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Statement again. buzz feeds 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. what are they disputing here? do you sense its the whole report thats inaccurate? >> first you have to look at how this statement is created. carr and the special counsels office dont issue statements the way the president tweets. you can guarantee this statement was...

And what else they were lying about is also interesting. it turns out not only was donald trump lying, donald trump jr.ent with to russia many times trying to get a deal and said this place is kind of scary and corrupt and i dont really understand it. and the "new york times" did corroborate this part of the "buzzfeed" story that donald trump jr. was briefed on this ongoing deal and he sounds like he lied to congress about this as well. when he said that he was only periferally involved. ivanka ...

Conversation and this directive? is this out of character for the president and his team? >> its not out of character. this is what we know about donald trump. he still always been able to to manipulate the weak-minded. this is very consistent with who he was on the campaign trail, to who he is today in 2019. i know for those of us who are paid to consume all the minutiae around this story, it is a major scoop for buzzfeed. i applaud them for it. i have to remind everybody, katie can probably sp...

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 "buzzfeed" 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 pleading guilty to lying to congress? would you expect if the special counsels office did have the kind of information that "buzzf...

The editor at "buzzfeed," very early on in the show tonight plainly frustrated with trying to parse the special counsels statement. >> mmm-hmm. >> trying to understand what exactly was in dispute. i mean, what the statement says is that whats not accurate is "buzzfeeds" description of specific statements to the special counsels office and "buzzfeeds" characterization of documents and testimony obtained by the office. do you think that if muellers office wanted to say this allegation is false, th...

Disputing certain parts of the accuracy of the "buzzfeed" story. your response? >> yes, i think i got feedback from someone else. what was your final question? >> obviously theres been an arc over the last 24 hours with regard to the story because its a punchant allegation. how are you taking this all in? >> i think a a shocking and stunning revelation for everybody precisely because of its historical res innocence. which in turn brought him to his resignation and the basis for the house of repr...

Announcement, live from the white house this afternoon, shutdown day 29. shifting to the border battle comes after a day long roller coaster ride on the russia investigation. >> a very big deal. >> reporter: intense media coverage, amplified of a buzz feed story that claimed the special counsel has a trail of evidence. the president instructed michael cohen to lie to congress. >> breaking news at this hour. >> reporter: friday night in a rare and stunning development the office of special counse...

His family were. remember michael cohen has pled guilty to lying to congress about that. buzzfeed reporting that trump directed cohen to make those false statements. buzzfeed reports the special counsels office learned about the directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witness from the trump organization and internal company e-mails and a cache of other documents and buzzfeed further reports that cohen confirmed this to muellers team. again, that the president dire...

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/russia relationship for a long time. putting aside for a moment the...

Those were re? >> what we do know is the buzzfeed story was incorrect. first time weve ever seen the special counsels office respond. yet, that report triggered democrats into their thing, talking about impeachment. but if you look at the other news reports, i think we need to read these and understand we need to wait. were going to see the mueller report at some point. it seems that this is an endless investigation that will never actually produce a report. but at some point well see it. well g...