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No, no, i'm just asking as a smart person who loves america. >> i can't speak -- i'm not going to speak for the intelligence officials and what they chose to brief or not. >> then it's not important, right? they were in the room. >> i have no idea. that's for your judgment. i have no idea. we stand by our reporting which was we don't know whether it was actually verbally briefed. we don't have reporting on that. all we have based on multiple sources, which cnn stands by 100%, was that this was in the material. not the 35 page salacious unsubstantiated document buzz feed later put out by a summ...

>> thank you. throughout the interview you heard kellyanne conway repeatedly claim cnn linked the buzz feed story that the trump team and others are taking exception with. the buzz feed story, which we have not reported the details on. you also heard me say repeatedly that is not true. about 20 minutes after that interview before we went on air, she, kellyanne conway, tweeted this screenshot of our reporting and what she claims again is a link to buzz feed in that article. just as a matter of the fact, as facts do matter, it is not a link to buzz feed. it links to a story by cnn's dillon bya...

Night, report is a loose word here, why did they not tell the president-elect about it. because your own reporting says there's no confirmation that they briefed him early. >> i appreciate you acknowledging that. >> hold on. if it's worthy of a cnn screaming headline that became this huge fake news story, then why did they not brief him? they had an opportunity. they were here in trump tower. why didn't they tell him if it was so important? >> i don't have the answer to that. >> i have the answer. it's important to politics, not intelligence. >> we report on what we know and -- we report on wh...

States. that is a story. >> is it politics that they are conflating all this reporting, you know, in the press conference today that sort of lumping everybody together? >> i think what we just watched was extremely dishonest. it was dissembling and i think also dangerous. i've known kellyanne conway for a long time. we're not best friends or anything but i've known her professionally, she is smart. she knows what she is doing, she moes there is a difference between buzz feed and cnn. she knows that. the fact she kept conflating them intentionally. and particularly dangerous, this is a person w...

That's what i felt was appropriate in this case. he attacked our organization time and again and he was trying to stand there and not give us the chance to ask a simple question. to me, anderson, that's just doing our job. i've covered four presidential campaigns, covered president obama. i once asked president obama why can't we take out the bastards? i can tell you inside that white house, they were mighty pissed about that. they didn't like that language being directed at their president. guess what, that's what we do. this is our job and if people don't like it, there's the button on your ...