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Buzz feed urged mueller to clarify what hes disputing about the report. >> we describe our sources here as federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation of the matter of the trump tower moscow and were not playing games with that characterization. these are strong sources close to the investigation. they are involved in the investigation who we spoke to after the publication of the story as well as before and who told us it was accurate. obviously the special counsel prefers to...

Happening right now, all across the country including here in los angeles, womens marches are taking place across the country. this is the one in l.a. thousands are taking part. you can see it right there and theyre at the city hall there in los angeles where its just after 11:00 a.m. in the morning. back to the mueller report and a very rare move by the special counsel robert mueller disputing the buzzfeed report that president trump had directed michael cohen to lie to congress, buzzfeed cit...

Polls. as i mentioned msnbc is going to bring you live coverage of the presidents announcement at 3:00 p.m. eastern. anchored by my colleague joy reid. up ahead were buzzing about the buzzfeed report. much more on that and robert muellers unprecedented push-back. we recap the week. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign. [ laughter ] >> that is so shocking, you saw it, he shocked himself. makes it beautiful.

Those were re? >> what we do know is the buzzfeed story was incorrect. first time weve ever seen the special counsels office respond. yet, that report triggered democrats into their thing, talking about impeachment. but if you look at the other news reports, i think we need to read these and understand we need to wait. were going to see the mueller report at some point. it seems that this is an endless investigation that will never actually produce a report. but at some point well see it. well g...

>> a live look at the white house, on this day 29 of the government shutdown. the president will make a major announcement on the shutdown at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. joining me here in studio, congressman meeks democrat from new york. welcome. always good to see you. all right. so we have a report from the "new york times" which suggests democrats are offering a billion dollars more towards security, border security. does that mean it would go to a wall or are there specific parameters this wo...

Occurred did not then go back and encourage him to correct it or didnt correct it, is that problematic and could that be the confusion that this buzzfeed report has kind of stumbled upon? >> absolutely, joy. so thats gray. the value of the buzzfeed report was that it was black and white, but thats not how public corruption cases work. so i think that what robert mueller was doing is trying to protect his case. hes letting congress and the american people know theres not going to be a perry mason...

One thing that stuck out the me when that report came out, in the 24 hours after, no other news organization was able to confirm it. you know minus organization wasnt and we werent talking to a lot of sources that were able to confirm it. we saw other reporters on twitter essentially saying we didnt see this story going in that direction or our sources werent matching up with that and i think thats something that democrats really should have paid attention to because were already seeing it with ...

Congress without paying a serious price and holding -- being held accountable for it. >> we were talking off-camera and you said this is worse than nixon. muellers office chose to comment on this buzzfeed report but not the hundreds of other reports that went before, including the possible -- the "new york times" report about the counterintelligence investigation. what does that tell us about those other reports? >> thats a really great point to make because there has been a lot of information p...

Major significance of the buzzfeed report was the claim that mueller had evidence, that mueller had text, e-mails, documentary evidence that could establish the president suborned perjury. this was not the word of michael cohen or somebody else. this was documentary evidence and now you have again this report in "the washington post" and the statement from robert mueller, a huge potential here. >> that was my reaction, how could you possibly parse this if youre putting on your lawyer hat? of cou...

Suborning perjury is a crime. and cohen who is president trumps right hand man is a convicted man and a liar, but the buzz feed indicates it is not his word that is central here, citing two federal law enforcement officials, they report that muellers office learned trump directed cohen to lie from the trump organization and from company e-mails, text messages, and other documents. >> cohen of course pleaded guilty in november to lying to congress about the russia investigation. he claimed negoti...