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Suborning perjury but he did already implicate him in another serious crime and its just as important that they investigate that crime as they do russia. what do you make of that statement? >> i think -- >> frank? >> im sorry. go ahead. >> i think that the important thing to remember is that the special counsel doesnt want this investigation to be tried in the court of public opinion. this is about making a case that he can bring charges in a court of law, even if it goes to impeachment. its all...

Turning to the mueller investigation right now and that rare rebuttal of this buzzfeed report about michael cohen. you can see there, with all the reporting and speculation about the investigation, why would the special counsel actually weigh in now? what does it say about the investigation? >> this was a very rare comment from the special counsel and it shows that they felt they needed to clear the record, obviously, this buzzfeed report was an explosive report that basically implicated the pre...

It is also interesting in context with what happened this week. rudy giuliani said collusion mightve happened but it didnt happen with president trump, maybe others around him on the trump campaign and so that means in combination with the remarks president trump made by robert mueller the special counsel, that this is no longer a witch hunt. they have acknowledged that paul manafort colluded in some way. it was accidentally revealed by his lawyers. its an interesting development and i dont thin...

There work to go prove. its about that level of proof or that standard of proof that he would be -- that he would need to make in a court of law as opposed to in a newspaper. >> in the articles of impeachment against president nixon, if theres an ounce of the buzzfeed article thats true, should the president be impeached? >> we have to find out what the facts are about that. i think we have to be very careful to say that theres no truth in the buzzfeed story, because there could be some. i think...

So they are willing to dig in their heels and they see the president twisting in the wind here making multiple addresses to the nation and not really being able to move the needle and they are willing to stand their ground. thats part of the reason why you see democrats sort of rejecting this offer even before its laid on the table. they dont necessarily feel the pressure just yet about whether or not the public is blaming them at all for the shutdown. well have to wait and see if that changes. ...

Decide to take that step. we do expect him to offer some things he thinks that democrats can get behind. we dont expect him to declare a national emergency. >> and yet the president is also firing back about that buzzfeed article. what was he saying? >> reporter: the president feels vindicated in part because president trump has spent much of the past two years coming up with all sorts of creative insults for robert mueller. he called him a phony, the leader of an angry group of democrats, he ca...

Happening right now, all across the country including here in los angeles, womens marches are taking place across the country. this is the one in l.a. thousands are taking part. you can see it right there and theyre at the city hall there in los angeles where its just after 11:00 a.m. in the morning. back to the mueller report and a very rare move by the special counsel robert mueller disputing the buzzfeed report that president trump had directed michael cohen to lie to congress, buzzfeed cit...

Accurate. buzzfeed is fighting back. it stands by its reporting and sources. heres what he told my colleague chris hayes just last night. >> 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 details, but i think hes made these statements here and i would really like to know what hes talking about. >> joining me now the former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance and frank monto...

The president is seizing on the rare statement from special counsel robert muellers office. a report in buzzfeed is not correct, that report claiming the president instructed his former fixer, michael cohen, to lie to congress. buzzfeed attributing its report to two federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation of the matter. and happening right now, in cities all across the country, thousands of people are holding rallies in the third annual womens march. a live picture right ...

Special counsel coming out with a statement last night. i think it was very appropriate that they did so. i very much appreciate that. i think that the buzzfeed piece was a disgrace to our country. it was a disgrace to journalism and i think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful. >> reporter: and part of what made that story so sensational, so expelosiive was that it purported to show evidence that president trump committed a crime in instructing his long time lawyer mic...