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Able to make that decision with information presented by the congress. >> which is distinct. thank you both very much. almost a full day after the "buzzfeed" story dropped, the spence counsel is responding. joining me now congressman

They declined to comment on it. >> and what do you make of that time frame? >> i dont know. year still reporting and -- i think obviously the special counsel prefers to control the timeline and for reasonable reasons wants to operate on his own timeline and without revealing a lot of details. i think hes made these statements and wed really like to know what hes talking about. >> ben editor and chief of "buzzfeed" news. jouning me is a correspondent for gq and has been reporting on the trump/rus...

>> you made mngz mention of this but the significance of the time. buzzfeed writes this story. this thing gets lawyered and edited and they go back to their sources. these reporters have a good track record. they go to the special counsels office and say what should we do? heres your space for comment. they get a no comment. the story publishes and 24 hours latter we get the statement. thats a strange -- thats a weird fact pattern. >> and its very frustrating. the behavior of the special counsel...

So that was last april from the special counsels office. six months later in october after so many strange reporting that somebody was maybe trying to shop false sexual harassment allegations about robert mueller to the press, the special counsels office put out a statement saying they had referred the matter to the fbi. finally the reporter at yahoo! news got the special counsels office to confirm a key filing from the special counsel in the paul manafort case would be public. there had been a ...

As we are reconfirming our reporting, we see no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate. we remain confident in what weve reported and will share more as we were able. what is the legal danger, what is the legal exposure of the president if this report is true and he told michael cohen to lie to congress? >> buzzfeed is doubling down, arent they? they are saying, thank you, special counsel mueller, but were standing by our story. its called suborning perjury. the president...

Thats how xfinity makes tv... simple. easy. awesome. the special counsels office taking an unusual step. muellers team challenging a buzzfeed article claiming president trump directed his former lawyer to lie to congress about the trump tower in moscow.

This has happened before. the parallel to congressional inquiries. the point of it, it is public. >> its still the case, if i may, that if the issue is someone who lied to congress, then congress ought to be a little motivated to get to the bet tm of it. >> i thought i saw a turn in the initial response of the the story on precisely those grounds. members of congress all say, and i think this is a consensus to you. everyone has said this, even william barr. it is a black and white impeachable of...

To change testimony would be obstruction. is that right? >> yes. >> and on page two you said that president deliberately imparaing the integrity or availability of evidence would be an obstruction. is that correct? >> yes. >> so if there was some reason to believe the president tried to coach somebody not to testify or testify falsely, that could be obstruction of justice? >> yeah, under obstruction statute, yes. >> theres his guy saying if he does this, if "buzz feed"s right, hes a criminal? >>...

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Be public, and we were all agoing. 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 ...