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Have had -- justified? >> that the intelligence agencies told donald trump at a meeting with him last friday at trump tower. that is understandable too. jim clapper is leaving after 51 years in the business. >> right. >> john brennan, he is leaving because he is going to be replaced by mike pompeo. then you had admiral rogers there so they don't know when they get a chance to sit with the principal, the president-elect of the united states and they got that chance last friday. they don't know if he is reading the daily intelligence briefing reports that are afforded him. they don't know whethe...

>> why would buzzfeed and cnn go with this? >> first of all, what is it that we are talking about? it's basically a collection of whispers and rumors. >> and, by the way, we are not even going to come close to what they put out there as far as -- >> correct. >> -- the allegations. what it is is an absolute bombshell and a molotov cocktail thrown on january 11th with no verification. >> but to david's point it's been out there for several months. we have all heard elements about it, gossip about it dating back to the fall. >> why do you publish that? why did cnn put it out? >> cnn, i think, had...

Nine days and in the release that president-elect trump put out on friday in the last paragraph, we say that -- and he said we are going to do a full examination of this entire episode. we are going to have a report in 90 days after taking office as to this issue and potentially what our reaction needs to be, based on the things we have been talking about over the last several weeks, and we are going to do that. he is going to do that as president of the united states. but as to the buzzfeed memo, this is not an intel document. the intelligence community doesn't hand -- you all know when you s...

Combative, wait until you see the press conference today. i think going back to the journalistic questions here raised by the decision to publish this, look at the explanation that buzzfeed offered. they offered this -- you report, we decide. they used that as the defense, you know, the journalist mission to report the facts and let the people decide. it's always been a much more nuanced mission than that. we don't throw things out there that we don't know to be true and then let the public fight over whether or not it's true. and so while i do think that conservatives have taken this term fak...

Buzzfeed made the controversial move last night of publishing a da who claims to be a member of british intelligence. inside the claims are is the russian government is cultivating and supporting and shifting the president-elect for five years, even gaining compromising information about him in an effort to blackmail him. in publishing the documents, buzzfeed acknowledged the claims are unverified and contain obvious errors. >> let's stop right there and we will get donald trump's reaction first. >> what are we talking about here? break it down. >> one thing not in there, max fish fisher, i sa...