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Pitched to other establishments first and they declined it because of credibility, why are they they reporting it now with the caveat, as reported by buzzfeed. rob: well see where buzzfeed goes with this. thanks so much for your time. the army is facing a recruiting crisis. theyre turning to americas you bluest cities to boost the ranks. how theyre combating what some say is this generations patriotism problem. stay tuned. i switched to liberty mutual because they let me customize my insurance, ...

The story is accurate. >> what if these sources are just wrong? >> they are not. >> jesse: president trump slamming it as the latest example of fake news. >> i think that the buzzfeed piece was a disgrace to our country. it was a disgrace to journalism, and i think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful. >> jesse: greg, we were laughing on friday. if true. big if true. what happens? >> greg: we called it. "the five" was ahead of the news and deserve the pulitzer prize, ea...

We. rob: the special counsels office asserting it was not accurate and it was almost entirely incorrect. rudy giuliani saying this is another example of a media out to get his client. >> they should be sued. they should be under investigation. youve got hysteria going on in the media that interprets everything against donald trump. rob: even the vice president is saying the problem is bigger than buzzfeed. >> i think what it says more about is the obsession of many in the national media to attac...

Bill barr was perfectly right in writing that memo. his memo was actually quite good. i actually dont criticize buzzfeed. if they actually had two people associated with mueller saying this, it was news. it was what the media did with the article that is so disturbing. brian: yeah. the special counsel says basically no. in the beginning they stayed out of it and pointed them to an area where they would have showed them that the story, they couldnt back up because special counsel didnt know it an...

Im dead serious. before running with any of these anti-trump stories. brian: emailed don jr. with cryptic information. they didnt email with anything. spammed email information was on the internet. deutsch bank story about trump back records. wrong. the mike flynn story that he was told to contact the russians when trump was a candidate. >> wrong. the mcclatchey story about michael cohen in prague. wrong. these stories have been wrong over and over. you have to wait 24 hours. the story will shor...

In that respect. i dont think weve gotten to the bottom of this. i think we will hear more because buzzfeed said it would continue the reporting but dont want to lose sight how unusual this was. >> michael steele, this really is, helps get to the fundamental question of why when past republican candidates had been sort of -- mitt romney, frankly, saying they were our biggest geopolitical foe and four years later donald trump is basically embracing russia as if they could be one of our biggest al...

Which could have been summer of 2016. id like to stick with whats in the actual court record. i think thats a good place to be. >> and we also heard from rudy giuliani today on this topic saying he wouldnt rule out the idea that the president and michael cohen had spoken in some form about the testimony. while its been disputed now that he said he told michael cohen to lie before congress, of course, rudy giuliani says thats not true. special counsels office said the buzzfeed article is not accu...

>> and the emergence of rudy guilianis effective defense. on one hand, yes, i admit the president was working, quote/unquote, on this russia deal from the beginning of the campaign, the time announced and then became president. secondarily he said this week, well, the campaign could have claimed it. suggesting to some extent that perhaps that is not a crime. you see the contours of a defense where they admit that they were working with russia, admit they had a relationship with russia but seek t...

Buzzfeed. quote, the special counsel spokesman told others in the government he would have more vigorously discouraged the reporter from proceeding with the story. matt, take us through the play by play of the buzzfeed story and the mueller pushback, which seemed remarkable. >> on the day that buzzfeed was planning to report this story, this sent an e-mail to the spokesman for the special counsels office, who has become kind of famous for responding no comment, the mueller team doesnt leak, they...

Handle the buzzfeed article when there are elements in the public domain that show us that that direction does make sense. >> im almost out of time, but why would that concern you? the deputy attorney general is overseeing the probe. it appears according to muellers spokesperson that something was stated about what mueller has that they want the world to know was mischaracterized or inaccurate. whats wrong with that? >> well, where do you draw the line? inside there is an investigation and its q...