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Clear what hes disputing. 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....

We dont know yet. it certainly puts the story in a gray area. the facts are in gray. well eventually find out whether or not trump directed cohen to lie is a fact or not. but right now its in a gray area and trump is acting like its a definitive thing. hes cheering on the special counsel. what will that look like if down the line the special counsel comes out with evidence that is not to his liking? he is propping this up as a way to shoot down another enemy. in previous times hes called the spe...

Was collusion. >> think about how much their argument has changed. it went from there were no contacts with russians to there was no collusion with russians to we tried to collude, to collusion is not a crime. if it goes on, rudys going to say its not jail, its a gated community. isnt a crime. if this keeps going rudy will be telling trump its not jail, its a gated community. >> seth meyers gets tonights last word. "the 11th hour" starts right now. tonight, a rare public statement from the spe...

Implication, you kept hearing if this is true, if this is true quickly followed by discussion of impeachment. given that as a possible factor in the special counsels office breaking its silence and given that buzzfeed is not backing down from this story and is, in fact, challenging the special counsels office to reveal more, do you think its possible we will hear more from muellers office or will this be it? >> i dont think theyll say anything else on the record. i think what youll see is probab...

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. earlier today trump lawyer rudy giuliani pushed back on the buzzfeed story. tonight, the special counsels office made a very rare move of issuing a public statement. ...

Quickly followed by discussion of impeachment. given that as a possible factor in the special counsels office breaking its silence and given that buzzfeed is not backing down from this story and is, in fact, challenging the special counsels office to reveal more, do you think its possible we will hear more from muellers office or will this be it? >> i dont think theyll say anything else on the record. what youll see is probably them talking to other reporters on background and knocking down the ...

Former fbi special agent and member of the joint terrorism task force as well as msnbc national security analyst, he is also the author of the book "messing with the enemy: surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news." clint, you make social media sound very inciting with that title. >> yes, you want to tweet immediately. >> i want to run away from it forever. i want to get to the impact. trumps war with the fbi. let me start just on the big news i think ever...