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And it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess were sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. call, go online or demo in an xfinity store today. that does it for me. ill be back at 4:00 eastern time today and tomorrow at 8:00. "am joy" with joy reid starts right now. 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. the...

Reacted to this report? >> when we look at it. earlier in the show you mentioned this idea if they issued a statement like this for this report does that mean that all past bomb shells that came out are accurate? one of the interesting things is if you dial in and look at the conversation that was happening among democrats yesterday you had a number of people immediately start talking about impeachment because of allegations in the article. so i think when it came to, you know, this bomb shell a...

Fernand youre not with us here so let me get your reaction to that. the reporting that trump will float $5.7 billion, still wants for his border wall, for daca and tps. good offer? democrats should consider? what do you think? >> joy, call me old fashioned, but im just not really keen on the idea of the speaker of the house of representatives, who is third in line to the presidency by the way, continuing to negotiate in good faith for the reopening of our government when its talking about a pres...

That if true caveat tonight itself blew up when the special counsels office made this exceedingly rare public statement in response to the buzzfeed reporting. quote, buzzfeeds description of special statements, excuse me, buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. that is from the spokesman for the special counsels office. now...

Michael cohen had been so helpful that he should get a reduction in his sentence. what do we know, joy? we know that, as you say, michael cohen admitted that he lied. the prosecutor said he also discussed his testimony with trumps team, not necessarily with trump. we know that he had a joint defense agreement with trump. trump, its likely that he knew he was lying. he let that out there. again, is that a crime? its gray, its not black or white, but it doesnt mean theres not going to be evidence ...

Very same president who has not had the common decency to sit down with any federal workers and listen to their stories. >> also happening today, a rare but very significant move by the special counsel, the office of robert mueller disputing an explosive story from buzzfeed that report stated that the president directed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. lets go to the white house. geoff bennett with the latest reaction from th...

...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. we are back and well continue on with our breaking news. break down this buzz feed reporting that president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project. there are sources of federal law officials. this is what the president said just this past november after cohen admitted he lied about that project. here it is. >> there would be noth...

Seized upon in the political sphere to go after particular people in part of this investigation. >> let me give you one angle here that nobodys talking about about that barr exchange, and that is when jeff sessions was there, the president could claim theres one guy mueller with a bunch of random democrats running an investigation. this is a comey moment. you fire comey, you get mueller. you dump sessions because sessions isnt involved in the investigation, you cant say my nominee is overseeing ...

Thats how xfinity makes tv... simple. easy. awesome. we are back and well continue on with our breaking news. break down this buzz feed reporting that president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project. there are sources of federal law officials. this is what the president said just this past november after cohen admitted he lied about that project. here it is. >> there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. i was running my business while i was camp...

Just one piece. and muellers been doing this a while. hes not going to just come in with a witness whos going to have his head taken off for credibility without having a lot of backup. >> yeah. i mean, cnn has not confirmed this, this is just the buzz feed reporting that were attributing. so much still has to be confirmed, nia. but, if and when it is confirmed, this puts all sorts of lawmakers, particularly some of the presidents supporters and republicans in a real bind because this came up dur...