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>> shannon: we still await the mueller report. we have no idea on the timing. we saw initially one video of these young kids from the catholic school in kentucky. now there is much more video, different angles, that paint a totally different story. even with all of that information, and and a number f people have come forward and apologize, retracted what they earlier said. details emerge, covington catholic kids still are entitled, racist, white boys. we are supposed to believe that they are in...

To the stories. two big stories. the media accused of rushing to judgment in both cases, after new information came to light. so lets bring in near post op editor, and pulitzer prize-winning journalist, judy miller. great to have both of you with us. >> nice to be here, shannon. b3 lets start with the so-called buzzfeed bombshell. the special counsel made the very rare decision to come out and rebut what was being said. "the washington post" has a little bit more of an article that talks about m...

Moscow hotel room. they are buzzing about that. and then we learn that person or did go to the justice department and he told among other people, the top deputy of robert mueller, sometimes known as his people. >> ed: i want to show a tweet from adam schefter, when you connect the dots to all these stories, in the case of buzzfeed, anonymous stories, right or wrong, youve all kinds of people in congress were running with it. the bruce ohr story has not got a lot of got me a lot of attention. he ...

Will wait 24 hours rather than weighing in and that is too common with mainstream media reports, always cutting in the same direction ideologically against the president, against republicans, you have to exercise this kind of discretion and i was proved right. there were red flags like the fact the two reporters couldnt agree about the fact over whether theyd seen these documents, one of them said they had in the other said they had been briefed on some and other issues with the story itself, i ...

If you were the chief spokesman for this justice department, matt, how would you be responding or wanting to respond to someone like rudy giuliani? >> if i was in my old job, i wouldnt have much to say because you typically dont respond on what counsel for the people youre investigating say publicly. >> in your head. >> first of all, with respect to this question about tapes, i have no idea what hes talking about. he does tend to pull things out of his head that have no relation sometimes to the...

Special counsel office saying their aspects of this story that are not accurate and you have some reporting by the washington post about how the story came about that raises some interesting questions. so my caution to everyone is stay cool, and wait until the facts come out and dont be surprised if theyre complicated and dont be surprised if there are some problems with the story and some things that are -- big things that may be accurate in the story. i dont know what the truth is. >> betsy, b...

Lordy, there are tapes. maybe. when asked by the new yorker how heblgd be so certain the disputed buzzfeed story about the president and mike come hen was untrue, giuliani responded, quote, because i have been through all the tapes, i have been through all the texts, i have been through all the e-mails, and i know none existed. when he inquired further about what tapes giuliani listened to, the presidents lawyer backtracked. quote, i shouldnt have said tapes. he then went on to clarify, quote, n...

Election, he was still negotiating over a trump tower skyscraper in moscow, then making a bizarre reference to tapes. that is in an interview with the new yorker. giulianis point was to push back on buzzfeeds reporting that trump directed former fixer cohen to lie to congress. saying, quote, i have been through all the tapes. i have been through all the texts. i have been through all the e-mails. and i knew nonexisted. showing an order from the president to lie. wait, tapes? big red flag for the...

If you are the president and you wanted the picture on buzzfeed? who else would you put out? >> has sarah sanders put that out at all? >> they want to sprayed themselvsprayed -- separate themselves from russia. if they say the wrong thing, mueller subpoena. >> exactly. if i remember the thinking in hiring him, too, he was good on and thats what drew trump to him if i remember our reporting. >> that are gives the whole thing a feel of something cooked up over hamburgers at bed minster. >> rudy ta...

Through the election. then he said he was talking in hypothetical terms today. >> i dont know. i dont talk about things i dont know about. unfortunately that sometimes happens, no different than anybody else. this wasnt a deal. we dont know the developer. we dont know the site. we dont know anything about it. ultimately it was michael cohen essentially trying to get a deal done. i dont think anyone took it all that seriously. thats the reality of what went on. >> in september of 2017, trump jr. ...