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Your sources -- >> since publication. >> okay. and there's -- your sources are not backing off what they've -- >> not at all. >> -- told your reporters. are you confident that these sources are in a position to know what they tell you they know? >> yes, we are. >> okay. ben, obviously one of the black boxes here is the justice department structure around the special counsel's office, and there's been movement there. we've had the -- jeff sessions be recused. we've had him leave. we've got an acting attorney general there now. there's different reporting about whether or not the acting attorney...

Again, that the president directed him to lie to congress to cover up at least some aspect of the trump tower moscow project. that's what the week has been like. now tonight just as we were getting on the air, after a day in which multiple members of congress described the "buzzfeed" report as if true, the most serious allegations against trump yet, if true definitely the grounds for impeachment. if true, an inflection point in the entire scandal surrounding this presidency from the outset. that "if true" caveat tonight itself blew up when the special counsel's office made this exceedingly rar...

Guilty to lying to congress, related to his previous testimony about trump tower moscow. i mean, all of these things are moving parts, but these have proven to be well-sourced reporters who have been ahead of everybody else and whose previous reporting has been borne out in court by things said by the special counsel. so there's reporting questions here. there's very interesting questions about why the special counsel's office is speaking up on this story when they almost speak on nothing. and there's legal questions, of course, about what this reporting would mean and what the apparent scare ...

The buzzfeed story. but i think in the main what you can glean from their december 7th sentencing memorandum is that the core of the buzzfeed story is accurate. >> in terms of that -- the way they are pushing back, i mean, we heard from ben smith, who is the editor at buzzfeed very early on in the show tonight plainly frustrated with trying to parse the special counsel's statement. >> uh-huh. >> trying to understand what exactly was in dispute. i mean, what the statement says is that what's not accurate is buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and buzzfe...

If the news keeps going on at this rate and this jagged, of course, we're all going to need neck braces to keep up with it. as the special counsel's office tonight pushes back on buzzfeed's bombshell reporting that the president ordered his longtime personal lawyer to lie to congress. lying to congress is a felony to which his longtime personal lawyer has already pled guilty. as we are making our way through the impact of that statement and that reporting tonight, one of america's legendary investigative reporters is going to join us here in just a moment, michael isikoff. i want to tell you t...