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← Previous segment →so many fun things in the news. Let's start with BuzzFeed. Now, I like to remind you what my prediction record is. Now this isn't quite a prediction, but I want to remind you that when the BuzzFeed story first broke that Michael Cohen had said blah blah blah, it doesn't matter what he said because it wasn't true, or at least it's fallen apart. And when I talked about it on Periscope, was it yesterday, I stressed to you that BuzzFeed is not a credible source. Did I not stress several times? Remember, it's BuzzFeed. They're not a credible source.
And then by today we find out the whole story has fallen apart. And I was just watching a fascinating clip on CNN. It was Anderson Cooper talking to Jeffrey Toobin, and I forget who else, and they were taking it pretty hard because the mainstream media ran with that story with a lot of "if it's true" and "if it's true" and "if this is true, there's big stories." But to their credit, and I like to give credit where credit is due, Jeffrey Toobin and especially Brian Stelter, that's right, he was the third person there, and I think all of them realized, and yeah, Maggie Haberman was there too, and I think all of them realized that the media has a big, big, big credibility problem and it got a lot worse yesterday.
But again, remember I told you from the jump this is not a credible source. So I'm going to take a little bit of credit for calling out the unreliability of the story from the jump. Okay, now why did I think it was not a credible story? Number one, the authors have a little sketchy past. Number two, it's BuzzFeed. That does not necessarily work with the facts all the time. And number three, it fit perfectly with the narrative of the side that was reporting it. Oh, surprise. Number four, nobody else could confirm it right away. Number five, it was a Mueller leak. Are there Mueller leaks? Remember what I said: if somebody has a source in the Mueller organization that would give them that kind of detailed leak, remember what I said, they would also know what the general outcome of the Mueller investigation is going to be. Anybody who has a source that good who was go
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ing to give up something that private would have given up more. And by now BuzzFeed would be reporting on basically the result of the whole thing. And of course they're not. And so that was another red flag. And then of course the whole fact that it was an anonymous source. So you've got anonymous source, fits their narrative perfectly, nobody else can confirm it, it's BuzzFeed who is unreliable,…
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