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John walsh is with me. sorry. im having trouble. i want to get through the statement from peter carr, the spokesperson for mueller. characterization of testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens testimony are not accurate. thats a huge statement. >> it is. >> congress was demanding it. that seems like an incredible reputation of an article which said it was based upon evidence. >> were waiting for buzzfeeds response as well, which we need. it is something that has to set us all b...

It seems to be a clear rebuttal. >> right. this is not just based on these peoples perceptions. they are aware of the documents. the special counsel saying this is not accurate of sort of the information, the testimony that the special counsel has at their disposal. weve all been in a difficult position with this report. no one else has been able to confirm it. we have been saying that on the air over and over again that cnn couldnt confirm it. even the buzzfeed reporter said they havent seen th...

Buzzfeed? >> it sounds very terrible for buzzfeed. i have a lot of faith in the fact that mueller never puts out statements or rarely. the other thing is, i looked at the reporters who were behind the story. i only know one of them. hes a careful reporter. i cant believe he would put out a bogus story. the other one is a pulitzer prize winner which makes it even more confusing. they are invest gaigative reporters. they must have been mislead by their sources. >> its hard to understand what would...

Michael cohen to lie under oath to congress. buzzfeed reporting the bombshell details. they are saying a reporter has seen documentation proving that the president committed a felony crime. chairman of the house int intelligence committee and the judiciary committee is where impeachment proceedings would begin are both calling for investigation. the white house response to the report. they took 16 hours to refute it. >> thats absolutely ridiculous. i think that the presidents outside counsel add...

Primary. they continued months after that. cnn has not independently confirmed buzzfeeds report. its the talk of the day and theres congressional investigations about to start as a result. if true, the report implicates the president in federal crime. up until sanders categorical denial 16 hours after that report. all we heard were attacks on michael cohen himself. not denials of the facts but attacks. >> im not going to give any credence to michael cohen so who is a convicted felony and admitte...

Documents were. what do you make of this? where they lied to? >> certainly. theres always the possibility someone was lied to but theres the possibility that whoever these federal law enforcement officials were, they saw some subset of these documents and drew conclusions that maybe took leaps that are not backed up by the documentation. maybe they drew different conclusions than what the special counsels office drew. its difficult know without know wh knowing what was included. this is the kind...

Congressional testimony are not accurate. thats according to the spokesman for robert muellers office. i want to go straight to sarah murray. highly unusual we could get a statement because we never get statements from the special counsels office. not even to say what they ate for lunch. this is a big deal. >> sit a huge deit is a huge de. the most we get is an off the record comment. to see them put out statement like this to say this buzzfeed report is not accurate, thats a big deal. i think y...

This is something that i think will be veried aven tay ed avea them. they will try to make the case that the reporting has not been accurate. after delaying for some time, they did eventually say it was false. i think theyre going to have an opportunity to really take a victory lap on this. >> they will. the strange thing was that it took 16 hours to do that, but they did. you have -- just to emphasize, democrats had jumped on this immediately. some of them last night were quick to hit twitter a...

I i im not going to say they did something wrong, but it sounds like something is wrong. i want their explanation. >> you have people demanding -- if true its caveated. this is being disputed. its stunning to have them be so special. it appears from this statement, there is no gray area, at least thats the way it reads. >> two things. buzzfeed is not a serious news organization. they shouldnt be treated as such. they put out the dozssier. this is unprecedented that this came out from muellers te...

Day. >> reporter: theres been a notable evolution of how the white house is responding. it seemed the strategy was to undermine michael cohen. attack buzzfeed news as more fake news and not even answer the underlying question about whether or not the president committed a federal crime. now it pyrappears after many ho the white house is following the lead of rudy giuliani calling this report categorically false. i think in this effort to shift from attacking cohen to denying the claim, you see a...