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Turning to the mueller investigation right now and that rare rebuttal of this buzzfeed report about michael cohen. you can see there, with all the reporting and speculation about the investigation, why would the special counsel actually weigh in now? what does it say about the investigation? >> this was a very rare comment from the special counsel and it shows that they felt they needed to clear the record, obviously, this buzzfeed report was an explosive report that basically implicated the president in criminal activity and the special counsel wanted to put on the record that they disputed t...

Almost a bit -- this could be looked at as a bit of game playing. it will be interesting to see where it goes from here. >> game playing not what you want to hear when you have 800,000 and a domino effect with this shutdown. abigail, some people call it a cycle of one upmansship. nancy pelosi was asked to delay -- asked the president to delay his state of the union citing security concerns. the president postponing pelosi's weekend trip to afghanistan, cancelling it all together by pulling back the military plane. here's how nancy pelosi reacted yesterday. >> we had a report from afghanistan t...

My thing is let's find out if it's true. the way we find out is when the mueller investigation has concluded. >> you don't believe impeachment discussions should be begun prior to the release of that report? >> i think that we need to know what the facts are. because impeachment by itself, what we've got to do, we got to make sure the senate -- impeachment by itself means nothing if you want to remove this president. you need republican votes on the senate side. we need to get the facts out. i don't want to pre-judge anything. i want the facts. once the facts are out. if he committed these act...

Reacted to this report? >> when we look at it. earlier in the show you mentioned this idea if they issued a statement like this for this report does that mean that all past bomb shells that came out are accurate? one of the interesting things is if you dial in and look at the conversation that was happening among democrats yesterday you had a number of people immediately start talking about impeachment because of allegations in the article. so i think when it came to, you know, this bomb shell and the buzz feed reporting i think there was a different sense of urgency around it. you had some in...

>> think about this. this seems to be unprecedented, right? what does this say about this particular report versus past reports when mueller's office has stayed quiet? >> that's exactly it. i mean there's the actual wording of the statement, but if you take a step back, the mere fact that there has been no other statement quite like this leads one to believe that they must have really disagreed with this story. so much so that they made this really difficult decision of breaking their silence, which has been a rule for the mueller team up until now. so to have enough reason to issue a statemen...