investigation of that story. watch. are you going to investigate the claims? absolutely. absolutely. congress has a fundamental interest in two things. first, in getting to the bottom of why this came before us and who else was knowledgeable that this was a lie? tucker: meanwhile over in the house judiciary committee democrat says he wants to investigate supreme court justice brett kavanaugh for perjury despite the lack of any actual known lies in kavanaugh s testimony. that will be interesting. richard good stein a reporter a former advisor of bill and hillary clinton joins us tonight. they won the house and they have subpoena power and they can go crazy if they want. i m just wondering of all the things can you investigate why would you investigate a buzzfeed story that the independent counsel himself says is untrue unless and here s the twist because they have a conspiracy maybe mueller is secretly working for trump. no, i think what shift is saying not i m going to
a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish and reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit.
he reported that president trump s attorney michael cohen ordered him to lie to congress. buzzfeed is a joke. this is the outlook that gives us stories like 19 husbands who sent the most hilariously random texts ever and ten signs your cat is a wizard. you might ve thought how could buzzfeed have gotten the one story that nobody else t can replicate but that everybody else has been searching for? you might have asked yourself thatat question before repeating the key assertions in the story mindlessly and as if they were true. but no, nobodyod did. but he assumed buzzfeed had landed an exclusive scoop that would w bring down the presiden. that was so thrilling they couldn t hold back. if you are playing a drinking game last friday and took a shot every time you heard the word bombshell you would have wound up sdead. watch. this would be certainly a bombshell information. buzzfeed s latest bombshell report. slamming a bombshell report by buzzfeed.
a bombshell report from buzzfeed. it s the buzzfeed bombshell is true? the bombshell report that president trump told his to lie under oath. buzzfeed reporting the bombshell details. the white house responds to the bombshell reports. deeply disturbing. tucker: bombshell. dumb people with small vocabularies. there was a problem though with buzzfeed s reporting, none of it had been confirmed at all. even the author suggested they hadn t seen the documents in question. actually, there were two authors, co-by lined and one said he had seen the documents and another said he hadn t. that was never really resolved. it didn t matter because the dumb people on tv so badly wanted it to be true that they repeated it. the story, if true, could lead to his impeachment. if true, it could be a really big deal. if true, obviously we ourselves have not corroborated any of this. but if it is true, it s a big if, this would be a smoking gun.
this way and they re doing it for exploitation purposes let s not give them the ammunition. t tucker: that s unbelievable. that s by the way not neutral thinking and notle clear thinking. it s not the way that journalists think. it s the way that political operatives think. their first concern is always how will the otherop side benefit from this? how can we win the next campaign? that s how they think because that s exactly what they are doing. joe concha covers media for the hill and he joins us tonight joe, do you think the real problem with buzzfeed given segments too this where mean commentators on fox news give segue to stories like this. is that really the core problem of the story would you say? let me address chuck todd there people don t realize. this is he not only the moderator of meet the press. he is also the political director of nbc news. here s the thing. everybody all those anchors and pundits you just show a had ample warning there was a serious problem with this