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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, basically, as the spec...

And it's a pity that now we are being distracted by what might have been a mistake by buzzfeed or might be an unclear statement by mueller. but i think at the end of the day, whether we have house democrats investigating this or mueller giving us some more information, we will get the truth of what really happened. and that will be the issue, not how it was covered. >> and elizabeth drew, it might be benton bradley who has the very best line about how people out there and editors in these situations should regard developments like this after reviewing how the mistake was made by woodward and b...

Of new york, where he has already pleaded guilty. he has already been sentenced there. donald trump has been identified there in effect as an unindicted co conspirator, referred to in the documents as individual one. one of the blooming theories of the hour this evening is that these federal officials -- 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 d...

Puppet they take out whenever they want to seem like there is somebody who they're not. >> yeah, as far as i can tell so far, there's not one sentence of agreement on what infrastructure legislation would be between democrats and donald trump. >> absolutely. >> yeah. thank you very much, rachel. >> thanks, have a good weekend. >> thank you. if true, those are the important words of the night. if true, that's the phrase that we always use when discussing stories that aren't yet proven to be true. and that's the language that i used here repeatedly last night at this hour when buzzfeed reporte...

Paragraph buried in a sentencing memorandum that was filed by cohen's lawyers in november that specifically says he lied to congress at the direction of client one. which is donald trump. now, there are other parts of what michael cohen said in court that day where he discussed why he lied to congress, where he doesn't say it was did he direction of donald trump. but it's possible that he was under instructions not to say that at that time. we just don't know. but what we do know is that robert mueller is not disputing the entirety of the buzzfeed story. he is, however, disputing this notion t...