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Takes moments like this weekend when buzzfeed had this story knocked down by the special counsels office should have been a win for him and he creates not just one but two, three entirely new damaging news cycles. >> you put your finger on it. you have done this kind of work, and it is difficult sometimes to walk the line of being accurate but also secretive about open investigations. you did it for the doj. other folks do it on the other side of these probes. this could have been a time where t...

Election? one thing to note, right after donald trump won the election, one of the first things that he said he wanted to do was eliminate the foreign corrupt practices act which would eliminate bribery around the world. maybe this is part of it. >> on friday the special counsel issued a rebuke of the buzzfeed reporting that alleged that michael cohen was instructed to lie to congress on behalf of donald trump. reports cited two federal law enforcement officials. peter carr, the special counsel ...

Yorker" sbrinterview out today. "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 knew none existed. reporter: wait, what tapes have you gone through? rudy: i shouldnt have said tapes." frank? >> he shouldnt say anything at this point. hes gone through things that dont -- hes gone through things that dont exist. he is really the worst enemy of the president, and were in an upsidedown world, nicolle, where the prosecutor in th...

Him in the coming days or weeks to try to get him off. there is a widespread and conclusion from folks around the president that what giuliani did this weekend was not helpful and successful. especially because the buzzfeed story and the mueller sometimes liked like a good thing for the president and some folks around him said look, why dont we get out of the way and let the buzzfeed story speak for itself and let muellers statement be out there. by going out, they took that narrative away. >> b...

Muellers office put it. it has been interpreted in circles meaning mueller was trying to shoot down the entirety of the buzzfeed story, they were trying to say everything in the buzzfeed story is the opposite of what happened but my understanding that is not true. the statement is narrowly tailored and goes after one pivotal claim in the buzzfeed report and that is the oath thing it goes after -- >> what is the point. >> and the claim is mueller has documents and witness testimony showing that t...

For example, when he said the stormy daniels payment, that would have been bad if it came out before the election. thats the worst possible fact for the president. he blurted out that as analysis. and he changes his story. and he goes after law enforcement when he know his career has been supporting law enforcement. heres a guy who has zero credibility at this point and if the white house people are exasperated with him, of course they are. its time for him to go. >> let me get your thoughts on ...

Perfectly norm al. >> i dont know if it happened or didnt lhappen. >> robert mueller took the extraordinary step of publicly disputing a buzzfeed that said that mr. trump directsed cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. ben smith and a reporter standing by the reporting in this cnn interview. >> we are eager to understand which characterizations mueller is talking about and we take it incredibly seriously. >> if further confirmation this is right, were being told to stan...

The white house and giuliani have absolutely denied, no collusion. now all of a sudden there was maybe collusion but just not with the president himself. trump tower absolutely not. they were still negotiating? and then the whole question of, you know, buzz feeds assertion that he was coached to lie and that was -- parts of that were denied by mueller. we have an investigation that maybe they were talking. we dont know what -- certainly he didnt coach him to lie. there is a lot of retreat going ...

Was true, they were talk iing about the fact that buzz feed had reported it. so this was an attack i think for mueller on his own work product and i think he was sending a warning shot is that dont be telling people what my files reflect and what im doing. because im going to come back at you. >> let me turn the page. this russian pop star who who organize d the meeting canceled his u.s. concert after failing to reach a deal with mueller. tell me r more about that and why its cig. >> thats right...

Michael cohen to say anything, is it a big deal? >> its a really big deal. its quite prepos poer pos ter t they would allow those circumstances. thats rules number one through 20 that you dont want to have your client commit obstruction of justice. and for him to talk about that conversation with cohen, cohens office has been raided, it makes to sense to say thats normal, its spinning, not laurg. >> lawyering. >> its not normal at all for someone to speak to a witness about their testimony befor...