultimate expect from high levels of the justice department. very political. very combative. does...

Big deal? >> because this is a sanctioned bank. he would have no legitimate reason for meeting with this banker, sanked by obama administration. even more shocking is that he would have this meeting and not disclose it publicly. then when asked about it, the russian bank and jared kushner had two different answers and two different reasons for having meeting. kushner said it was about administrative decision possibly related to syria. the banker said no, this had to do with personal financialish would you say the kushner family and their business. can't get a square answer out of the two of th...

We had never seen. obviously people should be cautious with anonymous sources. vivian, you cover this crowd. and michael went there. it sounded to a lot of people, the statement did, like it was somehow dictated. >> i mean there is no real way to tell if it was dictated or to the. but there has definitely been a major pushback by the administration, rod rosenstein not being unique here in terms of trying to push back against any of these stories that are making allegations against the administration. you know, anonymous sources are never ideal. it's not something that we choose to practice. we...

Rosenstein statement and thought the fix was in, thought it might be a hoax of some sort. >> it's really kind of bizarre. the really sort of off key part of that tweet is not knowing what country the officials are from. >> yeah. >> you know, as if we are writing about rwandan officials or something like that or using them as anonymous sources about the white house. that was kind of odd. i don't quite know what to make of it, frankly. it is vaguely trumpian. it came from rosenstein, would rosenstein put out a statement at the direction the white house or at the direction of the president? who k...

>> well, it's an extraordinary statement, brian, it's kind of trumpian in its tone, which is not what you would expect from high levels of the justice department. very political. very combative. doesn't have that sort of lawyerly cool we associate with the justice department. and i would say in substance, brian, you know, this is a recurring theme that these stories that have anonymous or background quotes in enemy quoting officials sources should be treated skeptically. but in america's top news outlets, the record of these stories has been very, very good. americans should turn a skeptical e...