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Originally Posted by finnbow
They openly said exactly that. FWIW, the FBI thought these allegations were credible enough to apply "for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance (FISA) court over the summer in order to monitor four members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials." Between Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon's ties to and praise for Russia (not to mention Trump's), it would be dereliction of duty not to investigate such allegations.
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And, by the way, regardless of the claims made about source materials in the story, there are such things as journalistic ethics, or at least there used to be. Those ethical standards served the purpose of assuring readers / viewers that before news was presented is was subject to a level of verification and scrutiny. It also protected the journalist from getting the paper or news organization in trouble by running with a half-baked, partially true or untrue news story.
CNN has now devoted significant air and print time to what amounts to speculation, since they didn't do much to validate the documents before running the story. They went into detail on air and in print about the info contained in the documents - thus giving a wink and a nod to any authenticity issues. Now that the credibility of the documents is in question, it will now be very difficult for CNN to walk any of this back.