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>> whether verbal or not. >> whether it was talked about or not, and you did your job, which was to find that out. a decision was made. this is what happens with big stories. it's important the public understand this. with big stories, news executives and reporters and others sit around and say does this hit the threshold where the public has a right and deserves and should know this? the answer is with somebody who's coming into office if intelligence chiefs are concerned about this at this level, the answer is yes, so it was reported. so the trump folks go after cnn and elevates this and thu...

Thing wrong with that story. every time she came back about you, it was about buzz feed, had nothing to do with cnn's reporting. this is not the government's job to be telling news organizations who they should be hiring and firing. if she doesn't like cnn's polling, it's not any different than the polling she was doing for donald trump because donald trump didn't think he would win. >> jim acosta you were at the press conference today. donald trump did not allow you to ask a question. it got quite contentious. what was it like there today? what do you make of what you've heard today? >> i don...

>> and what is yours based on? >> multiple sources and "the new york times" and the washington journal as well say that. >> no. excuse me. you know who put this collection of raw material is, right? >> we're not reporting that raw material. we're not reporting that this person -- we're not basing our reporting on what this person did. of course it was opposition research. cnn is not buzz feed. i wish you guys would acknowledge and be straightforward. i get why politically it makes sense for you to link cnn with what buzz feed did but as jake tapper said on the air he doesn't approve. he's one ...

Criticism they can say it's fake news. kellyanne conway said fake news. donald trump said cnn was fake news today. but fake news is literally people making things up, not making a mistake. which in this case didn't even happen. fake news is actually intentionally misleading people and that's what they're telling people that journalist are doing. >> to her point, if someone makes a mistake, they should acknowledge it and stand up to it and own it. >> and journalists do make mistakes, just like assistants to presidents maybe mistakes. >> and there's plenty. i'm sorry. there is plenty in what the...

Seriously. and my team, they take it seriously as do many of the other people at cnn who contributed to this reporting. again, what facts in this story are they contesting? that's not clear to me. there's a lot of misdirection, there is talk about the problem of using unnamed sources. but as we noted in the story, the reason these high ranking officials were not quoted by name is because of the classified nature of the information, which happens in many stories in the news and has for many years. it's a fact of life with the way government officials talk about this kind of information. so that...