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Are you 100% confident that the president never once asked michael cohen to do anything but tell the truth to congress? >> 100% certain of that. >> can you share what communication the president had with michael cohen about trump tower moscow? >> before the investigation, during the period that theyre looking at, they did have conversations about it. the conversations lasted throughout parts of 2016. the president is not sure exactly when they ended. probably up to -- could be up to as far as oc...

New fallout tonight over bob mueller issuing a rare response to that buzzfeed article that reported michael cohen had told bob muellers team he was ordered to lie to congress by trump and that mueller would have evidence of that. lets be clear, while that buzzfeed report dominated the news on friday, including i should mention right here on "the beat," it was being covered everywhere. but then mueller in a very rare move issued a statement saying that the core of the buzzfeed report was, quote, ...

Report but if this it true it shows obstruction of justice. >> "if true," the most important term in politics. hearing it a lot this week. used by lauck mawmakers and med across the country. buzzfeed reported that the president drirected michael cohn to lie to congress about the timeline of discussions regarding the trump tower moscow project. later it was disputed by the special counsels office. buzzfeed says it still stands by its rosting and some, like senator kirsten gillibrand says it still...

Away, and the damage that could be forthcoming would be if cohen can credibly test my when hes up on capitol hill during february. if he can credibly testify that the president did more than just remain silent about his proposed testimony. >> one of the things thats been driving the discussion has been this rare statement from the special counsel robert mueller about the buzzfeed story that dropped thursday night, basically saying buzzfeed was not accurate in pieces of the story it reported abou...

One of the big questions throughout the entire trump tower russia story is why is he so perplexingly in step of everything that the kremlin has and the other side is very important when we are talking about the way his campaign interacted with russian nationals including powerful and connected russian nationals during the campaign is why his campaign felt they needed at every turn possible to lie about it over and over when presented to tell the truth about these communications, communications t...

It was a disgrace to journalism. and i think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful. >> two wows. >> never-ending battle between who he hates more. the special counsel or the media. apparently the media today, but -- >> but an unprecedented statement from the special counsels office which says something in that story is wrong. buzzfeed is standing by the story, and the president is right. the media picked up that story and ran big with it, including fox news. the presiden...

It is time to reclaim our future from the extreme voices who fear compromise and demand open borders. >> plus, unprecedented followed by unfathomable. the special counsel issues a statement challenging a big buzzfeed report about the russia investigation and the president, for once, anyway, has kind words for the man he routinely savages. >> it was a total phony story. and i appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. i think it was very appropriate that they did so. i...

This weekend will be remembered as the time two things that we never imagined could happen, happened. the office of special counsel robert mueller issued an unprecedented statement disputing a media report about its investigation, and the president then had kind words about a man hes routinely savages as the leader of a witchhunt. it came after buzzfeed said it had witnesses to back up michael cohens claim that the president told him to lie about russia business dealings. mueller said buzzfeeds ...

Thats why i think michaels very correctly focusing on what is the corroborating evidence. thats why were talking about this, not because rudy went on tv. buzzfeed published that huge story thats in so much discussion about alleging theres actually corroborated evidence that the president specifically directed michael cohen to lie to congress, which would be, if proven, an impeachable offense. eventually well find out if thats true. even if we never get that far, the fact that in order to muddy t...

The mueller investigation, which has turned out not to be true. we wont know the truth of any of those until mueller completes his investigation and everything hes done has made public. right now what we do know is the special counsel has said with the speed is claiming is not true and since buzz feed is at revealing their sources are, we have no way of verifying what does he do saying. arthel: von, this story will continue. thank you for joining us on this sunday. cold sunday. thank you very mu...