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Accurate. buzzfeed is not backing down. we stand by our reporting and the sources that informed it and we urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. all right. its good to have you both, all right? lets deal with where we think things stand. buzzfeed says one thing. the mueller people change in terms of what they believe is true about what they know. does that end the buzzfeed reporting for you? >> for me, i take it as now we are back to exactly where we were at the point where...

>> in what way? and to who. >> to all of us. a day after a story is published they come out with a very very detailed and very opaque statement disputing it. >> are you concerned -- im concerned, frankly, that when you -- over the next few months, whenever theres a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, its another buzzfeed story, its another story like buzzfeed where even robert mueller said it was false. do you worry thats going to d...

>> ben, i think brian stelter has a question for you. >> 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 when we saw the # republican attacking the reporters in the story, that struck us as -- thats...

This, his son don junior tweeted about it 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. joining us is maggie haberman and preet bharara. maggie, what do you make of this? >> a lot of different things. its still hard to figure it out. one thing that ...

Redetailed and very opaque statement disputing it. >> are you concerned -- im concerned, frankly, that when you -- over the next few months, whenever theres a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, its another buzzfeed story, its another story like buzzfeed where even robert mueller said it was false. do you worry thats going to damage all of us? >> you know, we are like most of our colleagues, very focused on doing the reporting and g...

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. 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 this, it was when his reporting revealed hillary clintons e-mails. >> jeff toobin here. is it unnerving t...

Terms of the time line from the white house response in the morning, i think it was kellyanne conway who was on attacking michael cohen as a liar, raising questions about the reporting, but not denying it. it wasnt until the presidents attorney later in the day said that it was categorically untrue. then sarah sanders echoed that and citing rudy giuliani. >> that was significant. in the same way -- we rarely have statements from the special koup counsels office. i did find that to be telling. i ...

That if they dont get everything right. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to -- >> speaking 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 smith, is a very smart, aggressive reporter. im sure he has his reporters doing that. one thing i think is really important ...

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This buzzfeed report. let me read you the full statement. buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this officeegarichael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. how do you read that? do you read that as the reputation of the entire substance of the report or just of the characterizations of things said to the special counsel and given to the special counsel? >> joy, initially i read it as a ve...