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This dispute is example a of why you need this process to begin because these are offenses against the collegerengress and ultimately the american people. >> thank you very much for oo make time tonight. for more on the implications of "buzzfeed"s story. executive director of protect democracy. cynthia, as someone whos worked in high stakes legal environments, lets start with your reaction to what we have presentd before us tonight which is the special counsels office speaking for the first time...

Counsels office is corroborated by other evidence. >> thats right. >> that is what they stated in conjunction or in support of cohens guilty plea to lying to congress about this matter. i will say one of the main questions, the most potent questions i think about this buzz feed reporting today has been -- well, if mueller has this evidence that cohen was directed to lie when he lied to congress, why wasnt that charged or otherwise indicated in court that day in november when cohen was there plea...

Buzz feed urged mueller to clarify what hes disputing about the report. >> we describe our sources here as federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation of the matter of the trump tower moscow and were not playing games with that characterization. these are strong sources close to the investigation. they are involved in the investigation who we spoke to after the publication of the story as well as before and who told us it was accurate. obviously the special counsel prefers to...

Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. joining me now congressman rasken, a house democratic caucus leadership representative and congressman its been quite a day. obviously i saw a lot of members of congress somewhat agast by the facts laid out last night. theres now this statement from the special counsels office i should read again. saying right before we went on air around 7:45 this evening, disputing certain parts of the accuracy of the "buzzfeed" story. your response? >> y...

I have no idea, rachel, by the way, why they decided on this occasion to push back on a story. im sure there are other stories that got other things wrong. but, again in the main, i come back to this point, it seems to me that the core of the story is correct and we can determine that from the mueller teams own court filing. thats really the best place to look, i think, all the time for whats really going on in this case. >> chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virgin...

Will it change anything? that has to play out over days to come. but i can get the sense from the white house that they recognize they needed to do something that adopted some democratic ideas, but democrats right now tonight stale believe the better course is to open the government first and then negotiate. there just doesnt seem to be an appetite for that from this white house. so will the public really try to pressure congress to vote? thats something well have to watch very carefully on tues...

The president is seizing on the rare statement from special counsel robert muellers office. a report in buzzfeed is not correct, that report claiming the president instructed his former fixer, michael cohen, to lie to congress. buzzfeed attributing its report to two federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation of the matter. and happening right now, in cities all across the country, thousands of people are holding rallies in the third annual womens march. a live picture right ...

Ed knows he could just have us deliver his prescriptions. but whats the fun in that? switch to cvs pharmacy. still ahead as the special counsels office disputes the "buzzfeed" reporting. making the extremely rare move of issuing a a public statement about that big "buzzfeed" story everyone has been talking about over the last 24 hours. saying "buzzfeeds" description of spiff statements is not accurate.

Be withdrawn or corrected, im assuming that you will do that. if you can add to your reporting in a way that pushes the special counsel on this dispute, i imagine well hear that from your reporters as well? >> yeah, anthony and jason are continuing to, you know, obviously tonight report -- report very, very hard on this. you know, and, again, this -- one thing i think worth noting is that this is -- this is a specific line of the russia investigation. this is the trump tower moscow story, which ...

I should say the buzz feed editor in speechief is going to here tonight. but this is what we got from the special counsels office. quote, buzz feeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. thats what we got from the special counsels office. we are going to hear from buzz feeds editor tonight who has put out his own statement, quote, we stand...