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Whose work included revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. i think it's ludicrous to go back and dredge around stuff -- stories from 15 years ago that are real and that he wrote about back then. >> people wonder sometimes if in this partisan age of anti-trump bias, reporters opinions creep into the coverage. something like this. you might hear something from a source and you want it to be true. did that happen in this case? >> no, absolutely not. the last time jason was being accused of things like this, it was when his reporting revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. it was coming from the other si...

Newspaper or in some media outlet that has a lot of things correct but it has a few things incorrect, like who is the object of scrutiny or what documents we have or mischaracterizes things in a certain way, usually our plan was to keep our mouths shut. you can do more harm by talking than not talking. sometimes it was egregious enough you felt like you had to make some statement. the problem then is, you don't want to edit their piece and say, among these 15 facts -- you become their editor. you become sort of a party to letting them know secret information. i think it's five and proper what ...

Press outlets sometimes face that if they don't get everything right and the prosecutor speaks in this way and retreats back. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. for buzzfeed. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to pan out -- >> speaking for reporting generally, people will go back to their sources and try to re-establish trails and look at what they have and what they don't have. ben smith, the editor in chief of buzzfeed is a very smart and aggressive reporter. i'm sure he has his r...

Confirm this story. no one else was able to get their hands on the documents that apparently backed up this story. i think the same is true of the buzzfeed reporters. they didn't put anything else corroborating it in terms of the underlying evidence. this statement really shows you what a difficult position the special counsel's office was in today. we know the justice department, that includes the special counsel's office, does not comment on anything regarding an ongoing investigation. that's what got james comey into so much trouble when he was leading the fbi. in the wake of this buzzfeed ...

You are seeing base on what pam was saying the president referring to that. others on twitter referring to leakers. this is often a point the president makes. there is leaking against him. people are out to get him. anything that could delegitimize the investigation is of concern to the special counsel. that's why they went forward. i don't know what this means for the story going forward. >> joining us is ben smith. editor in chief for buzzfeed. good to have you on. can you explain your response to what special counsel mueller's office has released? >> thank you for having me on. obviously, w...