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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 ...

And a cache of other documents. cohen acknowledged the instructions with the interviews with that office. that's significant saying cohen then acknowledged. if true it shows mueller team had the evidence that trump told cohen to lie and then they confronted cohen. sure cohen is a liar. every one knows that. federal prosecutors made it clear they didn't trust him either. they trusted other information they already had. they said the information was useful to the extent he wrob rated information known. they seem to be trusting other facts out there. they are calling for investigations. those are...

Record on the reaction there from this. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: there hasn't been much of a reaction. reaching out to white house aides, really silence from them. you have to believe this is going to be a major thing for them. they tried this afternoon to shoot down the story, trying to undermine the credibility of buzzfeed and then later it was categorically false they said. they are getting a helping hand from the special counsel who the president has attacked repeatedly in the past. but now it's turning out to be something that's helpful to them. we have seen john junior on ...

This. you know that. >> they didn't say it is completely false. it's clear to you. >> characterization and description were not accurate. i have to leave it here. i have to hand it off to anderson. thank you for being with me. i apologize for the coughing. i will be better monday. thanks for joining us. anderson is next. good evening. we intended to speak at the top of the program with one of two buzzfeed reporters behind a report that if true meant federal investigators had evidence that the president of the united states committed a serious crime and potentially an impeachment offense. cnn...

When michael cohen pled guilty, he says a couple things. he says, trump directed me to do the hush payments to his former paramours, right? and he says that very specifically. trump directed me. on the lying to congress, he says in one part of his sentencing memo that he was just watching the president's public pronouncements and then catering his testimony to conform to them. but then to really confuse things, in a second part of that sentencing memo, there's a blanket statement that both the hush money and the false statements to congress were at the direction of donald trump. so a lot of pe...