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That maybe what happened. >> what happens now? the white house tomorrow well hear about this. and justifiably. >> president is going to be doing one event tomorrow. we expect to be the announcement about the government shutdown. i dont believe hell declare national emergency. but an opportunity to describe what he sees as a national emergency. the investigation into him is representing that. doint think hell let it go. it will depend on ben smith continuing to report. it will depend on whether t...

>> ben, earlier today the republican national committee challenged one of the two reporters, jason, said he has a history of false reporting. i know he has had a great track record working for you. are you concerned about the history of your reporters being questioned and their work being questioned? >> thanks for the question, brian. i think that whether we saw the republican attacking the reporters in the story, that struck us as -- thats something you typically do when you dont have a better ...

On another network i saw a banner saying muellers team knocked down a story. buzzfeeds description of specific statements to special counsels office in characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding congressional testimony are not accurate. >> what they knocked down was a tremendous zeal going forward in congress and concern based on the reporting, this reporting, if true, as i said earlier, would change the direction of the story massively. it wouldnt just be this...

Channel. so we have to wait and see. >> ben wouldnt go into details on this but it would be normal procedure to ask the mueller team to comment on a story that theyre reporting. >> of course. all of our frustration has been that the mueller team wont comment on almost anything. were all trying to get it right. jeffrey makes it a very important point thats true for all of us. my husband who is a journalist said were all just as good as our sources, and that is true. again, i dont know who buzz fe...

They placed a premium on showing a law that is minor does not make it easier or okay to break. there is a reason why mueller has seemed like the arbiter 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. into is the president tweeting now? >> he is of course -- most ly re...

This is often a point the president makes. 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. good to have you on. can you explain your response to what special counsel muellers office has released? >> thank you for having me on. obviously, we stand by the reporting in this story. we spoke to federal law enforcement off...

Credibility. >> they are not wrong. michael cohen has lied. >> he has acknowledged that. the white house has a massive credibility problem. this is why when you have -- its very rare -- >> 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...

Removed from the conversation. thats the way it works in russia. there is no rule of law. you know, somebody threatens an oligarch, and these types of 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 olig deripaska and his connections to the kremlin to some of the stuff that happened today in the united states, you see a big difference. ...

Trump tower moscow. >> we should point out that terms of the time line from the white house response in the morning, i think it was kellyanne conway, hogan gidly who were on attacking michael cohen as a liar, raising questions about the reporting, but not denying it categorically. it wasnt until the presidents attorney rudy giuliani later in the day said that it was categorically untrue. then sarah sanders echoed that and citing rudy giuliani. into that was significant for rudy giuliani. in the ...

>> 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. obviously, the facts are true or false. we will all get to the bottom of this. the special counsel could make clear what in the story he is disputing that would make it easier fo...