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Documents were. what do you make of this? where they lied to? >> certainly. there's always the possibility someone was lied to but there's the possibility that whoever these federal law enforcement officials were, they saw some subset of these documents and drew conclusions that maybe took leaps that are not backed up by the documentation. maybe they drew different conclusions than what the special counsel's office drew. it's difficult know without know wh knowing what was included. this is the kind of story where because it changes the direction of the country. you want to be really careful o...

Congressional testimony are not accurate. that's according to the spokesman for robert mueller's office. i want to go straight to sarah murray. highly unusual we could get a statement because we never get statements from the special counsel's office. not even to say what they ate for lunch. this is a big deal. >> sit a huge deit is a huge de. the most we get is an off the record comment. to see them put out statement like this to say this buzzfeed report is not accurate, that's a big deal. i think you're seeing a response they probably did not want to put out there today. obviously, it took th...

This is something that i think will be veried aven tay ed avea them. they will try to make the case that the reporting has not been accurate. after delaying for some time, they did eventually say it was false. i think they're going to have an opportunity to really take a victory lap on this. >> they will. the strange thing was that it took 16 hours to do that, but they did. you have -- just to emphasize, democrats had jumped on this immediately. some of them last night were quick to hit twitter and jump. if true -- >> if true -- >> a lot of people wanted investigations. does that stop? >> no. ...

I i i'm not going to say they did something wrong, but it sounds like something is wrong. i want their explanation. >> you have people demanding -- if true it's caveated. this is being disputed. it's stunning to have them be so special. it appears from this statement, there is no gray area, at least that's the way it reads. >> two things. buzzfeed is not a serious news organization. they shouldn't be treated as such. they put out the dozssier. this is unprecedented that this came out from mueller's team. they have not done this before. to try to defend buzzfeed is ridiculous. what really -- >>...

Day. >> reporter: there's been a notable evolution of how the white house is responding. it seemed the strategy was to undermine michael cohen. attack buzzfeed news as more fake news and not even answer the underlying question about whether or not the president committed a federal crime. now it pyrappears after many ho the white house is following the lead of rudy giuliani calling this report categorically false. i think in this effort to shift from attacking cohen to denying the claim, you see a white house who has been burned in the pass by denying some of these stories only to have them be ...