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So it was the first bit of the clip where we heard sarah huckabee sanders questioned for comment on this buzzfeed story weve been covering and the two words i heard were categorically false. so before we dive in, let me just remind everyone watching. cnn hasnt confirmed any of buzzfeeds reporting. you hear the white house saying categorically false. you hear rudy giuliani calling michael cohen a liar. there are similarities from this buzzfeed piece and the court records. go through all that for ...

Trumps involvement in negotiations and discussions to build a trump tower in moscow during the campaign and so what we can pull and look at from court filings from a filing by the special counsels office, they actually say that the information provided by cohen about the moscow project in these proffer sessions is consistent with and corroborated by other information obtained in the course of the special counsels investigation. so theres a pairing there of what buzzfeeds reporting where theyre s...

Muellers investigators arent just taking cohens word for it which is important to remember when you hear giuliani and trump say hes a liar. its not just about what cohens saying. its the mueller team that can back this up and if that is the case, is that not -- mainstream obstruction? >> very much so. the way that buzzfeed talked about this in their piece is not that michael cohen came out and told them this, but that, in fact, michael cohen was backed into a corner where the special counsel, th...

When we look at another court filing that was part of the charges against michael cohen, we see there that the special counsels office is saying that cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with individual one, thats donald trump, on more than the three occasions cohen claimed to the committee. so while we have not independently verified buzzfeeds reporting, when you line it up next to some of the court filings, you can see these similarities that dont make it seem entirely...

We draw our conclusions. >> national correspondent thema jones is live. athena, i understand shes just weighed in on all of this. why did the senator say? >> reporter: she arrived here just a few minutes ago and i asked her about the buzzfeed report and she essentially echoed much of what we heard from booker there. she said its highly concerning and it shows he may have been complicit in obstruction of justice. take a listen to what she had to say to me just a few minutes ago. >> my biggest pri...

Otherwise? >> no. our incoming press secretary sean spicer was right as was the president-elect. cnn went first yesterday and buzzfeed went second. >> we didnt report what buzzfeed reported. >> i didnt say you did but you linked to it in your story. >> sean spicer said we did. >> let me just tell you -- anderson, lets back up. i know cnn must be feeling the heat today of having a headline yesterday at around 6:30 p.m. that said "intel chiefs presented trump with information that russia could com...

Adviser kellyanne conway came on this broadcast. we had a lengthy interview where he had she was misleading on two points. one, according to her, our reporting that president-elect trump was presented with this information was not true. and two, that we, like the online news site buzzfeed, were hyping and/or linking, excuse me, to a 35-page memo full of unsubstantiated allegations against mr. trump that the shorter briefing document was based on. lets take item one. i pointed out multiple times ...

We had a lengthy interview where she was misleading on two points. one, according to her, our reporting that president-elect trump was presented with this information was not true. and, two, that we, like the online news site buzzfeed were hyping or linking to a 35-page memo full of unsubstantiated allegations against mr. trump that the shorter briefing document was based on. lets take item one. i pointed out multiple times last night to kellyanne conway that we have multiple sources telling us ...

Misleading and untrue to suggest otherwise? >> no. our incoming press secretary sean spicer was right as was the president-elect. cnn went first yesterday and buzzfeed went second. >> we didnt report what buzzfeed reported. >> i didnt say you did but you linked to it in your story. >> sean spicer did. >> lets back up. cnn must be feeling the heat today of having a headline yesterday around 6:30 that said, quote, intel chiefs presented trump with information that russia could -- russia had inform...

>> what cnn did was accurate. for the record, i can tell you precisely what cnn did not do. we did not describe the unfounded allegations. we have not described them. we will not. we did not link to that document. we did not link to buzzfeed or promoting their reporting. shortly after the interview, miss conway tweeted out a screen shot of a cnn.com page that she said shows that we did link to it. again, for the record, it does not actually show that. had she actually clicked on the link she wou...