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Gave the nixon white house and their detractors ammunition to go after them. what we don't know yet is whether buzzfeed got it right, but somehow screwed -- you know, screwed up the attribution or there was some miscommunication here. but what do know, to get to elizabeth's point, that the big picture remains that donald trump himself lied to the american public. he said he had nothing to do with russia while he was campaigning. yet there he was pursuing a deal that would have enriched him to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. and that's what michael cohen was trying to cover up. he ...

Accurate. buzzfeed issued a statement standing by its reporting, and then issued a second statement, asking the special prosecutor to specify what is not accurate in their reporting. buzzfeed's report last night was attributed to two unnamed, quote, federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of this matter, end quote. now, that certainly sounds like a description of two people working on robert mueller's team. that would be one way to describe people working on robert mueller's team. two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of this matter. identify...

Federal officials quoted in this are from the southern district of new york as opposed to mueller's team. does that -- when you read the buzzfeed article, does that read as possible to you? >> no. i mean, first of all, let me be clear about something. people are using this term, the southern district of new york. that to me and to almost any prosecutor, defense lawyer, anyone working in the system, means the u.s. attorney's office. okay? i can sit here right now and tell you that there is a less than zero chance that someone in the u.s. attorney's office -- >> it could also be referring to fbi...

Investigation. of course, they don't want to ruin or, you know, harm the investigation. but there is no -- there's no logical reason why hearings couldn't be held. and under the constitution, that is what impeachment is. it isn't throwing donald trump out of office. it's allowing hearings where the public can start to understand the narrative of what was done, potentially to our election, to elect donald trump and what he did while in office. >> yeah, and as we're going to discuss later in the show, that's the way it worked in the nixon situation. congress was moving at the same speed, basical...

Didn't matter all that much. >> david corn, your reaction to the buzzfeed story tonight, and its parallels to that woodward and bernstein mixup, mistake, back in their big days of covering richard nixon. >> well, now we know that what they reported, carl and bob, you know, ended up being true. though, as they note, they got the attribution wrong, and it gave the nixon white house and their detractors ammunition to go after them. what we don't know yet is whether buzzfeed got it right, but somehow screwed -- you know, screwed up the attribution or there was some miscommunication here. but what ...