company webzilla.he 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 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 publish

maybe they could then use three strokes of a pen to redact the name, as well as webzilla.hey obviously were doctored some other names but for some reason, they decided not to scare my client. >> tucker: their position is, we have interviewed the editor of buzzfeed, i think their position is, we are not endorsing this, or ratifying the conclusion is document, we are putting them out there for the public to decide. does not indemnify them against suits like yours? it is not their story. >> it does not. in fact, the way defamation law works, if you repeat something that is defamatory, you now own that statement. by publishing match -- i have to point out, they were the first one to publish it, clearly, these documents were in the possession of various news organizations for weeks. yet, no one published it. this is one of those rare situations where msnbc, cnn, and fox, all agree on something, and they agree that this document should not have been published. it was irresponsible. >> tucker: the details, i think cnn went with an overview but they didn't go with the details. wha