buzzfeed that essentially accuses them of committing crimes against the united states by using their companies to hack computers of the democratic national party, which is an absolute fabrication. because the reputation has been tarnished, they really had no choice. tucker: i want to go right to the text here. this is from the now famous dossier published on buzzfeed. it begins, redacted. over the period of 2016, a company called webzilla and its affiliates had been using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, and conduct alternate operations against the democratic party leadership. you say that is not true. is it possible that webzilla or its companies was unwittingly used to do those things? no. it is impossible. it is a complete fabrication.
buzzfeed has already apologized for not redacting the name fromt the document, that was not enough to square the lawsuit. a founding partner at the boston law group is representing webzilla and its owner in the suit. he joins us now. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me, tucker. tucker: what is the core allegation in your suit? the core allegation is that my clients woke up one day after having built up an incredibly successful web hosting provider, webzilla is a approximately $250 million company, with almost 40,000 servers across the world, with offices in nine different countries. as you can imagine, the reputation of the reputation of their ceo and the founder depends on their clients trusting the services they provide. one day, they woke up to find that a report was published by
tucker: why do you think it was fabricated and why do you think you were included in the fabrication, your client?hi we looked to find the answer to that very question. there are some competitors decided that there was a legitimate way to compete with webzilla, which provides wonderful services, very well known, to be an honest, efficient supplier. and maybe this is one way that competitors can have a legitimate competition doesn t work. we really don t have a clue. tucker: a lot about this is confusing. what is not confusing is the fact that buzzfeed, which is an enormous news organization, massive investment from nbc and other big players in our media landscape, publish this, knowing it might not be true. the obvious question is, didla anyone from buzzfeed call anyone at the company you represent to ask, hey, were you a witting tool of russian intelligence?
they are stuck without power. an enraged constituency, which will encourage members of the party to carry out actions which i don t think will be successful, which i think will only lead in turn to more frustration. even though donald trump, as we have seen, gives them ammunition to fight with all the time, they have not, so far, applied a very effectively. tucker: i hope it doesn t go to dark places. brit, thank you so much for joining us with these wisest summations. continuing to follow the breaking news, the web site but is viewed, decides to publish an unverified document claiming, among other salacious things, the donald trump had been co-opted by russian intel. just months later, buzzfeed is getting trumped by the i.t. company webzilla. the dossier claims that their parent holding company and its russian owner had all collaborated with a russian government and the trump campaign to hack the democratic national committee.at