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>> i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. this deal was a very public deal. everybody knows about this deal. i wasn't trying to hide anything. >> two sources tell buzzfeed that is exactly what he was trying to do. they reportedly got the information from two federal element officials involved in an investigation of this very matter. this morning, the praeesident's attorney rudy giuliani, he's pushing back. he said, if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on a bridge. this report specifies the allegations did foot start with cohen. their sources say bob mueller alre...

In its own right. on top of that, russia knew he was hiding his involvement with them so they had leverage over here. so those facts are damaging in their on right. again, it comes back to what the republicans want to do. i think we know where democrats fall on this but what do republicans want to do? in this case the report says they were lied to at the direction of the president. they are the victims in some respect here. are they going to say i haven't seen the story so i can't comment on it, are they going to say this is an unconventional president, he does things weirdly or are they going...

We all saw the president lying to the american people about the stormy daniels payments and what did the president say? you got to ask my lawyer, michael cohen. of course, he wanted his lawyer to lie for him then and it sure seems like he wanted him to lie to congress as well. >> all right, glenn, i'm going to ask you to stick around for me. richard painter, thank you very much. appreciate your insights as always. coming up, we're going to have a lot more on this buzzfeed report and how trump's attorney general said some things under oath that could actually come back and haunt the president...

Believe that that's true. if the president did what he is being accused of, then he will be held accountable, and i would also suggest that he does not underestimate the u.s. house of representatives, nor the american people. >> so, if this, in fact, is true, should mueller alert congress? should you be notified now? i mean, there's always the -- there's always two sides to this. in one, people are saying let's wait until the mueller report comes out, but if, in fact, this already is known, why isn't congress being told of this now as opposed to several months from now? >> well, let me say thi...

That he was directed to do so by the president of the united states. how significant, if this is reported out, and the report does say that these federal investigators, law enforcement officials say cohen is backed up by e-mails, texts and other documents from the special counsel's office. >> so the story is a very big deal for three independent reasons or maybe interrelated reasons. the first is as mika's introduction suggests, this is -- if true, an obstruction of justice by anybody's standards including the relatively restrictive ones laid out in bill barr's memo and so there's a big debate...