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Trump is calling on the congress to do. come to the table in a spirit of good faith, well secure our border, well reopen the government. >> he called it perversion of the work of one of the greatest social activists. why? >> the policies of this administration are antithetical to absolutely everything martin luther king fought for. so having vice president pence invoke martin luther king really flies in the face of his memory. and there is no way to look at that history and align it with anythin...

Here, is there still smoke coming from the justice department in the wake of the mueller statement friday night? >> well, as i said, they never ever do this. especially they never knock down a story. every once in a while theyre provide some of guidance on a court filing or something like that. but to see them knock down a story as just inaccurate is so, so, a. the question is, what happens after this? and where does it leave us? because buzzfeed is doubling down and saying we stand by our repor...

He would have said im trying to do business all over the world, im a businessman, not a politician and we would have had to have seen how his opponents would have handled it. as it relates to what happened over the weekend, buzzfeeds story started crumbling from the moment you guys on new day on friday morning got the reporter to admit that he hadnt personally seen the documents and text messages that were referenced in the story. it got only worse from there and it got even worse on sunday when...

Process normally works. normally youll give a lot more detail, a lot more information ahead of time when asking for comment on such a serious story. frankly, i give more detail when im writing a silly dumb story about buzzfeed. i sent more information to buzzfeed asking for comment than they did. why? this is how it works with the special counsel. they never answer. they never give guidance on stories so its okay. however, in the journalism world, this is being looked at as a real problem. not e...

Took this weekend in the wake of the buzzfeed to get these facts out there. it was probably smart pr there, the timing of it. >> absolutely. i think they felt a boost. >> yeah. >> i can tell you from my experience going through the starr investigation, once every six to eight weeks someone would get something absolutely wrong. >> right. >> and it didnt make them terrible reporters, they just got something wrong and we would take advantage of that. and i think in this case, and what giuliani does...

Like this to try to discredit everything that has been found. a, we dont know what mule will he is d he -- mueller is disputing. it might be about the detail rather than the substance. so lets wait and see what is there. this is one story out of a huge investigation. many stories which have actually born out to be true. so it is not as if everything hinges on this. and as giuliani showed on sunday morning, within hours the administration itself is likely to provide more smoking guns regardless o...

For the president? because this seems to be a gray area. and this does touch on the buzzfeed thing but, again, thats bobby ewing, were pretending that didnt happen here. but if the president knew that michael cohen was going to say something that he knew was going to be false to congress here, when is it incumbent upon the president legally and then i suppose morally as a separate question to step in and say no? >> its really not incumbent on him legally do anything. whats incumbent on him to no...

>> this would be perfectly normal. >> so it is possible that that happened? >> i dont know if it happened or didnt happen. it might be attorney/client privilege if it happened where i cant acknowledge it. >> giuliani made those comments after robert mueller took the extraordinary step of publicly disputing a report from buzzfeed that said mr. trump directed cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. ben smith and anthony cormier standing by their reporting. >> we are eager t...

Counsels office was surprised, i think. they were taken aback by how much detail was in the story. >> whats buzzfeed going to do the next days or weeks? are they going to report other stuff like this? are these reporters still working on things? are they going to give daily updates as to what theyre finding out? >> theyre actively working on this. the story is still on the home page. they have confidence in it if its still on the home page. buzzfeed had a good track record on this particular bea...

>> as far as i know, president trump did not have discussions with him. certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. if he had any discussions with him, they would be about the version of the events that michael cohen gave them which they all believe was true. >> but you just acknowledged that it is possible that president trump talked to michael cohen about his testimony. >> which would be perfectly normal. >> so it is possible that it happened? >> i dont ...