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Some of it was made on "the beat" here this week. you think about stormy daniels and trump, that exploding with the allegation on physical threat. secretary of state rex tillerson bounced from his job. pompeo tapped to take over. this many roger stone filmmaker break the news they were preparing a trip to london to meet with the founder julian assange undercutting some of stones public denials. there was the blue upset in trump country which has democrats excited. here on "the beat" last night, ...

To have to give the information that the special counsel wants. >> do you agree with the premise of the question stated on legal strategy that michael cohen picked a fight with buzz feed over the dossier that seems to be boomeranging. >> if hes going to take on buzz feed on that point and he tries to shift the narrative away from the issues that are facing him, thats going to be a tactic thats not going to play well and i dont think its going to play well with the prosecutors. >> focussing on ex...

As his client says, instead, he just says well do the right thing. >> theres been that -- that ty cobbs role has been simply to provide that documentation to hul mueller, in this case, its a separate case, but buzz feed is making its case that its involved. just last week, president trump was talking to a separate lawyer, to handle kind of his personal requests coming in mueller, so ty cobb, i think has a narrow mandate here and im actually not surprised. >> youre not surprised. and this goes to...

They closed down this investigation prematurely before bringing forth some of the individuals that mr. mueller has indicted or pleaded guilty. its bad. paul ryan has done a very bad job. >> donna brazil and kathleen parker, thank you for a spirited panel if i may say so. up next, legal action from buzz feed that involves president trump himself, michael cohen, stormy daniels and the trump dossier, thats next. and were learning more about a second trump organization lawyer involved in the sto...

All of these women liars. and according to ms. cliffords lawyer, theres other women. and we dont know if these women were the women that trump allegedly harassed or if theres other ndas out there, but this is also the time when trump sought out bill clintons accusers and trotted them on stage at a debate and now to learn that all of this was going on behind the scenes, at least with one woman maybe more. >> and as you said, we dont know, but thats what buzz feed wants to know, and that cease whe...

Often or potentially drop this suit against buzz feed? >> i have no idea. well see how it all plays out. >> ben, anything you want to add in closing? >> no, i mean, i think we arent sure why mr. cohen chose to file this, that the presidents personal lawyer sued us here, but were absolutely confident that we did the right thing in publishing the dossier and glad to be represented by good counsel. its a high profile case. when you write things that people dont like, you have to be prepared to be s...

Welcome back to the beat and more on this exclusive story a thats breaking right now. im holding a letter from buzz feed that was septembnt to ty c. whats different tonight as i was just discussing with buzz feed representatives themselves is theyre targeting president trump and asking for materials relating to cohen, stormy daniels, rush that and a whole lot more. lets get right back to it. with me is donna brazil, and im joined by heidi frizbola. ill start with the federal prosecutor, what do ...

Thing, do you read that as the white house will then provide all of this or not? he also mentioned to me that tonight was the first time that he had seen your letter. >> this is the first time hearing about mr. cobbs response and mr. cobb is a respected and reasonable lawyer and im sure hell fulfill all of his legal and ethical considerations. i dont think the trump administration will give me anything without a fight. but im sure he will do what he can do. >> its just about lawyers getting alon...

The stormy daniels case just hit the white house. i am holding a new document just sent by ty cobb, asking the -- i also just got off the phone with white house lawyer ty cobb, we spoke about the letter and i have his exclusive response which ill share with you in a moment. heres the story, this request for stormy daniels materials, actually part of the publication buzz feeds defense against a libel suit that was brought over the dossier. buzz feed sent this letter to ty cobb, the trump lawyer a...

Students in boise, idaho today, taking over four floors of the idaho state house. this video from a reporter from buzz feed captures them shouting "enough is enough." outside in idaho, students were just as deafening. this kind of thing happened for hours across the country. students by the hundreds, by the thousands, in some case the tens of thousands took part in a national walkout. it marks one months since the shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school in florida that took 17 lives. th...