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Democrats to just keep doing what they're doing for now and not move ahead on impeachment. >> kevin, many are saying even if the democrats decided they want to bring up impeachment, at least on the house said, it's as dead as the president's proposal on ending the shutdown on the senate side. >> yeah, absolutely. look, i think that bob mueller's investigative team has really done an impeccable job of staying the course and not getting bogged down by the tweets coming from the president or from progressives. i think that they have really crafted their message carefully to do an independent job....

Its constitutional duty. immediately open the formal impeachment inquiry into president trump. do you see some merit to what they're saying? >> well, with all respect to this article which is very provocative, it's -- yeah, sure it's provocative, like saying fire the coach and then what's your next story, okay? impeachment is complicated as it is essentially a political process. and politically you would want to wait to make your best case, which is to wait for the mueller probe. my goodness, you also would want to wait for all the various now democratic-controlled investigative committees on ...

Report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. we remain confident in the accuracy of our report. >> that report sent washington into a frenzy on friday. we saw democratic lawmakers coming out and saying, look in this is true, if donald trump did, in fact, convince a witness to lie, if he did try to obstruct justice, that is joundz u grounds to move forward with impeachment proceedings. the lawmakers want to see the underlying documents the buzzfeed report was based on. what we see now from the special counsel office is saying, look, these underlying documents and witness intervie...

One of the big questions for lawmakers they wanted to seed underlying documents that the buzzfeed report was based on. saying look, these underlying documents, witness interviews, they do not show what the buzzfeed story says they're going to show. and it's so rare, so rare, for the special counsel to speak out about anything. last year, they refused to comment to "the new york times" about what one of their prosecutors was having for lunch. such an extraordinary day. president trump's attorney rudy giuliani tweeted his response to the special counsel's statement. he said this, here's part o...

It is incredibly rare to hear mueller's office respond but a spokesperson weighing in on this buzzfeed report that the president directed michael cohen to lie, essentially throwing water on this report. why do you think the special counsel felt the need here to speak out? >> reporter: you are right. it is incredibly rare. they have been the most tight lipped operation of their sort in history. that's why i think there is more here than simply trying to acquit themselves of any suggestion they are the source. buzzfeed suggests they are not the exclusive ones and people are sort of pointing towa...