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After that report, we got a very -- at that point i think unprecedented statement from the spokesman for the special counsel. not directly disputing the mcclatchy story but giving a sort of general warning to the press that there had been lots of inaccuracies out there and every journalist should be very careful about their sourcing. "many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate. be very cautious about any source that claims to have knowledge about our investigation and dig deep into what they claim before reporting on." that was last april from the special counsel's office. then ...

Trump had never made any claims like that at all. trump had claimed as a candidate that he had no deals in russia, no pending deals, no investment, nothing going on whatsoever. trump had never given anything so finely nuanced as to explain the exact kind of lie that cohen would have made about the timing of that deal. that's part of this that i never understood about why cohen needed to lie in that way. >> well, there was some reporting about this at some point. and, you know, i have to say, as -- however encyclopedic you think i am on this, i'm a little fuzzy on exactly when the first reports...

Indictment. >> uh-huh. >> so this isn't coming out of a blue sky. this is a line of reporting that has been repeatedly vindicated. >> ben smith, "buzzfeed's" editor-in-chief at a very kinetic moment in "buzzfeed" right now. ben, thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right, so this has been a rollicking day on this story. this bombshell pushback from the special counsel's office on "buzzfeed's" bombshell reporting has created a bunch of questions. i mean, you heard me discuss some of them there with ben in terms of those reporters standing by the sto...

Characterization of documents and testimony obtained by the office. tonight buzzfeed says they stand by their reporting and they say they are urging the special counsel to make clear exactly what his office is disputing here. joining us now is chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, former senior fbi and justice department official. mr. rosenberg, it is great to have you with us tonight. thank you for making time. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> i want you to tell me what you think is important about this. your feelings about the reporting in the ...

Dead wrong in every respect. they didn't do that. and i think the emphasis you put on those words, the specific descriptions, the characterizations, sort of is a window into the thinking of the mueller team. there are parts of the reporting that trouble them. i have no idea, rachel, by the way, why they decided on this occasion to push back on a story. i'm sure there are other stories that got other things wrong. but, again in the main, i come back to this point, it seems to me that the core of the story is correct and we can determine that from the mueller team's own court filing. that's real...