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700,000 so-called dreamers, protections for three more years. as well as protections temporarily for some 300,000 undocumented immigrants whose temporary status is set to expire. the deal was praised by senate republicans, panned by the conservative right and democrats immediately rejected the potential compromise. speaker pelosi called it unacceptable and a nonstarter. the presidents offer on this comes as the special counsel made a stunning move issuing its first statement in nearly 20 months ...

Months correcting a report from buzzfeed news that claimed the federal sources told them that president trump had directed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about a potential trump tower moscow deal. the statement from the special counsel reads buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsel the office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate. buzzfeed says they s...

What they want to hear. now you dont know if thats the truth or not. he has two kocontradictory statements, soon to be under oath. >> there was a trump moscow deal that never came to fruition. there was a nonbinding letter about it. >> there is no such thing as a deal. come on now. its not a -- >> its not a deal until the very, very final step? >> lets say i wrote a -- lets say i wrote a proposal to rome to do security for rome. im doing security in five other places. you say to me, where are yo...

Michael cohen about his congressional testimony before he gave congressional testimony or after he gave congressional testimony? >> i can tell you -- i wasnt the lawyer at the time. >> right. >> michael cohens lawyers reviewed his testimony with him. >> yeah, but did they -- >> im sure they -- let me answer the question. >> okay. >> as far as i know, president trump did not have discussions with him. certainly no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. if he had any di...

Counseled him to lie. if he had any discussions with him, theyd be about the version of the events that michael cohen gave them which they all believe was true. i believed it was true. i still believe it may be true because unlike these people who want to just believe him, i believe michael cohen is a serial liar. if you can figure out what michael cohen is telling the truth, youre better than i am, jake. thats what happened to buzzfeed. they bought a totally phony story. they werent going to bu...

In the bronx. i think thats making the leap. >> well, thats okay. he can have ties to organized crime. they can have bank fraud. thats just fine. when somebody testifies against your client, you go out and you look at whats wrong with them. why are they doing it if theyre not telling the truth. hes doing it because hes afraid to testify against his father-in-law because the repercussions for that will be far worse than the repercussions for lying here because now he gets reported in new york whe...

God almighty, that would look like my business was gigantic. so the president gave the accurate answer. >> so i -- >> and i believe -- i dont believe anything he says. youre focussing on this minutia. the reality is, yesterday buzzfeed published a story that was scandalous. it was horrible. they should be under -- they should be sued, under investigation. they said the president of the united states counseled someone to lie and the special counsel -- >> im trying to get to the bottom of that. >>...

Organized crime. they aint going to be applauding for him when he goes into a restaurant in brighton beach, brooklyn. believe me. i did this for 15 years of my life. this guy is lying. its disgraceful that youre relying on cohen. its disgraceful that -- >> im not relying on cohen. >> and buzzfeed got in trouble yesterday. >> im not relying on cohen for anything. im just questioning whether its appropriate for the president to single out a private citizen -- >> it is. >> whose son-in-law -- >> he...

Thats the way it worked in the nixon situation. congress was moving at the same speed, basically, as the special prosecutor. mimi, some fascinating elapsed times here in this case. yesterday buzzfeed reports that five hours went by -- five hours of silence from the white house after they disclosed their reporting to the white house, and theyre asking for comment from the white house. and the white house does not say a word. donald trump had -- knew what buzzfeed was going to write for five hours...

Investigation. of course, they dont want to ruin or, you know, harm the investigation. but there is no -- theres no logical reason why hearings couldnt be held. and under the constitution, that is what impeachment is. it isnt throwing donald trump out of office. its allowing hearings where the public can start to understand the narrative of what was done, potentially to our election, to elect donald trump and what he did while in office. >> yeah, and as were going to discuss later in the show, t...