outlet was ending operations. it s part of a larger layoff across the company. let s bring in the founder editor of buzzfeed news who has since left to create a new website, ben smith. he s the author of traffic, dilution in the billion dollar race to go viral. i love the title. what happened? best guess, and i know it is never easy to talk about, you know, people at a company you used to work for. but, still, everybody is going to want to know, what in the world happened to buzzfeed news? it went from being a really hot commodity, winning the pulitzer prize, to needing to be shut down. is it part of a bigger move in the new media landscape? yeah. obviously, it is something i m really sad about. you know, we made all sorts of mistakes in the management of it, i would say.
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behind bars, which is where he belongs. and that is where we begin the hour. joining us now the aforementioned former trump attorney, michael cohen. he s the host of the mea culpa podcast, and he s the author of the important new book revenge, how donald trump wrapped weaponized u.s. department of justice against his critic. david fair and gold is also here, new york times investigative reporter and an msnbc reporter who won a pulitzer prize while reporting at the washington post for his coverage of trump s charitable giving or lack thereof. i can t believe i said that on your show, but it turned out once again to be true. i seem to have been accurate again. i think that donald has, as you are probably put it, i think donald s time has come, and i think that there will be, he will have to reconcile with all of the things that he has done as it relates to his tax
appreciate your time. thanks, alex. let s turn to susanne craig, she s an investigative in the new york times. and one of the lead investigators who won a pulitzer prize in 2015. she s literally the right person to talk about about this today. sue, how are you greeting this news as a reporter? is there stuff in here that you still don t know the answer to? is there information that you re particularly interested in finding out that you have not thus far been able to find out in your extensive reporting? well, i m smiling, because one second before i came on air, the report came out, so i m trying not to look over here and read it. but there s there s probably going to be a lot in there. but i don t think we re going to find anything too crazy that we haven t known before. the new york times obtained three or four out of the five years that are being released today. and we have more information than they do in terms of
investigative reporter, suzanne craig, she has reported extensively on the finances and taxes of donald trump, and won a pulitzer prize for that work, and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and andrew weissman, the former general counsel for the fbi. good morning to you all. just as a big picture look at what we re talking about here. there s so much going on around donald trump, around the elections, around his finances. it s hard to keep track. so what exactly are we talking about here in this lawsuit from the new york state attorney general? it s important to note that this is a civil lawsuit. it s not criminal. so if it ends up, you know in a court, he faces civil fines, and there are going to be other remedies, she wants to limit their ability to do business in new york. she wants to limit their lending, limit their, you know, ability to build in new york for a certain amount of period, so those are sort of the remedies.