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Released a statement sharing his version of what happen and he said the reason he was standing there not moving at all, he didnt want to spur any kind of confrontation by remaining still. that he would be able to keep things at a status quo until they were able to get out of they are. but he also talked about the backlash he and his family have received since initial reports came out and he said in reports from i have seen death threats via social media with hateful insults. one person threaten ...

And for the folks at home not sort of washington politics and dont know anything about buzzfeed, his website, they do do entertainment and they also do good news reporting on occasion, but the latest story claimed that the president told cohen to lie to congress. information they say they got from sources familiar with the mueller investigation. >> we have been told, our reporting is not going to be accurate. we are 100% behind it. >> we should hear from michael cohen and see the bottom of the r...

District of new york has something people should not overlook. the special peter carr, buzzfeed description to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. the white house as you can imagine, circling the wagons. in its call for better and more accurate reporting. >> the president expressed his appreciation to the special counsel for clarifying that that report was inaccurate...

Special counsel that chose to come out in the wake of this report and say its not accurate. >> you know how often robert mullers office comes out to make any comment about a new story? its never happened because hes been such a tight running ship. look, this was a humiliating episode for buzzfeed but a black eye for many, many organizations. buzzfeed you cannot go with a charge of this magnitude accusing the president of the united states of the board and aiding perjury and michael cohen went to...

>> sandra: back to the controversy with buzzfeed report late of last week the special counsels office came out and disputed that report on michael cohen but that still has not stopped the democrats are the main stream media from pouncing on those accusations. the report is behind the story or defending it and keeping the proof that they say they have close to their chest. >> anthony you said on cnn friday you would have not seen the documents in the story. jason leopold said on abc we have seen ...

>> joining me now in new york is staff writer for "the atlantic." what we heard as part of that conversation, ill start with, the simple question. are we supposed to pretend the buzzfeed story never happened or is there still something in there? >> one of the things the buzzfeed report did was revived the conversation about the trump tower moscow deal and how the president was pursuing this throughout 2016 and the way it did that, of course, that rudy guiliani, the presidents lawyer, was out on ...

Conversation surrounding the buzzfeed report and not enough on the implications that while russia was attacking the election the president was pursuing a deal and hiding it from voters. i have spoken to many, many counterintelligence experts, national security experts, who say thats perhaps the most concerning part of all of this. that russia knew that trump was trying to pursue this deal in russia, and the american people did not. so at any moment if russia wanted to pull that out of their pock...

Intelligence information that there was an investigation in play against putin and russia. at that point hed been briefed by the cia and the other agencies. he was the candidate. he was briefed as hillary clinton was, and he was calling for sanctions to be lifted against moscow and making all sorts of pronouncements about vladimir putin. >> two kind of legal significance. the first would be if he actually had directed as the buzz feed report suggested, then cohens potential crimes, he would be c...

President, then candidate, to lie to them about what he was doing. >> more morale, a lot of questions, few answers. waiting impatiently for robert muellers report to it be completed and questions after william barrs testimony, the likely new attorney general whether well actually see that full report. but is it sort of the risk for democrats that they focus so heavily on impeachment? is that the message from americans in the midterms? whats the message to democratic lawmakers? >> what americans ...

. that is all for tonight. we will be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, katy. thank you very much. we are covering a lot of stories this hour. donald trump getting panned by the left and the right for his offer to try to end the shutdown on his terms. we also have a special report that weve been working on for a while on "the beat" tonight. im going get into new evidence about what trump actually does throughout the day, why its s...