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Vladimir putin in person. buzzfeed says muellers team learned about trumps directive, as well as e-mails and texts and other documents. cnn has not yet independently confirmed the report. neil is here, this is a block buster of a story. thank you for joining us today. is the president implicating a crime here? >> thanks for having me. look, we are reading the story right now, we dont know all the sourcing and so on. it is suggesting that the president was engaged in criminal activity, beyond tre...

E-mails, communications between people in trump orbit talking about this. thats the key aspect of the investigation. absent some other information this is people saying things. >> thats important. its beyond that, as you know. its beyond the he said, he said. when you read through the full buzzfeed report there are interviews with multiple people from the trump organization. internal e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents. it is important as far as we know that the president doesn...

As you look at this. >> i think the point that poppy makes is an important one. the fact that sthis is based not only on what could conceively blee michael cohens words that the special counsel has gathered other information, text messages, documents, other information. they say other witnesses have come in from the trump organization and backed up these claims. that is stunning. it is for the first time. if this is all true that we are hearing that there is other information, here is how buzz f...

This was false that you would not put out that statement, or is the fact we dont have that statement hours after this hit curious? >> it is curious. first, as a lawyer, its like a physician, do no harm. you dont want to make a position that youll be und undercut. and this is a situation where they never get their story straight because congress changed it. but importantly, that "buzzfeed" story represents that lawyers were close to the confrontation. theyre afraid of their own liability right no...

News. buzz feed reports that president trump told michael cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project. telling someone to lie to congress is a crime, its impeachable. there are huge implications here. we discuss next. when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum tum tum tum tums... smoothies... ...and introducing new tums sugar-free.

Found interesting. >> part of it, if you talk to people close to him -- people who know him, not people close to the investigation, they say hes an institutional guy. this is the president of the united states. hes going to do it all at once and not jib-jab. "buzzfeed" says, quote, they learned about the directive quote to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents. cohen then a...

Project. your latest headlines, trump must be a russian agent. put this in perspective for us. >> what we have seen this new buzzfeed report adds to it of donald trumps behavior over the last three years have been continually stripped away. where we are left effectively with two scenarios. either donald trump is actively colluding with russia or donald trump is going to go down in history as the most famous idiot in the history of russia. useful idiot being the term that soviet communists used t...

Thats what is so significant if the reporting is true. lets look at that. buzzfeed is saying from this directive trump gave to cohen to lie to congress that investigators pieced together other information. they have text messages, a cache of other documents and say cohen acknowledged the instructions during his interviews with the special counsel. basically saying, yeah, you know, this is what the president told me to do. the significant thing in this part of the story obviously is there is othe...

Michael cohen to visit russia during the campaign to meet vladimir putin in person. special counsel muellers team learned that cohen lied in front of congress with witnesses in the trumps orb. cnn has not yet confirmed the report. we have a lot to get to, lets begin with sarah murray. this is stunning of this buzzfeed report that president trump directed his attorney to lie about the moscow project. tell us what you are hearing. >> it is a wild story. cnn has not independently confirmed it. now ...

To proceed with an impeachment. >> do you have any independent confirmation that this buzzfeed report that the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress, do you have any confirmation of that? >> no. i do not. >> the president tweeted that michael cohen is, quote, lying to reduce his jail time. he also said these words, watch father-in-law. michael cohens adviser says they fear the president -- the presidents supporters here in the united states or abroad might be motivated to harm mich...