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For a clarification on the special prosecutor's statement tonight. any chance of that happening? >> no. i don't think so. and look, i feel for buzzfeed. i think robert mueller's strategy of saying nothing about anything ever, even off the record, is very frustrating. i mean, even the central intelligence agency will give reporters a steer at times if they think they're about to get something horribly wrong. and if mueller had done that in this case, perhaps buzzfeed would have been more cautious and could have avoided this whole matter, which is not good for journalism. it's really frustrating...

He said, i can't speak to buzzfeed's sourcing, but for what it's worth, i declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed, based on a source central to the story, repeatedly disputing the idea that trump directly issued orders of that kind. note that the general thrust of cohen lying to congress in accordance with or to support an advance trump's agenda, per cohen's legal memo, is not in dispute. the source disputed the further, more specific idea that trump issued and memorialized repeated direct instructions. and joy reid, that part about memorialized would be i think a reference i...

With. but it doesn't exonerate trump. it doesn't mean something didn't happen. >> right. >> it's just not as clear what it was. and i think what mueller is saying is, whoa. you know, let's not rush to impeachment. he's putting the brakes on, as you say. and let's see -- let the facts come out the way i, mueller, am going to describe them. and so back to your original question. it seems to me that something got lost in translation here. i don't necessarily think this is someone who made up facts, meaning whoever the sources are, or that buzzfeed got it wrong. but things are very nuanced when yo...

>> 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 do know, to get to elizabeth'...

Mueller team. the mueller team is very tight-lipped. they do not leak. and, you know, one could assume that maybe what they're also trying to project and telegraph is, do not write a story in which you're projecting that we have now -- members of the mueller team have leaked information to buzzfeed, right? i mean, when michael cohen pleaded guilty in the southern district of new york, he said himself, as he stood up and spoke to the judge, that he lied specifically about this moscow trump tower project. this is something that is already on the record. it's something he's already admitted to in...