cabinet and his white house staff. david corn's october scoop about those trump memos from a western spy, that was long forgotten. until, ten days before the inauguration, that story came roaring back when cnn reported that both president obama and president-elect trump had been briefed by the intelligence community on a two-page summary of the christopher steele dossier. >> the information was provided as part of last week's classified intelligence briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. >> that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzz feed news. as was true at several other news organizations, reporters at buzz feed had obtained a copy of christopher steele's memos. >> we looked at things that seemed confirmable. >> ben smith is buzz feed's editor and chief. he says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier, but, smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being