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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 kornacki. 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 claim...

Short time ago, ben smith spoke to our colleague, chris hayes. >> we went to them 24 hours ago and, you know, they declined to comment on it. obviously the special counsel prefers to control the time line and for reasonable reasons wants to operate on his own time line and without revealing a lot of detail. >> smith also told rachel maddow that buzzfeed sources continue to stand by their information. rudy giuliani also weighed in tonight sending this message on twitter. quote, i commend bob muel...

Putting out a public statement. we almost never hear from robert muellers office. how do you read the statement from mueller tonight? is he saying theres no there there when it comes to this reporting? >> the one thing youre missing in that setup is not only do we have the report, but we had a feeding frenzy. maybe we need to start hearings. maybe we need impeachment hearings. the city of washington was completely ginned up. and then you have the statement from muellers office, which is basicall...

Counsels statement came out, its now a free for all. trump is using this to bludgeon all media. in the tweet you showed, he you accuses buzzfeed of publishing the fake dossier. buzzfeed recently won a court ruling, a defamation suit that said that it was news worthy 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. >> buzzfeed is still standing by this ...

Theres time for him to get it out in a more appropriate fashion. but in terms of parsing this, this isnt a outright denial of the underlying charge, that it edges along to say the details are wrong. what that means, i dont know. does it mean there arent certain documents, texts. i dont know what it means exactly. but im not willing to throw away the entire buzzfeed story based on the language that they used in this denial. >> the skeptical question would be, because we talk about it here. im her...

Received detailed and regular updates from cohen on the status of the project. buzzfeed also said that according to its sources, quote, the special counsels office learned about trumps directive for cohen 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. rudy giuliani pushed back on the buzzfeed story. tonight, the special counsels office made a very rare move of issuing a public ...

About the buzzfeed story and the response from the special counsel. a week ago tonight it was that story from "the new york times" about the fbi opening that investigation into donald trump and whether he might have been a witting or unwitting agent of russia. we played in the introduction the sound of the president talking about folks at the fbi as scoundrels. maybe to broaden out a little bit here but just people working in the fbi, fbi agents, just the climate within the fbi now and over the ...

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 oxny, a veteran of the justice department. jill wine-banks, attorney, former assistant watergate special counsel and msnbc legal analyst. thank you both for being here. cynthia,...

First broke. the question was will other news organizations be able to replicate the reporting, corroborate the reporting, advance the reporting in any way. there is some new reporting from "the washington post" and "the new york times" worth highlighting here. folks havent seen this. this is from "the washington post." let me read a bit of it again. this just in the last hour or two. the story according to "the washington post" had claimed cohen acknowledged to muellers prosecutors that the pre...

Really ready for that. theres nothing else to do but wait a little bit. >> along those lines, we were going to put this up on the screen. we were showing you earlier "the washington post," "the new york times" there both out with some new reporting tonight related to this, the fallout from this. this from devlin barrett, one of the reporters, a national security reporters with "the washington post." we quoted from his story earlier. this is how he summarized his story. for those trying to parse ...