tie the bow and tell us what happened in the end? i guess we don t see tidying bows. we covered the hell out of that. to writing michael cohen s repeated and now you will. i am surprised you think that cohen s latest statement makes it more of a fact. it was not a new development. tucker: we get to ask michael cohen in public. he has ever reason to tell us if yes, he went to prague and everything you think about trump is true. we all hate trumpian media wor world. he hates trump. now he can tell us the truth. he tells us the opposite, no hoo did not go. the dossier claimed? carter page s life was destroyed? that he received 11 billion dollars from a russian energy company in a deal. now, he didn t. i don t think buzz feed ever
you inject these claims and into the public sphere and then you don t follow-up. if i run a piece by your neighbor saying ben shot somebody, don t i have an obligation when you get acquitted to cover that story. why doesn t you? some of them are very, very hard to confirm or knock down. discussions between vladimiro putin and his aide. cohen was straightforward. tucker: and carter page s life was destroyed. he can t get a job. considered a russian spy and never been charged with anything. your dossier added to the perception he is not a loyal person. we know he didn t take up $11 million, that is untrue and you spent all the time you talked about the trump tower in moscow and this guy lives with this claim against his name and you have not corrected it. we reported on carter page and his contact with russian
told us that. why not? weth published the dossier at the time not because we had bee? able to stand up or knock down every allegation. in fact, we said unverified document and it s important public document at the heart of an feb. investigation. when we talked about this last time i got the impression you agreed with that. certainly the idea that nunes said there was a secret document. it makes a my case but you are t allowed to see it. you would be able to make the argumentsou you made about christopher m steele and the people on the other side sayingt this document will scald your eyes out if you look at it. we only the elect, weight journalist tucker: i get it. i said it at the time, i think that s not a crazy argument to make. i agree with you. tucker: in favor of openness. you are a journalist and not simply a guy who runs a platform. you are not running google. you w are running a news site.
michael cohen said that trump claimed there was no russian collusion and no interference in the 2016 presidential election. if that sounds familiar, that s exactly what trump has been telling the world for 2 years. every day ind a loud voice to anyone who will listen. buzz feed claims that this is somehow proof its original story was accurate. 19 adorable siamese kittens, we are waiting for that story next. ben smith is the editor and chief of buzz feed news. he was game enough to join us. we are grateful to join us. not his first time on the show. i am thankful you came. first the dossier. this is a sincere question. you publish the dossier and we debated whether that was a wise move but you did. we learned in the testimony that cohen did not go to prague. we only believed he went to
was unverified gossip financed by the dnc by president-elect trump. many other news outlets saw the dossier but passed on it. but notts buzz feed. they thought it was purr-fect so they ran it. 2 years ago later the buzz feed dossier defines the entire trump russian collusion conspiracy tale. the problem is, a lot of dossier is untrue. for example, one key claim in the dossier that buzz feed rantt was that the trump attorney michael cohen held secret meetings with russian agents in prague. they never offered any evidence that that happened in there never was any evidence and last week michael cohen himself confirmed it never happened. have you ever been to prague? never have. never been to the czech republic. i balance my time.