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Things happen. and you were alluding earlier to whatever is happening here in the united states. i actually think that if you compare what happened to this woman when she returned after challenging essentially oleg deripaska and his connections to the kremlin to some of the stuff that happened today in the united states, you see a big difference. the russians look at what happened here today with all of the press stuff and the buzzfeed reporting, they see that as chaotic. we see that, i think, a...

Accurate. buzzfeed not backing down. heres the statement from editor and chief, ben smith. in the response to the statement. we standby the reporting and the sources who informed it and urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. all right, lets bring in people who report on these stories and work for the doj. its good to have you both. lets deal with where we think thipgs stand. buzzfeed says one thing, mueller people change in terms of what they believe is true about what they...

There is a reason why mueller has seemed like the arbitor of truth, because he has named who has been lying to investigators. i think that preet is right, when you have the president point to this as evidence of -- this is going to help him, the fact that mueller -- >> he is on a retweet spree celebrating this and attacking the media. he is, of course -- mostly retweeting people mocking buzzfeed for this. the editor and chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, who led the team doing this reporting, came ou...

Well i assume see over the next couple of days, where our reporting and where everybody elses reporting advances it. >> we love to have scoops. isnt it nervous making that you are out there by yourself on a story that lots and lots of very good reporters are covering? >> you know, the specifics of this story grew out of a story that we have been way out in front exclusively on, the moscow project, which is a different line of inquiry. jason and anthony have been through this whole process at tim...

At least not from an official channel. >> ben wouldnt go into detail. but it would be normal procedure to ask the mueller team to comment on a story that theyre reporting. >> of course. part of the all of our frustrations unkor covering this story has been the mueller team will not comment on almost anything. and we are all trying to get things right. jeffrey makes an important point. my husband who is a journalist. said that we are all just good as good our sources. thats true. i think that aga...

Special counsels statement i think, again, it will be safe to say that the president will be talking about this, his son don junior tweeted about it basically mocking the buzzfeed story saying i told you so. theres probably more to come in terms of reaction. >> pamela brown, appreciate your reporting. buzzfeed just responded. im quoting from them. we are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. we remain confident in the accuracy of our report. they say. joining ...

Whose work included revealed hillary clintons e-mails. i think its ludicrous to go back and dredge around stuff -- stories from 15 years ago that are real and that he wrote about back then. >> people wonder sometimes if in this partisan age of anti-trump bias, reporters opinions creep into the coverage. something like this. you might hear something from a source and you want it to be true. did that happen in this case? >> no, absolutely not. the last time jason was being accused of things like t...

Press outlets sometimes face that if they dont get everything right and the prosecutor speaks in this way and retreats back. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. for buzzfeed. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to pan out -- >> speaking for reporting generally, people will go back to their sources and try to re-establish trails and look at what they have and what they dont have. ben smi...

You are seeing base on what pam was saying the president referring to that. others on twitter referring to leakers. this is often a point the president makes. there is leaking against him. people are out to get him. anything that could delegitimize the investigation is of concern to the special counsel. thats why they went forward. i dont know what this means for the story going forward. >> joining us is ben smith. editor in chief for buzzfeed. good to have you on. can you explain your response ...

>> the white house, as far as i know, have not acknowledged that they have lied about anything. >> correct. i think thats -- they have acknowledged sometimes errors. very infrequently. so this is why when i had a lot of people around the white house and around the president saying to me today, why is everyone not just -- why do they have -- why does the trump team have to give a response? because people are not going to just assume that because the presidents folks say were not going to dignify ...