steve coll is dean of the columbia journalism school, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist himself andhe outside investigation. >> ifill: thank you for joining us. for six months this story was reported, four months in your investigation. how id this happen? >> well, it was a collective failure and an avoidable failure. you had a reporter who got caught up in subject matter, had worked very hard but did not do some of the basic checking of derogatory information with subjects didn't do some of the basic provision of details to subjects that would have generated information that probably would have led her to turn in the other direction. then her editor failed to insist that she close these reporting gaps. the editor allowed into the story misleading attributions that withheld from readers important information about what was and wasn't known to "rolling stone". and then finally the editor's editor, the supervising editor of the magazine, though he read the drafts, though he had some conversations about the holes in the story, he didn't intervene. and while as you pointed out the factch

joining me is krejci -- karim sadjadpour and steve coll. >> they think let's normalize. our alliance with the shaw was a lynchpin of our strategy in the middle east, the iranian civilization and population are potential players in a more stable world after the revolutionary fervor dies. let's move towards it's and take a risk even though it will upset our sunni allies. there are people who think small. there's a sectarian war going on that's getting deeper and darker by the day. shi'a iran is a party to that conflict. >> we conclude this evening with bernard-henri levy, the french writer talking about the middle east and what's happening on the ground in iraq. >> we have a unique country in europe where there's such a support for big parting but she's on the decline already. a lot of people again predicted she did not get that. because the french borders begin to understand not only that she's a woman but also that this party which pretends to be the clean party is full of dirty people. >> rose: the iran negotiations come down to the wire, and a conversation with bernard

steve coll the dean of the journalism school, said that's not an excuse. >> we found no evidence thatackie requested they refrain from checking their story independently. in one case she suggested a way they could do so. >> reporter: the report said nose consequential flaw what was not contacting the three friends jackie spoke to the night she said she was raped. >> if they had made that enquiry, perhaps just motivated by fairness, they would have discovered a whole other set of facts. >> reporter: the investigation faulted the reporter, sabrina rubin erdely, for not providing the fraternity with enough details about the alleged attack for it to adequately respond inch a statement today the fraternity called "rolling stone"'s report reckless and says it plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine. columbia also said erdely didn't do enough identify the identity of the attacker. the charlottesville police department wasn't able to confirm that person even existed. jackie did not cooperate with the police investigation or the columbia review and her attorney had no c

but then i was reading what steve coll said.e said there were no line to colleagues and i would think it's ground for automatic firing or serious sanctions. those are his word. i can understand leonard saying i'm going to support my staff. delays certain amount of loyalty. sometimes you get a second chance in life. i understand the knee jerk she should be fired. i think erdely would have a hard time finding another job somewhere. jon: starbucks. >> i think they will get a lot of criticism. jon: part of the criticism is this woman sabrina erdely went looking for the place where she could write the perfect story about rape on campus. she found it and didn't want to question her course because she was so committed to this story. >> the report says it was every element in the system itself. the fact checkers and editors are meant to question a writer. people call you and say what about this. give us this research. where are you coming from on this? none of that happened. so necessity fired hoarve was responsible there would be no ma

. >> that is steve coll addressing a crowd of reporters from columbia journalism school calling this not just a failure of journalism but saying rolling stone failed on every single level. if you want watching the news. "rolling stone" formally retracted its story late last night. they originally asked columbia journalism school to conduct this report. this report said at every level there was a failure of journalistic standards. you just heard the dean say it failed in methodology. if you read deeper in the report it points to the report more has not been fired as well as her editor who said she'll keep her job and everyone else will too. senator scott brown what do you think? >> absolutely not. journalists play an important role in holding public officials accountable and they have an obligation to get the facts right and if they are not right they find out what is right. to put something out there like what has done has not only damaged the university of virginia but the fraternity system as a whole. the individuals associated with the university. no one is going to be held accoun

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. >> reporter: steve coll is co-author of the investigation into the november 2014 "rolling stone" article it a student named jackie described an alleged brutal gang rape at the phikappa psi house. according to coll the failure was systemic. we feel we laid bear a record that ought to give "rolling stone" serious pause about its policies and editorial systems. >> reporter: in a statement the chapter president said the report demonstrates the reckless nature in which "rolling stone" failed to research and verify facts. a law professor at george washington university and an expert on ethics in journalism. >> anyone who mentions this fraternity at virginia immediately things one thing, gang rape. >> reporter: said the magazine opened itself up to possible legal action when it didn't give the fraternity a chance to respond. >> i think the fraternity has a legitimate case to make. even though you are not named in a story it is possible to sue if people figure it out. >> reporter: ryan duffen was depicted as a friend who discouraged her from reporting the incident. he was not contacted. >> had i