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Accurate. buzzfeed not backing down. heres the statement from editor and chief, ben smith. in the response to the statement. we standby the reporting and the sources who informed it and urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. all right, lets bring in people who report on these stories and work for the doj. its good to have you both. lets deal with where we think thipgs stand. buzzfeed says one thing, mueller people change in terms of what they believe is true about what they...

Buzzfeed will follow up the reporting and stands by it. well see what happens. put that back up. you want to parse the actual language. description of specific statements to the special counsel office. the characterization of documents and testimony. are not accurate. it is a lawyerly explanation of the situation. or am i a lawyer who is looking at it that way? >> well, youre right. the special counsel office knows how to deny a story. this is not a denial. i think in some ways -- >> they say it...

So thats an enormous pressure to be there. also to the extent that anything of this nature is being collected by the special counsels office, it is in everyones interest to see it in black and white, the way we have seen his indictment and official filings which we know by virtue of them being layed out that theyre backed up with evidence. >> it has to be part of the report. it has to be part of the report because mueller referred to it. if we put up muellers response. i get that its a bunch of ...

Incht all right the story about buzzfeed and the reporting and the question about whether michael cohen helped anybody lie to congress, it matters. it matters a lot. well see how they reconcile it. were going to find out one way or another because hes going to testify in a few weeks. this kind of grew out of, in terms of its legitimacy what mueller put in his own pleadings. they have been tracking this issue of who helped him lie to congress. also michael cohen, the fact that he paid for polls t...

Simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. >> they call it not accurate, the buzzfeed news report. they say its mischaracterizing documents and statements made to them. however buzzfeeds editor in chief pushing back to their push back. standing by the reporting and their sources and asking for the special counsel to clarify what it is they dispute. so what do we take away from the back and forth? heres a side note. theres been a lot of stories about whats going on with the probe...

I do think the special counsel taking this extraordinary step to comment on it means two things, this particular allegation is so explosive and has so many potential consequences they felt it was important to make clear what was or was not accurate or at least what was not accurate about that story. but its been almost two years. we have not heard boo from the special counsels office. so i dont think where ever these sources are coming from, i am 99.9% sure theyre not coming from muellers team. ...

We dont hear from the mueller probe. this is rare. they put out a statement just a moment ago about what they hear in this buzzfeed report. they knock it down in part. now buzzfeed reported that michael cohen the former lawyer told the special counsel that president trump directed him to lie to congress. about a massive business deal he was seeking with moscow. they cited two law enforcement sources investigating the matter. they didnt say they work for the special counsel. but they have corrobo...

President. and under scores the need for congress to be involved. >> heres whats curious about it. we pieced it together with little bits of proof. the reason the buzzfeed article other than the headline is enticing to journalists. covering this story. it seemed to be an extension of what we learned from mueller himself. in his most recent pleading. the same day the southern district put out their feeling on cohen. if we have the language available. mueller said cohen has come forward about who ...

The explosive story from buzzfeed news. they call it not accurate. they said that its mischaracterizing. documents and statements made to them. however buzzfeed editor in chief pushing back to their push back. standing by the reporting and their sources and asking for the special counsel to clarify what it is they dispute. so what do we take away from the back and forth? there have been stories about whats going on with the probe and the president may have known. they have never come forward unt...

They might want the protection. especially in light of what we saw from rudy giuliani. the doj must bring the sources forward. people want protection. its not unusual to be anonymous in this regard. its the law enforcement officials telling buzzfeed what the special counsel knows. to you, does that mean they must work for the special counsel? or does it mean that both could be true. they work for some other entity. other body. and the special counsel is modifying the reporting not cancelling it ...