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That maybe what happened. >> what happens now? the white house tomorrow we'll hear about this. and justifiably. >> president is going to be doing one event tomorrow. we expect to be the announcement about the government shutdown. i don't believe he'll declare national emergency. but an opportunity to describe what he sees as a national emergency. the investigation into him is representing that. doint think he'll let it go. it will depend on ben smith continuing to report. it will depend on whether there's more corroboration of the story. what other additional reporting we see. i will say it's ...

>> ben, earlier today the republican national committee challenged one of the two reporters, jason, said he has a history of false reporting. i know he has had a great track record working for you. are you concerned about the history of your reporters being questioned and their work being questioned? >> thanks for the question, brian. i think that whether we saw the republican attacking the reporters in the story, that struck us as -- that's something you typically do when you don't have a better response. we did not see the kind of strong and detailed denial or anything like them you might ha...

On another network i saw a banner saying mueller's team knocked down a story. buzzfeed's description of specific statements to special counsel's office in characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding congressional testimony are not accurate. >> what they knocked down was a tremendous zeal going forward in congress and concern based on the reporting, this reporting, if true, as i said earlier, would change the direction of the story massively. it wouldn't just be this is another evidence in terms of someone and it's very, very different. you have a lot of congre...

Channel. so we have to wait and see. >> ben wouldn't go into details on this but it would be normal procedure to ask the mueller team to comment on a story that they're reporting. >> of course. all of our frustration has been that the mueller team won't comment on almost anything. we're all trying to get it right. jeffrey makes it a very important point that's true for all of us. my husband who is a journalist said we're all just as good as our sources, and that is true. again, i don't know who buzz feed's sources are and i think the two reporters here have had very solid records on this story...

They placed a premium on showing a law that is minor does not make it easier or okay to break. there is a reason why mueller has seemed like the arbiter of truth, because he has named who has been lying to investigators. i think that preet is right, when you have the president point to this as evidence of -- this is going to help him, the fact that mueller -- >> he is on a retweet spree celebrating this and attacking the media. into is the president tweeting now? >> he is of course -- most ly retweeting people mocking buzzfeed for this. the editor in chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, who led the t...