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Its not to donald trump. oh, no, he comes out ahead. as i tweeted last night, if buzzfeed blew it, the lasting harm will not be to donald trump but to the many newsrooms working so hard to get it right. but now, subject to renewed, bogus cries of fake news. the president just got a heavy dose of inoculation. it was no surprise that last night when i went to bed, sean hannity was again decrying the biggest case of government corruption in american history. you know who understands what im saying?...

Information. >> that i think is a safe read. the other questions i think remain to be seen. >> you are making reference i think to that mueller sentencing memo and the line in it regarding congressional inquiries you think made this story plausible to many when they read what buzzfeed reported? >> reporter: yeah, that the corroboration of courts. krob rakes comes in all breeds. there is dead on the you have an e-mail i dont think exists from trump to cohen saying i need you to lie or video. then...

Yesterday by coming out and as you say flthrowing a flag. one perverse result, there may be an inverse effect. which is this. if robert mueller is going to comment on this particular story and say if not so, how about all the other prior stories that came out damaging to trump. how about the stories is that will come out about trump? whats when mueller does not say anything about those. i dont think it logically follows that mueller signs offer on those stories. you will see, i think we will see...

Can you clarify for me where the status is of that? >> i will say we have seen documents, we briefed on documents, we are confident in our reporting. >> i will just say weve seen documents? thats what everybodys bs alarm should have been blinking red. it didnt pass the smell test on the critical assertion of their story, one co-author said one thing on cnn. its partner said another on msnbc. as the day progd, something else, by omission. no confirmation by cnn the washington post, or the "new yo...

Fortune called him one of the investment industries for giants of the 20th century, of all the framed items on his wall, the books the magazines covers the accomplishment, one sticks with me. it was the "times" of london, front page from two days after 9/11. >> good will prevail over evil from the "time requests another of london. >> i was over in london when that happened. and were still working on that one. >> we are. yes, we are. >> he was the genuine article. he already sorely missed. stil...

There are so many different levels of law enforcement in some fashion looking at the president or his family or the organization? how did you interpret that reference? >> reporter: its so important that people understand that law enforcement never operate in asylum. muellers team are under lock and key. mueller has to deal all the time with other agencies, other u.s. attorneys offices. we know there has been overlap and coordination with the southern district of new york. the district of kilomet...

Thinking, not hyperbole and tribalism. and that just got much more difficult. i want to know what you think. go to my website smer dconissme. do you believe remuneration will emerge regarding the buzzfeed allegations of president trump directing michael cohen to lie to congress? co joining me to discuss this is a former prosecutor of the southern district of new york. elly, before trump gets cocky, you know, despite everything ive just said, hadnt mueller ratcheted up his own credibility and mad...

The president twitter teases a major announcement about the southern border hell be making saturday afternoon. "the 11th hour" on a friday night starts right now. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. im steve kerr nacki. brian williams is under the weather. day 729 of the trump administration, day 28 of the shutdown, soon to be day 29. we begin with breaking news. special counsel robert mueller is disputing this buzzfeed report that broke late last night cla...

Welcome back. it is exceedingly rare for the special counsels office to comment on anything related to the ongoing russia investigation. robert mueller is known for running a tight ship, one that typically does not leak. thats part of what makes this dispute over buzzfeeds reporting so remarkable. joining us now, cynthia oxney, a former federal prosecutor and veteran of the justice department. jill wine-banks, attorney, former assistant watergate special counsel and msnbc legal analyst. thank yo...

Just to add to my point before about how trump is using this to bludgeon all media, in the tweet you showed, he accuses buzzfeed of publishing the fake dossier. buzzfeed recently won a court ruling, a defamation suit that said that it was newsworthy about a public figure and they won on the dossier. again, this allows trump to kind of say everything, buzzfeed, and all other outlets published that i dont like it, its negative, its fake news. >> yeah, and, again, buzzfeed is still standing by this...