You can cram a lot of horseshit into an old withered hack:
Novak disclosed that his source for the story was not anyone close to Clinton but rather, someone who was "told by an agent of the Clinton campaign" about the alleged dirt. Got that? So Novak was not privy to the dirt itself, nor did he talk to Clinton's people. Rather, he heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else. Another secondary source, Novak went on to say, claimed to have heard the same thing. Fact-checking = completed.
I heard from someone who's close to someone else who might be associated with Novak's doctor that he had his integrity surgically drained and replaced with horseshit.