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♪ >> tucker: really kind of an unbelievable night in the news business. a report last night from buzzfeed news and letsed a air quote around the word news accused the president of the united states of ordering his personal lawyer former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress. he encouraged perjury. that would be a felony and impeachable offense. all day long have you heard people on television speculating about this. prefaced with if true. but now, after we have spent literally 24 hours imagi...

Comment, he had nothing to do with the writing of this story. he didnt initiate the story, i was done by independent reporting so the story stand on its own. >> buzz feed has long had issue including issues of plagiarizin and stealing original content. they also publish the uncorroborated and salacious steel dossier which was labeled and on resident at smear of president from. the other reporter who wrote this piece is the same person you back in 2006 road that then deputy chief of staff had bee...

Going to have. >> tucker: so you often here people in washington say and no one has more contempt for the pluck than people live in the city. you often hear them say the morons out there in the great middle of the country believe these conspiracy theories and flakey websites for these news. i often say to my stfl why do you think they are doing that and turning into alternative news channels because you are running stories like this. why would they believe you? >> i was having lunch with a democ...

>> we presented this to him he began asking questions that he acknowledged in his interview that yesof indeed i was directe by the president. >> tonight they are saying we stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it and we urge the special counsel to mak clear what hes disputing and tonight the editor in chief was on cnn, lets take a listen. >> it is just extremely confusing.ha >> confusing it when what what way? >> to all of us. confusing and that a day after story is upublished they...

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. but it is also important to say and to focus for a moment here on what the special counsels office actually said. sean, my job as the presidents lawyer, legalti team is to analyze and respond to what was 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 about a fal...

Page and then erase their phones or andrew weissmann with his traffic record either. sarah, let me he go to you. the mantra all day not not verified but if true. this was coming mostly from the media and democratic party. the word impeachment mentioned all day. the american people fed a heavy dose of lies all day long. but, this keeps happening again and again. >> yeah, sean, this is nothing new. its unfortunate. disinformation campaign. lets talk about these buzzfeed reporters. they cant even a...

Everybody heard trump say there was no collusion. >> the president has denied he directed michael cohen to commit a crime either in terms of lying to congress or the campaign finance laws. >> i want to go back to you. what say you about how all of this is playing out? >> i am looking forward to the next presidential tweet. >> there is a mn in the oval office who is very happy to dunk on face news. guess what? this is something that buzz feed has brought on itself here. because one of the things ...

Told thats president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build the trump tower in moscow. >> sean: a bold stance from one of the leaders in fake news and it gets even worse. remember, this is the same buzzfeed news, supposedly, that published the phony hillary clinton bought and paid for steele russian dossier and they never ever tried to robert any of the details. and guess what? the latest devastating report contained no direct corroboration. istic watching th...

Lie. that would be sub borning perjury. theres a characterization of documents and testimony in this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony is not accurate. >> the way that the buzzfeed story was framed, it came from two law enforcement people who suggested by the story possibly to be from muellers own shop. i think for that circumstance, for the reputation of his own investigation, he needed to shoot it down. buzzfeed tweeted we stand by the story and sources who reported it an...

Everything else is noise of the political surface. i have a feeling that they might actually agree with you on that one. lets talk about the wall or the shutdown. one point for people who are criticizing buzz feed. every single day print things that are simply just not true. lets call balls and strikes. this would be some sort of offer.