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Accurate actually in a legal contest is very different from fall. we dont know and in slight deference to buzzfeed at this point because im deeply disappointed in this news coming out but some slight deference to buzzfeed which is hey, lets figure out what isnt accurate before we throw all of it out. maybe there were pieces that were right. >> tucker: right. >> what pieces werent. i think its important to understand what is wrong about it? >> tucker: look. you make a fair point. theres a lot we ...

Contradicting robert mueller and the special counsels team. are they calling them liars? because they put out a statement very clearly, they know the cards that they hold. they are the special counsels office. >> tucker: right. >> they know what they do and do not know. for them to say the way the story was reported is not accurate should be case closed. i would imagine, i guess buzzfeed probably in a bit of chaos here tonight. one more piece of this ronan farrow an investigative reporter at the...

Smith who has been a guest on this show. the person who put the now famous discredited dossier into circulation he says this in response to the statement tonight from the special counsel coaxman we and it by our reporting and the sources who informed it and we urge the special counsel to make clear what hes disputing. in other words, ben smith is saying let robert mueller correct our story. does, perhaps, the onus lie with ben smith and buzzfeed to make certain that what they reported last night...

You are correct instructing michael cohen to lie if that happened, which now looks like it obviously didnt, is a crime. why we instruct him to lie about a noncrime, a building project in moscow, tucker, is not illegal. there is nothing illegal about it part of the story made no sense. secondly, think about, this tucker. you were in journalism before. you know, you have the scoop of the century right here, right? and you give it to buzzfeed and to a reporter at buzzfeed with a checkered path? wha...

And if as bank said this is some sort of canary trap they should reveal those sources and call those sources out and say, look, these guys lied to us according to the what the special counsel has said tonight. they should make a deal about this. i think this is. >> tucker: thats fair but thats a totally fair point. >> the silver lining in this story though tonight is that this shoul should reaffirm peope on the flight mueller is going to be fair. i hope that is actually the message they are taki...

General nominee said that mueller was a man of honor and a friend of his. but i dont think most americans heard that. but, tonight, they heard him loud and clear when he pulled back this statement. so thats twice in one week that the right should be reassured in him. >> tucker: really quick, amy klobuchar of minnesota at the barr hearings the other day said something almost -- almost seemed like she had read the buzzfeed story before it ran. she said what obstruction of justice, perjury be impea...

Extension they were suggesting this is really bad for donald trump. well, you know what? >> tucker: i was stunned. i listened to it stuck, involuntarily stuck in an airport this morning. why do they still play that crap at airports. >> dont they pay? >> tucker: yes. >> i have seen that on tucker. >> tucker: thank you. appreciate it this turned out to be understatement of the evening be huge issue of buzzfeeds source. im getting word as of this hour buzzfeed is saying we stand by our reporting. e...

>> tucker: so you often here people in washington say and no one has more contempt for the pluck than people live in the city. you often hear them say the morons out there in the great middle of the country believe these conspiracy theories and flakey websites for these news. i often say to my stfl why do you think they are doing that and turning into alternative news channels because you are running stories like this. why would they believe you? >> i was having lunch with a democrat that you kn...

>> if you were that wrong they should come out and tell us they have given up anonymity. the quid pro quo here of not listing their names and acorinthing their nameattributis gone what happened here and the mueller statement they put out. as of now it would seem they are quasidoubling down here and they said stay tuned. believe me, we will. >> tucker: i wish they would stop calling themselves journalists. run your little cat pictorials and stupid little -- whatever you are thinking in brooklyn s...

Special counsel, a spokesperson, has knocked down this buzzfeed report quoting now buzzfeeds description of specific statement to the special counsels office and characterization of documentation and testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. that is critical because, remember, the buzzfeed report laid this at the door of the special counsel saying, quoting again, the special counsels office learned about trumps direct tia for cohen to l...