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Special counsel's statement i think, again, it will be safe to say that the president will be talking about this, his son don junior tweeted about it basically mocking the buzzfeed story saying i told you so. there's probably more to come in terms of reaction. >> pamela brown, appreciate your reporting. buzzfeed just responded. i'm quoting from them. we are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. we remain confident in the accuracy of our report. they say. joining us now, "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman and preet bharara. and jeffrey...

Whose work included revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. i think it's ludicrous to go back and dredge around stuff -- stories from 15 years ago that are real and that he wrote about back then. >> people wonder sometimes if in this partisan age of anti-trump bias, reporters opinions creep into the coverage. something like this. you might hear something from a source and you want it to be true. did that happen in this case? >> no, absolutely not. the last time jason was being accused of things like this, it was when his reporting revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. it was coming from the other si...

Press outlets sometimes face that if they don't get everything right and the prosecutor speaks in this way and retreats back. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. for buzzfeed. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to pan out -- >> speaking for reporting generally, people will go back to their sources and try to re-establish trails and look at what they have and what they don't have. ben smith, the editor in chief of buzzfeed is a very smart and aggressive reporter. i'm sure he has his r...

You are seeing base on what pam was saying the president referring to that. others on twitter referring to leakers. this is often a point the president makes. there is leaking against him. people are out to get him. anything that could delegitimize the investigation is of concern to the special counsel. that's why they went forward. i don't know what this means for the story going forward. >> joining us is ben smith. editor in chief for buzzfeed. good to have you on. can you explain your response to what special counsel mueller's office has released? >> thank you for having me on. obviously, w...

>> the white house, as far as i know, have not acknowledged that they have lied about anything. >> correct. i think that's -- they have acknowledged sometimes errors. very infrequently. so this is why when i had a lot of people around the white house and around the president saying to me today, why is everyone not just -- why do they have -- why does the trump team have to give a response? because people are not going to just assume that because the president's folks say we're not going to dignify this, that that suggests that there is something wrong with the buzzfeed reporting. there's a cos...