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Was total fake news. everyone at buzzfeed should be ashamed of themselves. special counsels office issued a statement they wrote 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. not accurate. but are we really surprised? oh, and it even gets better. the editor and chief of buzzfeed is actually standing by the reporting, which the f...

Now answering buzzfeed. i think they made it clear, slow down and take a breath and the fact that they have never done it before makes it clear as can be. leland: does it create a problem for their office now? weve seen so many leaks, primarily conceivably not coming from muellers office itself. and theyve kept it tight to the vest. so many innuendo. and does it create a problem theyve now spoken, you pointed out for the first time, theyve really kicked a news organization in the teeth over thei...

On companies associated with the russian oligarch who was sanctioned for election interference. how is your family celebrating the anniversary? because thats what were doing as a country. the editor in chief at buzz feed has put out his own statement responding to the special counsel after the special counsel put out a rare statement disputing the reporting from buzz feed today. were joined now by ben smith, the editor and chief of buzz feed news. i know its short notice. >> sorry i couldnt make...

There was a republican debate anden the we had all of the clips youre showing, pro putin, pro putin and it stopped around the time of the trump tower deal t moscow. >> according to "buzz feed" don jr. received regular updates about the trump tower moscow plan from cohen. but the young don jr. said he knew very little about the deal and was only preliferally aware. is he in trouble? >> the key is whether or not the reporting is correct in that theres evidence. documentary evidence that corroborat...

Michael isikoff, how did you get them to speak? joining us now is the great michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. michael, great to have you here. thanks for making time tonight. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> so you are as deep in this story as anyone. >> yes. >> you are better with sources than anybody that i know. and you are an the encyclopedia who never lets go of any word or fact you have ever learned. given that, given what i think of as your sort of enc...

That bombshellbu buzzfeed repor. it prompted this rare statement from robert muellers office saying that their descriptions and claharacterization of this e not accurate in a statement released this afternoon, a spokesman for buzzfeed says we see no indication that our story is inaccurate. we will share more as were able. here is what ben smith told my colleague rachael maddow. >> we describe our source here as a federal law enforcement involved in the investigation of the trump tower in moscow ...

That seemed surprise the notion they would be eemailing andtectsing and discussing a directive to lie to congress. it doesnt seem like the kind of thing you would put in writing and where were left is the idea of wondering whether there is corroboration in any form for michael cohens story that donald trump directed him to lie. its a completely plausible story. its what he was saying he was directed to make illegal campaign finance but the question is it corroborated? because the house is not go...

Office itself. thats why it was so carefully worded. it was talking about what buzzfeed said about what the special counsel had accumulated. but all that said, i just want to make one point. the unfortunate thing about a story like this is, it distracts from what we do know and what is real and what is significant. and thats what cohen pled to in the first place. he was the personal lawyer for donald trump. he was in direct communication during the presidential campaign with a kremlin official a...

Were certainly not advocating and i dont think anyone in congress would, some sort of investigation that tramples over the law enforcement ones. but to the extent you can start developing factual information, bring wngs witnesses before the committee to find out what happened. this dispute is example a of why you need this process to begin because these are offenses against the congress and ultimately the american people. >> thank you very much for oo make time tonight. for more on the implicati...

In the eastern district of virginia, former senior fbi and justice department official. mr. rosenberg, good to have you with us tonight. thank you for making time. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> i want you to tell me what you think is about about this. your feelings about the reporting in the first instance and also the statement from the special counsels office about it. >> there is an aspect of 5-year-old soccer to this. if you watch kids play, they mass together and every now and...