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This entire team is a very cautious and careful team. the notion they felt the need to put out this statement disputing at least portions of the buzzfeed account are something we should all take very seriously. i understand buzzfeed is continuing to stand by its story, and says its original sources are standing by the story. the notion the special counsel put out this statement should give everyone pause and an opportunity to sit down, take a moment and think about what we know and what we dont ...

Russia continued up through 2016 election so this really fits a pattern, alex, of the president and his allies shifting the goal post about these dealings with russia, shifting from president trump saying he has nothing to do with russia at all to ultimately acknowledging that, yes, his company did try to strike a deal to build a tower in moscow. two things about this are important. first, we know that donald trump even as the gop nominee was having these talks with russia even though russia, as...

Lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about his moscow trump deal. that prompt add rare statement from the special counsels office late friday saying buzzfeeds description of spe specifics and kacharacterizatio are not accurate. and saying buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and the characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen, and the president refutes the report and calls it on twitter disgraceful and a ve...

Straight and give one consistent version of anything over time, and hes not doing his client a service, but i think at the end of the day, all of guilianis statements are much ado about nothing, because we cant credit any of them. we really have to wait and see when mueller lays his cards on the table, what exactly he has found. >> is it really a big deal if the president was, or donald trump was trying to have a tower in moscow? why these changing time lines? >> absolutely. if he stands to make...

Michael cohen about his testimony. >> which would be perfectly normal. which the president believed was true. >> so its possible that that happened. that president trump talked to michael cohen -- >> i dont know if it happened or didnt happen. and it might be attorney client privilege if it happened, where i cant acknowledge it. >> that was rudy guiliani, president trumps personal lawyer on cnn this morning. admitting that he has no way of knowing for sure whether the buzzfeed report that the pr...

They have every right all the time to say ongoing investigation. >> right. >> et cetera. but back to your initial question. if a reporters going to give doj a heads-up about an article, obviously, they have to indicate, you know, a little bit more specifically about what theyre going to write. was the beef that mueller felt? the other point i heard made, which is interesting, is that with a new attorney general coming in, william barr, you know, he may -- mueller may have felt that the new attor...

So although we dont know the entirety of the facts here, it seems what special counsel has told us is not that the buzzfeed report is completely inaccurate, but that some of its specifics, some of its particulars go a little too far. >> pick up on that point, virginia. which is, did the president, this is a president and his fixers who have gone back, had a history michael cohen trying to protect the president making hush money payments to alleged affairs the president had, does he need to lie e...

His -- >> which would be perfectly normal. which the president believes was true. >> its possible that happened? that president trump talked to michael cohen. i dont know if it happened or didnt happen and it might be attorney/client privilege and id have no knowledge he spoke to him. >> interesting. hello. msnbc headquarters in new york city. interesting revelations today from the presidents lawyer, rudy guiliani went on a sunday media blitz to take sort of a victory lap. it comes after the s...

Mueller and documents, my goodness, because documents dont lie, people do, i said to myself, wow, that would be quite fascinating if all of that is true, and it sent up a bit of a red flag to me, okay? and so, the point is, mueller in a rare move stepped forward and disputed it. and look, its legitimate to debate, is he really saying the whole things wrong or not. its going to come out as we analyze it more. >> we talked about that all day yesterday. is it the whole thing? is it part of it? >> e...

Tower in moscow, special counsel robert mueller issued a rare statement on friday night refuting the story. quote, buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. the statement appeared to put the brakes on the growing number of democrats in congress who said that the allegations, if true, would be grounds for beginning impeachment...