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Behave better this time despite a lot of pressure from progressives to really take it to bill barr. this werent a lot of protests, there werent a lot of issues surrounding it because i think they know there was some blowback. they were aggressive but polite. all that being said, theres just too much they dont want -- they want to handle on this mueller issue, they want a stand there and appease their progressive base, and hes not going to get support from any of them. paul: hed have to come out ...

Some sort of canary trap they should reveal those sources and call those sources out and say, look, these guys lied to us according to the what the special counsel has said tonight. they should make a deal about this. i think this is. >> tucker: thats fair but thats a totally fair point. >> the silver lining in this story though tonight is that this shoul should reaffirm peope on the flight mueller is going to be fair. i hope that is actually the message they are taking away from it tonight. i t...

Better be some integrity out of it. it is not fair for the american people. for 24 hours, the political world was thrown into a tither for somebody who was having fun at the presidents expense. >> buzz feed has sent out a tweet and saying, update, a spokesperson for the special counsel is disputing buzz feed newss report. they are acknowledging that there is a problem with this story, at least the special counsel is disputing it. this is my question tonight. why did they go with the story if it ...

From this new lopez obrador government when they get several days into this and, certainly, up to tijuana, its anybodys guess. theres no word from them. they held a press conference last night and did not address it. arthel: griff jenkins, thank you very much for that update. eric: a lot of news on this saturday. it is busy and we will be here. still ahead, the special counsel, robert mueller, his office issuing a very rare statement to the media. what his team is saying about the controversial ...

Moment to reflect on this was actually a good day for justice and a very, very good day for the president of the united states also important to say and focus on what the special counsels office actually said. sean, my job as the presidents lawyer legal time is to analyze these team and to respond to what was going on. this frenzy was that going on the last 24 hours. >> let me start with what he actually said. this is from bob muellers office. by the way the first time they have spoken publicly ...

With the national organizers. there are different agendas and hopes why theyre participating in this. leland: well keep an eye on denver and around the country as the marches continue. more in just a minute. big bombshell yesterday, back to back and then late yesterday evening, a rare public statement. robert muellers team is challenging the accuracy of a buzzfeed report that claims president trump collected michael cohen to lie to congress about a proposed trump tower project in washington. dou...

Former trump lawyer mike cohen told investigators that president trump directed him to lie to congress about the timing of that trump tower moscow proposal. what does this mean? joining us is julia man chs, news -- manchester, news reporter from "the hill." whats the impact of this report? >> reporter: eric, we really need to be careful and play error-free ball at this point. it was interesting that no other news organization confirmed this for 20 hours. buzzfeed, essentially, put this report ou...

Reputation of his own investigation he needed to shoot it down. >> reporter: buzzfeeds editor, ben smith, stuck by the story anyway, tweeting: we stand by our story, and we urge the special counsel to make clear what hes disputing. this morning the president weighed in enroute to dover, delaware. >> 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, and i think its going to ta...

Simple reason. as soon as bill barr is sworn, in he have a meeting with mr. mueller. he will get a full briefing on the stalls of all the investigation and the first question bill barr was going to ask was that story true? that buzzfeed published? and mr. mueller would say no, it wasnt, mr. attorney general. and bill barr would have said why didnt you refute it? and mueller would have said well, mr. attorney general, we dont do that. and mr. barr would have said well, mr. mueller, youre fired. >...

Smith who has been a guest on this show. the person who put the now famous discredited dossier into circulation he says this in response to the statement tonight from the special counsel coaxman we and it by our reporting and the sources who informed it and we urge the special counsel to make clear what hes disputing. in other words, ben smith is saying let robert mueller correct our story. does, perhaps, the onus lie with ben smith and buzzfeed to make certain that what they reported last night...